Gretchen Peters

Who is Gretchen Peters?

Gretchen Peters is an American journalist. She graduated from Harvard University. She covered Pakistan and Afghanistan for The Associated Press, and for ABC News. She was nominated for an Emmy for coverage of the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto. She won the SAJA Journalism Award for a Nightline segment on Pervez Musharraf. Her work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The New Republic, and The National Geographic. She is married to John Moore; they have two children; they live in Denver. Since 2009, she has been studying at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. Gretchen Peters, a journalist formerly with ABC News, has written an excellent book on what’s generally described as the Afghan drug trade. But, as she demonstrates quite effectively, defining the industry as Afghan is inaccurate—it is a regional phenomenon. In her new book, Seeds of Terror, journalist Gretchen Peters makes the compelling argument that the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan have evolved (or devolved) from purely religious terrorist groups into narcoterrorism syndicates with religious overtones.