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 He was also the first western reporter to enter Gaza from Egypt during Israel's late 2008 2009 offensive.In the summer of 2006 Wedeman reported from south Lebanon where he was CNN's senior reporter in Tyre during the war between Israel and Hezbollah.Wedeman also covered a succession of wars in the Balkans, the Israeli Palestinian peace process and subsequent Second Intifada, as well as numerous crises in Iraq, and famine and strife in Africa, including award winning coverage of the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone.In 2003, he reported on the US led invasion of Iraq from Kurdish territory in the north of the country where he was one of the first journalists to cover the fall of the city of Kirkuk. He continued to follow developments in Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, travelling throughout the country highlighting the myriad of difficulties that would confront coalition forces as they tried to impose order in the post Saddam era. Wedeman was also the firs