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Steve Fainaru

Foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, where he covered the Iraq war from 2004 to 2007. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his stories on private military contractors. His new book is Big Boy Rules: America’s Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq.

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Steve Fainaru on “Big Boy Rules: America’s Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq”

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