When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

In 2001 he was awarded the David Watt Prize for "outstanding contributions towards the clarification of political issues and the promotion of their greater understanding" for his investigation into the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. (.

An Arabic speaker he is one of few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden which he did on three occasions between 1993 and 1997. Robert Fisk is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone Kent. Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent.