the latest and greatest: fake boyfriend edition

please make note of all of the following that apply:

graduated from a top university?

• Stanford University in 1996 with a B.A. in International Relations.

in which other languages are you fluent?

• Arabic (learned while living in slums of Cairo), Spanish and Italian

work to cover the news as best you can?

• the only television news correspondent to cover the entire war in Iraq for an American television network from Baghdad, joined NBC News in May 2003.
• reported as a freelance journalist for ABC News during the initial U.S. invasion of Iraq,
• currently works out of the NBC News Baghdad bureau, but also covers assignments throughout the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe.

been previously published?

• A Fist in the Hornet's Nest: On the Ground in Baghdad Before, During, and After the War

and finally, one last question Mr. Engel...

are you a smoking hot edition to my mornings/fake boyfriend list?

• yes (see proof below)