Frank Smyth is Washington Representative and Journalist Security Coordinator of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (www.cpj.org). He has covered El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Rwanda, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Jordan and Iraq. He is a former CBS News Radio reporter, and a former Associate Producer for CBS News Television "West 57th Street." His news and opinion pieces have appeared in The Economist, The Village Voice, The Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Foreign Affairs. He is a former investigative consultant for the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch. He is co-author of Dialogue and Armed Conflict, and a contributor to Crimes of War and The Iraq War Reader.