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. Robert Fisk Read Quote
The word ‘democracy’ and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria. Robert Fisk Read Quote
The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven’t said. Robert Fisk Read Quote
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. Robert Fisk Read Quote
And it’s true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating. Robert Fisk Read Quote
In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that? Robert Fisk Read Quote
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. Robert Fisk Read Quote
