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Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk
British Journalist
Born: Jul 12, 1946
Book Great War Will World You
Related authors: Alastair Campbell Caitlin Moran David Attenborough Malcolm Muggeridge Martin Bashir Nigella Lawson Rose George Tony Wilson
Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind. Robert Fisk
Dangerous Liberating Kind Come Deadly Tanks Forms Two
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive. Robert Fisk
Government Seen Think Unpatriotic Potentially Tend Journalists Along Policy Courageous Go Question Very Being Subversive Internationally
The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar. Robert Fisk
Son Book Speak Presidency Unknown Spent Syrian Ministry Emerged Archives Ten Ten Years New New Book Dead Adviser Foreign Still His Years Hitherto Confidential Cannot Information Who Published Interpreter
William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it. Robert Fisk
War Me Book William Silly His Appalled Desire
It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out. Robert Fisk
Truth History World Witness Try Job Journalist Worry Ourselves Out About Imperfect Get Near
The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means. Robert Fisk
Car Thieves Think Liberated Liberation City Thousands Seem Tens Tens Of Thousands Trucks Idea Baghdad Came Families American May Different Means Searching
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden. Robert Fisk
Death War You Humanity Crime Awesome Say States Scale Has-Been More Points Look Course Around Permissible Been Than Against Straight Declaring Who Bin United Compass United States Recently
I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden. Robert Fisk
More Know Get Happens Interested Much Bin
I do not make stories up, full stop. Robert Fisk
Make Up Stop Stories Full
It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers. Robert Fisk
Experience Sit Soldiers Always Among
In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that? Robert Fisk
You Fear Live Way One-Way Dungeon Here Appreciate
A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be. Robert Fisk
Good You Yourself Muslim Sunni Admit He Simply Like Employee Look Because Am Go Westerner Shocked After Explains Should Businessman Let Go
I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other. Robert Fisk
Other Soldiers Embedded Never Been Iraqi American Any American Soldiers British
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. Robert Fisk
War World Constantly Invasion Blair Rationalize Iraq Up Being Bush Second World War Second World War
Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them. Robert Fisk
People Ali Claiming Case More More Or Less Fact Always Got Were America Get Egypt In Fact Gaddafi Wanted Ordinary Tunisia Ordinary People Them Working Certainly Less Rid Who Bin Peacefully Millions Ben

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