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Lannan speaker delayed in Canada

U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver. Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance in the Lannan Foundation’s readings-and-conversations series Wednesday night.

According to Christie Mazuera Davis, a Lannan program officer, Fisk was told that his papers were not in order.

Davis made last-minute arrangements Wednesday for Amy Goodman, host of Pacifica Radio’s daily news show, Democracy Now!, to interview Fisk via satellite from a television station in Toronto. He appeared on a large screen onstage at the Lensic Performing Arts centre.

The controversial British journalist, who is based in Beirut, filed many eyewitness reports on the U.S. invasion of Iraq and criticized Western reporters for “hotel journalism ,� a phrase he coined to describe correspondents who covered the war from heavily fortified hotel suites and offices.



The world's best, and most honest, war correspondent.
He has no peer. Robert Fisk, the intrepid war correspondent for the UK’s Independent, is simply the best journalist in the world today. Fearless (he survived a vicious beating in Afghanistan at the hands of a mob), and as well-versed in the rules of the street as he is in the lessons of history, Fisk is the single most important chronicler of the cauldron of hate that is the Middle East. In the past year, he has sent dispatches from the killing fields of Afghanistan, the West Bank, and Iraq, with a laser-sharp sense of detail and moral outrage, all delivered with the highest journalistic standards for accuracy.

Fisk is more than just a journalist, he is a man whose unique insight into that region could go a long way to finding solutions. When asked by the Digital Freedom Network for his views on the best approach to dealing with the growing resentment in the Muslim world towards the west, he advised:


http://gnn.tv/articles/669/Guerrilla_of_the_Year

It is remarkable to see the US federal government Dept of Homeland Security uses it money and resources wisely to block this one man from entering the US but with the same cannot even stop the flow of thousands of border crossing everyday in the Southwest or help towns and cities deal with illegal immigration. Yeah, I agree you have to be careful in this political climate.