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Znet Article Fisk: Iraqis pay for Saddam's Capture

Znet Article, December, 27 2003 Robert Fisk
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Ali Salman Ali was the first victim of Saddam's capture, but he died on Christmas Day. As his father Salman Ghazi, 71, tells it, Ali must have been among the first of Iraq's Shia Muslims to scream his delight in the street after the former dictato...

Znet Article Fisk: Insurgents are Civilians

Znet Article, December, 26 2003 Robert Fisk
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Something very unpleasant is being let loose in Iraq. Just this week, a company commander in the US 1st Infantry Division in the north of the country admitted that, in order to elicit information about the guerrillas who are killing American troop...

Znet Article Fisk: Libya's Weapons of Mass Destruction

Znet Article, December, 22 2003 Robert Fisk
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The problem I have with the whole Gaddafi saga is that the Libya I know can scarcely repair a drain or install a working lavatory in a hotel. Yet this same Libya, after years of sanctions, was apparently making a nuclear bomb. Libyan nuclear scie...

Znet Article Fisk: Iraq's Phantom 'Insurgents'

Znet Article, December, 21 2003 Robert Fisk
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Schoolboy Issam Naim Hamid is the latest of America's famous "insurgents". In Samarra ­ for which read Fantasyville ­ he was shot in the back as he tried to protect himself with his parents in his home in the Al-Jeheriya district of the ancient Ab...

Znet Article Fisk: Capturing Saddam Won't End the War

Znet Article, December, 17 2003 Robert Fisk
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"Peace" and "reconciliation" were the patois of Downing Street and the White House yesterday. But all those hopes of a collapse of resistance are doomed. Saddam was neither the spiritual nor the political guide to the insurgency that is now claimi...

Znet Article Fisk: Twenty Years Too Late

Znet Article, December, 17 2003 Robert Fisk
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Was this really the man with whom I shook hands almost a quarter of a century ago? I've spent 24 hours looking again and again at those videotapes. The more I look, the more Saddam turns into a wild animal. An American interviewed by the Associate...

Znet Article Fisk: Tricky Stuff, Evil

Znet Article, November, 29 2003 Robert Fisk
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When George Bush sneaked into Baghdad airport for his two-hour "warm meal" for Thanksgiving, he was in feisty form. Americans hadn't come to Baghdad "to retreat before a bunch of thugs and assassins". Evil is still around, it seems, ready to attac...

Znet Article Fisk: The Price of Free Speech on the Iraq War

Znet Article, November, 26 2003 Robert Fisk
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In Iraq, they are just numbers, bloodstains on a road. But in the little town of Madison in Wisconsin last week, they were all too real on the front page of the local paper, the Capital Times. Sergeant Warren Hansen, Specialist Eugene Uhl and Seco...

Znet Article Fisk: Iraq's Press

Znet Article, November, 23 2003 Robert Fisk
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Under US Control, Press Freedom Falls Short in Iraq by Freedom of the press is beginning to smell a little rotten in the new Iraq. A couple of weeks ago, the Arabic Al-Jazeera television channel received a phone call from one of U.S. Proconsul Pau...

Znet Article Fisk: Where Are We Going

Znet Article, November, 22 2003 Robert Fisk
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It's the price of joining George Bush's "war on terror". They couldn't hit Britain while Bush was on his triumphalist state visit to London, so they went for the jugular in Turkey. The British consulate, the British-headquartered HSBC bank. London...

Znet Article Fisk: Taking the Saudi Out of Arabia?

Znet Article, November, 12 2003 Robert Fisk
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Osama bin Laden has an awful lot of friends in Saudi Arabia. In the mosque, among the disenchanted youth, among the security forces, even--and this is what the West declines to discuss--within the royal family. Saudi ambassadors routinely dismiss...

Znet Article Fisk: The Palestine Regiment

Znet Article, November, 11 2003 Robert Fisk
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No one remembers the Palestine Regiment. Even this morning, on the actual day of remembrance, few will recall that Arab and Jew once fought together under the British flag against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Even fewer will know the extraordin...

Znet Article Fisk: When Did "Arab" Become a Dirty Word?

Znet Article, November, 06 2003 Robert Fisk
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Is "Palestinian" now just a dirty word? O...

Znet Article Fisk: When Did "Arab" Become a Dirty Word?

Znet Article, November, 06 2003 Robert Fisk
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Is "Palestinian" now just a dirty word? Or is "Arab" the dirty word? Let's start with the late Edward Said, the brilliant and passionate Palestinian-American academic who wrote--among many other books--Orientalism, the ground-breaking work which f...

Znet Article Fisk: When Did 'Arab' Become a Dirty Word?

Znet Article, November, 06 2003 Robert Fisk
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Is "Palestinian" now just a dirty word? Or is "Arab" the dirty word? Let's start with the late Edward Said, the brilliant and passionate Palestinian-American academic who wrote--among many other books--Orientalism, the ground-breaking work which f...

Znet Article Fisk: Copy the Americans

Znet Article, November, 01 2003 Robert Fisk
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Understanding the brain. That's what you have to do in a guerrilla war. Find out how it works, what it's trying to do. Ramadan? An attack on US headquarters in Baghdad and six suicide bombings, all at the start of Ramadan? Thirty-four dead and 20...

Znet Article Fisk: Eye witness Bagdhad

Znet Article, October, 28 2003 Robert Fisk
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You need to take a military escort to reach Baghdad airport these days. Yes, things are getting better in Iraq, according to President Bush - remember that each hour that goes by - but the guerrillas are getting so close to the runways that the Am...

Znet Article Fisk: One, Two, Three, What Are They Fighting For?

Znet Article, October, 26 2003 Robert Fisk
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I was in the police station in the town of Fallujah when I realised the extent of the schizophrenia. Captain Christopher Cirino of the 82nd Airborne was trying to explain to me the nature of the attacks so regularly carried out against American fo...

Znet Article Fisk: Oil, War And A Growing Sense Of Panic In The Us

Znet Article, October, 07 2003 Robert Fisk
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Oil, War And A Growing Sense Of Panic In The Us

Znet Article Fisk: Israel's attack is a lethal step towards war in Middle East

Znet Article, October, 07 2003 Robert Fisk
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Israel's attack is a lethal step towards war in Middle East

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