Steven Vincent - 8/2/05

It was a year ago today that Steven Vincent died, murdered by islamofascist thugs in Basra, Iraq.

The Northern Alliance interviewed Vincent twice, including one that may have been his last radio interview before leaving the US for the last time - King had the definitive record of the talk. He was a fascinating interview; a lifelong liberal New York Democrat who became a terrorhawk while watching the towers fall. He was nobody's dogmatist; he was critical of the administration's approach to Iraq in many ways, but supported the liberation and the war on terror.

He was a genuinely independent voice and a keen mind with an uncanny ability to dive into a strange culture and come up with little bits of the truth that you'd never notice otherwise.

He's greatly missed.

Read Kesher Talk for an ongoing tribute to Vincent.