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Richard Engel (born September 16, 1973) is an American journalist and author who is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary".

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Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was the place where everyone wanted to go. Empires wanted to be able to say that they were the first to put a climber on top of Everest. So when a tragedy happens up on that mountain, I think it has a global resonance. Everybody's heard of Everest. Everybody knows what Everest is and what it means, and the significance.

Everest, Everybody, Mean, Moon, Resonance, Thinking

Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesnt have enough money to import much of anything, either.

Country, Gold, Nothing, Shaped, Texas, Twice

I think war should be illegal.

Illegal, Should, Think, Thinking, War

How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed that was a civilian -- and at the same time say, 'Well, we don't really know how many people were killed or who they were, but we know they weren't civilians'? I don't know how you can do that.

Civilians, Drones, Know, Mistake, People, Say

I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

Good News, Look, Looks, News Stories, Stories

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

Empowerment, Iran, Iraq, Result, War

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

Anymore, Cameras, Career, Careers, Rebel, Respect

Osama bin laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that's probably cost almost nothing.

Box, Guy, Guys, New York, United States, York

Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups, Palestinian radicals, al-Qaida, Druze militias and even armed bands of Marxists still operating in Lebanon.

Bands, Christian, Druze, Government, Two

Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.

America, Impression, People, Spoken, Thinking, Yes

The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq.

Fighting, Iraq, Islamic, Muslim, Nations, Saudi

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

Build, Effective, Fence, Soothing, Wall

Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of - similar to the attacks that we've seen where people open fire with assault rifles and things like that.

Fire, People, Putting, Race, Things

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

Children, Please, Taught, Trying, Upset, Upsetting