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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 is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.

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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 cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

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I do not make stories up, full stop.

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Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

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It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

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

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The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.

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Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

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In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?

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A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: July 12th, 1946

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