But I was too busy for the most part to be really scared. And there were moments that I was terrified. GARRELS: I was too - of course, I was worried. TERRY GROSS: I am one of your many, many listeners who thought, oh, my God, she's going to stay during the bombing. I knew a lot of Iraqis, and I had an extraordinary Iraqi driver, fixer, translator, whatever you want to call him, who - while there were no guarantees of safety - I thought might be able to help me if things really got bad. And my gut instinct told me that I was going to be OK. I'd been there on and off from - since last October.
But there was no question in my own mind that I should stay. And it wasn't really until the last minute that we turned around and looked at each other and went, oh, my God, there are only 16 Americans left. There were about 500 journalists in Baghdad up until just a few days before the - President Bush's deadline. shock-and-awe bombing campaign when many news organizations were pulling out.ĪNNE GARRELS: Well, first of all, I don't think any of us realized so many journalists would leave. Terry asked her why she decided to stay in Baghdad during the U.S. Today we'll hear Terry's 2003 interview with Anne Garrels, when she'd written her first book, "Naked In Baghdad," about her reporting in Iraq. Her most heralded dispatches were from the war in Iraq in 2003, which earned her a George Polk Award, as well as duPont and Peabody Awards with others on the NPR reporting team.
Garrels was known as a fearless journalist who showed great empathy with the victims of war, as she reported from the Soviet Union, Tiananmen Square, Bosnia, Chechnya, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Anne Garrels, the award-winning international correspondent who reported from conflict zones around the world for NPR and two TV networks, died Wednesday at her home in Connecticut from lung cancer.
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