When the invasion of Iraq was being spin doctored in American and British media (remember WMDs?) and some commentators warned of a humanitarian and refugee catastrophe …

I was out driving when I received the first phone call from journalists today, informing me about Saddam's guilty verdict and asking me about my reaction.

Blair got nothing in return for its alliance with – or rather blind devotion to – the Bush administration, and clearly has very little clout in Washington. Is Blair's foreign policy really advancing his country's interests?

When it finally emerged, a few days later, that these were suicide bombers, and British-born ones to boot, the shock was even bigger than the shock of the attack. No border controls could have prevented this.

2 years of “liberation,” 9 months of “sovereignty” and 2 months of “democracy” later, Iraq is not doing well.

The media, as if Iraqis couldn’t have understood the concept of one person, one vote without the Americans, made the whole coverage of the Iraqi elections a televised version of a See Ali (See Dick).

Editors of the station’s English-language website have laid down the law: Al Jazeera’s staff is henceforth not allowed to describe US-led military "presence" in Iraq as occupation.

Two bodies had been discovered in Iraq: one of a beheaded man, the other of a woman who had been shot dead.