Osama bin Laden is very shrewd. But he struck me, even in 1997, as being remarkably out of touch. I remember thinking this does not look like the typ….

I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden..

Even my landlord, who is a moderate Lebanese guy, says, "But bin Laden says what we think." These people believe that bin Laden is being targeted not….

The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to the….

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria..

I've lived in the Middle East for twenty-five years. I know exactly how these issues come up. Even my landlord, who is a moderate Lebanese guy, says,….

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit..

At the end of the day, Osama bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of….

At the end of the day, bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of the H….

In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern Lebanon and claim ….

I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, ….

Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica-that's slightly more than the t….

Whatever the political injustices are that created an environment that brought this about, it was not Americans who flew those planes into those buil….

Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There is somethin….

These terrible terrorism acts occur because of political situations and injustice in various parts of the world. The Middle East is heavy with injust….

The violence stems from injustice, because people feel they have been treated unfairly in the Middle East, whether that means military occupation, st….

We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers carrying out orders or mafia men ca….

When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has be….

I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of sev….

And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governme….

U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question ….