The goal is not to cover ground that has already been covered, ... The agent knows exactly what you've done to date, and they will know whether or not you have downloaded software that is year-2000-compliant. And they don't have to ask you questions that you may not know the answer to.

I've covered Israel just as I cover other politics.

We are already more than half way toward reaching this goal.

Cover a lot of ground

We were the only westerners in our neighbourhood, ... Our goal was to cover the realities of the occupation on the ground and we had not got the same security concerns as, say, CNN. Maybe at some levels they don't trust Iraqis with their security. There's a part in the book where I'm trying to take CNN to a refugee camp, and they wouldn't go. And so no one sees Falluja refugees.

It was already on the ground when we got there,