Brian T. Bennett
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Brian Timothy Bennett is a Time Magazine
correspondent based in Washington D.C.; he covers national security issues.
Bennett is a native of Riverside, California
; he attended The Thacher School
in Ojai, California
. Bennett graduated in 2000 from Princeton University
with an AB in Comparative Literature
; he was a director of the Princeton Shakespeare Company.
Bennett joined Time in 2000 as a reporter for its Asia edition based in Hong Kong. He was an embedded reporter during the 2003 invasion of Iraq
and later became Time magazine's Baghdad
bureau chief. He became a Washington Correspondent for Time in 2005 and has made many trips back to Iraq.
In March 2006, Bennett wrote an account of Operation Swarmer
disputing claims on television news shows that it was the largest air attack in Iraq since Shock and Awe in 2003.
Bennett is married to Anne Tsai Bennett, who is a senior program officer at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
.
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
correspondent based in Washington D.C.; he covers national security issues.
Bennett is a native of Riverside, California
Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...
; he attended The Thacher School
The Thacher School
The Thacher School is a co-educational independent boarding school located on 425 acres of hillside overlooking the Ojai Valley in Ojai, California, United States. Founded in 1889 as a boys' school, it is now the oldest co-ed boarding school in California. Girls were first admitted in 1977. The...
in Ojai, California
Ojai, California
Ojai is a city in Ventura County, California, USA. It is situated in the Ojai Valley , surrounded by hills and mountains. The population was 7,461 at the 2010 census, down from 7,862 at the 2000 census.-History:Chumash Indians were the early inhabitants of the valley...
. Bennett graduated in 2000 from Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
with an AB in Comparative Literature
Comparative literature
Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...
; he was a director of the Princeton Shakespeare Company.
Bennett joined Time in 2000 as a reporter for its Asia edition based in Hong Kong. He was an embedded reporter during the 2003 invasion of Iraq
2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq , was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 21 days of major combat operations...
and later became Time magazine's Baghdad
Baghdad
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...
bureau chief. He became a Washington Correspondent for Time in 2005 and has made many trips back to Iraq.
In March 2006, Bennett wrote an account of Operation Swarmer
Operation Swarmer
Operation Swarmer was a joint U.S-Iraqi air assault offensive targeting insurgents in Salahuddin province, near the central city of Samarra, Iraq....
disputing claims on television news shows that it was the largest air attack in Iraq since Shock and Awe in 2003.
Bennett is married to Anne Tsai Bennett, who is a senior program officer at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs is an organization created by the United States government by way of the National Endowment for Democracy to channel grants for furthering democracy in developing nations. It was founded in 1983, shortly after the U.S. Congress created...
.
Sources
- Bennett's webpage
- Cullis, Jay Ford. "Of Time and War" at Ojai Valley NewsOjai Valley NewsThe Ojai Valley News is a small Ojai, California, United States-based newspaper that has been in continuous publication since 1891. The California newspaper is now a link in a string of chain newspapers based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama....
- Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006. (Adobe AcrobatAdobe AcrobatAdobe Acrobat is a family of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format . All members of the family, except Adobe Reader , are commercial software, while the latter is available as freeware and can be downloaded...
*.PDF document - 1.48mb) - Thacher School student blog posting
- Princeton Shakespeare Company website
- Articles by Bennett at TIME Magazine
- Wedding Announcement at The New York Times - (signup/subscription required)
- Bennett's own MySpace page