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Cockburn: New terror that stalks Iraq's republic of fear
Znet Article, September, 22 2006
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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...
Cockburn: Why 'victory' in first phase of war on terror unravelled
Znet Article, September, 12 2006
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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...
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 ...
Cockburn: Iraq Is Disintegrating As Ethnic Cleansing Takes Hold
Znet Article, May, 20 2006
Patrick Cockburn
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Khanaqin, North-East Iraq. The state of Iraq now resembles Bosnia at the height of the fighting in the 1990s when each community fled to places where its members were a majority and were able to defend thems...
Cockburn: Iraq is Splitting
Znet Article, April, 02 2006
Patrick Cockburn
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LRB | Vol. 28 No. 7 dated April 6, 2006 | Patrick Cockburn Diary Iraq is splitting into three different parts. Everywhere there are fault lines opening up between Sunni, Shia and Kurd. In the days immediately following the attack on the Shia sh...
Cockburn: Iraq's Election Result: A Divided Nation
Znet Article, December, 23 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions. Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate bac...
Cockburn: Britain 'trying to stall $1.3bn theft inquiry that could hurt Allawi's election chances'
Znet Article, December, 12 2005
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Britain 'trying to stall $1.3bn theft inquiry that could hurt Allawi's election chances'
Cockburn: The Occupation
Znet Article, November, 09 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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The following is an exclusive interview with long-time activist and writer Milan Rai. Milan is the author of ‘War Plan Iraq’ and ‘Regime Unchanged’ and a leading member of Justice Not Vengeance (http://www.j-n-v.org...
Cockburn: Baghdad: The Bloodiest Day
Znet Article, September, 15 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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A suicide bomber sparked Baghdad's worst day of slaughter since the fall of Saddam 30 months ago when he lured labourers desperate for work towards his van by offering them jobs and then detonated explosives that killed 114 and injured 156 of them...
Cockburn: Recipe For War
Znet Article, August, 31 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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GEORGE BUSH and his administration say the new constitution is another turning point in Iraq. Is it? IT’S VERY difficult to see how this constitution, whether it’s implemented or not, is going to do much good, and I think Iraqis t...
Cockburn: American Obsession
Znet Article, August, 24 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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At the beginning of the First World War, an Austro-Hungarian general led his army to catastrophic defeat against Serbia because he made a premature advance based on the need to mark the birthday of Emperor Franz Josef with a striking victory. The...
Cockburn: Killing Freely
Znet Article, April, 26 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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An American patrol roared past us with the soldiers gesturing furiously with their guns for traffic to keep back on an overpass in central Baghdad. A black car with three young men in it did not stop in time and a soldier fired several shots from ...
Cockburn: 150 hostages and 19 deaths leave US claims of Iraqi 'peace' in tatters
Znet Article, April, 20 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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Mosul. Iraqi and United States-led forces were last night preparing to launch a rescue mission for up to 150 Shia hostages held by Sunni insurgents. The threat by Sunni militants in the town of Madaen, south of Baghdad, to execute the hostages u...
Cockburn: A Bloody, Useless Gesture
Znet Article, October, 06 2004
Patrick Cockburn
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American generals in Iraq triumphantly announced at the weekend that they had successfully taken over Samarra and killed 125 insurgents. They failed to mention that this is the third time they have captured this particular city on the Tigris river...
Cockburn: The Chalabis, Iraq and American Power
Znet Article, August, 11 2004
Patrick Cockburn
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The most farcical moment since the start of the Iraq crisis came last weekend when Ahmed Chalabi, the Pentagon's choice to rule Iraq only last year, was accused of counterfeiting by Iraq's chief investigating judge. His nephew Salem Chalabi, who...
Cockburn: Independence Pretense
Znet Article, June, 24 2004
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Independence Pretense
Cockburn: Baghdad Fumes as the Americans Seek Safety in 'Tombstone' Forts
Znet Article, June, 14 2004
Patrick Cockburn
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Baghdad. The US army is paralyzing the heart of Baghdad as it builds ever more elaborate fortifications to protect its bases against suicide bombers. "Do not enter or you will be shot," reads an abrupt notice attached to some razor wire blocking ...
Cockburn: New Flag?
Znet Article, April, 28 2004
Patrick Cockburn
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Baghdad: For many Iraqis it was the final insult. Again and again they expressed outrage yesterday that Iraq's United States-appointed and unelected leaders had, overnight, abolished the old Iraqi flag, seen by most Iraqis as the symbol of their n...
Cockburn: Bremer is Powerless to Restrain the US Military
Znet Article, April, 17 2004
Patrick Cockburn
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Bremer is Powerless to Restrain the US Military
