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Znet Article Fisk: Another Species of Cedar

Znet Article, March, 10 2005 Robert Fisk
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It was a warning. They came in their tens of thousands, Lebanese Shia Muslim families with babies in arms and children in front, walking past my Beirut home. They reminded me of the tens of thousands of Iraqi Shia Muslims who walked with their fam...

Znet Article Fisk: In Death, Hariri Unites The Lebanese Against Syria

Znet Article, February, 17 2005 Robert Fisk
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Beirut. Never has a Lebanese government been so shunned by its people. Never have...

Znet Article Fisk: Peace Without Justice

Znet Article, February, 11 2005 Robert Fisk
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So, the Palestinians will end their occupation of Israel. No more will Palestinian tanks smash their way into Haifa and Tel Aviv. No more will Palestinian F-18s bomb Israeli population centres. No more will Palestinian Apache helicopters carry out...

Znet Article Fisk: Triumph And Tragedy For Iraq

Znet Article, February, 01 2005 Robert Fisk
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Triumph And Tragedy For Iraq

Znet Article Fisk: Not even Saddam could achieve the divisions this election will bring

Znet Article, January, 22 2005 Robert Fisk
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Sunday 30 January will be the day when myth and reality come together with - I fear - an all too literal bang. The magic date upon which Iraq is supposed to transform itself into a democracy will no doubt be greeted as another milestone in America...

Znet Article Fisk: Fear and Voting in Baghdad

Znet Article, January, 19 2005 Robert Fisk
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Journalism yields a world of cliches but here, for once, the first cliche that comes to mind is true. Baghdad is a city of fear. Fearful Iraqis, fearful militiamen, fearful American soldiers, fearful journalists. Jan. 30, that day upon which the ...

Znet Article Fisk: How a flying carpet took me back in time

Znet Article, January, 17 2005 Robert Fisk
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The brush fires are already being lit but fear not, Bush and Blair will tell us they knew things would get violent on polling day. I tried out the new Beirut-Baghdad air service this week. It's a sleek little 20-seater with two propellers, a Leba...

Znet Article Fisk: A Mire of Death, Lies and Atrocities

Znet Article, January, 03 2005 Robert Fisk
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Who said this and when? "The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques ...

Znet Article Fisk: Who Killed Margaret Hassan?

Znet Article, November, 18 2004 Robert Fisk
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After the grief, the astonishment, heartbreak, anger and fury over the apparent murder of such a good and saintly woman, that is the question her friends--and, quite possibly, the Iraqi insurgents--will be asking. This Anglo-Irish woman held an Ir...

Znet Article Fisk: The Dreamer Who Relied On Emotion And Failed To Protect His Own People

Znet Article, November, 13 2004 Robert Fisk
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  He was everything loyal and everything miserable about the Palestinian dream. I have a tape recording of Arafat, sitting with me on a cold, dark mountainsi...

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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