Nick Fielding

Nick Fielding is a journalist and author. He was a senior reporter at The Sunday Times and previously worked for The Mail on Sunday and The Independent. He writes the blog Circling the Lion’s Den. With Yosri Fouda he wrote Masterminds of Terror, Mainstream, 2003.

Syem Saleem Shahzad: death of a journalist

The Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad made both friends and enemies in the course of his detailed reporting of Islamist groups and insurgencies in the country. An official report on his abduction and murder in May 2011 may leave key questions unanswered, says Nick Fielding, but read careful

By Nick Fielding

/ 10 Feb 2012

The men who knew too little: reflections on the Zatuliveter case

The FBI’s investigation into the sleeper spy ring in the USA was an impressive intelligence operation, producing detailed, irrefutable evidence for the public record. The MI5 investigation into British parliamentary aide Katia Zatuliveter was quite different — superficial, speculative and secretiv

By Nick Fielding

/ 9 Dec 2011

The fate of the 9/11 planners and the failure of justice

Guilty verdicts from a military commission in Cuba will do little to correct the impression that America failed to use its most powerful weapon – full and open justice in front of the people – in the fight against terrorism.

By Nick Fielding and Yosri Fouda

/ 31 Oct 2011