LINK 'Greatest Journalist of His Generation': Robert Fisk, Veteran War Reporter and Fierce Critic of US Imperialism, Dead at 74 | Common Dreams News
It was dangerous work that often placed Fisk in harm's way, such as when he was attacked by a group of Afghan refugees fleeing heavy aerial bombardment by U.S. war planes in December 2001.
Always mindful of the bigger picture and ever cognizant of the root causes of conflicts, Fisk did not blame his attackers, rather he understood that their "brutality was entirely the product of others, of us—of we who had armed their struggle against the Russians and ignored their pain and laughed at their civil war and then armed and paid them again... and then bombed their homes and ripped up their families and called them 'collateral damage.'"
His coverage of the massacre at Sabra and Shatila:
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I fully agree that he was the greatest journalist of our time. It was always fascinating reading his reports from out in the field often from hiding with the "enemy" and not just feeding us the "official" reports from journalists embedded in military headquarters. Incredible bravery and he received enormous respect from the "enemy".
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