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And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

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Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

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The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

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I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

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When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.

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The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

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The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which didn't just mean the left-hand bit that became Israel.

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Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them.

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William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.

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American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: July 12th, 1946

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