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Michael Kelly Killed In Accident In Iraq
Dar Al-Hayat 2003/04/04
Michael Kelly, editor-at-large for The Atlantic Monthly and columnist, was killed while on assignment covering the war in Iraq. He is the first American journalist to die in the conflict.
Kelly, also a hard-hitting conservative columnist for The Washington Post and a former editor of The New Republic, died Thursday night while traveling with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division as it moved across Iraq, according to a statement issued by Atlantic Media, which publishes the venerable magazine.
The 46-year-old, who had also covered the first Persian Gulf war, was the first journalist to die among the 600 traveling with the U.S. armed forces. Four other foreign journalists have been killed covering the war, including two from Britain, and one each from Iran and Australia.
President George W. Bush "expresses his sorrow and his condolences to the Kelly family," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said.
Atlantic Media provided no details about Kelly's death. The Washington Post, on its Web site, said Kelly was killed in a Humvee accident.
Navy Lt. Herlinda Rojas, a spokeswoman at the Coalition Press Information Center in Kuwait City, said a soldier and a reporter were killed near Baghdad when a Humvee went into a canal. Neither were identified. Military officials said they believed it was an accident and not the result of combat.
In his final column for The Post published Thursday, Kelly wrote about accompanying an Army task force as it captured a bridge across the Euphrates River.
"On the western side of the bridge, Lt. Col. Ernest "Rock" Marcone, commander of Task Force 3-69, stood in the sand by the side of the road, smoking a cigar and drinking a cup of coffee," Kelly wrote. "Marcone's soldiers say he deeply likes to win, and he seemed quietly happy.... 'We now hold the critical ground through which the rest of the division can pass and engage and destroy the Republican Guard,' Marcone said."
Kelly was fired as editor of The New Republic, a weekly political journal, in 1997 by owner Martin Peretz, a friend and former teacher of then-Vice President Al Gore. Peretz objected to what he felt was the magazine's constant criticism of President Bill Clinton's administration, especially in Kelly's regular column.
Kelly became a columnist for the Post and continued to criticize Clinton. Around the same time, he was hired as the editor of National Journal, a weekly magazine that covers the federal government. When the Journal's owner, David Bradley, bought The Atlantic Monthly in 1999, he named Kelly editor of the magazine.
Last September, Kelly stepped down from that post and took the title editor-at-large. He is also chief editorial adviser to the Journal.
Before taking the helm of The New Republic, Kelly was a reporter for The New York Times and a writer and editor at The New Yorker.
He covered the first Persian Gulf War as a stringer for The Boston Globe, GQ and The New Republic, as well as the Iraq-Kurdish conflict that followed it. He won a National Magazine Award and an Overseas Press Club award for his articles, and later wrote a book based on his reporting, "Martyr's Day: Chronicle of a Small War."
A native of Washington, D.C., Kelly was the son of two journalists - Thomas Kelly, a former reporter, and Marguerite Kelly, who writes the syndicated column, "Family Almanac." Kelly is survived by his wife, Madelyn, and two sons, Tom, 6, and Jack, 3.
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