LINKS:
- Guardian Online: Steele

Patrick Cockburn and Jonathan Steele
On Iraq
21 May 08, 19.30-20.30
Arnolfini, Bristol
£6.00 / £4.00

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Patrick Cockburn is the Middle East correspondent for The Independent. His new book, on Muqtada Al-Sadr, whose men are killing more British troops than any other group in the world today, charts his rise to power, his links with Hezbollah and the Iranians and his confrontation with the American and British military, combining first hand accounts with vivid and dismaying reportage of the civil war now raging in a fractured country.

Cockburn discusses this with Guardian correspondent, Jonathan Steele, whose new book, based on his work in the region, Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq, looks at the failure of the Allied invasion. John Simpson called it "is a superb book - the best account so far of what went wrong in Iraq, and why".

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