Peter Arnett, known for reporting on Vietnam and Gulf wars from the front lines, dies at 91

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died.

- Associated Press

He was 91.Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his Vietnam War coverage for AP, died Wednesday, said his son Andrew Arnett. He had been suffering from prostate cancer.

Arnett was known mostly to fellow journalists when he reported in Vietnam from 1962 until the war's end in 1975. He became something of a household name in 1991, however, after he broadcast live updates for CNN from Iraq during the first Gulf War, and later took interviews with then-President Saddam Hussein and future 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.

While almost all Western reporters had fled Baghdad in the days before the US-led attack, Arnett stayed. As missiles began raining on the city, he broadcast a live account by cellphone from his hotel room.