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Robert Young PeltonRobert Young Pelton is a Canadian born adventurer, journalist, and former strategic planner. He publishes a regularly updated guide, The World's Most Dangerous Places, which provides practical information to people wishing to enter the world's war zones. He is also the author of "The Hunter, The Hammer & Heaven", a chronicle of time spent in Liberia, Chechnya and Bougainville. He was also host of the Discovery Travel Channel series "Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places. He is currently writing a book on private military contractors and writes for National Geographic Adventure. Pelton's adventures have taken him to Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, the Darien Gap, and numerous other of the world's lethal locations. He lives in California. Pelton is best known for his world exclusive interview with John Walker Lindh in the battle of Qali e Jangi, December 2, 2001, his 10 day kidnapping in the Darien Gap in January 2003 by right wing death squads and his exclusive interview inside Grozny in December of 1999 with captured Russian GRU agent Alexi Galkin who admitted that the Russian FSB was behind the October 1999 apartment bombings that triggered the second Chechen war. Although often described as a journalist, Pelton has only worked for CBS 60 Minutes, ABC Investigate Unit and CNN International. He considers himself a witness to conflict, and usually defers credit when working behind enemy lines to focus on his own book and television project. Pelton has spent time with many of the world's most dangerous terrorist groups, often returning with exclusive interviews and unique footage. A partial list includes: Ahmed Shah Massoud of the Northern Alliance, Francis Ona of the BRA in Bougainville, the Taliban leadership in Kabul, the FARC leadership in Colombia, the Chechen rebel leadership in Grozny, the leadership of the LURD rebels in Liberia, Hashim Salamat of the MILF in the Southern Philippines and many others. Pelton is also the moderator of The Black Flag Cafe an internet forum covering topics loosely related to tourism in dangerous places, guerrila warfare, mercenaries, PMCs, terrorism and etc. His handle is RYP. Come Back Alive Pelton's Website
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