Amy Goodman interviews Robert Fisk about the situation in the Middle East, on Democracy Now!...

CMAQ NOTE: Continued from "Anti-Colonial War vs Americans May Have Already Begun, Part 1"...

Goodman: Well. I’m not there yet. But you mentioned your colleague ----

Fisk: You’re going to ask me where he is, aren’t you?

(they laugh)

Goodman: OK, where is he?

Fisk: You know what, I have this absolute fixation that he’s in Belarus, the most horrible ex-Soviet state that exists: Minsk. I tell you why I think this. This is long before the Iran – sorry, Freudian slip – long before the Iraq war, I had this absolute obsession that Minsk – I’ve been to Minsk; it’s a horrible city! It’s full of whiskey, corruption, prostitutes and damp apartments. Very, very favorable to the Ba’ath party of Iraq. And I noticed in the local newspaper here in Beirut, I fear about six or seven weeks ago an article that said that the Olympic committee of Belarus in Minsk had invited Uday Hussein, beloved son of the ‘great ruler of Iraq’, to a chess tournament in Minsk and I thought, My God, this is where they’re going to go. And if you think of all the stories which may be complete hogwash of how they got out by train with the Russian ambassador through Syria, where else to go but Minsk? I actually mentioned it to my foreign desk and my foreign editor said “Off you go to Belarus!