Marie Colvin’s Heroic Life and the Threats to Journalists Today

Marie Colvin was marked to die. She was targeted by dictator Bashar al-Assad as surely as the shadowy powers in the royal court of Saudi Arabia plotted the murder and dismemberment of the critic Jamal Khashoggi. He was dead from the moment he walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to collect a wedding license. She was dead from the moment al-Assad’s artillery picked up the signal of her satellite broadcast in February 2012.