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Znet Article Fisk: The truth is that Yasser Arafat died years ago

Znet Article, November, 06 2004 Robert Fisk
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The truth is that Yasser Arafat died years ago

Znet Article Fisk: Kidnapped Humanitarian

Znet Article, October, 21 2004 Robert Fisk
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Margaret? Margaret Hassan kidnapped? She who said to me that soon, very soon, "there will be more than one lost generation" in Iraq? Is there no end to the kidnappers' targets? Margaret Hassan was abducted at 7.30 yesterday morning on her way to...

Znet Article Fisk: The Worse The Situation In Iraq, The Bigger The Lies That Tony Blair Tells Us

Znet Article, September, 28 2004 Robert Fisk
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We are now in the greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis. That's how we run the Iraq war - or the Second Iraq War as Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara would now have us believe. Hostages are paraded in orange tracksuits to remind us of Guantanamo...

Znet Article Fisk: Iraq to Explode

Znet Article, August, 03 2004 Robert Fisk
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Bagdhad: The war is a fraud. I'm not talking about the weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist. Nor the links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida which didn't exist. Nor all the other lies upon which we went to war. I'm talking about the new...

Znet Article Fisk: The government rules only in the capital

Znet Article, July, 22 2004 Robert Fisk
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For mile after mile south of Baghdad yesterday, the story was the same: empty police posts, abandoned Iraqi army and police checkpoints and a litter of burnt-out American fuel tankers and rocket-smashed police vehicles down the main highway to Hil...

Znet Article Fisk: Crisis of Information

Znet Article, July, 19 2004 Robert Fisk
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This is how they like it. An American helicopter fires four missiles at a house in Fallujah. Fourteen people are killed, including women and children. Or so say the hospital authorities. But no Western journalist dares to go to Fallujah. Video fo...

Znet Article Fisk: So That's Alright Then

Znet Article, July, 15 2004 Robert Fisk
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Lord Butler told us yesterday that Tony Blair acted in good faith. So that's all right then. At the al-Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad yesterday morning, there was blood on the walls, blood on the floor, blood on the doctors, blood on the stretchers. ...

Znet Article Fisk: The War on Learning

Znet Article, July, 14 2004 Robert Fisk
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The Mongols stained the Tigris black with the ink of the Iraqi books they destroyed. Today's Mongols prefer to destroy the Iraqi teachers of books. Since the Anglo-American invasion, they have murdered at least 13 academics at the University of B...

Znet Article Fisk: So much for democracy

Znet Article, July, 08 2004 Robert Fisk
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Seventeen months after the Anglo-American invasion in which President George Bush promised to bring democracy to Iraq, the country's American-approved Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, yesterday introduced legislation allowing the Iraqi authorities to ...

Znet Article Fisk: The new, free Iraq

Znet Article, July, 04 2004 Robert Fisk
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In his last hours as US proconsul in Baghdad, Paul Bremer decided to tighten up some of the laws that his occupation authority had placed across the land of Iraq. He drafted a new piece of legislation forbidding Iraqi motorists to drive with only...

Znet Article Fisk: Rewriting Iraq's History

Znet Article, May, 27 2004 Robert Fisk
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U can't wait to see Abu Ghraib prison reduced to rubble by the Americans--at the request of the new Iraqi government, of course. It will be turned to dust in order to destroy a symbol of Saddam's brutality. That's what President Bush tells us. So ...

Znet Article Fisk: Betrayed by Images of our own Racism

Znet Article, May, 10 2004 Robert Fisk
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First, our enemies created the suicide bomber. Now, we have our own digital suicide bomber, the camera. Just look at the way US army reservist Lynndie England holds the leash of the naked, bearded Iraqi. Take a close look at the leather strap, the...

Znet Article Fisk: Savages

Znet Article, May, 08 2004 Robert Fisk
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Less than six month before the outbreak of the First World War, my grandmother, Margaret Fisk, gave my father William a 360-page book of imperial adventure, Tom Graham VC, A Story of the Afghan War. "Presented to Willie by his Mother," she wrote i...

Znet Article Fisk: Smoke Them

Znet Article, May, 06 2004 Robert Fisk
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The pictures are appalling, the words devastating. As a wounded Iraqi crawls from beneath a burning truck, an American helicopter pilot tells his commander that one of three men has survived his night air attack. "Someone wounded,'' the pilot crie...

Znet Article Fisk: The Good Guys

Znet Article, May, 04 2004 Robert Fisk
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Why are we surprised at their racism, their brutality, their sheer callousness towards Arabs? Those American soldiers in Saddam's old prison at Abu Ghraib, those young British squaddies in Basra came -- as soldiers often come -- from towns and cit...

Znet Article Fisk: Criticize Israel?

Znet Article, April, 26 2004 Robert Fisk
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Behold Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, would-be graduation commencement speaker at Emory University in the United States. She has made a big mistake. She dared to criticise Israel. She sugg...

Znet Article Fisk: Legitimising Terrorism

Znet Article, April, 17 2004 Robert Fisk
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So President George Bush tears up the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and that's okay. Israeli settlements for Jews and Jews only on the West Bank. That's okay. Ta...

Znet Article Fisk: Scores of Dead

Znet Article, April, 15 2004 Robert Fisk
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April 13 2004: "The Star" Baghdad - At least 80 foreign mercenaries - security guards recruited from the United States, Europe and South Africa and working for American companies - have been killed in the past eight days in Iraq. Lieutenant-Gene...

Znet Article Fisk: Death of Scores of Mercenaries Not Reported

Znet Article, April, 15 2004 Robert Fisk
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April 13 2004: "The Star" Baghdad - At least 80 foreign mercenaries - security guards recruited from the United States, Europe and South Africa and working for American companies - have been killed in the past eight days in Iraq. Lieutenant-Gene...

Znet Article Fisk: Shut Up, War Critics

Znet Article, April, 11 2004 Robert Fisk
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Just shut up. That's the new foreign policy line of our masters. When Senator Edward Kennedy dubbed Iraq "George Bush's Vietnam", US Secretary of State Colin Powell told him to be "a little more restrained and careful" in his comments. I recall th...

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