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Terry McDermott, born in Iowa, has been a news correspondent at eight different newspapers over the past 30 years.

He was most recently a national news correspondent for the Los Angeles Times where he was assigned to investigate the background of Mohamed Atta, one of the 911hijackers.  That assignment led him to travel to 20 countries on four continents over  a three year period. 

Prior to his career as a journalist, he worked as a carpenter and as a political campaign manager.

• Former National News Correspondent,  Los Angeles Times
• Former Metro Columnist,  Seattle Times

• M.A., University of Nebraska Omaha, year unknown
• B.A., University of Nebraska Omaha, year unknown

• 101 Theory Drive: A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory, 2010
• Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It, 2005
• “The Plots and Designs of Al Qaeda's Engineer Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man believed to be behind 9/11, hides in plain sight -- and narrowly escapes capture in Pakistan,” (Co-written with Josh Meyer and Patrick J. McDonnell) Los Angeles Times, Dec. 22, 2002
• “The Plot: How terrorists hatched a simple plan to use planes as bombs,”  Los Angeles Times, Sep. 1, 2002
• “A Perfect Soldier: Mohamed Atta, whose hard gaze has stared from a billion television screens and newspaper pages, has become, for many, the face of evil incarnate,” Los Angeles Times,  Jan. 27, 2002