[RRE]attack

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sat Sep 15 2001 - 10:23:22 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    Can anyone find me some English-language commentaries from Islamic
    fundamentalists in Egypt, Algeria, Pakistan, and so on?  Also some
    commentaries from other countries that represent perspectives not
    much seen in the American papers?
    
    
    investigation
    
    Economist summary of the investigation
    http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=786197
    
    "the prime suspect is Osama bin Laden, but it may be impossible to prove this"
    http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=786151
    
    Why? An Attempt to Explain the Unexplainable
    http://www.janes.com/regional_news/americas/news/jdw/jdw010914_1_n.shtml
    
    intelligent article about shooting down planes (or failing to)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/15/national/15CONT.html
    
    Bin Laden: The Former CIA "Client" Obsessed With Training Pilots
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,551037,00.html
    
    Bin Laden Linked to Two Fundamentalist Islamic Groups in Egypt
    http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/reg/bin_laden_linked.htm
    
    Terrorists' Funding Targeted 
    (maybe it's a financial war: follow the money, prevent them paying for attacks)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34495-2001Sep14.html
    
    Belgian Police Probe Bin Laden Links
    http://213.159.10.102/belgiummain.asp?pad=88,89,&item_id=13895
    
    Newspaper: Echelon Gave Authorities Warning Of Attacks
    (I have no idea if this is reliable or even plausible)
    http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170072.html
    
    staffer's eyewitness account from the New Yorker
    http://www.newyorker.com/ON-LINE_ONLY/ARCHIVES/?010917on_onlineonly02
    
    Fear on the 86th Floor
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34032-2001Sep14.html
    
    
    response
    
    The Day the World Changed
    http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=780341
    
    Pakistani Leaders Agree on Measures to Assist US
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32037-2001Sep14.html
    
    Russian General Against Siding With USA in Possible Strikes
    http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010915002989
    
    Putin Would Not Support a US Invasion of Afghanistan
    http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010915001404
    
    Americans and Islamists blaming one another
    http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=785171
    
    New Yorkers at Dovish Rally Are Torn over War and Peace
    http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/010915/world/afp/New_Yorkers_at_dovish_rally_are_torn_over_war_and_peace.html
    
    Gunmen Shoot Boy as Warning to India Not to Help US Against Taliban
    http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_399225.html
    
    Turkey Lowers Flags in Respect for Victims of Savage Terrorist Attacks
    http://www.TurkishDailyNews.com/FrTDN/latest/for.htm#f6
    
    A Defiant New York City
    http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=780368
    
    article on "workplace-recovery centers"
    http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/08/elhai.htm
    
    Air Travel Under Siege
    http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=786126
    
    Terror Doesn't Spare Young
    ("it's too much for my brain to tolerate")
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34501-2001Sep14.html
    
    Child Trauma Academy: Coping with Traumatic Events
    http://www.childtrauma.org/
    
    Microsoft to Change Flight Game
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Attacks-Flight-Simulator.html
    
    
    civil liberties
    
    A Wide, Aggressive Probe Collides With Civil Rights
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34046-2001Sep14.html
    
    Senator Leahy's speech defending civil liberties
    http://www.senate.gov/~leahy/press/200109/091201.html
    
    Sacrificing Freedoms in the Name of Saving Them
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11509
    
    China Censors Anti-US Reaction
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34491-2001Sep14.html
    
    Some Foresee a Sea Change in Attitudes on Freedoms
    (including discussion of face recognition systems)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/15/national/15CIVI.html
    
    "we shouldn't automatically give up our constitutional rights"
    http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2001/09/14/rights/
    
    Society's Freedoms May Be Curtailed
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,552322,00.html
    
    
    tolerance
    
    "how far should ethnic profiling go in the quest to nab the terrorists?"
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/14/profiling/
    
    letter from Tamim Ansary, an Afgani-American writer
    http://www.caterina.net/2001_09_01_archive.html#5694830
    http://www.monospace.com/ansary.html
    
    An Afghan-American Speaks
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/14/afghanistan/
    
    
    law
    
    A New Legal Landscape
    (introduction to several attack-related articles from National Law Journal)
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZGDOIPMRC
    
    In Times of Crisis, Law Speaks, but Often With a Forked Tongue
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZGWFRGMRC
    
    The Day the US Supreme Court Shut Down
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZYURPZKRC
    
    
    commentary
    
    Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are Christians like the bombers are Muslims
    (i.e., not)
    http://www.nandotimes.com/opinions/story/79337p-1109025c.html
    
    Violence Doesn't Work
    http://www.globalexchange.org/september11/zinn091401.html
    
    What Does Retaliation Mean in a Media War?
    http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2001/09/12/1.html
    
    A Time for Peace, Not Retaliation
    http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2001/09/11/
    
    International Crime, Not War
    http://www.fpif.org/commentary/0109terror-crime.html
    
    Beware Unintended Results
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/15/opinion/15LEWI.html
    
    comment from Pakistan
    http://www.dawn.com/2001/09/15/op.htm#3
    http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/PrintPage.asp?id=1&date1=9/15/2001&news2=editorials
    
    The Real Challenge Is How to Eradicate the Sources of Terrorism
    (Turkey, of course, has its own unpublicized war going with the Kurds)
    http://www.TurkishDailyNews.com/FrTDN/latest/comment.htm
    
    Linkage to Islam Rejected
    http://www.TurkishDailyNews.com/FrTDN/latest/dom.htm#d2
    
    criticism of US alliances with repressive Middle Eastern governments
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11508
    
    "many of the people running this country are long-time supporters of terrorism"
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11506
    
    We'll Go Forward From This Moment
    http://www.miami.com/herald/special/news/worldtrade/digdocs/008039.htm
    
    socialist comment
    http://www.internationalsocialist.org/Statement.pdf
    
    criticism of US media coverage
    http://www.zmag.org/schechcalam.htm
    
    the history of extremism over here, as well as over there
    http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11505
    
    Actually, They Do Dare Call It Treason
    (review of conservative Web sites' condemnation of dissent)
    http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2001/treason.html
    
    jargon watch: a half-dozen devices for stigmatizing dissent in wartime
    (and if our guys do wrong, match it with a supposedly equal wrong of theirs)
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001143
    
    jargon watch: "victims" can't be real Americans
    (to be a real American, you have to pretend that discrimination doesn't exist)
    
    
    background
    
    The Strategic Implications of Terrorism
    http://www.st-and.ac.uk/academic/intrel/research/cstpv/publications1d.htm
    
    The Advent of Netwar
    http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR789/
    
    South Asia Is Like the Middle East, Except Everyone Has Nuclear Weapons
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/13/pakistan/
    
    BBC Monitoring Country Profiles
    http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk/countryprof1.shtml
    
    bin Laden profile
    http://www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010917fr_archive07
    
    The Treasury Coddles Tax Cheats (August 2001)
    (oh, and it's easy for terrorists to move money around)
    http://www.thenewrepublic.com/082701/giridharadas082701.html
    
    US Announces Afghan Aid Package (May 2001)
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1336000/1336958.stm
    
    Noam Chomsky's Lecture "The Current Crises in the Middle East" (December 2000)
    http://www.media.mit.edu/~nitin/mideast/chomsky.html
    
    Clinton speech on terrorism at the UN, September 1998
    http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/New/html/19980921-29469.html
    
    Ronald Reagan's proclamations on Afghanistan Day in 1982 and 1983
    http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1982/31082c.htm
    http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1983/32183d.htm
    http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1983/32183e.htm
    
    on the building of the World Trade Center
    http://www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010917fr_archive06
    
    The Advantages of Defeat (September 1861)
    http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/1861sep/defeat.htm
    
    comment on Pearl Harbor, published in 1941
    http://www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010917fr_archive08
    
    
    news
    
    Middle East Times (Cairo)
    http://www.metimes.com/
    http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/opin/opin_index.htm
    
    The Frontier Post from Peshawar, Pakistan
    http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/
    http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp
    
    The Times of Central Asia (extensive coverage from Kyrgyzstan)
    http://www.times.kg/
    
    Syria Times
    http://www.teshreen.com/syriatimes/
    http://www.teshreen.com/syriatimes/s-sa/apolitic-s.htm
    http://www.teshreen.com/syriatimes/s-sa/opinion-s.htm
    
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Khaleej Times Home Page
    http://www.khaleejtimes.com/
    http://www.khaleejtimes.com/editor.htm
    
    European news links
    http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/eurb/cgint.exe?1&1000=1&tmpl=index
    
    C-SPAN daily schedule, almost all of which is about the war
    http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dfullschedule
    
    coverage and resources from US News and World Report
    http://www.usnews.com/usnews/briefings/terror0901.htm
    
    Newspapers US and Worldwide
    http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html
    
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