Robert Fisk reports from Pakistan on the 8000 “disappeared” citizens during the country’s US-backed “war on terror”: There is evidence that Pakistan’s “disappeared” are moved around, between barracks and interrogation centres and underground torture facilities in different towns and cities. There are also terrible rumours – fostered, some say, by the security authorities – that…
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British citizens could be killed over Israeli hit in Dubai (thank you Mossad)
The likely Mossad assassination of the Hamas official in Dubai is turning into yet another PR disaster for Israel. Here’s Paul McGeough on Democracy Now! late last week explaining the latest and Robert Fisk on Al-Jazeera. Now this: The lives of the six British citizens whose identities were stolen by a Mossad assassination team are…
How many Western states helped Israel murder a citizen in Dubai?
The Dubai murder of a Hamas leader is getting juicier by the day. Palestinian defectors may well have been involved: A key security operative of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas was under arrest in Syria tonight on suspicion of having helped an alleged Israeli hit squad identify Mahmoud al-Mabhouh before he was assassinated in Dubai,…
How much did Britain know about the death of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh?
A curious addition by Robert Fisk to the murder of the Hamas commander in Dubai: It’s a propaganda war. Whoever killed the Hamas official in Dubai – let’s speak frankly – it’s part of an old, dirty war between the Israelis and the Palestinians in which they have been murdering their secret police antagonists for…
Fisk examines the messy Middle East (and knows who is in charge)
Robert Fisk’s latest essay is a long, poetic, sometimes confused, look at the Israel/Palestine conflict. It’s full of concise observations, depressing facts and insights. Very few other mainstream journalists are given the space to pontificate on any issue. Fisk knows the conflict well, remains convinced that a two-state solution is the only answer (though is…
Fisk on ever-worsening tensions between Lebanon and Israel
Robert Fisk on renewed fears that Israel and Lebanon may be at war again soon. The insanity of such a move is undoubted – both sides, Hizbollah and Israel, have been threatening the other – but it’s clear that Israel is determined to avenge its disastrous 2006 adventure against Lebanon: Of course, the gentle countryside…
The Muslim world is not ours to occupy and destroy
Robert Fisk on an increasingly uncommon view: get all Western forces out of the Middle East:
At least the Soviets eventually fell into their own abyss
Robert Fisk feels a disturbing sense of deja vu after Barack Obama’s decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Nobody said the US President was willing or able to resist his military commanders: Victor Sebestyen, who has researched a book about the fall of the Soviet empire, has written at length of those frozen…
The blood of possible revolution
Murder and mayhem on the streets of Tehran: A wonderfully moving report from the New York Times‘ Roger Cohen on the ground and Robert Fisk. The Islamic Republic appears to be in serious trouble.
Iranian crisis is not about destroying the Islamic Republic
Robert Fisk, reporting from inside Iran, gave a remarkable interview to ABC Radio on Wednesday: No-one’s told me not to drive around so I go and see wounded people and go and watch these confrontations and no-one seems to bother me. I rather think an awful lot of journalists take it too seriously. If you…