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Ask All You Like about 9/11, But Just Don't Ask Why?

Dr. Robert Fisk: February 5, 2003; Running Time: 02:44:17

About the Lecture

About the Lecture

In this talk, Robert Fisk takes on the American press for over reporting on the "what and where" of the events of September 11th, and its inability to broach the question "why"? He is scathing in his criticism of the Bush administration's change of focus from pursuing Osama Bin Laden to Saddam Hussein.

Lecture Details

Location: 10-250

About the Speaker

Dr. Robert Fisk

Middle East Correspondent London Independent

Robert Fisk has spent 27 years reporting from the Middle East, and has covered the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf War and the conflict in Algeria. He is a seven-time winner of the British International Journalist of the Year Award, a two-time winner of the Amnesty International UK Press Award, and a winner of the John Hopkins SIAS-CIBA Prize for International Journalism. Dr. Fisk is the author of three books: The Point of No Return: The Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster, In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster, and the Price of Neutrality, and Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War.