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US officer in Iraq on historic mission

By W.G. Dunlop | China Daily | Updated: 2011-11-19 07:54

US officer in Iraq on historic mission

US Army Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Brooks, 48, the army's top historian in Iraq, stands in the cell of Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" and the cousin of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, on Nov 7 in Baghdad's Camp Victory military base. Ali AL-Saadi / Agence France-Presse

BAGHDAD, Iraq - US Army Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Brooks is on his third tour in Iraq, but his mission has not been a typical one: As an army historian, he is charged with documenting the history of the Iraq war.

US officer in Iraq on historic mission

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