In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern Lebanon and claim they have found another land without people if these refugees do not return.

I do not make stories up, full stop.

We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers carrying out orders or mafia men carrying out killings for bosses. But the way things happen in the Middle East is not the same as in the West.

I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.