John Barry

John Barry  (journalist)
Nationality	US
National security correspondent for Newsweek since 1985.  National-security correspondent In office 1985 - Present Employer Newsweek

John Barry has been a national-security correspondent for Newsweek since 1985.

Career

John Barry joined Newsweek's Washington bureau as national-security correspondent in 1985.

He has reported extensively on American intervention in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Haiti, Bosnia, Iraq, and Somalia and on efforts for peace in the Middle East. In 2002 he co-wrote The War Crimes of Afghanistan.

He won the 1993 Investigative Reporters & Editors Gold Medal for his investigation of the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by theUSS Vincennes. His story follows the official narrative, and said the shoot-down was a "story of a naval fiasco, of an overeager captain, panicked crewmen, and the cover-up that followed".. Iran has always said the shoot-down was intentionally performed.

Barry received a 1983 British Press Award for his reconstruction of the U.S.-Soviet negotiations to ban intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe.

In 2005, Barry reported that U.S. interrogators as desecrated copies of the Quran while "questioning" prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay naval base - an account blamed for sparking violent riots in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Newsweek withdrew the story after obvious outside pressure. The Pentagon said it was unable to corroborate any case, while saying "They are burning American flags. Our forces are in danger". Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker said "Top administration officials have promised to continue looking into the charges, and so will we".

 

A Document by John Barry

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)
Document:America’s Secret Libya War	webpage	30 August 2011	2011 Attacks on Libya

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