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Znet Article Cockburn: Kurdish Mountain Army Awaits Turkish Incursion

Znet Article, July, 23 2007 Patrick Cockburn
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Kurdish Mountain Army Awaits Turkish Incursion

Znet Article Cockburn: A Small War Guaranteed to Damage a Superpower

Znet Article, May, 10 2007 Patrick Cockburn
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A Small War Guaranteed to Damage a Superpower

Znet Article Cockburn: Target Tehran: Washington sets stage for a new confrontation

Znet Article, February, 13 2007 Patrick Cockburn
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The United States is moving closer to war with Iran by accusing the "highest ...

Znet Article Cockburn: US 'victory' against cult leader was 'massacre'

Znet Article, February, 01 2007 Patrick Cockburn
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There are growing suspicions in Iraq that the official story of the battle outside Najaf between a messianic Iraqi cult and the Iraqi security forces supported by th...

Znet Article Cockburn: Inside Baghdad: A City Paralysed By Fear

Znet Article, January, 27 2007 Patrick Cockburn
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Baghdad is paralysed by fear. Iraqi...

Znet Article Cockburn: Saddam: From monster to martyr?

Znet Article, January, 08 2007 Patrick Cockburn
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How Bush and Blair's choices have led to disaster in Iraq, culminating in a chaotic execution that ...

Znet Article Cockburn: The Meaning of Saddam Hussein: Iron Man, Tin God

Znet Article, January, 03 2007 Patrick Cockburn
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The Meaning of Saddam Hussein: Iron Man, Tin God

Znet Article Cockburn: The Americans Don't See How Unwelcome They Are, or That Iraq Is Now beyond Repair

Znet Article, December, 11 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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During the Opium Wars between Britain and China in the 19th century, eunuchs at the court of the Chinese emperor had the problem of informing him of the repeated and humiliating defeat of his armies. They dealt with their delicate task by simply t...

Znet Article Cockburn: Cautious words conceal the true savagery of life in Iraq

Znet Article, December, 08 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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The cautious words of the Baker-Hamilton report stand in sharp contrast to the savagery and terror that dominate everyday life in Baghdad. Many of the terrible disasters it fears may occur in future are in fact already happening. It states that ...

Znet Article Cockburn: Slaughter House Iraq

Znet Article, November, 28 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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Iraq is rending itself apart. The signs of collapse are everywhere. In Baghdad, the police often pick up more than 100 tortured and mutilated bodies in a single day. Government ministries make war on each other. A new and ominous stage in the dis...

Znet Article Cockburn: Conciliation Toward Iran and Syria?

Znet Article, November, 12 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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  By PATRICK COCKBURN "A mortar round exploded on the roof of my next-door neighbour's house, frightening my whole family," said Marwan, a friend in Baghdad. "We worry about staying alive, not about the outcome of elections in the US or whether ...

Znet Article Cockburn: Bush & Blair: The Iraq fantasy

Znet Article, November, 07 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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Neither will admit that Iraq is a disaster. But while their state of denial may cost votes in Washington and London, on the frontline in the Middle East, it continues to cost lives ----- "When does the incompetence end and the crime begin?" aske...

Znet Article Cockburn: From 'mission accomplished' to mission impossible for the Iraqis

Znet Article, October, 26 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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From 'mission accomplished' to mission impossible for the Iraqis

Znet Article Cockburn: Iraq: The Reality

Znet Article, October, 13 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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Iraq: The Reality

Znet Article Cockburn: Kurds and Sunnis Vie for Control of Mosul

Znet Article, September, 29 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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Kurds and Sunnis Vie for Control of Mosul

Znet Article Cockburn: A Journey into the 'Taliban Republic' Where the Militias Rule Unchallenged

Znet Article, September, 26 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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Civil war is raging through the Iraqi countryside. Sunni insurgents have largely taken control of the province of Diyala, where local leaders believe the insurgents are close to establishing a "Taliban republic". Officials in the strategically i...

Znet Article Cockburn: Deadly Harvest

Znet Article, September, 25 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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Nabatiyeh. The war in Lebanon has not ended. Every day, some of the million bomblets which were fired by Israeli artillery during the last three days of the conflict kill four people in southern Lebanon and wound many more. The casualty figures ...

Znet Article Cockburn: New terror that stalks Iraq's republic of fear

Znet Article, September, 22 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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The republic of fear is born again. The state of terror now gripping Iraq is as bad as it was under Saddam Hussein. Torture in the country may even be worse than it was during his rule, the United Nation's specialinvestigator on torture said yeste...

Znet Article Cockburn: Why 'victory' in first phase of war on terror unravelled

Znet Article, September, 12 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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It is the war that was meant to have ended for good. Just under five years ago the Taliban fled Kabul without firing a shot. But yesterday the Islamic militants showed they were back with a vengeance when a massive suicide bomb blew up beside an A...

Znet Article Cockburn: 'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all

Znet Article, September, 10 2006 Patrick Cockburn
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Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the world's attention has ...

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