The US envoy who infuriated the White House by urging Hosni Mubarak to remain President of Egypt works for a New York and Washington law firm which works for the dictator's own Egyptian government.
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I really know who won the Battle of Tahrir Square yesterday, though it will not remain long unresolved. At dusk, the stones were still cracking on to roads, and on to people...
BY Robert Fisk 2 February 2011
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Even if the end is clear. The Egyptian army is, needless to say, part of this equation.
BY Robert Fisk 30 January 2011
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No one believes – except perhaps the Americans – that Mohamed ElBaradei can become a focus for the protest movements that have sprung up across the country
BY Robert Fisk 27 January 2011
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Osama bin Laden will certainly rejoice, along with Bush and Blair. And there's a thought. So many crimes avenged. But we will have got away with it.
BY Robert Fisk 30 December 2006
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So America's one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington's best friend in the Arab world. It's difficult to think of a more suitable monster for the gallows...It couldn't be a more just verdict - nor a
BY Robert Fisk 5 November 2006
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'I'm not talking about the weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist. Nor the links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida which didn't exist. Nor all the other lies upon which we went to war. I'm talking about the new lies.'
BY Robert Fisk 4 August 2004
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So what was it Tony Blair said in the Commons that afternoon? "We are not killing civilians in Iraq; terrorists are killing civilians in Iraq." Question: Are Baghdad and London on the same planet?
BY Robert Fisk 15 July 2004
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"Someone wounded,' the pilot cries. Then he received the reply: "Hit him, hit the truck and him.' ...The pilot fires a 30mm gun at the wounded man, vaporising him in a second...
BY Robert Fisk 6 May 2004
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Why are we surprised at their racism, their brutality, their sheer callousness towards Arabs? Those American soldiers in Saddam's old prison at Abu Ghraib, those young British squaddies in Basra came -- as soldiers often come -- from towns and cities
BY Robert Fisk 3 May 2004
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