Iran, Al Qaeda & the U.S. Campaign Against Terrorism

Eric Schmitt, 51, is a senior writer for The New York Times who covers  terrorism issues. For 20 years, he has covered military and national security affairs for The Times. Since the 9/11 attacks, he has made more than a dozen reporting trips to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He graduated from Williams College in 1982, and received a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University in 2006-07.  He was twice a member of a team of New York Times reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Schmitt is co-author, with Thom Shanker, of “Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda.”