Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. war Show of Force Overture to Covert Campaign http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,554918,00.html How the US Will Fight http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/20/military_options/print.html update on all related US military activities (I have no idea how reliable this is) http://orbat.com/site/americagoestowar.html curious exchange with Ari Fleischer about the limits of the terrorist war (yes, there are spaces in that URL) http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010918-5.html#on the international terrorism British Muscle and US Jets Arrive in Jittery Islamabad http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/19/wtal319.xml don't forget that the Afghans still have those Stinger missiles http://atimes.com/c-asia/CI19Ag01.html Pakistan's Leader Tries to Assure Country http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/international/19CND-PAK.html?pagewanted=print Pakistan Backing US Under Pressure http://www.dawn.com/2001/09/19/top1.htm UK Group Issues Fatwa Against Musharraf http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=619510697 Europeans know all about the war on terror, and that's why they're uneasy http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/opinion/20FERG.html how France dealt with Algerian terrorism (what worked is protecting rights and supporting moderates) http://play.rbn.com/?wgbh/world/demand/we6.rm Lessons from the United Kingdom on How to Fight Terror http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/19/fighting_terror/print.html Pentagon Recommends Use of Nuclear Weapons (I have no idea) http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=78870 http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010920a6.htm Arafat the Winner in Ceasefire Battle http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,554337,00.html In the Gaza Strip, Anger at the US Still Smolders http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/international/middleeast/20GAZA.html US Stays Low-Key So Far in Central Asia http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59632-2001Sep19.html Ten People Die in Algeria Violence (Afghanistan is not the worst place in the world -- Algeria is) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Algeria-Violence.html?pagewanted=print Defense Contractors' Shares Rise http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46774-2001Sep17.html civil liberties and security Ashcroft Presents Anti-Terrorism Plan to Congress http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59050-2001Sep19.html Mobilization Against Terrorism Act http://www.eff.org/sc/ashcroft_proposal.html Leahy Opposes White House's Antiterrorism Plan and Proposes Alternative http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/national/20CIVI.html?pagewanted=print alliance of civil liberties, conservative, Arab-American, etc groups (this site is scheduled to go live in Thursday) http://www.indefenseoffreedom.org/ New US Law to Monitor Net Traffic Will Be Powerless to Disarm Terrorists http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010920002370 http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010920002169 FBI Should Abandon "Guilt by Association" Strategy http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ84ZN3SRC ISP's Curb Terrorist Postings and an Anti-Islamic Backlash http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/technology/17WEB.html?pagewanted=print Surge of New Technologies Erodes US Edge in Spying http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/national/20SPY.html we had endless, endless warnings of the abysmal security of our infrastructure http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.66.html Business Jets Pose a Little-Regulated Attack Opportunity http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/261/nation/Business_jets_pose_a_little_regulated_attack_opportunity+.shtml Design Goal: Keeping Jets From Misuse as Missiles http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/nyregion/19JET.html Massport Urged Airlines to Speed Up Lines at Security Points http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/261/nation/Massport_urged_airlines_to_speed_up_lines_at_security_points+.shtml New Security Clogs US Borders http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/business/20BORD.html?pagewanted=print Bogus Firetruck Warning Puts Crews on Guard http://www.sptimes.com/News/091901/TampaBay/Firetruck_warning_put.shtml America West Airline Pilot's Association Security Bulletin 2001-02 (you'll certainly want to read guideline number 5) http://www.awalpa.org/secbulletin.htm tolerance Tolerance in Islam http://users.erols.com/gmqm/toleran1.html Every Time We Choose to "Explain", We Become Implicated http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2001/September/Wrong/ Society of Afghan Professionals (US organization, mostly centered in the Bay Area) http://www.sapweb.org/ compassionate conservative response to an arson attack on an Afghan restaurant http://chowhound.com/california/boards/losangeles/messages/10530.html John Cooksey (R-LA) endorses profiling of anyone "wearing a diaper on his head" http://www.theadvocate.com/news/story.asp?StoryID=24605 Suspect Called Himself a "Patriot" After Killing Immigrant, Authorities Say http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/breaking/0917attacks-arizonashooting-ON.html news and information praise for media coverage of the attack http://villagevoice.com/alertrd.php3?article=28255 Forgetting Foreign Affairs: American Media Cut Overseas Reporting http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/09/17/1.html PDF images of 300 newspaper front pages from the day after http://63.208.24.134/Terrorism/gallery/wedgallery.htm Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt) (semi-official but fairly intellectual) http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/ Turkish Daily News http://www.turkishdailynews.com/ official Uzbekistan government news agency http://jahon.tiv.uz/Ukaz/2001/news.htm Uzbekistan Contacts http://www.tashkent.org/uzland/ Tashkent Home Page (unofficial page on the capital city of Uzbekistan) http://www.tashkent.org/ more world newspaper gateways http://www.thepaperboy.com/ http://ajr.newslink.org/news.html CIA World Factbook http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ jargon watch: defending oneself by comparison to the opposite extreme (study the Fox News spokesman's multiple distortions of the issue) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/business/media/20FLAG.html?pagewanted=print comment Noam Chomsky Interview on September 11th http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos06101.html argues that the Soviets were winning in Afghan until the Stingers arrived http://www.politicalusa.com/columnists/guest_columns/wheeler_006.htm It's All About Oil ... Again http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,553884,00.html The Cost of an Afghan "Victory" (February 1999) http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=archive&s=hiro_wtc_19990215 A Measured Response to Immeasurable Violence (what bin Laden fears most is a legal arrest and a fair trial) http://www.tompaine.com/history/2001/09/18/ liberal links relating to the attacks including many items I haven't mentioned http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=10467 http://www.counterpunch.org/wtcarchive.html "we should try to rely more on law than war" http://members.aol.com/benferen/thought.htm Muslim American Sociologist's Perspective on the Emerging US Nationalism (small type, unfortunately) http://202.56.157.37/News/2001/09/2001091904.php3 "the next war is going to be all about intelligence" http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/20/kaplan/print.html background photo essay of the conditions in Afganistan http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/features/news/bowig_essay.html Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982 (I'm told the whole book is online, though I can't get through this evening) http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/kakar.xml http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/reviews/kakar-soviet-invasion/ Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska http://www.unomaha.edu/~world/cas/cas.html History of the Khyber Pass http://www.afghan-network.net/khyber.html The Online Center for Afghan Studies http://www.afghan-politics.org/ The Making of the Taliban (November 1996) http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1355 Afghanistan's Other War (December 1986) http://www.nybooks.com/articles/4920 Bin Laden's Balkan Connections http://www.balkanpeace.org/our/our09.shtml Balkan - Albania - Kosovo - Heroin - Jihad http://www.balkanpeace.org/our/our03.shtml Israeli counter-terrorism site http://www.ict.org.il/ schematic of a "suitcase" nuclear weapon http://www.fas.org/nuke/hew/Library/Brown/Bcbomb.gif well-reviewed history of European imperialism in Central Asia, 19C - early 20C http://www.tournamentofshadows.com/ Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies (liberal research and advocacy group in Cairo, now being repressed) http://www.ibnkhaldun.org/ http://www.ibnkhaldun.org/trial/press/170601.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/17/magazine/17EGYPT.html?pagewanted=all Terrorism and the Military's Role in Domestic Crisis Management (April 2001) http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL30928.pdf Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis, Peace Talks, Terrorism, and US Policy (June 2001) http://www.fas.org/man/crs/IB98043.pdf The Shadowy World of Special Operations http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/20/special_operations/print.html Greetings America. My Name Is Bin Laden. Now That I Have Your Attention... http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2001/010913_mfe_binladen_1.html Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York City's World Trade Center http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465017274/netsurferdigest investigation "other acts of terrorism were planned" http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=94841 Three Are Held in Detroit After Airport Diagram Is Found http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/national/20INQU.html Atta, Now Seen as Conductor of the Attacks, Wore Many Masks http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/262/nation/Atta_now_seen_as_conductor_of_the_attacks_wore_many_masks+.shtml Roadblocks Cited in Efforts to Trace bin Laden's Money http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/business/20MONE.html?pagewanted=print New Task Forces Target Terrorist Funding http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59609-2001Sep19.html British Chancellor Gordon Brown Calls for Money Laundering Crackdown http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,554405,00.html Inside the Mind of Osama bin Laden http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59262-2001Sep19.html response intense letters from an NYU student who spent a week volunteering http://whisperingj.addr.com/katie/ articles about the insurance law angle on the attack http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZQR79DSRC Radio Gets Patriotic (we need much better patriotic songs) http://www.sptimes.com/News/091901/Artsandentertainment/Radio_gets_patriotic.shtml Poll: Americans Depressed, Sleepless http://www.msnbc.com/news/631188.asp end
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