Aram Roston is the winner of the 2010 Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting. He is the author of The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi (Nation Books 2008). He’s covered crime, corruption, conflicts, politics and national security for more than seventeen years. He has worked as a CNN correspondent, an NBC News investigative producer and a NY city police reporter, and he’s written for The Nation, Playboy, GQ and other magazines and newspapers.
Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.
Saudi Arabia depends on the United States for defense, which contributes to that country's corruption.