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- Anja Niedringhaus was born on October 12, 1965 in Hoxter, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She died on April 4, 2014 in Khost, Afghanistan.
- She photographed the aftermaths of 9/11 in 2001.
- Began working as a photographer while still in high school at the age of 17.
- Niedringhaus was killed in an attack in Afghanistan while covering the country's 2014 presidential election.
- She was shot and killed while reporting on an election-commission convoy preparing for the presidential election in Afghanistan.
- She was a photographer for the Associated Press from 2002 until her death. She was the only woman in the team of 11 AP photojournalists who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in the breaking-news category for coverage of the Iraq War. She worked as a reporter in other conflict zones, including Israel, Palestine, and Pakistan. She also covered nine Olympic Games and other sporting events.
- I don't believe conflicts have changed since 9/11, other than to become more frequent and protracted. But the essence of the conflict is the same - two sides fighting for territory, for power, for ideologies. And in the middle is the population who is suffering.
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