In the 1990s , Robertson covered the breakup of Yugoslavia as a producer and reported from Baghdad , Iraq , during the First Gulf War . He was one of very few Western broadcast journalists reporting from Afghanistan at the time of the September 11 attacks in 2001 . He reported from Iraq in 2002 and early 2003 in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq by the United States ; from New Orleans in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ; from Beirut in 2006 during the Israel-Lebanon crisis ; and from Norway in the aftermath of the 2011 massacre perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik . During the Arab Spring , Robertson reported from Libya , covering the Libyan Civil War and interviewing Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Al-Saadi Gaddafi ( the sons of Muammar Gaddafi ) and Iman al-Obeidi . Robertson reported from Bahrain during the Bahraini uprising of 2011 and was the only Western television journalist to interview Salman , Crown Prince of Bahrain
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Nic Robertson