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Fisk: The one simple truth about this war
Znet Article, April, 10 2004
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A WAR founded on illusions, lies and right-wing ideology was bound to founder in blood and fire. Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. He was in contact with al-Qa'ida, he was involved with the crimes against humanity of 11 September. The people...
Fisk: Airlifting Saddam
Znet Article, April, 08 2004
Robert Fisk
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THE UNITED States has secretly flown Saddam Hussein out of Iraq and imprisoned him under high security at a vast ...
Fisk: Iraq Anarchy
Znet Article, April, 07 2004
Robert Fisk
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Fallujah. Not content with surrounding the largest Sunni city west of Baghdad with tanks, armoured personnel carriers and heavy machine-guns, US forces used Apache helicopters to attack the Shia Muslim slums of Shoula yesterday, sent dozens of the...
Fisk: Shoot Out
Znet Article, April, 05 2004
Robert Fisk
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Baghdad. TO THE horror of the occupying powers in Iraq, the country's ever more bloody insurgency spilt into the majority Shia Muslim community yesterday as Spanish and other Western soldiers fought gunmen in the holy city of Najaf, with the loss ...
Fisk: Families Rage
Znet Article, April, 03 2004
Robert Fisk
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Yesterday morning, I sat down in a Baghdad home with a poor old man and his daughter who were mourning their adored son and brother who was killed by American soldiers. Now, you may ask why I do not write about Fallujah and the atrocities which oc...
Fisk: Democracy?
Znet Article, April, 02 2004
Robert Fisk
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Another little lesson in democracy. "The Americans and the Governing Council are kaffirs," the Iraqi Shias screamed yesterday from the minibus in Al-Hurriyah Square. Hurriyah means freedom. Kaffirs means infidels, atheists, apostates. On Sunday m...
Fisk: Coalition of the Mercenaries
Znet Article, April, 01 2004
Robert Fisk
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An army of thousands of mercenaries has appeared in Iraq's major cities, many of them former British and American soldiers hired by the occupying Anglo-American authorities and by dozens of companies who fear for the lives of their employees. Man...
Fisk: Vanunu
Znet Article, March, 26 2004
Robert Fisk
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Any Israeli who bought the 16 February edition of the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth would have believed that a truly wicked man was about to be released from Ashkelon prison. Each time a suicide bomber blew himself up, the prisoner would celebr...
Fisk: Gaddafi's Mad World
Znet Article, March, 26 2004
Robert Fisk
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We live, as the Arabs say, in interesting times. Today, our Prime Minister flies to Libya to pay homage at the court of Gaddafi. The man blamed for blasting two airliners - one American, one French - out of the sky, for sending weapons to the IRA,...
Fisk: Killing Of Sheikh Yassin
Znet Article, March, 23 2004
Robert Fisk
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IT DOESN'T take an awful lot of courage to murder a paraplegic in a wheelchair. But it takes only a few moments to absorb the implications of the assassination of Sheikh Yassin. Yes, he endorsed suicide bombings - including the murder of Israeli c...
Fisk: Iraq, one year on
Znet Article, March, 15 2004
Robert Fisk
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The surviving Iraqi employees of the United Nations fearfully changed the plates on their white, unmarked vehicles last week. From now on, there will be no "UN" next to the registration number. When I visited the headquarters of the Muslim Red Cre...
Fisk: Deja Vu
Znet Article, March, 10 2004
Robert Fisk
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A DRIVE to the former Saddam Hussein International Airport to meet a colleague. Palm trees cut down on the airport road by the Americans to deprive snipers of cover, the wood given free of charge to Iraqis who sell it in turn to bakeries in Baghda...
Fisk: Same Old Iraq
Znet Article, March, 08 2004
Robert Fisk
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BAGHDAD. EACH TIME I return to Iraq, it's the same, like finding a razor blade in a bar of chocolate. The moment you start to believe that "New Iraq" might work - just - you get the proof that it's the same old Iraq, just a little tiny bit worse t...
Fisk: A Convenient Carnage
Znet Article, March, 06 2004
Robert Fisk
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Odd, isn't it? There never has been a civil war in Iraq. I have never heard a single word of animosity between Sunnis and Shias in Iraq. Al-Qa'ida has never uttered a threat against Shias - even though al-Qa'ida is a Sunni-only organisation. Yet ...
Fisk: Democracy in an Arab State
Znet Article, February, 13 2004
Robert Fisk
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For democracy, read fantasy. Iraq is getting so nasty for our great leaders these days that anything - and anyone - is going to be thrown to the dogs to save them. The BBC, the CIA, British intelligence - any journalist that dares to point out the...
Fisk: Death in Custody
Znet Article, January, 04 2004
Robert Fisk
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'The British said my son would be free soon. Three days later I had his body' The last time Lieutenant Colonel Daoud Mousa of the Iraqi police saw his son Baha alive was on 14 September, as British soldiers raided the Basra hotel where the young ...
Fisk: Bush Priority for 2004
Znet Article, January, 02 2004
Robert Fisk
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Ever since Daniel Pipes - he of the failed American neo-cons - piped up last summer with his plan to install a "democratic-minded autocrat" (sic) in Iraq, I have been eyeing the Washington crystal ball for further signs of what the designers of th...
Fisk: Occupiers Damned
Znet Article, December, 30 2003
Robert Fisk
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Cigarette sellers don't have names. They said he was called Fouad but even the shopkeeper whose nephew drove the wounded, screaming man to hospital didn't know his family name. There was just a pile of crushed Marlboro boxes and a lot of blood th...
Fisk: Karbala Bombings
Znet Article, December, 29 2003
Robert Fisk
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A severed arm with a hand still attached to it lay a few metres from the broken gates of the mayor's office in Karbala yesterday, a piece of humanity every bit as bloody as the story of the seventh-century Shia martyr Hussein, the golden dome of w...
