Anja Niedringhaus, 48, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer was killed and Kathy Gannon, 60, a reporter and OPC member was injured in a shooting in Khost Province in eastern Afghanistan. They had traveled to cover preparations for the country’s presidential election on Saturday for The Associated Press. Both had spent many years covering the war in Afghanistan and knew the country well.
Gannon lives in Islamabad with her architect husband Naeem Pasha. She has covered Pakistan and Afghanistan for the AP since 1986. She has been an OPC member
since 1998 and was an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign
Relations from 2003 to 2004. She wrote the book I Is for Infidel — From Holy War to Holy Terror:
18 Years Inside Afghanistan, which was featured at an OPC Book Night in October 2005.
OPC Executive Director Sonya K. Fry said, “Kathy is a great friend of the OPC.”
Gannon wrote “Perilous Roads” for the 2008 OPC Dateline.
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