Nick Meo biography
Nick Meo first visited Afghanistan in the last days of the Taliban in 2001, reporting on the plight of a desperate people in a wrecked land ruled by religious extremists. Six weeks later on September 11th the Taliban’s jihadist Arab guests launched an attack on America, starting a war which shows no sign of ending.
Nick covered the 2001 war, then spent three years from 2002 – 2005 reporting on Afghanistan for The Independent and the Economist as the country was transformed; new freedoms were enjoyed, reconstruction started and the hope grew that at last Afghanistan was emerging from twenty years of terrible war. Afghans began to hope they were at peace again. Then it all went wrong; the Taliban staged a resurgence and the West became embroiled in bloody fighting. Why it went wrong is the subject of his new book.
Nick has returned to Afghanistan many times since 2005 to join embeds with the British in the south and to cover politics in the capital. In 2008 he survived a roadside bomb which destroyed the US army vehicle he was in.
As well as Afghanistan he has reported from India, Iraq, and Indonesia. He is currently a foreign correspondent with The Sunday Telegraph, based in London and covering Europe, Asia and Afghanistan.
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