Yet again, Yasser Arafat is dying. We thought he’d been killed back in 1982 when the Israeli air force flew around Beirut…
Margaret? Margaret Hassan kidnapped? She who said to me that soon, very soon, “there will be more than one lost generation” in…
We are now in the greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis. That’s how we run the Iraq war – or the…
Bagdhad: The war is a fraud. I’m not talking about the weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist. Nor the links between…
For mile after mile south of Baghdad yesterday, the story was the same: empty police posts, abandoned Iraqi army and police checkpoints…
This is how they like it. An American helicopter fires four missiles at a house in Fallujah. Fourteen people are killed, including…
Lord Butler told us yesterday that Tony Blair acted in good faith. So that’s all right then. At the al-Yarmouk hospital in…
The Mongols stained the Tigris black with the ink of the Iraqi books they destroyed. Today’s Mongols prefer to destroy the Iraqi…
Seventeen months after the Anglo-American invasion in which President George Bush promised to bring democracy to Iraq, the country’s American-approved Prime Minister,…
In his last hours as US proconsul in Baghdad, Paul Bremer decided to tighten up some of the laws that his occupation…
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