Iraq - posted by Gma KoKo of MCR FB Management Team Robert Fisk is one of the great war correspondents and a giant amongst journalists. He covered all the great conflicts, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanstan, the Iran-Iraq war to the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in 2003 He was never an embedded journalist but was on the ground, notebook in hand, covering some of the most terrible events of the last 30 years. After the Iraq invasion he had seen enough of blood and gore (he famously describes war as “failure of the human spirit”) His reports (along with those by Dahr Jamail) were the ones that allowed me to undestand events in Iraq and the crimes perpertrated against that nation. He wrote the seminal work on the origins of the Middle East conflict, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East, which, if you want to understand the origins of todays conflict is essential reading. He no longer reports direct from the battlefields but comments on events from his home in Beirut. Here are his latest articles and some older interviews from 2003-4, which I recommend to get a sense of where we are today. It was Fisk that informed me that before the Americans destroyed Iraq there was no Sunni-Shiite divide in the secular state of Iraq. Clan ties were the most important and there was much intermarriage between Sunnis and Shiites. --Robin Westenra
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:31:33 +0000
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