'I'm Sorry We Couldn't Do More'

摘要

On Jan. 17, 2007, a group of armed insurgents ambushed and killed an idealistic 28-year-old American who was working in Baghdad for the nonprofit National Democratic Institute, along with three private security contractors who were accompanying her. Before her death, Andrea (Andi) Parhamovich and newsweek reporter Michael Hastings had been preparing to an-nounce their engagement, and the tragedy im-pelled him to write a book about this extraordinary woman and the vision that took her to Iraq while the bloodshed was at its worst. In this excerpt, Hastings reconstructs the day she died.