page_title: Michael R. Gordon
hierarchical_section_title: Michael R. Gordon
caption_attribution_description: English: CAMP DOHA, Kuwait (April 7, 2003) - Michael Gordon (far right), a New York Times reporter embedded with Coalition Forces Land Component Command at Camp Doha, Kuwait, listens to fellow reporters on the events of the day. Gordon is covering Operation Iraqi Freedom from a headquarters level.
context_page_description: Michael R. Gordon has been a national security correspondent for The Wall Street Journal since October 2017. Previously, he was a military and diplomacy correspondent for The New York Times for 32 years. During the first phase of the Iraq War, he was the only newspaper reporter embedded with the allied land command under General Tommy Franks, a position that "granted him unique access to cover the invasion strategy and its enactment". He and General Bernard E. Trainor have written three books together, including the best-selling Cobra II. As a journalist for The New York Times, he was the first to report Saddam Hussein's alleged nuclear weapons program in September 2002 with the article "U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts.".
context_section_description: Michael R. Gordon has been a national security correspondent for The Wall Street Journal since October 2017. Previously, he was a military and diplomacy correspondent for The New York Times for 32 years. During the first phase of the Iraq War, he was the only newspaper reporter embedded with the allied land command under General Tommy Franks, a position that "granted him unique access to cover the invasion strategy and its enactment". He and General Bernard E. Trainor have written three books together, including the best-selling Cobra II. As a journalist for The New York Times, he was the first to report Saddam Hussein's alleged nuclear weapons program in September 2002 with the article "U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts.".
caption: Gordon in Kuwait in April 2003
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