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IT DOESN’T take an awful lot of courage to murder a paraplegic in a wheelchair. But it takes only a few moments…
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 surviving Iraqi employees of the United Nations fearfully changed the plates on their white, unmarked vehicles last week. From now on,…
A DRIVE to the former Saddam Hussein International Airport to meet a colleague. Palm trees cut down on the airport road by…
BAGHDAD. EACH TIME I return to Iraq, it’s the same, like finding a razor blade in a bar of chocolate. The moment…
Odd, isn’t it? There never has been a civil war in Iraq. I have never heard a single word of animosity between…
For democracy, read fantasy. Iraq is getting so nasty for our great leaders these days that anything – and anyone – is…
‘The British said my son would be free soon. Three days later I had his body’ The last time Lieutenant Colonel Daoud…
Ever since Daniel Pipes – he of the failed American neo-cons – piped up last summer with his plan to install a…
Cigarette sellers don’t have names. They said he was called Fouad but even the shopkeeper whose nephew drove the wounded, screaming man…
A severed arm with a hand still attached to it lay a few metres from the broken gates of the mayor’s office…