Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn (pronounced
coburn) is an
Irish journalist who has been a
Middle East correspondent for the
Financial Times and the
Independent since 1979.
Among the most experienced commentators on
Iraq, he was one of the few journalist to remain in
Baghdad during the first
Gulf War.
As of 2003, he is currently based in
Jerusalem for the
Independent but has also been filing reports on the
US-led occupation of Iraq from Iraq.
Cockburn was born in Scotland and grew up in County Cork, Ireland.
His father was the well-known socialist author and journalist Claud Cockburn.
Cockburn has two brothers, Alexander Cockburn and Andrew Cockburn who are also journalists.
Cockburn's most recent book is Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, written together with Andrew Cockburn.
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