Here are some more URL's relating to the attack and war. Topics include the Northern Alliance, the history of Afghanistan, Afghan restaurants, terrorism discourse, airline bailouts, intolerance of Sikhs, identity cards, money laundering, and John Ashcroft's altogether predictable assault on civil liberties. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html> war US Aims to Take Vital Afghan Airbase http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/25/wstrat25.xml Taliban Deploys Its Fighters to Borders http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19568-2001Sep24.html Terrorist Lashes Out as Strike Force Builds http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/25/world/world30.html Afghanistan: Offensive Needs to Start Before Winter http://www.abc.net.au/ra/asiapac/programs/s375045.htm French Back US, But Fear War Trap http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010922/wl/attacks_french_fears_1.html Saudis Reject US Plea to Use Bases ("US ally is also source of Bin Laden cash and recruits") http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,556993,00.html America Sets Up Its Asian Launch Pad in Uzbekistan http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/24/wforc224.xml US May Be Refocusing on Iraq http://www.stratfor.com/home/0109202000.htm our new friends in the Northern Alliance (who are actually called the United Front) "if the Taliban are monsters, wait until you meet the West's new friends" http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/25/world/world11.html "the Northern Alliance has its own grim history of violence and abuse of power" http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/25/united_front/ Analysis: Afghanistan's Northern Alliance http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1552000/1552994.stm background on the Northern Alliance http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/northern_alliance.htm investigation More Than 350 Held in Probe, Ashcroft Says http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19686-2001Sep24.html "investigators have not uncovered any accomplices or support network" http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/national/25INQU.html Hijack "Suspects" Alive and Well http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1559000/1559151.stm Hijack Squads "Planned to Seize Eight Aircraft" http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=95895 575mph into the Ground http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010924/3471852s.htm Strikes May Have Been Planned Online http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/20/MN181399.DTL Executive Order Freezing Assets of Al Qaida, et al. http://www.ustreas.gov/ofac/bulletin.txt Life Inside Al Qaeda: A Destructive Devotion http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/ Some Light Shed on Saudi Suspects http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19549-2001Sep24.html The Hunt: Hijacking Expert Hiding in Iran http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330005-2001331337,00.html civil liberties and security Euro Civil Liberty Campaigners Urge Restraint http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/09/24/civil.liberties.idg/ British civil liberties organization http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/ Fingerprint ID Cards Possible in Two Years http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330016-2001332102,00.html Blunkett Giving "High Priority" to Compulsory ID Cards http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=95699 ID Card Opposition Grows http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1559000/1559245.stm A Case of Mistaken Identity Cards http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,557355,00.html EU Agrees New Powers of Arrest http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4261614,00.html Bush Administration Proposes Sweeping Antiterrorism Laws (except that, as usual, many of them aren't really about antiterrorism) http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO64194,00.html Ashcroft Seeks Sweeping Powers ("the committee's Republican staff ordered camera crews to leave") http://www.msnbc.com/news/632335.asp http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/24/gen.america.under.attack/ Ashcroft: Anti-Terrorism Package Wouldn't Stop Attacks http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/09/24/ashcroft/ Proposed Anti-Terrorism Laws Draw Tough Questions http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19559-2001Sep24.html Push for Increased Surveillance Powers Worries Some http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19500-2001Sep24.html Lawmakers Tap Brakes on Bush's Hurtling Antiterrorism Measure http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/national/25CONG.html Bush Antiterrorist Proposals Raise Concerns About Students' Privacy Rights http://chronicle.com/free/2001/09/2001092403n.htm Balancing Liberty With Security Measures http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076516sep24.column Liberties in a Time of Fear http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/opinion/25COLE.html Liberty Could Suffer with Search for Enemies http://www.usatoday.com/life/dcovmon.htm Disputes on Electronic Message Encryption Take on New Urgency http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/technology/25CODE.html http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/09/24/encryption.debate.ap/ http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/267/business/Battle_over_encryption_software_rages_anew+.shtml Bigger Brother in the Wireless World http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/technology/24EMER.html Hackers Face Life Imprisonment Under "Anti-Terrorism" Act http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257 Legislation Related to the Attack of September 11, 2001 http://thomas.loc.gov/home/terrorleg.htm biometric identification systems http://www.business2.com/webguide/0,1660,4218|125|0|0|1|a,00.html International Relations and Security Network http://www.isn.ethz.ch/infoservice/index.cfm?service=cwn&parent=news&menu=1#3022 radio story on Israeli airport security http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010914.atc.04.ram New Criminal Checks for Airport Workers; Crop-Dusters Grounded 2nd Day http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Investigation.html Safety in the Skies http://newyorker.com/FACT/ Debate Over Federal Screeners Delaying Airport-Security Bill http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19514-2001Sep24.html Remote Control From Ground Leaves Pilots Unimpressed http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/24/MN24120.DTL Computer Security in Aviation: Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Risks (January 1997) http://www.csl.sri.com/neumann/air.html Amid Terrorism Crisis, Echoes of 1970s Chancellor's Style http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?rub={B1311FCC-FBFB-11D2-B228-00105A9CAF88}&doc={55E4E51C-A2C2-4BA7-8402-F54BC3C7CF70} French security policy instituted during the terror campaign of 1995 http://www.fecl.org/circular/3906.htm Our Vulnerable Telecom System http://www.smartmoney.com/techmarket/index.cfm?Story=20010921 Practical Architectures for Survivable Systems and Networks (June 2000) http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/survivability.html US Targets Banks in War Against Terrorism http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330016-2001332343,00.html editorial calling for stronger banking laws to prevent terrorism http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/opinion/24MON2.html The 2001 National Money Laundering Strategy http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/docs/ml2001.pdf Past Efforts to Stop Money Flow Ineffective http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19514-2001Sep24.html Critical Infrastructures: Background and Implementation of PDD-63 (June 2001) http://www.fpc.gov/CRS_REPS/pdd63.pdf National Emergency Powers http://www.fpc.gov/CRS_REPS/powers.pdf British American Security Information Council http://www.basicint.org/ Jeb Bush declares a state of emergency in Florida http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/2001/september/eo2001-262-09-11-01.html Poisoning a City Is Harder Than in Our Nightmares http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000076592sep24.story Q&A: The Threat from Bio-Terrorism http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1561000/1561360.stm Getting Ahead of Bioterror http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000076588sep24.story A New View of High-Rise Firefighting http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076521sep24.story commentary argues that the war won't work and favors security and addressing root causes http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14636 Muslim scholars' discussion of suicide bombings, jihad, and related topics http://www.fatwa-online.com/ Italian language sources on the attack http://www.sherwood.it/sherwoodcomunicazione/approfondimenti/disobbedireedisertare.htm Statement of Benjamin Netanyahu Before the Government Reform Committee http://www.house.gov/reform/statement_of_netanyahu.htm Walls of "Fortress America" Rising http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0924/p1s1-usju.html How Can the US Bomb This Tragic People? http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=95487 Fidel Castro's speech on the attack and war http://www.radiohc.org/Distributions/Radio_Havana_English/Fidel_Castro_on__Infinite_Justice__22_Sept_2001 it was working people who got killed, and public servants who become heroes http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/09/faux-j-09-20.html NY Times Magazine issue on the attack http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/ Fear Over Makeup of US Coalition http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=5114 How to Protect the Homeland http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/opinion/25NYE.html Bomb Them With Butter (the Afghan people are not our enemies, nor the Pakistanis, Uzbeks, etc) http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2001/09/25/humanitarian_aid/ "why aren't we making anthrax and other vaccines available to the public?" http://slate.msn.com/pol/01-09-24/pol.asp Why the Taliban Isn't So Tough http://www.tnr.com/100101/rubin100101.html Kevin Kelly's comments on relations between bin Laden and the Taliban http://interesting-people.org/200109/0247.html A Clear Role for Canada as Bush Gets It Just Right (from a source that I'm told rarely has anything good to say about the US) http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1001066903438 How to Devastate the World in One Easy Lesson http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=95386 criticism of airline bailouts http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/09/24/2.html http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/09/21/opinion/DUBOFF21.htm http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000076591sep24.story September 11: Opinions from College Newspapers http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0925/p12s1-leca.html why are we hearing more of "God Bless America" than the national anthem? http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000076584sep24.story blood-curdling call for a militia culture http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-barnett091801.shtml worst enemy of "liberal media bias" suddenly discovers liberal media criticism (and finds it to be anti-American) http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/bb20010921.shtml Great Leaders Are Forged in War (a nasty reactionary discourse on the evils of democracy and glories of war) http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001201 tolerance Afghan Americans Straddling Two Cultures Share Hopes, Fears http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000076562sep24.story Racial Profiling Gains Support as Search Tactic (but discrimination by the government only trashes our reputation in the world) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076510sep24.story Attack on Indian Student at U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Leads to Brawl http://chronicle.com/free/2001/09/2001092401n.htm Arab Students Leaving US Colleges http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-attacks-arab-students0924sep24.story School Worker Challenges Kufi Ban http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep01/hat24092301a.asp Sikhs Getting the Heat for "Attack on America" http://www.sikh.net/AOA/sikh911.htm Targeting of Sikhs and Other Americans in the Wake of the New York Tragedy http://65.42.195.102/sikhs/ Sikhs Fear Turbans May Be Targets http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000076553sep24.story Visitors Flock to Local Mosque to Learn More, Show Support http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/monday/metro_state_1.html Afghan restaurants (please go eat at them) Complete Listing of All Afghan Restaurants in the US, Canada and Europe http://www.arianae.com/entrestaurants.asp Afghan Voice Restaurant Guide http://www.afghanvoice.com/restaurants/restaurants.htm Web pages for individual Afghan restaurants Alexandria, VA: http://www.washingtonian.com/dining/Profiles/afghrest.html Bloomington, MN: http://iyp.uswestdex.com/multiculturalfood/Page2.html Cambridge, MA: http://cambridge.zami.com/business?BUSID=2345 Claremont, CA: http://www.digitalcity.com/losangeles/dining/venue.adp?vid=139299 Evanston, IL: http://metromix.com/top/1,1419,M-Metromix-DiningReviews-venue!ArticleDetail-5520,00.html Falls Church, VA: http://www.555us.com/555va/220/22046/22046_panjshir_afghan_restaurant.htm Herndon, VA: http://www.555us.com/555va/201/20170/20170_bamyan_afghan_restaurant.htm London, UK: http://somewherenear.com/static4N.htm New York, NY: http://www.searchnyc.com/restaurants/afghan.html Northridge, CA: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/12/dining-huneven2.shtml Nurburg, Germany: http://www.raytec.de/kandahar/pages/index.htm Philadelphia, PA: http://www.phillyrestaurants.com/kabul/index.cfm Portland, ME: http://www.maine.com/users/craig/afghan/Welcome.html San Carlos, CA: http://www.digitalcity.com/sanfrancisco/dining/venue.adp?vid=12342 San Diego, CA: http://www.diningguide.net/san_diego/data/d100520.htm San Francisco, CA: http://www.digitalcity.com/sanfrancisco/dining/venue.adp?vid=11572 Seattle, CA: http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/10774425/?p=1 Sunnyvale, CA: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.12.00/dining-0041.html Sydney, AU: http://www.afghans.bit.com.au/~afg_oz.htm Vancover, BC: http://www.restaurant.ca/van/restos/8rstvan/main_frm_en.shtml Washington, DC: http://www.afghan-info.com/Yellowpage.htm#Restaurant background on Afghanistan For Afghan Fighters, a Tangled Web of Loyalties http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19688-2001Sep24.html Cult of the Holy Warrior Flourishes http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076509sep24.story Extremists Put Own Twist on Faith http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076524sep24.story Who Is Who of Afghanistan http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/dev_xyz/who/who_main.htm Amnesty International 2001 report on Afghanistan http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/ar2001.nsf/webasacountries/AFGHANISTAN?OpenDocument interview with Ahmed Shah Massoud by an Italian photojournalist (2000) http://www.ciriello.com/sto/46.0010massudeng.arc.html photos from Afghanistan (2000) http://www.ciriello.com/46main.html Afghanistan: Surviving in the Mountains (photos) http://foto8.com/issue02/afghan1.html celebrated article about the Taliban from May 2000 http://www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010924fr_archive05 Jamal Ahmed Al-Fadl's testimony on the bin Laden organization (February 2001) (the first mention of bin Laden is on page 67 of the pdf file) http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/binladen/binladen20701tt.pdf how the CIA created the holy warriors in Afghanistan (May 1996) http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96may/blowback.htm Afghanistan: The Role of Pakistan, Russia, and Iran in Fueling the Civil War http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/afghan2/ Roots of Rage http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101011001-175979,00.html Afghanistan: The Making of US Policy, 1973-1990 http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/afintro.htm other background The Central Asian Chess Game http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/25/former_soviet_republics/print.html The Clash of Civilizations? (1993) (dangerous nonsense about how we're at war with Islam) http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=10735 US Commission on National Security/21st Century Website http://www.nssg.gov/ Preparing for the 21st Century: An Appraisal of U.S. Intelligence (1996) http://www.access.gpo.gov/int/report.html IC21: Intelligence Community in the 21st Century http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/house/intel/ic21/index.html Defense Trade: Information on US Weapons Deliveries to the Middle East http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-01-1078 Interactive Central Asia Resource Project http://www.icarp.org/ Israeli-Palestinian Human Rights and Peace Groups http://www.ariga.com/humanrights/index.asp terrorism discourse Terrorism, the Future and US Foreign Policy http://www.fpc.gov/CRS_REPS/terror0913.pdf Response to Terrorism: Legal Aspects of the Use of Force http://www.fpc.gov/CRS_REPS/response.pdf Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism (June 2000) http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/commission.html Patterns of Global Terrorism: 2000 http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2000/ Terrorism: Near Eastern Groups and State Sponsors, 2001 http://www.fpc.gov/CRS_REPS/terror0910.pdf President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism (May 1990) http://policyfutures.com/PCAST/PCASTreport.pdf The Terrorism Directory http://www.linkvoyager.com/cgi-bin/serve.fcgi/terrorism/ Terrorism/Counter-Terrorism: Web Links http://www.usip.org/library/topics/terrorism.html news more about the conservative smear campaign against Peter Jennings http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14272-2001Sep23.html Media Pundits Advocate Civilian Targets http://www.fair.org/activism/oreilly-war-crimes.html Suppressing Dissent at Home, Fighting for Freedom Abroad? http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20010924.html something real finally happened, so maybe jerks are going out of style http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/national/25RADI.html?pagewanted=print The Media's Islamic Blind Spot http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/09/25/arabs_media/print.html news site for the warplane industry (including coverage of the war action) http://www.defense-aerospace.com/ response Scalable Maps of NYC, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/plnews.html Years to Build and Moments to Destroy: How the Twin Towers Fell http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/science/physical/25TOWE.html Laser Maps Tower Rubble http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1561000/1561075.stm Officials Report No Threat of Flooding From the Hudson http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/nyregion/22BUIL.html Partisanship Creeps Back in Congress (fine: let's show 'em that we're a democratic country) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076515sep24.story Campus Aftershocks http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0925/p11s1-leca.html In History Class, a Flood of Urgent and Newly Relevant Questions http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0925/p13s1-lets.html "after the attacks, how well did our communications networks perform?" http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/technology/24NECO.html?pagewanted=print Warnings Issued About New "WTC" Virus http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO64195,00.html http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_VOTE.A Grieving When the Lost Are Never Found http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/health/psychology/25BROD.html Now, Doctors Must Identify the Dead Among the Trade Center Rubble http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/health/genetics/25DNA.html?pagewanted=all College That Serves New York's Finest Faces Deaths in a "Wartime" Atmosphere http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i05/05a01401.htm Asteroids to Be Named for Terrorist Victims ("an asteroid name must be 16 characters or less") http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/asteroid_names_010921.html proposed memorial for victims of UA 93 crash http://www.pamemorialgarden.org/ end
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