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Christopher John Chivers is an American journalist who reports for The New York Times. In the summer of 2007, he was named the newspaper's Moscow bureau chief, replacing Steven Lee Meyers.

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World Briefing | The Americas: Arms Supplier Admits Guilt in Pentagon Contract

An arms dealer in Miami Beach who had extensive business with the Pentagon to supply ordnance for Afghanistan’s security forces pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy. The dealer, Efraim E. Diveroli, of AEY Inc., admitted that he had arranged the ...

From C. J. CHIVERS, The New York Times,  31 Aug 2009

The Saturday Profile: Fearless in the Face of Chechnya’s Worst

Her killers worked quickly, as if on orders. They drove to a remote place, shot her and left her near the road, killing her in exactly the manner her friends had long feared would be her fate. Her purse was nearby. Her killers did not want it. This ...

From C. J. CHIVERS, The New York Times,  17 Jul 2009

Erratic Afghan Forces Pose Challenge to U.S. Goals

The Afghan foot patrol descended a mountain and slipped through a canyon. Then things went wrong. One Afghan soldier insulted another. And there, exposed on dangerous ground, a scuffle erupted. The soldiers turned on each other with shoves, punches ...

From C. J. CHIVERS, The New York Times,  7 Jun 2009
Related Topics: The Pentagon,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush

National Briefing | South: Florida: Guilty Plea by Contractors

Two former employees of A.E.Y. Inc., a military contracting firm in Miami Beach, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the government. David Packouz, 27, a former vice president, and Alex Podrizki, also 27, a company agent who worked in Albania, ...

From C. J. CHIVERS, The New York Times,  26 May 2009

Arms From U.S. May Be Falling Into Taliban Hands

KABUL, Afghanistan Insurgents in Afghanistan, fighting from some of the poorest and most remote regions on earth, have managed for years to maintain an intensive guerrilla war against materially superior American and Afghan forces. Arms and ordnance ...

From C. J. CHIVERS, The New York Times,  19 May 2009
Related Topics: The Pentagon,  New York Times Company

In Bleak Afghan Outpost, Troops Slog On as Pentagon Alters Strategy

KORANGAL OUTPOST, Afghanistan The helicopters landed in blackness before the moon rose. The infantry company rushed out and through waist-high vegetation and into forests on an Afghan ridge. Over the next 40 hours, more than 100 soldiers from the First ...

From C. J. CHIVERS, The New York Times,  13 May 2009
Related Topics: George W. Bush

Training Afghans as Bullets Fly: A Young Marine’s Dream Job

FIREBASE VIMOTO, Afghanistan Three stone houses and a cluster of sandbagged bunkers cling to a slope above the Korangal Valley, forming an oval perimeter roughly 75 yards long. The oval is reinforced with timber and ringed with concertina wire. An ...

From C. J. CHIVERS, The New York Times,  30 Apr 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company

A Blast, an Ambush and a Sprint to Escape a Taliban Kill Zone

ALIABAD, Afghanistan The two Army lieutenants crouched against boulders beside the Korangal River. Taliban gunfire poured down from villages and cliffs above, hitting tree branches and rocks and snapping as the bullets passed over the officers’ helmets. ...

From C. J. CHIVERS, The New York Times,  19 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Thomas Wright

Turning Tables, U.S. Troops Ambush Taliban With Swift and Lethal Results

KORANGAL OUTPOST, Afghanistan Only the lead insurgents were disciplined as they walked along the ridge. They moved carefully, with weapons ready and at least five yards between each man, the soldiers who surprised them said. Behind them, a knot of ...

From C. J. CHIVERS, The New York Times,  16 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Justin Smith

Company of Soldiers Sees War’s Changing Face in Afghanistan

DANGALEEK, Afghanistan First Lt. C. Carter Cheek stood in the Afghan rain. His patrol had climbed a switchback road leading to the Taliban-dominated village of Wanat, the location of the bloodiest battle for American forces in Afghanistan since 2005. ...

From C. J. CHIVERS, The New York Times,  12 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  The Pentagon

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