Nicholas Blanford, Covering a Conflicted Lebanon

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Published November 29, 2006 at 11:00 AM EST

Nicholas Blanford is the Beirut correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. His new book, Killing Mr. Lebanon, is about the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

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