New York Times reporter David Rohde, left, and his wife, Kristen Mulvihill, speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival on July 2, 2011 in Aspen, Colorado. At right is moderator Jeffrey Goldberg. (MPR Photo/Nikki Tundel)
Reporter who was kidnapped by Taliban speaks about Afghanistan war and muslim world
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2008. He spoke at the Chautauqua Institution on August 17, 2012 about his forthcoming book, "Beyond War: The Failed American Effort to Back Moderate Muslims Since 9/11."
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David Rohde: Foreign affairs columnist for Reuters. Former New York Times reporter. Author of "A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides," and a forthcoming book, "Beyond War: The Failed American Effort to Back Moderate Muslims Since 9/11." Won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting when he was with the Christian Science Monitor and a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan when at the New York Times.
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