Yep, he's been reporting on Middle East for decades.
[link|http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0201/friedman.asp|About Friedman.]
His reporting in the 1980s for The New York Times from Lebanon and Israel was widely cited and won him two Pulitzer Prizes.
Alex
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)