Als Quote by Patrick Cockburn

There are some things that could hold it together, notably oil revenues. But at the moment, the much vaunted surge has had a measure…

— Patrick Cockburn

Mosul stands rally at a sort of juncture of sectarian and ethnic differences.

— Patrick Cockburn

Young Shia who have been brought up with nothing, who are pretty anarchic, pretty dangerous. In 2004 when they came close to killing me,…

— Patrick Cockburn

Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and…

— Patrick Cockburn

But from the moment George Bush decided to overthrow Saddam, the people who were going to benefit here were the Shia, who are 60…

— Patrick Cockburn

Muqtada is radical in the sense that he wants the U.S. occupation to end and has always said so from the beginning. Secondly, his…

— Patrick Cockburn

Despite the fact that there's billions of dollars sitting in the Iraqi government reserves, somehow they are incapable of getting it out to the…

— Patrick Cockburn

You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In…

— Patrick Cockburn

There's a lot of expectation in the Middle East that post-Obama there will be a sort of tougher U.S. line on Assad, there will…

— Patrick Cockburn

Muqtada belongs to the most famous religious family in Iraq, which is the al-Sadr family. He's really the third in line. [Muqtada's father] drew…

— Patrick Cockburn

Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own…

— Patrick Cockburn

It's always sort of amazing, sitting in Baghdad, to watch visiting dignitaries being received in the Green Zone by politicians who have usually very…

— Patrick Cockburn