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Fisk: The Troops Are Afraid To Go Out At Night
Znet Article, May, 31 2003
Robert Fisk
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I was travelling into the Shia Muslim Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on Friday evening when three American soldiers jumped in front of my car. "Stop the car, stop the car!" one of them shouted, waving a pistol at the windscreen. I screamed at the driver ...
Fisk: Covering The Middle East
Znet Article, May, 30 2003
Robert Fisk
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Covering The Middle East
Fisk: War Over?
Znet Article, May, 06 2003
Robert Fisk
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When Iraqi civilians look into the faces ...
Fisk: An Anti-Colonial War Against The Americans May Have Already Begun
Znet Article, April, 22 2003
Robert Fisk
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Goodman: After spending a month in Iraq, could you describe your thoughts? Fisk: Well, my assumption is that history has a way or repeating itself. I was talking to a very military Shiite Muslim from Nashas about only five days ago and a journal...
Fisk: Anti-Colonial War
Znet Article, April, 17 2003
Robert Fisk
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It's going wrong, faster than anyone could have imagined. The army of "liberation" has already turned into the army of occupation. The Shias are threatening to fight the Americans, to create their own war of "liberation". At night on every one of...
Fisk: Untouchable Ministries
Znet Article, April, 16 2003
Robert Fisk
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Baghdad. Iraq's scavengers have thieved and destroyed what they have been allowed to loot and burn by the Americans and a two-hour drive around Baghdad shows clearly what the US intends to protect. After days of arson and pillage, here's a short b...
Fisk: Would President Assad Invite A Cruise Missile Into His Palace?
Znet Article, April, 15 2003
Robert Fisk
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So now Syria is in America's gunsights. First it's Iraq, Israel's most powerful enemy, possessor of weapons of mass destruction – none of which has been found. Now it's Syria, Israel's second most powerful enemy, possessor of weapons of ma...
Fisk: A Civilisation Torn To Pieces
Znet Article, April, 14 2003
Robert Fisk
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They lie across the floor in tens of thousands of pieces, the priceless antiquities of Iraq's history.The looters had gone from shelf to shelf, systematically pulling down the statues and pots and amphorae of the Assyrians and the Babylonians, t...
Fisk: Pillage
Znet Article, April, 12 2003
Robert Fisk
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Let's talk war crimes. Yes, I know about the war crimes of Saddam. He slaughtered the innocent, gassed the Kurds, tortured his people and – though it is true we remained good friends with this butcher for more than half of his horrible car...
Fisk: Final Proof That War Is About The Failure Of The Human Spirit
Znet Article, April, 11 2003
Robert Fisk
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Final Proof That War Is About The Failure Of The Human Spirit
Fisk: Does The US Military Want To Kill Journalists
Znet Article, April, 09 2003
Robert Fisk
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First the Americans killed the correspondent of al-Jazeera yesterday and wounded his cameraman. Then, within four hours, they attacked the Reuters television bureau in Baghdad, killing one of its cameramen and a cameraman for Spain's Tele 5 channe...
Fisk: Amid Jubilation A Child Lies In Agony
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Robert Fisk
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They lay in lines, the car salesman who'd just lost his eye but whose feet were still dribbling blood, the motorcyclist who was shot by American troops near the Rashid Hotel, the 50-year-old female civil servant, her long dark hair spread over the...
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...
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 ...
Fisk: Wailing Children, The Wounded The Dead;
Znet Article, April, 03 2003
Robert Fisk
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Wailing Children, The Wounded The Dead;
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 –...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...


