Iraq Update: Rocket Attacks on Baghdad's Green Zone

By Madeleine Brand

Published July 1, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT

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NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post bureau chief in Baghdad, about the latest news in Iraq. Chandrasekaran was in Baghdad's Sheraton Hotel earlier when it was hit by a rocket, one of two attacks Friday in the heavily fortified area of downtown Baghdad known as the "green zone."

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Madeleine Brand

Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).