Published by The Sunday Times, 21 October 2007 For the first time, the British general at the heart of post-war planning for Iraq tells Heidi Kingstone of the chaos in London and Washington. In early March 2003, as Britain and America prepared t...
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Published by the Financial Times Magazine, 20 December 2003 After 45 years in exile, Ahmad Chalabi persuaded the US to share his dream of deposing Saddam Hussein. For his efforts, he was one of the first Iraqis to confront the captured dictator. ...
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Published by the Financial Times Magazine, 2/3 July 2005. A woman linked with the Blunkett affair falls prey to the paparazzi's poetic licence. Download this article as a PDF. Visit Heidi Kingstone's archive on Scribd.
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Published by The Spectator, 26 May 2007 Dan McNeill, Nato's commander in Kabul, tells Heidi Kingstone that even a 'hard-bitten dude' faces a struggle to make the liberated country function as an orderly society. Download the full article as a ...
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Published by the National Post, 10 March 2009 Heidi Kingstone reports on the impossible circumstances faced by thousands of Muslim refugees - the Rohingyas - in Bangladesh. Download this article as a PDF. Visit Heidi Kingstone's archive on Scrib...
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Published by The Spectator, 6 December 1997. Heidi Kingstone on the liquid that will cause the new Middle East crises, and it's not oil. Download the article as a PDF. Visit Heidi Kingstone's archive on Scribd.
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Published by The Mail on Sunday, 26 September 2010 A powerfully moving interview by Heidi Kingstone with the fiance of the doctor shot dead in Afghanistan two weeks before their wedding. Download the article as a PDF. Visit Heidi Kingstone's...
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Published by The Spectator, 21 February 2009 Heidi Kingstone's experiences in Darfur, prior to the July 2009 election. Download this article as a PDF. Visit Heidi Kingstone's archive on Scribd.
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The car bomb in Baghdad killed Ammar Al Shahbander in what has become an all too common occurrence of violence in Iraq. I first met Ammar in the late nineteen-nineties in London, Saddam Hussein then governed Iraq, and Ammar was a member of the Ir...
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Published by The Middle East, July 2008 Afghanistan is understandably perhaps not the first country that you associate with modern design. For centuries women's stories were woven into traditional carpets, and like those rugs, the country weaves ...
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