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Tom Lasseter is the Beijing bureau chief. Before this posting, he was the Moscow bureau chief from Spring 2007 to Winter 2009. In addition to reporting about Russia and its immediate neighbors — including the Georgia-Russia war in August 2008 — he reported extensively from Afghanistan and other Central Asian nations. Prior to that, he spent much of 2003 to 2006 covering the war in Iraq.
Lasseter grew up in Atlanta and attended the University of Georgia.
A reporting project he led in 2008 about U.S. detention practices in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay won a top Investigative Reporters and Editors award, and an Online Journalism Award for investigative journalism.
The Overseas Press Club awarded Lasseter and two colleagues from the Baghdad bureau its Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper reporting from abroad in 2005.
Tom Lasseter's Latest Story
In Russia, foreboding about America's war in Afghanistan
By Tom Lasseter | McClatchy Newspapers
Thirty years ago this week, the Red Army began its invasion of Afghanistan, a move that sank the Soviet Union in a decade of guerrilla war and hastened the collapse of the Cold War empire. Today, as former Soviet soldiers watch American troops trying to pacify the same stretches of Afghan land they once fought for, aging Soviet generals and grunts alike are reminded of a war they'd rather forget. » read more
Posted on Tue, December 22, 2009
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