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A WAR founded on illusions, lies and right-wing ideology was bound to founder in blood and fire. Saddam had weapons of mass…
Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent of The Independent, is the author of Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (London: André Deutsch, 1990). He holds numerous awards for journalism, including two Amnesty International UK Press Awards and seven British International Journalist of the Year awards. His other books include The Point of No Return: The Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster (Andre Deutsch, 1975); In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939-45 (Andre Deutsch, 1983); and The Great War for Civilisation: the Conquest of the Middle East (4th Estate, 2005).
THE UNITED States has secretly flown Saddam Hussein out of Iraq and imprisoned him under high security at a vast American air…
Fallujah. Not content with surrounding the largest Sunni city west of Baghdad with tanks, armoured personnel carriers and heavy machine-guns, US forces…
Baghdad. TO THE horror of the occupying powers in Iraq, the country’s ever more bloody insurgency spilt into the majority Shia Muslim…
Yesterday morning, I sat down in a Baghdad home with a poor old man and his daughter who were mourning their adored…
What has happened to the Coalition Provisional Authority, also known as the occupying power? Things are getting worse, much worse in Iraq.…
Another little lesson in democracy. “The Americans and the Governing Council are kaffirs,” the Iraqi Shias screamed yesterday from the minibus in…
An army of thousands of mercenaries has appeared in Iraq’s major cities, many of them former British and American soldiers hired by…
We live, as the Arabs say, in interesting times. Today, our Prime Minister flies to Libya to pay homage at the court…
Any Israeli who bought the 16 February edition of the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth would have believed that a truly wicked man…