Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html> Driving past the row of Arab shops in my neighborhood this evening, I saw a half-dozen police cars and ambulances surrounding an Arab grocery with lights flashing and everyone standing around looking grim. This bummed me out. Am I going to be reading about it in the paper tomorrow? I wanted to stop and do something, but what could I do? I guess I'll stop by there this week and spend a bunch of money. Can I ask people to send me URL's for background and current articles about "security measures"? It sounds like we're going to have a lot more of these "security measures", whatever they are, and I'd like to see some public discussion of them beforehand. Topics might include the practices of countries that have been dealing with terrorists for long periods, civil rights issues in those countries, companies that offer security services, security issues affecting particular systems like electrical distribution, security technologies, methods for the rational design of security measures, and so forth. As a start, I've included a section tonight on national ID cards. Thanks very much. I want to emphasize again that you shouldn't believe everything you read in these Web pages. I'm including publications of every sort, including tabloids, newspapers from remote corners of the world, ideological think tanks, random Web sites, and the mouthpieces of global media magnates. War means secrecy, secrecy means a vacuum of information, and vacuums suck in whatever randomness they can get ahold of. war US Employing Calm, Multifaceted Response http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13984-2001Sep23.html Eerie Quiet as "Screaming Eagles" Await Battle Orders http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/national/24EAGL.html?pagewanted=print Elite Military Forces to Get a Major Test http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076327sep23.story SAS "in Taliban Gun Battle" http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,556775,00.html Bush Waging a Bitter War of Words ("dehumanize Bin Laden to prepare Americans for war, but it carries risks") http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076118sep23.story Islamic Fighters Head to Afghanistan for Jihad http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13729-2001Sep23.html America Aims to Topple Taleban http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330005-2001331397,00.html US Debates Whether to Overthrow Taliban (and replace them with what?) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13819-2001Sep23.html Overthrow of Taliban? http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/editorials.asp?id=1&date1=9/23/2001 Northern Alliance Looks Hopefully Towards Kabul (but it's doubtful that they are a viable government for the whole country) http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=7&date1=9/23/2001 Groups Could Help Find Bin Laden and Assist American Attacks http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/international/24MILI.html Anti-Taliban Rebels Eager to Join US Retaliation http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14095-2001Sep23.html Likely Future Scenario in Afghanistan http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=6&date1=9/23/2001 Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen, Soviet Vets Say http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075191sep19.story US Accused of Sabotaging Deal to Avert War: Taliban http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=6&date1=9/23/2001 Bush Seeks Wider Foreign-Aid Power ("waiver could entitle past terrorism sponsors to military assistance") http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14035-2001Sep23.html Former Afghan King Calls for Transitional Afghan Government http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=2&date1=9/23/2001 photos of Afghan refugees http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/19/world/snapshot1.html Islamic Nations Isolate Taliban http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076317sep23.story Terrorism and the Laws of War: September 11 and Its Aftermath http://www.crimesofwar.org/ investigation Crackdown on British al-Qaeda Cell http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,556680,00.html Egyptian Doctor Believed to Be Bin Laden's No. 2 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/international/24AIDE.html?pagewanted=print Bin Laden's Middle Class Killers http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1557000/1557828.stm Crop-Dusters Thought to Interest Suspects http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14087-2001Sep23.html http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,175951,00.html FBI Imposes New Restrictions on Crop Dusters http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/23/inv.crop.dusters/ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/national/24AP-CROP.html How Ten Hijackers Hid in Plain Sight http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/266/nation/How_10_hijackers_hid_in_plain_sight+.shtml Investigation Has San Diego on Edge http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14246-2001Sep23.html New Jersey Towns Become Focus of FBI Probe http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13944-2001Sep23.html An Inside Job? http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,175953,00.html Box Cutters Found on Other September 11 Flights http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/23/inv.investigation.terrorism/ US to Release Evidence Linking bin Laden to Attacks http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/international/23WIRE-DIPL.html Officials Say US Embassy in Paris Target for Attack ("raid is part of a global crackdown") http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076322sep23.story FBI Agents Ill-Equipped to Predict Terror Acts http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14081-2001Sep23.html civil liberties and security editorial criticizing Ashcroft's laundry-list assault on civil liberties http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/opinion/23SUN1.html Ashcroft Confers on Anti-Terror Laws (from Wednesday) http://www.msnbc.com/news/630118.asp Analysis of the Proposed Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001 http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/ata_analysis.html Facial Recognition System Considered for US Airports http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14273-2001Sep23.html article about EFF's criticism of new wiretap legislation http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20010919S0067 Alert: Surveillance Legislation Continues to Threaten Privacy http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010921_eff_wiretap_alert.html Changes Called Likely in Policy on Immigration http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/national/24IMMI.html Tightening Immigration Raises Civil Liberties Flag http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076329sep23.story War on Terrorism Stirs Memory of Internment http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/national/24LEGA.html Phil Zimmerman's clarification of the Washington Post article about him http://www.inet-one.com.my/cypherpunks/dir.2001.09.17-2001.09.23/msg00510.html Domestic Response to Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (including a fairly strong if not very specific commitment to civil liberties) http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/092101gillmore.htm McCarthyism Can Rise Again http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0138/hentoff.php Intelligence Called Key to Anti-Terror Campaign http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010921S0106 Let Military Panels Punish Terrorists (actual lawyers arguing against a fair trial for those accused of terrorism) http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000076247sep23.story Suddenly, the Background-Check Business Is Booming http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076336sep23.story Democratic Leaders Say They Back a Government Takeover of Security http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/national/24SECU.html How Did US Airport Security Break Down? http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092301airsec.story Passengers Say Banned Items Have Eluded Airport Monitors http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/266/nation/Passengers_say_banned_items_have_eluded_airport_monitors+.shtml Barriers Rising to National Airport's Return (bummer) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14034-2001Sep23.html Experts Say "Office of Homeland Security" Looks Good on Paper, but... http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0109220176sep22.story proposals for national ID cards Draconian Curbs May Include ID Cards (very bad) http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,557091,00.html http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001331435,00.html Blair to Rush Through New Laws Against Terrorists http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/nblur23.xml Oracle Boss Urges National ID Cards, Offers Free Software http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/ellsn092301.htm National Identification Cards (background, arguments, facts, quotes) http://www.aclu.org/library/aaidcard.html National ID Cards Archive (with links to legislation and reports relating to ID cards in the US) http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/ Privacy International: National ID Cards (with links to articles from earlier ID card controversies, esp. in Australia) http://www.privacy.org/pi/activities/idcard/ http://www.privacy.org/pi/activities/idcard/idcard_faq.html A National ID System: Big Brother's Solution to Illegal Immigration http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa237es.html Against Identity Cards http://freespace.virgin.net/old.whig/idcards.htm Human Identification in Information Systems http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/HumanID conservative groups opposed to national ID cards http://www.free-market.net/features/spotlight/9811.html comment Emotions Are High Enough Already http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-bres23.column "indiscriminate bombing of Afghanistan would play into bin Laden's hands" http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/sunopinion/la-000076229sep23.story Ten Alternative Responses to Terrorism http://people.ku.edu/~schrodt/alternatives.html Expert: US Must Address Root of Hate http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0109220184sep22.story Scholars: Bin Laden Goes Against Islam http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010921/us/attacks_islamic_teaching_1.html time for Republicans to sign those treaties against chemical etc weapons http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/opinion/24WRIG.html review of "In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong" http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Books-X!ArticleDetail-43883,00.html About Dividing the World Into Two Camps: A New Vietnam Looming Ahead http://64.124.221.202/algomhuria2/gazette/1/3.htm report from the Pakistan Labour Party on the position of the fundamentalists http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/400/fundamentalists.html Whatever You Think About Afghanistan Is Probably Wrong http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7907-2001Sep22.html US Foreign Policy, Brought Back Home http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7910-2001Sep22.html Big and Small About US (how they see us) http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/editorials.asp?id=3&date1=9/23/2001 The Furies of Foreign Lands http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010914/misc/14fouad.htm In the Cruel Mountains http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/011001/opinion/1foaud.htm editorials on the war from southwest and southeast Asia http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10757-2001Sep22.html US Must Woo Pashtuns Deftly http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0924/p6s1-wosc.html extensive comment on the fall-out from Egypt http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/552/fall-out.htm "Cairo is urging caution and restraint to a hotheaded Washington" http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/552/p2fall2.htm The Search for Vengeance http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/552/p2fall1.htm When Narratives Collide http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/552/p12fall2.htm astonishing column urging Bush to arrest Clinton for bombing Serbia (denying "ethnic cleansing" was real and claiming Clinton supported bin Laden) http://www.reagan.com/HotTopics.main/document-9.21.2001.4.html background article about a jihad school in Pakistan (January 2001) http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2001/jf01/jf01stern.html Anger in the Bazaars of Peshawar ("if there is civil war in Pakistan, it will start here") http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/22/peshawar/ The Roots of Resentment ("a growing reaction against American foreign policy") http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2001/nf20010920_6381.htm Site of the Afghani Resistance http://www.afgha.com/ http://www.afgha.com/index.php Face to Face With the Taliban (by the assistant secretary of State for South Asian Affairs under Clinton) http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000076233sep23.story inside a Pakistani jihad camp (February 2001) http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/2001/0205/kashmir_sb1.html Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (April 2000) http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/04/06/rashid/ http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-08-09.htm article on the tribal areas straddling the Pakistan-Afghanistan border http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/editorials.asp?id=6&date1=9/23/2001 useful map of Pakistan showing relation to Afghanistan http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ops/html/pakistan_map.html map showing where the Kyber Pass is http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/indian_subcontinent/pakistan/pakistan.htm Khyber Pass photos http://www.netnz.co.nz/pakistan/khyber.htm Does US Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism? (December 1998) http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-050es.html the current relevance of Auden's poem about Hitler's invasion of Poland http://slate.msn.com/culturebox/entries/01-09-20_115900.asp Islamic Finance: The Prophet and the Profits http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/09/09islamicbanking excerpts from a Russian journalist's book about the Soviet war in Afghanistan http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/09/24/soviet/ Misery Hangs Over Afghanistan After Years of War and Drought http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/international/24REFU.html?pagewanted=print Clinton Sent Hit Squad for Bin Laden http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330005-2001331136,00.html Tennessee Narrowly Dodged Bullet in Tense '72 Hijack Episode ("three men threatened to crash a passenger jet into a nuclear reactor") http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076124sep23.story Crisis Puts New Focus on "Stans" of Central Asia http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076332sep23.story Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook http://www.nbc-med.org/SiteContent/HomePage/WhatsNew/MedManual/Feb01/handbook.htm news and the experts The Pentagon and the Press, Again http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7148-2001Sep21.html Journalists Worry About Limits on Information, Access http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13786-2001Sep23.html Networks Move to Revive Foreign News http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/business/media/24TUBE.html TV Networks Prepare for War on Many Fronts http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076345sep23.story Terror Experts Use Lenses of Their Specialties http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/business/media/24SOU.html?pagewanted=print Academics Sift Through Disasters, Searching for Lessons http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076337sep23.story more Afghanistan and Pakistan news sources http://www.abyznewslinks.com/afgha.htm http://www.abyznewslinks.com/pakis.htm Afghanistan Online http://www.afghan-web.com/ response New York Subway at Risk of Major Flood http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991314 From 5,000 Feet Up, Mapping Terrain for Ground Zero Workers http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/nyregion/23TOPO.html At the Scene of Random Devastation, a Most Orderly Mission http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/nyregion/24SITE.html Towers' Basement Holds an Engineering Nightmare http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076323sep23.story graphic showing damage to all the buildings around the World Trade Center http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/damage.map.html In New Jersey Town, Everyone is Grieving http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14072-2001Sep23.html Life for the Survivors after September 11th http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/266/nation/Life_after_Sept_11+.shtml photos from Union Square in New York http://www.fmurphy.addr.com/sept_01/union_sq.html Travelers Warm Up to Videoconferencing http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/technology/24MEET.html?pagewanted=print Wall Street Ends Worst Week in 68 Years http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6694-2001Sep21.html "New Economy" Is a Thing of the Past (except that it was never a thing of the present) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076318sep23.story Practice Advice for Students (Buddhist responses to the attack) http://www.nalandabodhi.org/dpr-9-11.html end
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