Scott Peterson (writer)

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For the convicted first-degree murderer, see Scott Peterson.

Scott Peterson is a writer. He was a Middle East correspondent for the Daily Telegraph but as of 2000 was a staff writer and Moscow bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor. His book, Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda is an account of his experiences and observations during a decade of reporting from Sub-Saharan Africa. He is also one of only a few journalists to report in depth on the subject of depleted uranium contamination in Iraq.[1]

Peterson was injured on 1993-07-12 while in Mogadishu covering a recent US operation against an alleged safe-house.

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Scott Peterson (2001). Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-93063-4. — reviews:
- Maass, Peter. "Review of Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda", The Washington Post, 2000-08-27.
- Hammer, Joshua. "Down in Africa", The Washington Monthly, May 2000.
- Purvis, Andrew. "The Somalia Syndrome", Time (magazine), 2000-05-22.
- Bowden, Mark. "African Atrocities and "The Rest of the World"", PolicyReview, 2000-05-22.