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I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

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Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind.

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We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

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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 been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

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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 imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

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President Bush will come here and there will be new 'friends' of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who 'liberated' them.

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One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

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The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

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There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: July 12th, 1946

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