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Paul McGeough

Irish-Australian journalist

Paul McGeough is an Irish-Australian journalist and senior foreign correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald.

In 2001, when covering events in Afghanistan with the Northern Alliance, he and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived an attack by the Taliban which killed journalists Volker Handloik, Johanne Sutton, and Pierre Billaud. He was awarded the 2003 Walkley Award for Journalism Leadership in recognition of acts of courage and bravery in the practice of journalism.

Detainment in Israel

In 2010, McGeough travelled on a Gaza-bound flotilla, reporting for The Sydney Morning Herald and Brisbane Times from aboard the MV Samoud (also known as the MV Challenger I).{{Cite news

"At 4.20(am local time) (11.20am Sydney time) we realised all communications on the boat were jammed, 4.22 (am) – we see two zodiacs moving in, pressing through. Two more zodiacs. Now there are five of them astern of us. There's white wakes on black water. Search lights on one of the cargo ships and from the Turkish ferry are picking up the zodiacs now."

The following day, Fairfax confirmed that McGeough had, along with Geraghty, been detained by Israel in the city of Beersheba. According to the ''Herald'''s editor Peter Fray, McGeough turned down the option of being deported immediately, in return for signing a form in which he would have admitted entering Israel illegally. When meeting with Australian and Irish consular officials in Beersheba's Ela prison, McGeough told them that he intended to challenge attempts by Israeli authorities to deport him.{{Cite news

However, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Herald confirmed on 3 June that both McGeough and Geraghty had been taken to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv to be deported.{{Cite news

Speaking to the Herald from Istanbul, McGeough described his treatment as "an absolute disrespect by Israel", accusing Israeli authorities of "a total disrespect to the fundamentals of democracy, and the fundamentals of the rights of journalists under the Geneva Convention".{{Cite news

Awards

2003 Walkley Award for Journalism Leadership and the 1997 Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year.
2010 Douglas Stewart award and Book of the Year for "Kill Khalid" at the 2010 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards

Works

Infernal Triangle Conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and The Levant – Eyewitness reports from the September 11 decade, Allen & Unwin, 2011,
Kill Khalid: Mossad's failed hit ... and the rise of Hamas, Allen & Unwin, 2009,
to Baghdad : despatches from the frontline in the War on Terror*, Allen & Unwin, 2003,
In Baghdad: a reporter's war, Allen & Unwin, 2003,
Mission impossible: the sheiks, the U.S. and the future of Iraq, Black Inc., 2004,

Reviews

Kill Khalid (Foreign Affairs): "gem of leave-no-stone-unturned reporting".
Kill Khalid (Washington Post): "... timely and thorough examination of Hamas, highlighting the ways in which Israel has intentionally and unintentionally aided its rise."

References

"Notes from the Freedom Flotilla before it was attacked by Israeli forces | Palestine". Axisoflogic.com.
(30 May 2010). "Protesters bound for Gaza". Brisbanetimes.com.au.
[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905EFDC1038F930A25752C1A9679C8B63 A NATION CHALLENGED: THE NEWS MEDIA; Two French Radio Journalists and a German Are Killed in Taliban Ambush of a Rebel Force], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 13 November 2001
(31 May 2010). "Aboard MV Blue Marmara". Brisbanetimes.com.au.
Publisher, Master. "Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year honour roll - Melbourne Press Club".
http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/ NSW Premiers Literary Awards
(1 September 2009). "Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas". Foreign Affairs.
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/03/06/ST2009030602806.html "The Martyr Who Did Not Die"], ''The Washington Post'', GREG MYRE, 8 March 2009; Page B01

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