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Tin Soldier

By Mariah Blake, Columbia Journalism Review. Posted January 8, 2005.


How did a former Special Forces soldier – and convicted criminal – manage to use a hungry press for profit and glory?

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Mariah Blake is an assistant editor at CJR. Additional reporting on this story was provided by A. G. Basoli in Afghanistan. CJR gratefully acknowledges support for this article from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

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