Reporting from Iraq: a study in contrasts

National Public Radio's Deborah Amos is recently back from Iraq and says that violence there has now surged back to the same levels as before the relatively peaceful January 30 election. In this MPR Broadcast Journalist series speech in St. Paul Thursday night, Amos said it is this contrast between hope and despair--the rise of an open society coupled with the daily threat of violence--that keeps her coming back to "the most dangerous assignment in the world."