That Was The Week

That Was The Week

From the Independent newspaper in London — direct from Baghdad

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Keith Teare
May 03, 2016
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Robert Fisk is in Baghdad — here is his most recent story. Re-produced below.

Robert Fisk: ‘It was an outrage, an obscenity’

27 March 2003

It was an outrage, an obscenity. The severed hand on the metal door, the swamp of blood and mud across the road, the human brains inside a garage, the incinerated, skeletal remains of an Iraqi mother and her three small…

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