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Robert Fisk: Must we stand idly by while world leaders spout this codswallop?Funny how the news agenda gets tired. Like the quotes. Only a couple of months ago, we were all bracing for Israel's attack on Iran's nuclear installations. And for serious pressure on Bashar al-Assad to end his "barbaric campaign". I quote Susan Rice, ... |
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Robert Fisk: Iraq's road back from oblivion"Al-Qa'ida killed two of our men here two days ago," the cop said. "Then they called us up to tell us the name of their operation – on a police radio!" We were standing in rebuilt Fallujah, where the police request all foreigners to call by for an ... |
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Robert Fisk: Arab Spring has washed the region's appalling racism out of the newsHow many tracts, books, documentaries, speeches and doctoral theses have been written and produced about Islamophobia? How many denunciations have been made against the Sarkozys and the Le Pens and the Wilders for their anti-immigration (for which, ... |
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Robert Fisk: Did Osama really believe I would polish his image?O Lordy, lordy. So there's Bin Laden, hiding in Abbottabad and he's waffling on about Fisk. Should The Independent's man in the Middle East and my old chum Abdul Bari Atwan be given exclusive material on the 10th anniversary of the international crimes ... |
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Robert Fisk: The Children of Fallujah - Sayef's storyFor little Sayef, there will be no Arab Spring. He lies, just 14 months old, on a small red blanket cushioned by a cheap mattress on the floor, occasionally crying, his head twice the size it should be, blind and paralysed. Sayeffedin Abdulaziz Mohamed ... |
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Robert Fisk: Counter-revolution – the next deadly chapterIt was my old Jordanian-Palestinian chum Rami Khouri who first spotted what is going on in the Middle East right now: it's the counter-revolution. Bahrain is crushing dissent. Syria is crushing dissent. Mubarak's former head of intelligence, ... |
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Osama Bin Laden letters: UK is a waste of effort - and phone up Robert Fisk"In Britain the two journalists [Abdel Bari] Atwan and [Robert] Fisk," he suggests. "In America Brian Russ, Simon Hirsh and Jerry Van Dyke. In Canada Eric Margolis and Gwynne Dyer." Bin Laden's last private letter is dated 25 April 2011. |
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After the Arab spring was there an Islamic awakening?By Robert Fisk More than a decade and a half ago, I travelled to Holland to meet - in the anonymity of a train station café at Leiden, at his request - one of the most brilliant Arab professors of Islamic thought, Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid. |
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The Children of Fallujah - families fight backBy Robert Fisk in Fallujah "He needs multiple surgery outside Iraq. It's a dysfunctional problem. He has no hearing in his left ear. They told me he has to be six before they can remove cartilage from his chest wall to put in his ear. |
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Children of Fallujah: Stillbirths, disabilities and deformities too ...By Robert Fisk in Fallujah The pictures flash up on a screen on an upper floor of the Fallujah General Hospital. And all at once, Nadhem Shokr al-Hadidi's administration office becomes a little chamber of horrors. A baby with a hugely deformed mouth. |
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