First the Americans killed the correspondent of al-Jazeera yesterday and wounded his cameraman. Then, within four hours, they attacked the Reuters television…
They lay in lines, the car salesman who’d just lost his eye but whose feet were still dribbling blood, the motorcyclist who…
It started with a series of massive vibrations, a great “stomping” sound that shook my room. “Stomp, stomp, stomp,” it went. I…
Why do we aid and abet the lies and propaganda of this filthy war? How come, for example, it’s now BBC ‘style’…
The wounds are vicious and deep, a rash of scarlet spots on the back and thighs or face, the shards of shrapnel…
Sergeant Ali Jaffar Moussa Hamadi al-Nomani was the first Iraqi combatant known to stage a suicide attack. Not even during the uprising…
At dusk yesterday the ground around the Baghdad North Gate War Cemetery shook with the vibration of the bombs. The oil-grey sky…
Im the Baghdad suburb of Shu’ale: The piece of metal is only a foot high, but the numbers on it hold the…
Two British soldiers lie dead on a Basra roadway, a small Iraqi girl – victim of an Anglo American air strike –…
It was an outrage, an obscenity. The severed hand on the metal door, the swamp of blood and mud across the road,…
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