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Robert Fisk: Palestinians understand Gaddafi better than we do
To Beirut. Storms. Heavy rain. Seas sweeping over the little port by my home.
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America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels
Monday, 7 March 2011
Robert Fisk: Desperate to avoid military involvement in Libya, the US has asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi.
Robert Fisk: The Tunisian whose jihad was for the people, not God
Saturday, 5 March 2011
The second Arab awakening of modern history – the first was the Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire – requires some new definitions, perhaps even some new words in at least the English language.
The historical narrative that lies beneath the Gaddafi rebellion
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Robert Fisk: Poor old Libyans. After 42 years of Gaddafi, the spirit of resistance did not burn so strongly. The intellectual heart of Libya had fled abroad.
Panic on borders as chaos engulfs Libya
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Robert Fisk: Tens of thousands flee mounting violence as UN warns of urgent humanitarian crisis.
Misery at the border as Gaddafi's guests flee
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Robert Fisk: Libya's migrant workers have become a pitiful human tide.
Robert Fisk: The destiny of this pageant lies in the Kingdom of Oil
Saturday, 26 February 2011
The Middle East earthquake of the past five weeks has been the most tumultuous, shattering, mind-numbing experience in the history of the region since the fall of the Ottoman empire. For once, "shock and awe" was the right description.
Tripoli: a city in the shadow of death
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Robert Fisk, with the first dispatch from Libya's war-torn capital, reports: Gunfire, fear, hunger and rumour as thousands race for last tickets out of a city sinking into anarchy.
Gaddafi raved and cursed, but he faces forces he cannot control
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Robert Fisk: So he will go down fighting. That's what Muammar Gaddafi told us last night, and most Libyans believe him.
Cruel, steeped in blood but now surely on his way out?
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Robert Fisk on Muammar Gaddafi, the tyrant of Tripoli.
Robert Fisk in Manama: Bahrain – an uprising on the verge of revolution
Monday, 21 February 2011
The protesters who are calling for an end to royal rule are in no mood to compromise
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3 Robert Fisk: The historical narrative that lies beneath the Gaddafi rebellion
4 Robert Fisk: The Tunisian whose jihad was for the people, not God
5 Robert Fisk: Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11
6 Robert Fisk: Week 3, day 16, and with every passing hour, the regime digs in deeper
7 Robert Fisk: Panic on borders as chaos engulfs Libya
8 Robert Fisk: These are secular popular revolts – yet everyone is blaming religion
9 Robert Fisk: The destiny of this pageant lies in the Kingdom of Oil
10 Robert Fisk: The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn
11 Robert Fisk: Blair should take responsibility for Iraq. But he won't. He can't
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