War Update: Looking over Baghdad

By Robert Siegel

Published April 7, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Jon Lee Anderson, a reporter for the New Yorker. Anderson talks about what he's seen in Baghdad today.

Robert Siegel

Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.

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