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Znet Article Fisk: Religious Terror

Znet Article, September, 18 2005 Robert Fisk
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In an age when Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara can identify "evil ideologies" and al-Qa’ida can call the suicide bombing of 156 Iraqi Shias "good news" for the "nation of Islam", thank heaven for our readers, in particular John Shepherd, princi...

Znet Article Fisk: How Easily We Have Come To Take The Bombs And The Deaths In Iraq For Granted

Znet Article, August, 28 2005 Robert Fisk
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Taking things for granted. Or, as a very dear friend of mine used to say to me, "There you go." I am sitting in Baghdad airport, waiting for my little Flying Carpet Airlines 20-seater prop aircraft to take me home to Beirut but the local Iraqi sta...

Znet Article Fisk: Theme Park Death

Znet Article, August, 21 2005 Robert Fisk
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On Monday, George Bush was praising the greedy sectarian politicians here - who had totally failed to meet the new Iraqi constitution deadline - for their "heroic" efforts for "democracy". At about the same time, I came across a friend at one of B...

Znet Article Fisk: What Does Democracy Really Mean In The Middle East? Whatever The West Decides

Znet Article, August, 20 2005 Robert Fisk
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It makes you want to scream. I have been driving the dingy, dangerous, oven-like streets of Baghdad all week, ever more infested with insurgents and their informers, the American troops driving terrified over the traffic islands, turning their gun...

Znet Article Fisk: Secrets Of The Morgue

Znet Article, August, 19 2005 Robert Fisk
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The Baghdad morgue is a fearful place of heat and stench and mourning, the cries of relatives echoing down the narrow, foetid laneway behind the pale-yellow brick medical centre where the authorities keep their computerised records. So many corpse...

Znet Article Fisk: A Constitution That Means Nothing To Ordinary Iraqis

Znet Article, August, 15 2005 Robert Fisk
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Behind ramparts of concrete and barbed wire, the framers of Iraq’s new constitution wrestled yesterday to prevent - or bring about - the federalisation of Iraq while their compatriots in the hot and fetid streets outside showed no interest...

Znet Article Fisk: US Win?

Znet Article, August, 14 2005 Robert Fisk
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There’s the wreckage of a car bomb that killed seven Americans on the corner of a neighbouring street. Close by stands the shuttered shop of a phone supplier who put pictures of Saddam on a donkey on his mobiles. He was shot three days ago...

Znet Article Fisk: Ten Minutes

Znet Article, August, 13 2005 Robert Fisk
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It was the same lunatic corkscrew landing in the same little Lebanese plane, barrelling down into the sandstorm of Baghdad airport. Piloting his 20-passenger twin-prop aircraft - from Flying Carpet Airlines, no less - Captain Hussam has three thin...

Znet Article Fisk: Blair's Alliance With Bush Bombed

Znet Article, July, 08 2005 Robert Fisk
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"If you bomb our cities," Osama bin Laden said in a recent videotape, "we will bomb yours."' It was clear Britain would be a target ever since British Prime Minister Tony Blair decided to join President Bush's "war on terror" and his invasion of I...

Znet Article Fisk: Kingdom of Heaven

Znet Article, June, 20 2005 Robert Fisk
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Long live Ridley Scott. I never thought I'd say this. Gladiator had a screenplay that might have come from the Boy's Own Paper. Black Hawk Down showed the Arabs of Somalia as generically violent animals. But when I left the cinema after seeing Sco...

Znet Article Fisk: Saddam Interrogation Screened - In Silence

Znet Article, June, 17 2005 Robert Fisk
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There he was, just as his victims looked on his own television screens, his words censored, his arguments unknown, his case as undemocratic as the "judicial" courts in which Saddam destroyed his own enemies. The Iraqis - or, let us speak frankly...

Znet Article Fisk: Another Species of Cedar

Znet Article, March, 10 2005 Robert Fisk
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It was a warning. They came in their tens of thousands, Lebanese Shia Muslim families with babies in arms and children in front, walking past my Beirut home. They reminded me of the tens of thousands of Iraqi Shia Muslims who walked with their fam...

Znet Article Fisk: In Death, Hariri Unites The Lebanese Against Syria

Znet Article, February, 17 2005 Robert Fisk
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Beirut. Never has a Lebanese government been so shunned by its people. Never have...

Znet Article Fisk: Peace Without Justice

Znet Article, February, 11 2005 Robert Fisk
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So, the Palestinians will end their occupation of Israel. No more will Palestinian tanks smash their way into Haifa and Tel Aviv. No more will Palestinian F-18s bomb Israeli population centres. No more will Palestinian Apache helicopters carry out...

Znet Article Fisk: Triumph And Tragedy For Iraq

Znet Article, February, 01 2005 Robert Fisk
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Triumph And Tragedy For Iraq

Znet Article Fisk: Not even Saddam could achieve the divisions this election will bring

Znet Article, January, 22 2005 Robert Fisk
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Sunday 30 January will be the day when myth and reality come together with - I fear - an all too literal bang. The magic date upon which Iraq is supposed to transform itself into a democracy will no doubt be greeted as another milestone in America...

Znet Article Fisk: Fear and Voting in Baghdad

Znet Article, January, 19 2005 Robert Fisk
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Journalism yields a world of cliches but here, for once, the first cliche that comes to mind is true. Baghdad is a city of fear. Fearful Iraqis, fearful militiamen, fearful American soldiers, fearful journalists. Jan. 30, that day upon which the ...

Znet Article Fisk: How a flying carpet took me back in time

Znet Article, January, 17 2005 Robert Fisk
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The brush fires are already being lit but fear not, Bush and Blair will tell us they knew things would get violent on polling day. I tried out the new Beirut-Baghdad air service this week. It's a sleek little 20-seater with two propellers, a Leba...

Znet Article Fisk: A Mire of Death, Lies and Atrocities

Znet Article, January, 03 2005 Robert Fisk
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Who said this and when? "The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques ...

Znet Article Fisk: Who Killed Margaret Hassan?

Znet Article, November, 18 2004 Robert Fisk
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After the grief, the astonishment, heartbreak, anger and fury over the apparent murder of such a good and saintly woman, that is the question her friends--and, quite possibly, the Iraqi insurgents--will be asking. This Anglo-Irish woman held an Ir...

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