Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent of The Independent, and author of The Occupation: War, Resistance and Daily Life in Iraq (Verso, 2006), has been visiting Iraq since the late 1970s. He was awarded the 2004 Martha Gellhorn Prize for war reporting, and also the 2006 James Cameron Memorial Award, both in recognition of his writing on Iraq. He is the author of, his memoir, The Broken Boy (Jonathan Cape, 2005), and co-written with Andrew Cockburn, Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession (Verso, 2000). His latest book Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq is published by Faber & Faber in April 2008.
This author's articles
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The Independent
Ignominious end to futile exercise that cost the UK 168 lives
Monday September 3rd, 2007 -
CounterPunch
Killing with Impunity
Thursday May 31st, 2007 -
The Independent
Opium: Iraq’s deadly new export
Wednesday May 23rd, 2007 -
The Independent
Whatever happened to Ahmed Chalabi? (the man whose lies about WMDs took us to war)
Wednesday May 16th, 2007 -
TomDispatch
Iraq Dismantled: A Small War Guaranteed to Damage a Superpower
Tuesday May 8th, 2007 -
CounterPunch
The Hostage Game
Tuesday March 27th, 2007 -
The Independent
How the war on terror made the world a more terrifying place
Wednesday February 28th, 2007 -
The Independent
’Exodus’ of Iraq’s ancient minorities
Monday February 26th, 2007 -
The Independent
The retreat from Basra
Thursday February 22nd, 2007 -
Socialist Worker
Bush’s surge will mean more horrors
Friday February 9th, 2007
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