Los Angeles (California, USA), 18 December (LaPresse) – Peter Arnett, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the most renowned war reporters, has died at the age of 91. The announcement was made by his son Andrew. Arnett died of prostate cancer. Born on 13 November 1934 in Riverton, New Zealand, the journalist won the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for his coverage of the Vietnam War for the Associated Press. However, he became a household name in 1991, following the updates from Iraq during the first Gulf War for CNN. Arnett remained in Baghdad while almost all Western journalists had left the capital in the days leading up to the US-led attack. When the missiles began to fall, he broadcast a live report from his mobile phone from his hotel room. Arnett arrived in Vietnam a year after joining the AP as a correspondent for Indonesia. This assignment was short-lived, as after reporting that the country's economy was in ruins, the leadership in Jakarta, enraged, expelled him. At the AP's Saigon bureau in 1962, Arnett found himself surrounded by a formidable team of journalists, including bureau chief Malcolm Browne and photo editor Horst Faas, who together would win three Pulitzer Prizes. Arnett remained in Vietnam until Saigon fell to North Vietnamese rebels in 1975. In the days leading up to that end, he received orders from AP's New York headquarters to begin destroying the office's documents, as coverage of the war was coming to an end. Instead, he sent them to his apartment in New York, convinced that one day they would have historical value. They are now in the AP archives. Arnett remained with the AP until 1981, when he joined the newly formed CNN. In Baghdad, he not only reported on the fighting at the front, but also obtained exclusive and controversial interviews with then-President Saddam Hussein and the future organiser of the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden.