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Znet Article Fisk: It Seemed As If Baghdad Would Fall Within Hours

Znet Article, April, 07 2003 Robert Fisk
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It started with a series of massive vibrations, a great "stomping" sound that shook my room. "Stomp, stomp, stomp," it went. I lay in bed trying to fathom the cause. It was like the moment in Jurassic Park when the tourists first hear footfalls of...

Znet Article Fisk: The Twisted Language Of War That Is Used To Justify The Unjustifiable

Znet Article, April, 07 2003 Robert Fisk
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Why do we aid and abet the lies and propaganda of this filthy war? How come, for example, it's now BBC "style" to describe the Anglo-American invaders as the "coalition". This is a lie. The "coalition" that we're obviously supposed to remember is ...

Znet Article Fisk: Wailing Children, The Wounded The Dead;

Znet Article, April, 03 2003 Robert Fisk
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Wailing Children, The Wounded The Dead;

Znet Article Fisk: Al-Nomani

Znet Article, April, 02 2003 Robert Fisk
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Sergeant Ali Jaffar Moussa Hamadi al-Nomani was the first Iraqi combatant known to stage a suicide attack. Not even during the uprising against British rule did an Iraqi kill himself to destroy his enemies. Nomani was also a Shia Muslim –...

Znet Article Fisk: Graves

Znet Article, April, 01 2003 Robert Fisk
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At dusk yesterday the ground around the Baghdad North Gate War Cemetery shook with the vibration of the bombs. The oil-grey sky was peppered with anti-aircraft fire. And below the clouds of smoke and the tiny star-like explosion of the shells, Se...

Znet Article Fisk: Baghdad, blood and bandages

Znet Article, March, 30 2003 Robert Fisk
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Im the Baghdad suburb of Shu'ale: The piece of metal is only a foot high, but the numbers on it hold the clue to the latest atrocity in Baghdad. At least 62 civilians had died by yesterday afternoon, and the coding on that hunk of metal contains ...

Znet Article Fisk: Raw, Devastating Realities That Expose The Truth About Basra

Znet Article, March, 27 2003 Robert Fisk
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Two British soldiers lie dead on a Basra roadway, a small Iraqi girl – victim of an Anglo American air strike – is brought to hospital with her intestines spilling out of her stomach, a terribly wounded woman screams in agony as do...

Znet Article Fisk: 'It Was An Outrage An Obscenity'

Znet Article, March, 26 2003 Robert Fisk
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It was an outrage, an obscenity. The severed hand on the metal door, the swamp of blood and mud across the road, the human brains inside a garage, the incinerated, skeletal remains of an Iraqi mother and her three small children in their still-smo...

Znet Article Fisk: Un-Embedded Journalist

Znet Article, March, 25 2003 Robert Fisk
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Robert Fisk on Washington’s ‘Quagmire’ in Iraq, Civilian Deaths and the Fallacy of Bush’s ‘War of Liberation’ by Robert Fisk, Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill NOTE: THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT Amy G...

Znet Article Fisk: We Bomb, They Suffer

Znet Article, March, 23 2003 Robert Fisk
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Donald Rumsfeld says the American attack on Baghdad is "as targeted an air campaign as has ever existed" but he should not try telling that ...

Znet Article Fisk: The Missiles

Znet Article, March, 22 2003 Robert Fisk
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Saddam's main presidential palace, a great rampart of a building 20 storeys high, simply exploded in front of me a cauldron of fire, a 100ft sheet of flame and a sound that had my ears singing for an hour after. The entire, massively buttressed ed...

Znet Article Fisk: The War of Misinformation has Begun

Znet Article, March, 16 2003 Robert Fisk
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All across the Middle East, they are deploying by the thousand. In the deserts of Kuwait, in Amman, in northern Iraq, in Turkey, in Israel and in Baghdad itself. There must be 7,000 journalists and crews "in theatre", as the more jingoistic of the...

Znet Article Fisk: Liberate?

Znet Article, March, 13 2003 Robert Fisk
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On March 8, 1917, Lt. Gen. Stanley Maude issued a "Proclamation to the People of the Wilayat of Baghdad". Maude's Anglo-Indian Army of the Tigres had invaded and occupied Iraq - after storming up the country from Basra - to "free" its people from ...

Znet Article Fisk: US war plans not helped by Blix

Znet Article, March, 08 2003 Robert Fisk
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Oh, for the ice-cold Swedish eye on the Middle East. Ah, for the freezing Scandinavian vision of truth. Hans Blix, everybody's headmaster, delivered his school report yesterday with enough fairness to outrage both pupil – Iraq – an...

Znet Article Fisk: The West has been Liberating the Middle East for Centuries

Znet Article, March, 07 2003 Robert Fisk
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ON 8 MARCH 1917, Lieutenant- general Stanley Maude issued a "Proclamation to the People of the Wilayat of Baghdad". Maude's Anglo-Indian Army of the Tigres had just invaded and occupied Iraq - after storming up the country from Basra - to "free" i...

Zmag Article Fisk: The Flies That Feed Off The Dead

Zmag Article, March, 01 2003 Robert Fisk
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O n the road to Basra, ITV was filming wild dogs as they tore at the corpses of the Iraqi dead. Every few seconds a ravenous beast would rip off a decaying arm and make off with it over the desert ...

Znet Article Fisk: America Uses Israel's Words To Justify Occupation

Znet Article, March, 01 2003 Robert Fisk
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Ah, to be a "viable" state! The word "viable" has now become the be-all and end-all of American policy towards Palestine. "For its part," George Bush told us, "the new government of Israel, as the terror threat is removed and security improves, wi...

Znet Article Fisk: Censored

Znet Article, February, 25 2003 Robert Fisk
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Already, the American press is expressing its approval of the coverage of American forces which the US military intends to allow its reporters in the next Gulf war. The boys from CNN, CBS, ABC and The New York Times will be "embedded" among the US...

Znet Article Fisk: Arab Response to War...

Znet Article, February, 19 2003 Robert Fisk
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Could anything be more pathetic than the Arab demonstration against war? A million Britons marched in London, more than half a million Spaniards in Madrid; 200,000 in Paris and New York. And Cairo? Well, just 600 Egyptians turned up in their capit...

Znet Article Fisk: A Nation Divided, With No Bridges Left To Build

Znet Article, February, 17 2003 Robert Fisk
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The show was over, recorded for one of those nice liberal local American TV cable channels ­ this time in Texas ­ where everyone agrees that war is wrong, that George Bush is in the hands of right-wing Christian fundamentalists and pro-Isr...

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