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MESSING-UP THE MIDDLE EAST (2003-2006)
THREE YEARS AFTER SHOCK AND AWE
WAGING THE WAR ON TERROR (2007)
SHE HEEDED AMERICA’S CALL AND PAID WITH HER LIFE
ROADSIDE BOMBS ARE NOTHING NEW
MAKING THE WORLD A MORE TERRIFYING PLACE
FOUR YEARS SINCE LIBERATION AND DRENCHED IN BLOOD
STONED TO DEATH FOR ELOPING AND CONVERTING
TEACHERS’ KILLINGS TURN SUNNIS AGAINST AL-QA’IDA
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO AHMED CHALABI?
IRAQ INVASION STRENGTHENED THE MILITANTS
BUSH’S OPTIMISM IMPOSSIBLE TO SQUARE WITH IRAQ SITUATION
DERBY MAN WHO CAME TO IRAQ TO WAGE WAR
HUMAN TIDE SPILLING INTO NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES
ONLY ONE THING UNITES IRAQ, HATRED OF THE US
BRITAIN BOWS OUT OF A WAR IT COULD NEVER HAVE WON
IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF THE END IN IRAQ?
A WAR OF LIES (2008)
OPIUM FIELDS SPREAD ACROSS IRAQ
RETURN TO FALLUJAH
SUNNI VERSUS SHIA
A NEW DAWN?
THIS WAR CONTINUES WITH LIE AFTER LIE AFTER LIE
‘GHOST CITY’ MOSUL BRACES FOR ASSAULT ON AL-QA’IDA
SECRET DEAL FOR PERMANENT US OCCUPATION OF IRAQ
OIL GIANTS RETURN TO IRAQ
ALCOHOL RETURNS TO BAGHDAD
VIOLENCE IS DOWN, BUT NOT BECAUSE OF THE SURGE
CORRUPTION BLAMED AS CHOLERA RIPS THROUGH IRAQ
THE DAY THE LAST US SOLDIER LEAVES IRAQ
ENDLESS INSURGENCY (2009)
ELECTION THAT WILL SHAPE IRAQ’S FUTURE
HOW WELL WAS THE IRAQ WAR REPORTED?
TORTURE PROBABLY KILLED MORE AMERICANS THAN 9/11
DECODING PRESIDENT OBAMA’S CAIRO SPEECH
HOW BRIBERY BECAME A WAY OF LIFE
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?
ONLY TIME CAN HEAL SOME IRAQI WOUNDS
BURNING HATRED OF FOREIGN OCCUPATION
SAFER, BUT BY NO MEANS SAFE
BOMBERS AIM FOR HEART OF GOVERNMENT
GRIM STABILITY (2010)
‘CHEMICAL ALI’ IS EXECUTED
VIOLENT, DIVIDED, BUT HOPEFUL
AMERICA LOWERS THE FLAG
TOXIC LEGACY OF US ASSAULT ON FALLUJAH
US UNABLE TO ACCOUNT FOR BILLIONS OF IRAQ OIL MONEY
GRIM STABILITY IS THE US LEGACY
ECHOS OF EL SALVADOR IN TALES OF US APPROVED DEATH SQUADS
THE US WITHDRAWS (2011)
BEWARE YOUR ENEMY’S STUPIDITY
CAN WE EVER BE TRULY SAFE FROM TERRORISM?
BIN LADEN WAS THE REASON WE WENT TO WAR, RIGHT?
AMERICA SILENCES A KEY AL-QA’IDA PROPAGANDIST
ARAB AWAKENING WILL NOT SUCCEED EAST OF EGYPT
FALL OF LIBYA WAS A PIECE OF CAKE COMPARED TO SYRIA
IRAQ GETS READY FOR LIFE AFTER AMERICA
‘GREATEST STRATEGIC DISASTER’ (2012)
IS THIS THE FINAL DISINTEGRATION OF IRAQ?
IRAN INCREASES HOLD IN IRAQ
WHAT NEXT FOR AL-QA’IDA?
AMERICAN MIDDLE EAST INFLUENCE IS PAST ITS PEAK
A NATION IN CRISIS (2013)
DISINTEGRATING AS A COUNTRY
CITY OF CORRUPTION
THE SUNNI RISE AGAIN
THE SHIA ARE IN OFFICE BUT NOT IN POWER
IRAQ’S KURDS STRIKE IT RICH
A DISASTER WAITING TO REPEAT ITSELF
CONFRONTING ISIS (2014)
ANARCHY IN IRAQ
IRAN MAKES ITS MOVE
HOW SAUDIS HELPED ISIS TAKE OVER NORTHERN IRAQ
OBAMA SENDS BOMBERS INTO IRAQ
SUNNIS AND KURDS REJOICE AS HATED AL-MALAKI RESIGNS
AIR POWER IS NOT ENOUGH TO WIN THIS WAR
THE LAST CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ
IRAN JOINS THE ‘GREAT SATAN’S’ WAR ON ISIS
THE WEST NEEDS MORE THAN A WHITE KNIGHT
FROM HOPE TO HORROR (2015)
WRONG AGAIN IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TERROR
ISIS: ONE YEAR ON
WHO IS STRONG ENOUGH TO FIGHT ISIS?
ARE DRONE EXECUTIONS WORKING?
NATIONAL LOYALTY IS IN RUINS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA
ON THE MIDDLE EAST, DONALD HAS IT RIGHT
HILLARY CLINTON IS GUILTY, BUT NOT AS CHARGED
A NEW TYPE OF WARFARE
THE PARTITION OF THE MIDDLE EAST
CONSTANT CYCLE OF VIOLENCE (2016)
ISIS BOMBS
ISIS CAN ONLY BE CRUSHED IN IRAQ IF DEFEATED IN SYRIA
LACK OF OIL REVENUE MAY RUIN IRAQ BEFORE ISIS
MEDIA COVERAGE IS MASKING DISASTEROUS POLICIES
CORRUPTION PAVED THE WAY FOR ISIS
SHAKING THE FOUNDATIONS OF IRAQ’S GOVERNMENT
AFTERWORD
CHILCOT INQUIRY SUMS IT UP
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