Brittiske journalisten Robert Fisk död – blev 74 år
Den brittiske journalisten Robert Fisk är död, rapporterar The Irish Times. Han blev 74 år.
Fisk var korrespondent i Mellanöstern för The Times och för The Independent och har kallats ”den bästa journalisten i sin generation”. Han bevakade Gulfkriget, kriget i Irak och intervjuade Osama bin Ladin två gånger.
Han fördes till sjukhus i sin hemstad Dublin i fredags och dog en kort tid senare.
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Robert Fisk
Wikipedia (en)
Robert Fisk (12 July 1946 – 30 October 2020) was an English writer and journalist.He stood out as an international correspondent, having participated in important news coverage such as the civil wars in Lebanon, Algeria and Syria, the Iran-Iraq conflict, the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan, the Islamic revolution in Iran, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. Fluent in Arabic, he was among the few Western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden, which he did three times between 1993 and 1997.The journalist began his career at the Sunday Express. From there, he went to work for The Times as a correspondent in Northern Ireland, Portugal and the Middle East, in which he was based on Beirut intermittently since 1976. After 1989, he worked for The Independent. Fisk received many British and international journalism awards, including the Press Awards Foreign Reporter of the Year seven times.Fisk also wrote celebrated books, such as Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War and The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East.
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