Patrick Cockburn

                   
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The curious case of the disappearing despot

independent.co.uk
4 hrs ago 4 related
        

The world's most heavily guarded frontier, the line that divides North and South Korea, is the focus of renewed tensions with confrontation looming on several fronts. From 1 December, the secretive North Korean leadership will...

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Sharif Nashashibi: Unwary journalists who repeat US army claims become tools in a propaganda war

guardian.co.uk
14-Nov-2008
        

In any conflict, warring parties strive to convince the public that justice is on their side. There were several fundamental failings in the British press coverage of the recent US raid into Syria. For example, Richard White in...

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Who is Paying for the Iraqi National Intelligence Service?

indybay.org
14-Nov-2008 1 related
        

If it ever comes to court it should be one of the more interesting libel cases of the decade. The Iraqi National Intelligence Service is threatening to sue Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi politician, for asking who pays for it.

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Frontline winners announced: Yuri Kozyrev takes the main award

journalism.co.uk
12-Nov-2008
        

The winners of the Frontline Club Awards, sponsored by Canon, have been announced ahead of a full ceremony on November 28. Alongside its main award to Yuri Kozyrev, for a photographic essay covering the Iraq war, which he...

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31 Killed by Triple Bombing in Baghdad; Questions about Funding for Iraqi Intelligence

juancole.com
11-Nov-2008 581 related
        

3 bombings in the largely Shiite neighborhood of Kasrah in mostly Sunni Adhamiya on Monday, killing 31 and wounding 71. There are lots of reasons for such an attack, but it is in part aimed at scaring Shiites living in Adhamiya...

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Patrick Cockburn: The US can quit Iraq, or it can stay. But it can't do both

independent.co.uk
11-Nov-2008 1,021 related
        

If it ever comes to court it should be one of the more interesting libel cases of the decade. The Iraqi National Intelligence Service is threatening to sue Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi politician, for asking who pays for it.

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Schoolgirls targeted as bombings kill 28

independent.ie
11-Nov-2008 2 related
        

Suicide bombers first attacked a bus full of schoolgirls in central Baghdad yesterday and then detonated a second bomb in the middle of a crowd of rescuers, killing at least 28 people and wounding 66 others.

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What the world wants from its president

independent.co.uk
05-Nov-2008 771 related
        

Barack Obama will become the most powerful man in the world when he becomes president, and it's not just the US which is waitng to see what happens. The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, said: "At a time when we all face...

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America and Syria: a political raid, Paul Rogers

opendemocracy.net
30-Oct-2008
        

A single incident can often reveal much about the thinking of its architects. This is certainly true of the United States's military raid across the Iraq-Syria border on 26 October 2008, even though at present it is still...

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Iraq turns on US and condemns CIA raid into Syria

independent.ie
29-Oct-2008
        

By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad Wednesday October 29 2008 The Iraqi government has unexpectedly denounced a CIA raid on a compound in a Syrian border village that killed an al-Qa'ida commander who dispatched fighters into Iraq....

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