Miller: a hardened reporter

VETERAN New York Times reporter Judith Miller has carved out a career covering national security issues and writing on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

She is no stranger to controversy. Her coverage of Iraq’s purported weapons programmes was criticised by her peers since the arms were never found.Miller started her career at The Times in Washington before becoming in 1983 the first woman to head its Cairo bureau.In 1986, she was a correspondent in Paris but returned to Washington the next year.She covered the first Gulf War and went on to share a Pulitzer Prize with colleagues in 2002 for a Times series on Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.Miller and two Times colleagues also wrote a book titled ‘Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War’.The Times apologised for its Iraq coverage in 2004, admitting it was taken in by spurious information from Iraqi exiles with their own agenda to oust Saddam Hussein.Though the newspaper’s mea culpa did not mention Miller by name, three of the five dubious articles cited by the Times were written by her.- Nampa-AFPHer coverage of Iraq’s purported weapons programmes was criticised by her peers since the arms were never found.Miller started her career at The Times in Washington before becoming in 1983 the first woman to head its Cairo bureau.In 1986, she was a correspondent in Paris but returned to Washington the next year.She covered the first Gulf War and went on to share a Pulitzer Prize with colleagues in 2002 for a Times series on Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.Miller and two Times colleagues also wrote a book titled ‘Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War’.The Times apologised for its Iraq coverage in 2004, admitting it was taken in by spurious information from Iraqi exiles with their own agenda to oust Saddam Hussein.Though the newspaper’s mea culpa did not mention Miller by name, three of the five dubious articles cited by the Times were written by her.- Nampa-AFP