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Ali Salman Ali was the first victim of Saddam’s capture, but he died on Christmas Day. As his father Salman Ghazi, 71,…
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).
Something very unpleasant is being let loose in Iraq. Just this week, a company commander in the US 1st Infantry Division in…
The problem I have with the whole Gaddafi saga is that the Libya I know can scarcely repair a drain or install…
Schoolboy Issam Naim Hamid is the latest of America’s famous “insurgents”. In Samarra for which read Fantasyville he was shot…
Was this really the man with whom I shook hands almost a quarter of a century ago? I’ve spent 24 hours looking…
“Peace” and “reconciliation” were the patois of Downing Street and the White House yesterday. But all those hopes of a collapse of…
When George Bush sneaked into Baghdad airport for his two-hour “warm meal” for Thanksgiving, he was in feisty form. Americans hadn’t come…
In Iraq, they are just numbers, bloodstains on a road. But in the little town of Madison in Wisconsin last week, they…
Under US Control, Press Freedom Falls Short in Iraq by Freedom of the press is beginning to smell a little rotten in…
It’s the price of joining George Bush’s “war on terror”. They couldn’t hit Britain while Bush was on his triumphalist state visit…