"Al Jazeera International, the 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel, headquartered in Doha, announced today that they have appointed Ghida Fakhry as lead female news anchor at their Washington DC broadcast centre. "Ghida Fakhry is an accomplished on air and print journalist, in both English and Arabic, with extensive international experience, which makes her the ideal candidate for our goal of reaching a global audience hungry for news that offers analysis and context. We are overjoyed to have her as a member of the Washington team," said Washington D.C. bureau chief, Will Stebbins, on her appointment....In addition to covering the events leading up to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 from LBC's headquarters in Beirut, Fakhry conducted exclusive in-depth interviews in Washington D.C. with U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and Secretary of State, Colin Powell, as well as several other senior State Department and Pentagon officials. She further reported on location from Baghdad and Kabul in the summer of 2003 while travelling with Rumsfeld during his first trip to Iraq after the US-led invasion and covered his visit to the Abu Ghraib prison." (thanks John)