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IRAN-IRAQ WAR -- Basra: blitzed and battered, but not beaten (25 January 1987) -- Black banners of death fly over Baghdad (25 January 1987) -- Wine and lipstick lay Irans ghost to rest (29 October 1989) -- MIDDLE EAST -- Soviet settlers jolted by the promised land (11 February 1990) -- Love sours for Romeo and Juliet of the West Bank (1 April 1990) -- Desperately seeking answers in the Arafat slipstream (5 June 1990) -- Home alone in Palestine (19 September 1993) -- Arafat thrives amid cut and thrust of peace (9 January 1994) -- LIBYA 1992-93 -- Frightened Libyans await the next blow (19 April 1992) -- Adies minder cracks up (26 April 1992) -- Lockerbie drama turns to farce (3 October 1993) -- GULF WAR -- Under fire (27 January 1991) -- Ghosts of war stalk Basras empty streets (23 August 1992) -- Critics are silenced as Saddam rebuilds Iraq (4 October 1992) -- Shadow of evil (22 January 1995) -- Blood feud at the heart of darkness (8 September 1996) -- MIDDLE EAST -- The Hawk who downed a dove (12 November 1995) -- Israels peace hopes wither (2 June 1996) -- Israeli bulldozers rev up for showdown in Jerusalem (16 March 1997) -- Arafat encircled in battle for Jerusalem (6 April 1997) -- KOSOVO -- The centuries of conflict over a sacred heartland (8 March 1998) -- Kosovos silent houses of the dead (15 March 1998) -- Kosovo guerrillas fight Serb shells with bullets (25 April 1999) -- Massacre in a spring meadow (2 May 1999) -- Letter from ... Kosare (4 June 1999) -- The neighbour who burned with hate (20 June 1999) -- British detectives on trail of men behind massacres (27 June 1999) -- The enemy within (15 August 1999) -- CHECHNYA -- Wrath of Moscow leaves no place for Chechens to hide (19 December 1999) -- Escape from Chechnya to a trial by ice (2 January 2000) -- EAST TIMOR -- Trapped by the terror squads in city of death (12 September 1999) -- Courage knows no gender (10 October 1999) -- ETHIOPIA -- Horror of Ethiopias living dead (9 April 2000) -- ZIMBABWE -- Rape is new weapon of Mugabes terror (28 May 2000) -- Hunzvis surgery is turned into a torture centre (14 May 2000) -- SIERRA LEONE -- Drug-crazed warriors of the jungle (3 September 2000) -- How the hi-tech army fell back on law of the jungle and won (17 September 2000) -- SRI LANKA -- Fighting Tigers talk of peace deal (15 April 2001) -- The shot hit me. Blood poured from my eye -- I felt a profound sadness that I was going to die (22 April 2001) -- Fighting back (15 July 2001) -- Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid (21 October 2001) -- MIDDLE EAST -- A bitter taste for vengeance (7 April 2002) -- Jenin: the bloody truth (21 April 2002) -- Two terrible deaths tell story of the Palestinian predicament (21 July 2002) -- GUANTANAMO -- Mindless torture? No, smart thinking (27 January 2002) -- IRAQ -- One call from the great dictator and another day of designer torture began in prison (4 August 2002) -- Why the great dictator thinks he can still win (2 March 2003) -- Hunt for Saddam & son, the murderous duo most wanted (23 March 2003) -- Target Saddam (21 December 2003) -- Iraq (7 March 2004) -- Face to face with death in a pacified Iraqi town (29 October 2006) -- The butcher of Baghdad awaits his death sentence (5 November 2006) -- I watched Saddam die (31 December 2006) -- Sunni sheikhs turn their sights from US forces to Al-Qaeda (9 September 2007) -- I felt a new terror on Basras streets (16 December 2007) -- Saddams victims left to suffer as henchmen prosper (3 February 2008) -- MIDDLE EAST -- Gazas mourners plan spectacular revenge (28 March 2004) -- Into the underworld (17 July 2005) -- Bulldozer Sharon wins through, but bigger battles may lie ahead (21 August 2005) -- Fear and defiance in the battered city (16 July 2006) -- Birth, death and destruction on Lebanons road to hell (30 July 2006) -- Gazas deadly guardians (30 September 2007) -- IRAN -- Iran split as fun-hungry young spurn rigged poll (15 February 2004) -- Despair and fear among the Tehran dancing classes (26 June 2005) -- EGYPT -- Mubarak lights a democratic flame (4 September 2005) -- KOSOVO -- How one careless phone call ended Radovan Karadzics liberty (27 July 2008) -- MIDDLE EAST -- Bloodied Gaza set for the endgame (11 January 2009) -- Beyond the violence, a solution is on the table (11 January 2009) -- Netanyahu stokes fears to take poll lead (8 February 2009) -- Israels secret war (15 January 2012) -- IRAQ -- War-weary Iraqi voters catch election fever despite attacks (6 March 2010) -- US departure from Iraq opens the door for Al-Qaeda (22 August 2010) -- Terror returns to stricken Fallujah (29 August 2010) -- Battered Kurds attempt to cling on to city of oil (5 September 2010) -- AFGHANISTAN -- Corrupt, untrained, underpaid, illiterate (6 December 2009) -- Hamid Karzai fails Taliban who gave up arms (31 January 2010) -- Swift and bloody (9 May 2010) -- Afghans find pride in hunt for Taliban (4 July 2010) -- IRAN -- Anger at Mahmoud Ahmadinejads election (14 June 2009) -- Clashes show depth of fury (21 June 2009) -- EGYPT -- Flames and fighting flood along the Nile (30 January 2011) -- Raging mob bays for Mubaraks head (30 January 2011) -- I ran for my life from a crazed, cursing mob (6 February 2011) -- Egypts bloody road to reform (6 February 2011) -- The kids triumph with Facebook and flyers (13 February 2011) -- Feral mobs and fanatics rule Terror Square (27 November 2011) -- LIBYA -- Ill still be running Libya when my foes have retired, insists Gadaffi (6 March 2011) -- Siege falters as loyalists defect to side of rebel rats (15 May 2011) -- We had our orders: rape all the sisters (22 May 2011) -- Professor leads adopted sons into battle (29 May 2011) -- Mad Dog and me (28 August 2011) -- Killing rooms plot bloody retreat of troops loyal to Tyrant Jr (4 September 2011) -- Toxic tyrants chemical cavern (11 September 2011) -- Desert storm flushes Gadaffi from oasis of dictator chic (25 September 2011) -- Brutal retaliation (23 October 2011) -- Libya keeps silence over vampire dictators grave (30 October 2011) -- SYRIA -- Bombs fell like rain. You could only pray (5 February 2012) -- A vet is only hope for Syrian wounded (19 February 2012) -- Final dispatch from Homs, the battered city (19 February 2012) -- Marie Colvin: the last assignment / by Jon Swain (26 February 2012) -- Reports of my survival have been exaggerated / by Alan Jenkins.;Veteran Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin was killed in February 2012 when covering the uprising in Syria. Winner of the Orwell Special Prize, On the Front Line is a collection of her finest work, a portion of the proceeds from which will go to the Marie Colvin Memorial Fund. Marie Colvin held a profound belief in the pursuit of truth, and the courage and humanity of her work was deeply admired. On the Front Line includes her various interviews with Yasser Arafat and Colonel Gadaffi; reports from East Timor in 1999 where she shamed the UN into protecting its refugees; accounts of her terrifying escape from the Russian army in Chechnya; and reports from the strongholds of the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers where she was hit by shrapnel, leaving her blind in one eye. Typically, however, her new eye-patch only reinforced Colvins sense of humour and selfless conviction. She returned quickly to the front line, reporting on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza and, lately, the Arab Spring. Immediate and compelling, On the Front Line is a street-view of the historic events that have shaped the last 25 years, from an award-winning foreign correspondent and the outstanding journalist of her generation.

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A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book goes to the Marie Colvin Memorial Fund

The Colvin family has established a memorial fund in honour of Marie. The fund will direct donations to charitable and educational organisations that reflect Maries lifelong dedication to humanitarian aid, human rights, journalism and education.

We thank you for sharing this information with others who may be interested.

Donations may be made payable to:

The Marie Colvin Fund at LICF
1864 Muttontown Road
Syosset, N.Y. 11791

More information on the Marie Colvin Memorial Fund,
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www.mariecolvin.org

Marie at a university party during her time at Yale New Haven CT Marie on - photo 2

Marie at a university party during her time at Yale, New Haven, CT.

Marie on the beach Cyprus 1987 Marie with her mother Rosemarie Colvin at - photo 3

Marie on the beach, Cyprus, 1987.

Marie with her mother Rosemarie Colvin at her wedding to Juan Carlos Gumucio - photo 4

Marie with her mother Rosemarie Colvin, at her wedding to Juan Carlos Gumucio in London.

Marie with nieces Michelle Colvin right and Justine Colvin Oyster Bay 2004 - photo 5

Marie with nieces Michelle Colvin, right, and Justine Colvin, Oyster Bay, 2004.

Marie sailing near Zakynthos 2007 Photograph by Richard Flaye Simply - photo 6

Marie sailing near Zakynthos, 2007. Photograph by Richard Flaye.

Simply: theres no way to cover war properly without risk. Covering a war means going into places torn by chaos, destruction, death and pain, and trying to bear witness to that. I care about the experience of those most directly affected by war, those asked to fight and those who are just trying to survive.

Going to these places, finding out what is happening, is the only way to get at the truth. Despite all the videos you see on television, whats on the ground has remained remarkably the same for the past 100 years. Craters. Burnt houses. Women weeping for sons and daughters. Suffering. In my profession, there is no chance of unemployment. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that someone will care.

MARIE COLVIN

The Sunday Times , 21 October 2001,
Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid

To me, a world without Marie is unimaginable. I am just now beginning to experience this shadow of a place, and for the first time there is no Marie to give me comfort or guide me through. Marie had so many friends and colleagues who loved her so deeply, and countless admirers who were awed by her courage as a journalist. While I mourn together with those who loved her and take enormous pride in Maries accomplishments, my tribute is to my big sister and lost soulmate.

I try to force thoughts of her broken body out of my mind with memories of our time together the wild adventures and late-night talks, her offbeat advice and unique view of the world. Most of all, I try to recapture the love with which she so totally and constantly enveloped me for as long as I can remember. She was my greatest admirer, my unwavering ally, my fiercest defender. To have someone as brilliant and amazing as Marie offer such love, support and admiration to me is a gift I will always treasure and desperately miss.

Marie was always my hero and to her I was perfection. She claimed me as her own when I was just a toddler, and in her eyes, I could do no wrong. She opened a big, beautiful world to me, full of laughter, excitement and adventure. My earliest memories of Marie are the bedtime stories she used to tell me, like postage stamp kisses my favourite. Marie would lie in my bed and tell me about some faraway place, with vivid descriptions of the sprawling cities, dusty back roads, flowering countrysides or lush jungles. She told me of the customs, languages and dress of the people who lived there, and what they like to do for fun. She told elaborate stories of queens and medicine women, and the beautiful clothes they wore. I learned from her how people danced in the streets of Rio at Carnival and ran with the bulls in Spain. She opened a world of adventure to me, and we explored it together. Each night, when the story was over, she would plaster me with postage stamp kisses to send me off to explore some new place in my dreams.

As we got older, Marie included me in her life in ways that were extraordinary, in retrospect. She took me with her everywhere, and dressed me to her (not my mothers) liking. We sailed all over Long Island as kids, and later in the Chesapeake Bay and the Florida Keys. We went on protest marches and hung out in the park singing to guitar music during her high school years. I tagged along with her to long classroom lectures and wild parties at Yale. She taught me the lyrics to her favourite songs by Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt and Patsy Cline, and often had me sing them for her friends at parties (Marie could never carry a tune). Marie inspired me to explore the world with an open heart and mind, from backpacking through Europe at seventeen (with a luxurious stop in Paris to visit Marie) through the birth of my daughter in Santiago, Chile, nearly twenty years later.

On my last trip to London, my daughter, now 13, was still young enough to appreciate bedtime stories, and I told her that Aunt Marie was the greatest master storyteller of all time. I remembered the beautiful, exciting world she had created for me as a girl, and was thrilled for Justine to share my experience. Not long after Marie went up to Justines bedroom, I began to hear loud bangs, crashes and shouts. I went upstairs to find Marie throwing her hands in the air and leaping around the room delivering a full warzone soundtrack for her story, as Justine listened wide-eyed and intent from her bed, resplendent in the gorgeous new pyjamas Aunt Marie had given her. The stories had changed, but in Justines eyes I saw the same fascination I had felt as a girl basking in Maries attention.

Marie really was the greatest master storyteller of all time, there is no doubt. She could have written novels, poems or plays and enraptured the world with the gift of her written and spoken words. But Marie chose to devote her gift to bringing the attention of the world to the innocent victims of war. Even as her reporting grew so much more dangerous and intense, and the damage to her body and soul became manifest, she never forgot how to capture the imagination of a young girl, and she never stopped believing in the importance of a little girls dream. I hope and believe that Marie will continue to inspire young women everywhere, not only as they read about her dedication and talent, but as they dream of the difference just one little girl can make in this world.

Cat Colvin
March 2012

Marie in Amman Jordan 1991 Photograph by Simon Townsley 25 January - photo 7

Marie in Amman, Jordan, 1991.
Photograph by Simon Townsley.

25 January 1987 Marie Colvin sends the first front-line report from inside - photo 8

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