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Déjà Vu in Annapolis
Nov 30, 2007 Haven't we been here before? Isn't Annapolis just a repeat of the White House lawn and the Oslo agreement, a series of pious claims and promises in which two weak men, Messrs. Abbas and Olmert, even use the same words of Oslo.Do You Know the Truth About Lockerbie?
Oct 16, 2007 I'm not at all certain that the CIA did not have a scam drugs heist on board and I am not at all sure that the diminutive Libyan agent Megrahi -- ultimately convicted on the evidence of the memory of a Maltese tailor -- really arranged to plant the bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988.
Here We Go Again
Oct 8, 2007 A sprig of bougainvillea prompts Robert Fisk to recall the bad old days of the Cold War and, in light of our overblown global war on terror, the curious and often fruitless tendency of governments to create monsters.A Lesson in Courage From Beirut
Oct 2, 2007 Not only is The Independent reporter Fisk, like many others in Beirut, no longer shocked by a murder of yet another member of parliament, but he also is no longer affected by viewing the remains of the dead. Such is life in Lebanon today. Here, Fisk relates how Lebanese officials are learning to exist in a perpetual fog of fear.Lebanese Government on Verge of Collapse
Sep 22, 2007 Another member of Lebanon's parliament, Antoine Ghanem, was killed on Sept 19 when a bomb went off in his car outside his home in Beirut This means, The Independent's Robert Fisk reports, that " It only takes one more murder for the democratically elected government of Lebanon to fall".