The award-winning foreign correspondent has died at the age of 68
because I have such vivid memories of him surviving great dangers against the odds. He was brave and determined, but also smart and resilient, which was why he had lived to report so many wars., soon after a suicide bomber had blown up a truck packed with explosives close to the side of the hotel where Kim had his room. He told me that he had been lying on his bed reading so the bigger shards of glass from the shattered windows had missed him.
He explained that there had been two truck bombs, the first to blast through the hotel’s security wall and a second, packed with a thousand pounds of explosives, which was meant to pass through the gap and strike the main body of the hotel. The worst of these dangers were usually in Baghdad. Once, Kim told me not to come because of something that had just happened to him. He had been going to a hospital on the other side of the Tigris River held by a. Kim told me that just as he was getting into a car to go there, a news photographer said to him: “You can’t go there. Don’t you know that the Mehdi Army has orders to shoot anybody from?” It turned out that the paper had run some interviews to which the militia commanders objected.
This might give the impression of a man with a grimmer outlook on life than was the case. Kim was always determined to get as much fun as possible out of the direst situation. We were not often in London at the same time, but, when we were, we would meet to gossip about our friends and colleagues, and talk of our recent experiences.We met once just after he had returned from Khartoum where he had been covering the fighting in western Sudan.
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