Forgery fazes Fisk
Robert Fisk’s name has been taken in vain by the author and publishers of a biography of Saddam Hussein. His name is given as author on the cover of the Cairo-published book, which he never wrote. In an article in The Independent he describes his unsuccessful hunt for the real author.
The book is called Saddam Hussein: From Birth to Martyrdom and is a fawning biography of the late Iraqi leader. It seems that is full of factual errors and distortions, plays fast and loose with history, is virulently anti-Western, and is written in lousy prose.
No wonder everyone finds it easy to believe Fisk wrote it.
