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Tom Lasseter is the Moscow bureau chief, reporting in Russia and a stretch of mid-Asian countries reaching to Pakistan. Before this posting, he spent much of 2003 to 2006 covering the war in Iraq, and reported extensively about the U.S. military, insurgent groups, militias and other security matters.
Lasseter grew up in Atlanta and attended the University of Georgia.
In 2005, he won the John E. Drewry Award for young journalists from the University of Georgia. Knight Ridder recognized his war coverage with a Journalism Excellence Award in 2005. 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
Killer crop: Afghan opium fuels addictions, finances terrorists
By Tom Lasseter | McClatchy Newspapers
Afghan opium kills more people every year than any other drug on the planet, claiming up to 100,000 lives annually, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday. In addition to drug-related deaths, Afghan opium and heroin pay for weapons that anti-U.S. insurgents use to kill American troops. » read more
Posted on Wed, October 21, 2009
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Tom Lasseter's Recent Stories
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