Patrick Cockburn - Definition and Overview

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. He is based in Jerusalem as a correspondent for the Independent, and has been filing reports on the US-led occupation of 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.

External links

• Iraqis are Naming Their New Babies "Saddam" (http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick10312003.html) (31 October 2003)
• US Troops Bulldoze Crops (http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn10142003.html) (15 October 2003)
• The Iraq Wreck (http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn09162003.html) (16 September 2003)