Occupation: Writer Birth: July 12, 1946
It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imp….
How could believers, people who regard themselves as true Muslims, get on those planes, quoting the words of God delivered through the Prophet to the….
I wouldn't say I was part of an anti-war campaign..
Osama Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do in response to this attack….
Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do..
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists..
In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists..
I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent….
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….
When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself..
Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a k….
I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have come out with signs saying, "P….
Unfortunately, Osama bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstanding injustices in the Arab world: the conying so. And, tinued occupation of Pale….
Bin Laden was constantly revolving in his mind the fact that he had got rid of the Russians; therefore, the Americans can be got rid of, too. And whe….
Bin Laden was very keen to point out to me that his forces had fought the Americans in Somalia. He also wanted to talk about how many mullahs in Paki….
The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and….
So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baath….
The bin Laden I met each time was in a simple Saudi white robe, with a simple, cheap kafiya and very cheap plastic sandals. But a videotape released ….
I do not make stories up, full stop..
Whether Osama bin Laden is doing it cynically and has no interest in these matters, or whether he's doing it out of genuine conviction, his voice has….
After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seven….