Slide Show: War Stories: The New Yorker On Saturday night, in a New Yorker Festival event called "War Stories," I talked with Jon Lee Anderson and Dexter Filkins about their experiences reporting on conflicts around the world. As we prepared for the talk, we gathered mementoes that they had brought home from reporting trips, from an Al Qaeda manual found in Osama bin Laden's bunker to a pair of handcuffs retrieved from one of Muammar Qaddafi's interrogation rooms. Here are some of the highlights. Handcuffs that Anderson found in a military-intelligence detention center in Tripoli, Libya, which had been overrun and burned by rebels. March, 2001. A portrait of Anderson in Taliban style, made in a photo studio in Kandahar. A Raymond Weil wristwatch with Saddam Hussein's image on its face, which Filkins found in 2003, the week after the fall of Baghdad, still on sale in a hotel gift shop. An Osama bin Laden doll that Anderson bought in a bazaar in Islamabad. The cover of an Al Qaeda manual, which Filkins recovered from a bunker in Tora Bora, where bin Laden stayed before the American bombing campaign in December, 2001. Detail from an Al Qaeda manual. Surveillance tapes made by the Libyan secret police, which Anderson found in an underground bunker in Tripoli. August, 2011. A portrait of Osama bin Laden, which Filkins bought in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1998. After Al Qaeda bombed American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and President Clinton retaliated with cruise-missile strikes on Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, bin Laden emerged as a folk hero. A rock and sling from the first intifada (before the Palestinians turned to heavier weapons), which Anderson brought back from Gaza. A portrait of Muammar Qaddafi, which Anderson recovered from a trophy room in an underground complex beneath Qaddafi's residence in Tripoli, as looters burned the house. One of Saddam Hussein's robes, made of camel hair and gold thread, which was evidently given to him by a visiting dignitary. Baghdad, 2004. A piece of a statue of Saddam Hussein, which Anderson found in one of Saddam's palaces. Thousands of his likenesses appeared all over Iraq. After he was deposed, Iraqis discovered that many statues were made of painted Styrofoam. April, 2003. A Taliban fatwa declaring war on the United States, made soon after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which Filkins retrieved from a burning intelligence-ministry building in Kunduz, Afghanistan, late that year.