Shock and awe: Robert Fisk’s dispatch as bombs rained down on Baghdad
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The Iraq war began 20 years ago with a night of bombing on capital Baghdad – and Robert Fisk was there to witness it all. Here, we reproduce that day’s reports from The Independent’s celebrated Middle East correspondent