On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin
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Marie Colvin. On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin
On the. Front Line
Copyright
Epigraph
The Marie Colvin Memorial Fund
Contents
FOREWORD
PART ONE
Iran–Iraq War
Middle East
Libya
Gulf War
Middle East
Kosovo
Chechnya
East Timor
PART TWO
Ethiopia
Zimbabwe
Sierra Leone
Sri Lanka
Middle East
Guantanamo
Iraq
Middle East
Iran
Egypt
Kosovo
PART THREE
Middle East
Iraq
Afghanistan
Iran
Egypt
Libya
Syria
MARIE COLVIN: THE LAST ASSIGNMENT
‘REPORTS OF MY SURVIVAL MAY BE EXAGGERATED’
Tributes
About the Publisher
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The Collected Journalism
of Marie Colvin
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The key to the revival is Saddam. According to those around him, he did not even falter in the face of devastation so massive that allied leaders believed his downfall to be inevitable. Saddam never, ever, gives up, they say. This mentality was a liability during the Gulf crisis, when he refused to leave Kuwait, but it was crucial to the rebuilding of Iraq. He went from the Mother of all Battles to the Mother of all Reconstructions without missing a beat.
Saddam emerged unrepentant from his bunker and ready to rebuild. The 53-year-old president knows his people well. He needed to remove the daily reminders of the war, and his responsibility for it. ‘I don’t want to see any war damage in the capital,’ an Iraqi official quoted him as saying. In a dictatorship as absolute as Iraq, such an order concentrates the mind. Construction crews began working 24 hours a day, even on Saturday, the Muslim Sabbath.
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