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.

In 2001 he was awarded the David Watt Prize for "outstanding contributions towards the clarification of political issues and the promotion of their greater understanding" for his investigation into the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. (.

An Arabic speaker he is one of few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden which he did on three occasions between 1993 and 1997. Robert Fisk is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone Kent. Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent.