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Cockburn: Iraq Is Disintegrating As Ethnic Cleansing Takes Hold
Znet Article, May, 20 2006
Patrick Cockburn
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Khanaqin, North-East Iraq. The state of Iraq now resembles Bosnia at the height of the fighting in the 1990s when each community fled to places where its members were a majority and were able to defend thems...
Cockburn: Iraq is Splitting
Znet Article, April, 02 2006
Patrick Cockburn
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LRB | Vol. 28 No. 7 dated April 6, 2006 | Patrick Cockburn Diary Iraq is splitting into three different parts. Everywhere there are fault lines opening up between Sunni, Shia and Kurd. In the days immediately following the attack on the Shia sh...
Cockburn: Iraq's Election Result: A Divided Nation
Znet Article, December, 23 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions. Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate bac...
Cockburn: Britain 'trying to stall $1.3bn theft inquiry that could hurt Allawi's election chances'
Znet Article, December, 12 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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Britain 'trying to stall $1.3bn theft inquiry that could hurt Allawi's election chances'
Cockburn: The Occupation
Znet Article, November, 09 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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The following is an exclusive interview with long-time activist and writer Milan Rai. Milan is the author of ‘War Plan Iraq’ and ‘Regime Unchanged’ and a leading member of Justice Not Vengeance (http://www.j-n-v.org...
Cockburn: Baghdad: The Bloodiest Day
Znet Article, September, 15 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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A suicide bomber sparked Baghdad's worst day of slaughter since the fall of Saddam 30 months ago when he lured labourers desperate for work towards his van by offering them jobs and then detonated explosives that killed 114 and injured 156 of them...
Cockburn: Recipe For War
Znet Article, August, 31 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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GEORGE BUSH and his administration say the new constitution is another turning point in Iraq. Is it? IT’S VERY difficult to see how this constitution, whether it’s implemented or not, is going to do much good, and I think Iraqis t...
Cockburn: American Obsession
Znet Article, August, 24 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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At the beginning of the First World War, an Austro-Hungarian general led his army to catastrophic defeat against Serbia because he made a premature advance based on the need to mark the birthday of Emperor Franz Josef with a striking victory. The...
Cockburn: Killing Freely
Znet Article, April, 26 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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An American patrol roared past us with the soldiers gesturing furiously with their guns for traffic to keep back on an overpass in central Baghdad. A black car with three young men in it did not stop in time and a soldier fired several shots from ...
Cockburn: 150 hostages and 19 deaths leave US claims of Iraqi 'peace' in tatters
Znet Article, April, 20 2005
Patrick Cockburn
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Mosul. Iraqi and United States-led forces were last night preparing to launch a rescue mission for up to 150 Shia hostages held by Sunni insurgents. The threat by Sunni militants in the town of Madaen, south of Baghdad, to execute the hostages u...
Cockburn: A Bloody, Useless Gesture
Znet Article, October, 06 2004
Patrick Cockburn
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American generals in Iraq triumphantly announced at the weekend that they had successfully taken over Samarra and killed 125 insurgents. They failed to mention that this is the third time they have captured this particular city on the Tigris river...
Cockburn: The Chalabis, Iraq and American Power
Znet Article, August, 11 2004
Patrick Cockburn
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The most farcical moment since the start of the Iraq crisis came last weekend when Ahmed Chalabi, the Pentagon's choice to rule Iraq only last year, was accused of counterfeiting by Iraq's chief investigating judge. His nephew Salem Chalabi, who...
Cockburn: Independence Pretense
Znet Article, June, 24 2004
Patrick Cockburn
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Independence Pretense
Cockburn: Baghdad Fumes as the Americans Seek Safety in 'Tombstone' Forts
Znet Article, June, 14 2004
Patrick Cockburn
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Baghdad. The US army is paralyzing the heart of Baghdad as it builds ever more elaborate fortifications to protect its bases against suicide bombers. "Do not enter or you will be shot," reads an abrupt notice attached to some razor wire blocking ...
Cockburn: New Flag?
Znet Article, April, 28 2004
Patrick Cockburn
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Baghdad: For many Iraqis it was the final insult. Again and again they expressed outrage yesterday that Iraq's United States-appointed and unelected leaders had, overnight, abolished the old Iraqi flag, seen by most Iraqis as the symbol of their n...
Cockburn: Bremer is Powerless to Restrain the US Military
Znet Article, April, 17 2004
Patrick Cockburn
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Bremer is Powerless to Restrain the US Military
Cockburn: Us Soldiers Bulldoze Farmers' Crops
Znet Article, October, 13 2003
Patrick Cockburn
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Us Soldiers Bulldoze Farmers' Crops
Cockburn: From Triumph Has Sprung Murderous Fiasco
Znet Article, October, 10 2003
Patrick Cockburn
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Baghdad. Six months after US tanks roared triumphantly into the centre of Baghdad and the statue of Saddam Hussein was famously toppled, the US has turned military victory into political defeat in Iraq. The US might have expected yesterday to be ...
Cockburn: The Occupation
Znet Article, June, 24 2003
Patrick Cockburn
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Baghdad. As temperatures reached a scorching 45C (113F) in Baghdad last week people in al-Thawra, a sprawling working-class slum, unearthed hidden rifles and threatened to kill the manager of the local electrical sub-station if he did not resume p...
Cockburn: Real Looting
Znet Article, April, 28 2003
Patrick Cockburn
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At an American military checkpoint on the road north of Kirkuk, two US soldiers are holding up placards, each of which has a message written in Kurdish. One says: "Drivers must get into one lane", the other: "Carrying weapons is forbidden". The p...
Cockburn: Looting's Roots
Znet Article, April, 14 2003
Patrick Cockburn
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A machine-gun chattered just outside the gate of the biggest hospital in Mosul just as Dr Ayad Ramadani, the hospital director, was saying he blamed the Kurds for the orgy of looting and violence which had engulfed Iraq's northern capital. "The Ku...
Cockburn: Kurdish leaders enraged by 'undemocratic' American plan to occupy Iraq
Znet Article, February, 18 2003
Patrick Cockburn
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Arbil, northern Iraq. The US is abandoning plans to introduce democracy in Iraq after a war to overthrow Saddam Hussein, according to Kurdish leaders who recently met American officials. The Kurds say the decision resulted from pressure from US ...
