Patrick Cockburn (/kəʉkbɜːn/) is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the Financial Times and the Independent . Among the most experienced commentators on Iraq, he was one of the few journalists 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. He has consistently displayed a pessimistic outlook for Iraq's future and considers the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath as a catastophic failure. A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper printed on distinctive salmon pink broadsheet paper. ... Location of Baghdad within Iraq Baghdad (Arabic: ) (Bexda in Kurdish) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ... Combatants U.S.-led coalition Iraq Commanders Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. ... Jerusalem (31°46′N 35°14′E; Hebrew: (help· info) Yerushalayim; Arabic: (help· info) al-Quds), Greek Ιεροσόλυμα, the capital city of Israel, is an ancient Middle Eastern city on the watershed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea at an elevation of 650-840 meters. ... This article deals with the post-invasion period in Iraq and its occupation. ... This article covers invasion specifics. ...

Cockburn was born in Scotland and grew up in County Cork, Ireland. His father was the well-known socialist author and journalist Claud Cockburn. Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... County Cork (Contae Chorcaí in Irish) is the most southwesterly and the largest of the modern counties of Ireland. ... Socialism is an ideology of a social and economic system in which the means of production are collectively owned and administered by all of society. ... Francis Claud Cockburn (pronounced ) (1904-1981) was a renowned radical British journalist, who was controversial for his communist and stalinist sympathies. ...

Cockburn has two brothers, Alexander Cockburn and Andrew Cockburn who are also journalists. Alexander Claud Cockburn () (born June 6, 1941) is a progressive Irish journalist who has lived and worked in the United States since 1973. ... Andrew Cockburn () is an Irish journalist who has lived in the United States for many years. ...

Cockburn's most recent book is The Broken Boy, a memior of his childhood in 1950s Ireland when he caught and survived polio. His previous book was Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, written with Andrew Cockburn. Poliomyelitis (polio), or infantile paralysis, is a viral paralytic disease. ...

External links

• The Occupation (November/December 2005)
• Iraqis are Naming Their New Babies "Saddam" (31 October 2003)
• US Troops Bulldoze Crops (15 October 2003)
• The Iraq Wreck (16 September 2003)