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George Packer

George Packer is an American journalist born in 1960.

He is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, which won several awards and was named by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2005.

He has published two other works of non-fiction and two novels. His articles, essays, and reviews on foreign affairs, American politics, and literature have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Dissent, and other publications.

He lives in Brooklyn.

Articles by George Packer

Organizational

Friday March 30

Betrayed

Millions of Iraqis, spanning the country’s religious and ethnic spectrum, welcomed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. But the mostly young men and women who embraced America’s project so enthusiastically that they were prepared to risk their lives for it may constitute Iraq’s smallest minority. I came across them in every city: the young man in

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Tuesday November 21

November 27, 2006 | Save Whomever We Can

The New Republic A few days ago, the brother of my friend Osman was one of seven Sunni workers in a shop in a mixed neighborhood of western Baghdad who were rounded up at gunpoint by Mahdi Army militiamen and taken to the local Shia mosque. There, they were taunted about Saddam Hussein’s death sentence

U.S. Free Expression Advocacy

Wednesday October 11

Keep Out

There is an American tradition of responding to threats by confusing thoughts with acts and temporarily forgetting what Jefferson set down, in 1779, as one of the country’s founding principles: “that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to