Marxism
mailing list archive

Other Periods  | Other mailing lists  | Search  ]

Date:  [ Previous  | Next  ]      Thread:  [ Previous  | Next  ]      Index:  [ Author  | Date  | Thread  ]

Fisk--Baghdad: the day after



One of Fisk's best pieces...

Baghdad: the day after
Arson, anarchy, fear, hatred, hysteria, looting,
revenge, savagery, suspicion and a suicide bombing
Robert Fisk
The Independent
11 April 2003

It was the day of the looter. They trashed the German
embassy and hurled the ambassador's desk into the
yard. I rescued the European Union flag ­ flung into a
puddle of water outside the visa section ­ as a mob of
middle-aged men, women in chadors and screaming
children rifled through the consul's office and hurled
Mozart records and German history books from an upper
window. The Slovakian embassy was broken into a few
hours later.

Full text at:
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396051




__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more
http://tax.yahoo.com



Other Periods  | Other mailing lists  | Search  ]