Robert Fisk

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Review of the year: Robert Fisk on war without end

Published: 30 December 2005

Only justice, not bombs, can make our dangerous world a safer place

Robert Fisk: Another truly brave man dies in Lebanon

Published: 17 December 2005

I did not like Jibran Tueni, but he would have been my friend had we had the chance to be so

Robert Fisk: A fearfully light coffin is carried to a Beirut grave. Who will be next?

Published: 15 December 2005

How well the Lebanese do funerals. "Who's next?" one of the posters asked beside the cortege of Jibran Tueni, journalist, editor, opposition MP, man-about-town, another young life lost to Lebanon; and, of course, we were all asking the same question.

Robert Fisk: In Lebanon, men do the dying, and women the mourning

Published: 14 December 2005

Robert Fisk reports from Beirut on another car bomb assassination that has shaken Lebanon

Robert Fisk: Despite floods of soldiers, no one is safe in Lebanon

Published: 13 December 2005

No one is safe. The bits of bodies on the road, the blood - how dark it becomes an hour after it has lain upon the tarmac - and the incinerated cars, the broken railings through which Jibran Tueni's car was hurled into a pine-clustered ravine by the bomb; this is now the nature of Lebanon's war. Tueni was the editor of An Nahar - Lebanon's most prestigious newspaper - and a prominent MP, the son of a former Lebanese ambassador to the UN who received the Legion d'Honneur in Paris only last week. And Tueni, is pulverised, blown - as we used to say at school - to smithereens, only hours before the UN's investigation, headed by Detlev Mehlis, into ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's murder is expected to lay blame at Syria's door. And Tueni is an enemy of Syria. Only days ago, he demanded that Syria be taken to the international court at The Hague for executing Lebanese soldiers 15 years ago.

Robert Fisk: Some buried bones are best left undug

Published: 10 December 2005

There are 17,000 Lebanese missing from the civil war. Are we to dig them all up?

Robert Fisk: America slowly confronts the truth

Published: 03 December 2005

The old media dog sniffed the air, found power was moving away from the White House, and began to drool

Robert Fisk: No wonder al-Jazeera was a target

Published: 26 November 2005

On 4 April 2003, I was standing on the roof of al-Jazeera's office in Baghdad. The horizon was a towering epic of oil fires and burning buildings. Anti-aircraft guns in a public park close to the bureau were pumping shells into the sky and the howl of jets echoed across the city. I was about to start a two-way interview with al-Jazeera's head office in Qatar when an American rocket came racing up the Tigris river behind me. Its rail-train "swish" brought a cry from the Qatar technician who picked up the sound on his earphones.

Robert Fisk: The betrayed mothers of America

Published: 19 November 2005

Vietnam comes to mind. They talk of their patriotism, though patriotism is not enough

Robert Fisk: Torture's out. Now they call it abuse

Published: 12 November 2005

No screaming, no cries of agony, no shrieks of pain. Yes, it sounds much better, doesn't it?

Robert Fisk: King has more friends in West than at home

Published: 11 November 2005

It was a bloody, cruel message to the Plucky Little King Mark II. Help the Americans, train their Iraqi policemen, entertain their special forces officers and you will be a new target of al-Qa'ida. Not that new, of course. A US embassy employee, Laurence Foley, the softest of targets because he loved the Middle East and lived at home in Amman, was killed three years ago. But 56 dead, most of them Jordanians, is a devastating blow to the man who once ran the supposedly "elite" Jordanian special forces and who is King of that little sandpit Winston Churchill created and called "Jordan" .

Robert Fisk: A poet on the run in Fortress Europe

Published: 05 November 2005

I can't help you, I say. I will write about you. I will try to pump some compassion out of the authorities

Robert Fisk: Our leaders seem to be suffering from infantilism

Published: 29 October 2005

As someone who has to look at the eviscerated corpses , I can only shake my head in disbelief

Robert Fisk: The real story behind those rumours that the Americans banned me from the US

Published: 22 October 2005

I had simply travelled on an old passport that was no longer valid for the US

Robert Fisk: On tour with my ghosts

Published: 16 October 2005

On a whirlwind trip to promote his new book, Robert Fisk finds that the past - and present - come back to haunt him

Robert Fisk: The Ghazi Kenaan I knew was not the sort of man who would commit suicide

Published: 13 October 2005

"Just think," Ghazi Kenaan said to me with a mirthless smile. "Terry Waite came here to rescue hostages, and got kidnapped himself!"

Robert Fisk: When nature and man conspire to expose the lies of the powerful, the truth will out

Published: 24 September 2005

What we were actually doing in Basra was to turn a blind eye on abuse, murder and anarchy

Robert Fisk: We have long ago lost our moral compass, so how can we lecture the Islamic world?

Published: 17 September 2005

Years of Western interference in the Middle East has left the region heavy with injustices

Robert Fisk: Why is it that we and America wish civil war on Iraq?

Published: 15 September 2005

There will not be a civil war in Iraq. There never has been a civil war in Iraq. In 1920, Lloyd George warned of civil war in Iraq if the British Army left. Just as the Americans now threaten the Iraqis with civil war if they leave. As early as 2003, American spokesmen warned that there would be civil war if US forces left.

They told Andrea that Chris had not suffered. Death seems to have followed me this year

Published: 03 September 2005

I add him to the list of our 'martyrs', who die in road accidents and storms as well as from bombs and bullets

In Iraq, a man-made disaster

Published: 01 September 2005

As many as 1,000 men, women and children were killed when they fell from a bridge over the Tigris river in Baghdad, apparently fearful that a suicide bomber had been let loose among them

Robert Fisk: We take the deaths in Iraq for granted

Published: 27 August 2005

If 'we' had not invaded Iraq, 43 Iraqis would not have been pulverised by three bombs last week

People torn to pieces, relatives scream - another week in the theme park of death

Published: 21 August 2005

There are now two Baghdads. One is the Green Zone, where US and Iraqi officials live in a protected realm; the other is the danger zone, where everyone else lives. Robert Fisk reports from beyond the Coalition's concrete walls

What does democracy really mean in the Middle East? Whatever the West decides

Published: 20 August 2005

Sometimes I wonder if there will be a moment when reality and myth, truth and lies, will collide

The Shia shopkeeper growing rich on Saddam

Published: 19 August 2005

Ridha Abu Mohamed knows why I have come to his shop in Al-Salman Faiq Street. With a creditor's grin, he opens a box of watches, all blessed with the features of the Beast of Baghdad.

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