Robert Fisk is a
British journalist and (as of May 6, 2002) Middle Eastern correspondent for
The Independent in
London. He was one of two Western journalists to stay in
Beirut during the
Lebanese civil war, as well as being the author of an important history of the conflict,
Pity The Nation. After the U.S. launched its
attack on Afghanistan shortly following the
September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks, Fisk was transferred to Pakistan to provide coverage of that conflict. His account of his own beating at the hands of Afghan refugees would lead to the coining of the term
Fisking.
Many of his articles appear in ZNet.