Here are some more URL's, with an emphasis on various discourses about terrorism, but with updates about World War III mobilization, civil liberties and security, and other things. Thanks to everyone who contributed. music outstanding hour of music for the victims of the attacks in NY and Washington (read no further until you start it playing) http://kcrw.com/cgi-bin/ram_wrap.cgi?/mb/mb010914A_Day_of_Remembrance World War III "officials describe a military buildup to rival that of President Reagan" http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/16/national/16MILI.html US May Use Afghan Northern Alliance Against Taliban http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=242479959 Fearing Strike, Afghans Flee Kabul http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/09/15/kabul/ No Easy Battle http://www.stratfor.com/home/0109142100.htm Russia's View, Russia's Options http://www.stratfor.com/home/0109152130.htm US Marines Land in Pakistan for Surveillance: Report http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=2375 http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1006086087 US Puts the Hard Word on Allies http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/16/world/world6.html Nuclear Warfare Next, Say Leaders http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/16/world/world3.html Graphic: Opposing Forces in Afghanistan (these graphics from the Sydney Sun-Herald are outstanding) http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/16/graphics/Afgan3.jpg bombing and investigation The "Nice" Town Planner Who Killed Thousands http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/16/world/world16.html Suspected Pilot Hijacker of Pennsylvania Flight Was Lebanese: Security http://www.lebanon.com/news/local/2001/9/15.htm Graphic: Inside View of Flight 11 http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/16/graphics/Flight11.gif Graphic: Damaged/Destroyed Buildings in NYC http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/16/graphics/skyline.gif Fifteen Hijackers Had Florida Ties (what *is* it about Florida?) http://www.gopbi.com/news/special/local_terror_florida.html Bin Laden Associates May Have Profited From European Short-Selling http://www.msnbc.com/news/629380_asp.htm letter from a Pakistani who survived the attack on the World Trade Center http://www.e46fanatics.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=45274&t=45274 How IRC Delivered the News Following the Attacks http://www.idg.net/spc_693723_190_9-10025.html discussion of airplanes hitting the WTC on a Web board last November http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/336291/4/ terrorism Hart-Rudman Study Emphasizes Immediacy of Homeland Threats http://nationaldefense.ndia.org/article.cfm?Id=114 article about Osama bin Laden from August 1998 http://www.thenewrepublic.com/express/redux091401.html Political Violence in the Middle East (links to information on various terrorist groups) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/viol.html Penetrating Terrorist Networks http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34478-2001Sep14.html There's Anthrax in the Subway. Who You Gonna Call? (May 2001) http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0105.green.html Harvard Kennedy School of Gov't Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/BCSIA/ESDP.nsf/www/Links http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/BCSIA/Library.nsf/pubs/ESDP200104 http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/BCSIA/Library.nsf/pubs/2001ESDP1 http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/BCSIA/Library.nsf/pubs/ESDP3Falkenrat http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/BCSIA/Library.nsf/pubs/ESDP5Falkenrat http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/BCSIA/Library.nsf/pubs/2001ESDP2 http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/BCSIA/Library.nsf/pubs/2001ESDP3 http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/BCSIA/Library.nsf/pubs/ESDP4Kohnen http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/BCSIA/Library.nsf/pubs/ESDP2Merari http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/BCSIA/Library.nsf/pubs/Perspective1 Congressional Research Service reports on intelligence and military things http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/ environmentalists' letter on terrorism dangers from industrial chemicals http://www.rtknet.org/wcs/site.htm terrorism reports from conservative and libertarian think tanks almost everything on these think tanks' home pages right now is relevant (let me know if you find particular items that are especially striking) http://www.heritage.org/ http://www.ncpa.org/ http://www.csis.org/ Cato on Terrorism http://www.cato.org/current/terrorism/ http://www.cato.org/events/transcripts/001127et.pdf terrorism reports from RAND (RAND isn't exactly conservative but is very aligned with the US military) Recent RAND Research and Writings on Terrorism http://www.rand.org/hot/newslinks.html#terror Countering the New Terrorism (1999?) http://www.rand.org/publications/AR/AR7042/research99.pdf The Advent of Netwar: Analytic Background (this comes highly recommended) http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR994/MR994.ch2.pdf Terrorism Evolves Toward "Netwar" http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/rr.winter98.9/madness.html RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy http://www.rand.org/nsrd/cmepp/pubs.html terrorism reports from other think tanks Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi (as you might imagine, they write a lot of articles about Islam and Pakistan) http://www.idsa-india.org/an-content.htm http://www.idsa-india.org/an-oct-00-7.html http://www.idsa-india.org/an-mar-4.01.htm http://www.idsa-india.org/an-mar-3.01.html http://www.idsa-india.org/an-jun-700.html http://www.idsa-india.org/an-feb00-3.html National Academies Terrorism and Security Collection http://www.nap.edu/terror/ National Interagency Civil-Military Institute (i.e., the National Guard) (a bunch of links to publications and course handouts, many relevant) http://www.nici.org/publications/ConM.html terrorism stuff from Brookings Institution (centrist) http://www.brookings.org/ http://www.brookings.org/fp/projects/terrorism.htm http://www.brookings.org/views/op-ed/ohanlon/19980824.htm security America's Airports Need a Drastic Overhaul http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=780425 FAA's Actions for Airport Security and to Certify Screening Companies (1999) http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/useftp.cgi?IPaddress=162.140.64.21&filename=rc99053.pdf&directory=/diskb/wais/data/gao Transportation Research Board, new area on transportation system security http://www4.trb.org/trb/homepage.nsf/web/security/ civil liberties Congress Moves to Change Way of Life http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010914/pl/attack_congress_law_dc_1.html Attacks Justify Easing Curbs, Intelligence Leaders Say http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/16/international/16INTE.html?pagewanted=all Envisioning the Future in a Fortress New York (former NYC police commissioner wants 100 face recognition cameras in Times Sq) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/16/nyregion/16SECU.html?pagewanted=all Can Biometrics Help the Army Solve an Identity Crisis? http://www.rand.org/publications/RB/RB3024/ Army Biometric Applications: Identifying and Addressing Sociocultural Concerns http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1237/ tolerance Arab American Antidiscrimination Committee http://www.adc.org/ Muslims Witness Support Amid Anger http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0109150149sep15.story news Times of India http://www.timesofindia.com/ daily newspaper from Lebanon http://www.dailystar.com.lb/ independent Palestinian weekly http://www.jerusalem-times.net/news/n1.htm US News issue reviewing the attack http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010924/home.htm Newsweek's more extensive coverage http://www.msnbc.com/news/NW-front_Front.asp comment Sampling of Asian Comment on the Terrorist Attack on the United States http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/web/sept112001.htm liberal Israeli comment http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=74074 comment from a libertarian Muslim think tank http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2001-09/15/article11.shtml http://www.islam-online.net/English/Views/2001/09/article2.shtml http://www.islam-online.net/English/Views/2001/09/article3.shtml a particularly vile conservative opinion column http://www.patrickhenrycenter.org/alert.html The Sufferings of Afghanistan Come to New York http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=780398 end
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