Jere Van Dyk attended the University of Oregon, served in the U.S.Army in Germany, and later went to the Sorbonne and the Institut d'Études Politiques. In 1973, he and his younger brother drove a Volkswagen from Europe to Afghanistan. He returned there in 1981 for the New York Times to cover the Afghan-Soviet war, for which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In 1984, he became Executive Director of Friends of Afghanistan. After travels in Asia and South America, he was an analyst for CBS on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and al-Qaida. In 2008, he was kidnapped by the Taliban and returned to Afghanistan six years later to find out who had kidnapped him and why. He is a consultant to 60 Minutes and is working on a book about the death of Pat Tillman, themformer professional football star and U.S. Army Ranger, who was killed in Haqqani territory in 2004.
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----- NEW YORK TIMES
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----- WASHINGTON POST
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