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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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
Fisk: Western 'Intelligence' Services
Znet Article, September, 29 2003
Robert Fisk
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They were at it again last week, the liars of our Western "intelligence" community. John Bolton, the US under-secretary of state for arms control and one of Donald Rumsfeld's cabal of pro- Israeli neo-conservatives, was giving testimony before the...
Fisk: Against the Press
Znet Article, September, 24 2003
Robert Fisk
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BAGHDAD - Sewage is coming through the manhole covers, there's still only 15 hours electricity a day and anarchy grips the streets of Baghdad, but yesterday America's toothless Iraqi 'interim council' roared like a lion, issuing a set of restricti...
Fisk: Iraq's Occupiers
Znet Article, September, 24 2003
Robert Fisk
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BAGHDAD - A culture of secrecy has descended upon the Anglo- American occupation authorities in Iraq. They will give no tally of the Iraqi civilian lives lost each day. They will not comment on the killing by an American soldier of one of their ...
Fisk: Slaughter Every Night
Znet Article, September, 18 2003
Robert Fisk
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JUAN GONZALEZ: Robert Fisk, this is Juan Gonzales here with Amy. In speaking about civilian casualties, you've been doing several articles now on the story that is not being covered at all, especially here in the United States, which is the civili...
Fisk: Powell's Baghdad Visit
Znet Article, September, 18 2003
Robert Fisk
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We had to walk through a quarter of a mile of barbed wire to reach Colin Powell, the American Secretary of State, last night. We had to pass through four checkpoints, including three body searches. Apache helicopters circled the conference center ...
Fisk: Secret slaughter by night, lies and blind eyes by day
Znet Article, September, 17 2003
Robert Fisk
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Secret slaughter by night, lies and blind eyes by day
Fisk: A Mystery the US is in No Hurry to Resolve
Znet Article, September, 14 2003
Robert Fisk
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A human brain lay beside the highway. It was scattered in the sand, bl...
Fisk: Don't Say We Were Not Warned About This Mess
Znet Article, September, 07 2003
Robert Fisk
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How arrogant was the path to war. As President Bush now desperately tries to cajole the old UN donkey to rescue him from Iraq--he who warned us that the UN was in danger of turning into a League of Nations "talking shop" if it declined him legitim...
Fisk: Civil War
Znet Article, September, 01 2003
Robert Fisk
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In Iraq, they go for the jugular: two weeks ago, the UN's top man, yesterday one of the most influential Shia...
Fisk: The Ghosts of Uday and Qusay
Znet Article, August, 06 2003
Robert Fisk
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The Americans have stripped the Iraqi flags from the graves of Uday and Qusay Hussein. The red, white and black banners were laid on the mounds of clay above their bodies at their funeral on Saturday, alongside the grave of Mustafa Hussein, Qusay'...
Fisk: Iraq isn't working
Znet Article, August, 02 2003
Robert Fisk
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Paul Bremer's taste in clothes symbolises "the new Iraq" very well. He wears a business suit and combat boots. As the proconsul of Iraq, you might have thought he'd have more taste. But he is a famous "antiterrorism" expert who is supposed to be r...
Fisk: Us Troops Turn Botched Saddam Raid Into A Massacre
Znet Article, July, 28 2003
Robert Fisk
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Baghdad. Obsessed with capturing Saddam Hussein, American soldiers turned a botched raid on a house in the Mansur district of Baghdad yesterday into a bloodbath, opening fire on scores of Iraqi civilians in a crowded street and killing up to 11, i...
Fisk: Showing Pictures Could Turn Sons into Martyrs
Znet Article, July, 26 2003
Robert Fisk
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Baghdad - Arabs have never been squeamish about death. They see too much of it. It is we Westerners - with our dangerous, all-conquering armies and our easy identification of evil - who fall over our moral sensitivities at the mere sight of a mo...
Fisk: Injustice & Iraq : United States Concentration Camps
Znet Article, July, 24 2003
Robert Fisk
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Now here's a story to shame us all. It's about America's shameful prison camps in Iraq. It's about the beating of prisoners during interrogation. "Sources" may be a dubious word in journalism right now, but the sources for the beatings in Iraq ar...
Fisk: How The British Troops Became A Soft Target
Znet Article, June, 27 2003
Robert Fisk
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IT COULD not have been more predictable or better planned. The British were the soft underbelly of the American occupation, the nice guys who didn't wear helmets and patrolled on PC Plod bicycles through the souks of Basra. No one would hurt the...
Fisk: Anti-US Opposition In Iraq And The So Called Roadmap
Znet Article, June, 12 2003
Robert Fisk
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On June 11, 2003, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman interviewed Robert Fisk, reporter with the Independent newspaper of London. He recently left Iraq where he was chronicling the rising resistance to the U.S. occupation. Ten American soldiers have b...
Fisk: Censorship Of The Press
Znet Article, June, 11 2003
Robert Fisk
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Paul Bremer has ordered his legal department in Baghdad to draw up rules for press censorship. A joke, I concluded, when one of the newly styled Coalition Provisional Authority officials tipped me off last week. But no, it really is true. Two mont...
Fisk: Bloodshed, Fear And a Deadly Ambush
Znet Article, June, 06 2003
Robert Fisk
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FROM HIGH over Iraq yesterday, President George Bush cast his Olympian eye over ancient Mesopotamia after praising the Americans in Qatar who had "managed" the war against Saddam Hussein. But far below him, on a dirty street corner in a dirty town...
Fisk: In Cliche Land
Znet Article, June, 05 2003
Robert Fisk
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IT WAS all about cliches. No longer a "peace process" - which, like a disobedient railway loco, constantly had to be put back on track - it's now a "road-map". Settlements built for Jews and Jews only on Arab land are now divided into "established...
