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The Americans have stripped the Iraqi flags from the graves of Uday and Qusay Hussein. The red, white and black banners were…
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).
Paul Bremer’s taste in clothes symbolises “the new Iraq” very well. He wears a business suit and combat boots. As the proconsul…
Baghdad. Obsessed with capturing Saddam Hussein, American soldiers turned a botched raid on a house in the Mansur district of Baghdad yesterday…
Baghdad – Arabs have never been squeamish about death. They see too much of it. It is we Westerners – with our…
Now here’s a story to shame us all. It’s about America’s shameful prison camps in Iraq. It’s about the beating of prisoners…
IT COULD not have been more predictable or better planned. The British were the soft underbelly of the American occupation, the nice…
On June 11, 2003, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman interviewed Robert Fisk, reporter with the Independent newspaper of London. He recently left…
Paul Bremer has ordered his legal department in Baghdad to draw up rules for press censorship. A joke, I concluded, when one…
FROM HIGH over Iraq yesterday, President George Bush cast his Olympian eye over ancient Mesopotamia after praising the Americans in Qatar who…
IT WAS all about cliches. No longer a “peace process” – which, like a disobedient railway loco, constantly had to be put…