Patrick Cockburn is the Middle East correspondent for the Independent and the award-winning author of the bestselling The Rise of the Islamic State and The Age of Jihad. His work on the crisis in the Middle East include the National Book Circle Awards-shortlisted The Occupation.
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Whatever else the United States intended when it invaded Iraq in the spring of 2003, it was not to hand the country over to a 32-year-old militant cleric who fought against their presence from the start and whom former Iraqi administrator L. Paul Bremer ... SEE MORE