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 end
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