Life, Death and the Taliban
Charles Sennott
Executive Editor of GlobalPost, and a former foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe
September 27, 2009 - 7:00pm
Gloucester City Hall
At this crucial time in the U.S.-led war against the Taliban, Charlie Sennott recaps the group’s rise to power and looks at current political and counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which he visited this summer. “What we don’t know is killing us,” he says. Through nearly 25 years as a reporter and on-air analyst, award-winning journalist and author, Sennott has been on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in 15 countries, from the jungles of Colombia to the deserts of Iraq. A long-time foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe, he is Executive Editor of the multimedia platform GlobalPost (www.globalpost.com).