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I was travelling into the Shia Muslim Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on Friday evening when three American soldiers jumped in front of…
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).
Pacifica Over the course of a quarter century covering the Middle East can you describe the kinds of press restrictions you have…
When Iraqi civilians look into the faces of American troops, President Bush famously told the world on Thursday, they see strength and…
Goodman: After spending a month in Iraq, could you describe your thoughts? Fisk: Well, my assumption is that history has a way…
It’s going wrong, faster than anyone could have imagined. The army of ‘liberation’ has already turned into the army of occupation. The…
Baghdad. Iraq’s scavengers have thieved and destroyed what they have been allowed to loot and burn by the Americans and a two-hour…
So now Syria is in America’s gunsights. First it’s Iraq, Israel’s most powerful enemy, possessor of weapons of mass destruction – none…
They lie across the floor in tens of thousands of pieces, the priceless antiquities of Iraq’s history.The looters had gone from shelf…
Let’s talk war crimes. Yes, I know about the war crimes of Saddam. He slaughtered the innocent, gassed the Kurds, tortured his…
It was a scene from the Crimean War; a hospital of screaming wounded and floors running with blood. I stepped in the…