Nate Thayer has died

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ex-khobar Andy
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Nate Thayer has died

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See NYT story.

Thayer was the reporter who interviewed Pol Pot in the Cambodian jungle for Ted Koppel's Nightline in 1997, 20 years after his failed attempts to make Cambodia a communist haven - the Killing Fields and all that. I remember him from then - Nightline was about the only major network program I ever watched regularly over the nearly 40 years I have lived here. Thayer was very much a larger than life self-aggrandizing reporter but there is no doubt that his interview with an elderly and ailing Pol Pot was hard gained. It seems that in later life - he was only 62 when he was found dead yesterday - he fell into drug and alcohol abuse and had many medical issues.

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