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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. Cockburn was born in Scotland and grew up in County Cork , Ireland . His father was the well-known Socialist author and journalist Claud Cockburn . Cockburn has two brothers, Alexander Cockburn and Andrew Cockburn who are also journalists. 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. EXTERNAL LINKS
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