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Heart Became Attached: The Strange Odyssey of John Walker Lindh
By Mark Kukis
Brassey's (2003)
Since the Walker family attorney insists the parents are not entertaining book offers, the way seems clear for a critical look at what made this young American turn against his country. Based in Islamabad, Pakistan, Salon writer Mark Kukis will visit all the places where Walker studied abroad. He will interview people at all the religious schools in Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan where Walker spent time. Although Kukis will try to obtain family papers and letters, he will not enter into any agreement that would make him beholden to the Walkers or the Lindh's.
Currently based in Islamabad, Pakistan, Mark Kukis, 28, left a job as a White House correspondent for United Press International to cover the war in Afghanistan as a freelancer and pursue other stories in the region. A White House reporter for two years, Kukis traveled extensively nationwide and internationally to report on the last year of the Clinton administration, the 2000 campaigns and the opening year of the Bush administration. Beginning in October 2001, Kukis spent several months in Pakistan and Afghanistan covering the recent conflict in the region, including extended stays in Jalalabad and Tora Bora to report on the fighting there. Kukis graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas in Austin in 1998, the same year he served as an election monitor in Bosnia before settling in Washington to work in journalism full time. Kukis is also among the featured personalities in an upcoming Columbia Journalism Review article about twenty-something White House reporters.
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