Here are some more URL's. Topics include face recognition, nuclear and airport security, the life and works of Osama bin Laden, why the buildings fell down, the problem of identifying victims, and Muslim views of democracy, among many others. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html> Please forward this list of URL's to anyone who can use it. war War Will Begin Within Days http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/26/nblur26.xml The Attack: Forces Are Ready But Target Is Missing http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/26/whawk126.xml Some at UN Want US to Channel Its Response http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076739sep25.story Limited, Low Profile Strategy Called Key http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076738sep25.story "the diplomatic and military noose around the Taliban has tightened" http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=796465 http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/26/world/world1.html http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/26/graphics/pageonemap.gif Pakistan Warns Against Support for Afghan Opposition http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=239507864 "Kabul Right Now Is Empty" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25921-2001Sep25.html Taliban Corralling Men, Afghanistan Refugees Say http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076729sep25.story Afghan Landscape Is Dotted With Scattered Taliban Forces http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/international/asia/26NORT.html "a trickier enemy is hard to imagine" http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=788472 Commandos Left a Calling Card: Their Absence ("their job is to kill people we want killed") http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/national/26ELIT.html Marines Eager for Afghan Posting http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076736sep25.story Moscow Eager to Tie Rebels in Chechnya to Bin Laden http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25760-2001Sep25.html Pakistan Warns US on Afghan Role http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25809-2001Sep25.html Egyptian Strategist: US Might Use Chemical Weapons against Taliban http://www.albawaba.com/headlines/TheNews.php3?action=story&sid=182372&lang=e&dir=news Military Plans Must Ensure Oil Flow http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/business/24OIL.html?pagewanted=print Saudi Arabia Breaks Ties with Taliban, US Deals First Blow http://www.arabia.com/news/article/english/0,1690,74792,00.html Outback Spy Stations Key to Australian Role http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/26/world/world5.html Mercenaries Are Desperate to Join Up -- for Either Side http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/26/wrus226.xml Role of Lawyers in War: From Drafting Wills to Planning War Strategy http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZQG9PR0SC The Mood in the White House Is One of "Hard-Favoured Rage" http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=006123924001800&rtmo=k77AAq7p&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/01/9/26/do01.html Hawks Gang Up Against Powell (hey guys: get bin Laden, but indiscriminate violence only recruits terrorists) http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/26/whawk26.xml Pentagon Board Wants Hit on Iraq After Afghanistan http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010923/nysu001a_1.html The Assassins and Drug Dealers Now Helping US (um...) http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/26/wdrug26.xml UNHCR bulletin number 6, dated September 24th http://www.unhcr.ch/news/media/afghan/latest.htm investigation 352 Held, 400 Sought in Dragnet, Ashcroft Says http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076730sep25.story Germany Mobilizes Hundreds to Pursue Terror Probe http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26327-2001Sep26.html Hijackings May Have Been an Inside Job ("airplane cleaners, caterers top FBI list") http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-09-25/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-126327.asp Graphic: The Hijackers ... and How They Were Connected http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/26/graphics/terrorists_banks.gif The Banker Emerges as Crucial Link http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/26/world/world7.html Virginia Man Accused of Helping Hijacker Get ID http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/25/investigate.htm http://news.findlaw.com/usatoday/docs/terrorism/usvillaloboscc92201.pdf FBI Alerts Hazardous Material Haulers http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25923-2001Sep25.html Men Held for Questioning Sought Licenses for Hazardous Material http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/national/26INQU.html?pagewanted=print New Crop-Dusting Restrictions Weighed http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076733sep25.story Interpol Seeks Arrest of Bin Laden Aide http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20010925/attackhungaryinterpoldc.html Indian Youth in Gulf Made to Serve Militants http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1739621906 India, US Differ on Terrorist Groups List http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1214771463 In Investigation, Internet Offers Clues and Static http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/technology/ebusiness/26SCHW.html Probe Links World Trade Center, Kandahar Hijacks (I suppose we should include the Egypt Air flight crashed by a suicidal pilot) http://news.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1197180992 Osama bin Laden A Quiet, Shy Lad, Says Bin Laden's Ex-Teacher http://www.arabia.com/news/article/english/0,1690,74930,00.html CNN Interview with Osama Bin Laden (1997) http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/binladen/binladenintvw-cnn.pdf Interview with bin Ladin (June 1999) http://www.terrorism.com/terrorism/BinLadinTranscript.shtml My Encounters with Osama bin Laden (August 1998) http://www.csmonitor.com/earlyed/earlyWorld8.html Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, by Osama bin Laden (February 1998) http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm The Real Bin Laden (January 2000) http://www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010924fr_archive03 The CEO of Terror Inc. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/011001/usnews/terror.htm Letter from Bin Laden http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/terroristattack/binladen-letter_9-24.html documents relating to bin Laden from a Muslim student group http://msanews.mynet.net/Scholars/Laden/ Bin Laden: Public Enemy Number One (images of some documents relating to him) http://www.thesmokinggun.com/binladen/binladen.shtml Taliban Leader Says Attacks Were to Avenge US "Cruelty" http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010925/1/1iolc.html Bin Laden Experimenting with Cyanide and Nuke-Waste http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/09/24/ Text of Bin Laden Statement Urging "Martyrs" to Join Jihad http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076741sep25.story civil liberties and security Solicitor General: Proposals Will Not Violate Rights (in the old days, they would have been called a huge government power grab) http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/25/rec.olson.cnna/ Senators Question an Anti-Terrorism Proposal http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25442-2001Sep25.html Congress Urges Lawmakers to Think Before They Leap http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/26/world/world2.html Lawmakers Say Bill Raises Concerns for Civil Liberties http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076727sep25.story Administration Seeks Reasonable Tools and Troubling Provisions http://www.aclu.org/difficultdays/ Protecting Civilization from the Faces of Terror (white paper from a leading vendor of face recognition systems) http://www.visionics.com/newsroom/downloads/whitepapers/counterterrorism.pdf The Many Faces of Viisage (interesting comment on the major face recognition companies) http://www.notbored.org/viisage.html Alan Dershowitz endorses face recognition (search down; it's about 2/3 of the way along) http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/24/tpt.00.html Face Recognition Software Gets a Boost http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/21836.html more on the fallacy of national ID cards http://www.interesting-people.org/200109/0359.html In Times Like These, Security Trumps Privacy (if there's a paperwork problem in approving wiretaps, fix the paperwork!) http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2001/nf20010924_4737.htm Eternal Vigilance? ("among the biggest casualties may be civil liberties and privacy") http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=789583 "legal experts debate increasing security versus protecting individual rights" (if you never liked individual rights then you'll frame the question that way) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec01/civil_liberties.html University of Pennsylvania wants students to wear identification badges http://chronicle.com/free/2001/09/2001092502n.htm Justice Department Uses Arrest Powers Fully http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25781-2001Sep25.html New Homeland Defense Plans Emerge http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25470-2001Sep25.html Security of Nuclear Power Plants Under Review http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25485-2001Sep25.html Nuclear Plants Called Vulnerable to Terrorist Attack (shut them down) http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2001/2001L-09-25-06.html what a Russian suitcase nuke might look like, based on similar American weapons http://www.fas.org/nuke/hew/News/Lebedbomb.html Are Suitcase Nukes on the Loose? (November 1997) http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/lebedst.htm Security Firms Support Federal Airport Screening http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25764-2001Sep25.html Bush May Agree to Federalize Air Security http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076743sep25.story Bush Plan for Airline Safety Near ("Federal takeover appears unlikely") http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25928-2001Sep25.html Pilots Ready to Defend the Skies http://www.usatoday.com/money/covers/2001-09-25-bcovtue.htm Man with Gun at Hartsfield Passes Detector ("instead of improving the system, FAA want to remove public discussion") http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/terrorism/atlanta/0925gun.html Undercover Skycops Suddenly Back in the Air http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0925/p1s4-usju.html Reinforced Cabins, Armed Guards: The El Al Model http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/26/world/world10.html Airline Pilots Adopt Their Own Security Measures http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/national/26PILO.html One-Occupant Cars to Be Barred From Some Entrances to Manhattan http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/nyregion/26TRAF.html Countries Need To Plan Effectively for "Deliberate Infections" http://www.paho.org/English/DPI/px010924.htm Responding to the Deliberate Use of Biological Agents and Chemicals http://www.who.int/emc/deliberate_epi.html Health Aspects of Biological and Chemical Weapons http://www.who.int/emc/pdfs/BIOWEAPONS_FULL_TEXT2.pdf tolerance When the FBI Guys Come Knocking, It's the Worst of Times (unclear on the concept of a loyal Arab-American) http://www.dailynewslosangeles.com/opinions/articles/0901/25/lvew01.asp "at the college Arab Club, accusations and racial slurs make it hard to grieve" http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/09/26/arab_club/ Third of New Yorkers Support Internment Camps for Some ("individuals authorities identify as being sympathetic to terrorist causes") http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--attacks-newyorkpo0924sep24.story "Lebanon is bracing for an influx of Arab students who are leaving the US" http://www.dailystar.com.lb/25_09_01/art1.htm comment "Bush's promise of an all-out 'war on terrorism' isn't one he can keep" http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2001/nf20010925_8875.htm Bush Is on a Steep Learning Curve, Just Like the Rest of Us http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,558192,00.html charming article by a geek urging Americans to use the Web to study Islam http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s%253D1500%2526a%253D14867,00.asp With Growing Jingoism, the US Is More at War With Itself http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010926/ed2.html Let's Also Focus on the Good From America's Ill Wind http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/26/opinion/opinion3.html Killing Civilians: Behind the Reassuring Words http://www.fair.org/media-beat/010925.html Fighting Terror ... With a Tax Cut to Big Business http://commondreams.org/views01/0920-04.htm The Wartime Opportunists http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2001/000086.html The Problem With the Blame Game With Respect to the September 11 Tragedy http://writ.news.findlaw.com/grossman/20010925.html The Need for Clarity in Assessing the Terrorist Acts (crimes or war?) http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20010925_covey.html How War Amplified Federal Power in the Twentieth Century http://www.independent.org/tii/news/990700Higgs.html skepticism as to whether bin Laden did it http://www.monbiot.com/dsp_article.cfm?article_id=456 argues that the US is unable to look at the history behind the attacks http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010926/ed4.html Beyond Taliban: Don't Leave the Afghan People to Fend for Themselves http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010926/ed1.html analogy between the war on bin Laden and the war on Napster (self-indulgent and in questionable taste, but with sort of a point) http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/09/26/osama_bin_napster/ There Is No Alternative to War http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/25/modernity/ Welcome to the Desert of the Real, by Slavoj Zizek http://www.lacan.com/lacan1x.htm "eradicating terrorism will be impossible" http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=794675 a column by the editor of the 1990 Aviation Security and Terrorism report http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/todays_editorial/article/0,1406,KNS_362_831172,00.html Falwell Should Have Listened to the Feminists http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000076880sep25.story Is God on Our Side? Or Is He on Theirs? http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000076879sep25.story revving up the holy war against domestic dissent http://www.dailyhowler.com/h092501_1.shtml David Horowitz's twisted, vituperative, evidence-free attack on Noam Chomsky (it's built around the most evil innuendo: that he welcomed the attacks) http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/2001/09/26/treason/print.html Islam and the Muslim world articles comparing Western and Muslim values http://www.islamsa.org.za/arrasheed/ar0402/democracy_shura.html http://www.alhewar.com/SadekDemAndShura.htm http://www.alhewar.com/AliMazrui.htm Al-Hewar Magazine http://www.alhewar.com/magazines.html Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights http://www.alhewar.com/ISLAMDECL.html Islam's Flawed Spokesmen http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/26/muslims/print.html news News Organizations Mobilizing Too http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076753sep25.story FAIR Assessment: Deconstructing the Medium and the Message http://www.guerrillanews.com/counter_intel/fair_assessment/jackson_trans.html September 11th Journalists' Resources (including a great deal of material not mentioned here) http://www.mediamap.com/Sept11.asp collation of today's Afghanistan news from several sources around the world http://www.afghan-web.com/aop/today.html search Lehrer NewsHour by keyword, then watch video http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/ Doordarshan Video News (India) http://128.121.235.230/cgi-bin/new_news.pl http://www.ddindia.net/meta/live.ram All India Radio Newscasts http://air.kode.net/news1.html http://air.kode.net/live.html live video from STAR News Channel (India) http://www.ndtv.msnbc.com/live/videomedia.asp http://www.startv.com/eng/channel/starnews/right.html Radio Pakistan (several English language newscasts) http://www.radio.gov.pk/urdu.html background detailed map of Afghanistan http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/afghanis.pdf Al Qaeda's Web http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec01/al_qaeda.html US Warned in 1995 of Plot to Hijack Planes, Attack Buildings http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/18/inv.hijacking.philippines/ Terror Exacts High Price at Low Cost http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076754sep25.story Aircraft Departures and Enplaned Passengers, Freight, and Mail (1999) http://www.bts.gov/publications/airactstats/tables/AirportTable1.htm recent Afghani history, as seen by the Taliban (May 1997) http://www.islam.org.au/articles/18/taliban1.htm What Is the Future Face of Terrorism? (includes discussion of "Terror 2000", a little-known 1994 Pentagon study) http://pubs.marshallcenter.org/732/lesson4/lesson4.html Among Miami's Cuban Americans, Terrorism Is a Familiar Story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19735-2001Sep24.html International Terrorism Resources from the UN Library http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/resources/terrorism/ Amnesty International publications on Afghanistan http://web.amnesty.org/catalog.nsf/SearchResults?SearchDomain&Query=(afghanistan)&SearchOrder=1&SearchWV=TRUE&SearchThesaurus=FALSE&SearchFuzzy=FALSE&Start=1&Count=20&SearchEntry=ResultEntry response Trade Center Remnant May Become a Memorial http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25940-2001Sep25.html Moving the Weight of the World Trade Center http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2001/2001L-09-24-04.html Fire, Not Extra Explosives, Doomed Buildings, Expert Says http://www.abqjournal.com/aqvan09-11-01.htm "the sheer size of the World Trade Center towers was their undoing" http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1550000/1550326.stm Restoring Identities to Victims http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076731sep25.story ID of Victims Thorny Issue for Observant Jews http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/21/vic.jewish.burial.ap/ Undocumented Immigrant Families Afraid to Talk About Missing Relatives http://www.miami.com/herald/special/news/worldtrade/digdocs/046429.htm The Global Toll (good map of casualties and missing by country) http://www.wincustomize.com/images/news/9212001121120AM913.jpg New York fire fighters: "Why can't I die?" http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/26/firemen/ how to use the image of the fire fighters raising the flag on the Trade Center http://www.northjersey.com/index/groundzerospirit.html Senators Gramm and Nickles tried to prevent US aid for rebuilding New York http://www.nymag.com/page.cfm?page_id=5194 Campus Peace Page http://www.u.arizona.edu/~dereka/ Concerned Students for Justice Without War http://www.peacefuljustice.cjb.net/ Beware Scientologists Claiming To Be Mental Health Professionals http://www.nmha.org/newsroom/system/news.vw.cfm?do=vw&rid=341 Crisis Management and Counter-Terrorism Programs in Action, Huntsville (conference in progress) http://www.NIUSR.org/Conference/Fall2001Conf.htm http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010925/us/attacks_terrorism_conference_1.html Developing a Risk Management and Emergency Response Plan (National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue) http://www.NIUSR.org/ArticlesAndNotes/LeComte_CEOPrimer.htm Congress Gets Plea to Widen Economic Relief ("Greenspan and Rubin advised against cutting the capital gains tax") http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/business/26ECON.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/business/26RUBI.html "from Wall Street to Main Street, layoffs, losses, and little hope" http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/011001/biztech/1markets.htm Clinton Looks to Define New Role http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076748sep25.story Delays in Spraying May Affect State Crops http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076734sep25.story Opium Crops No Longer "Un-Islamic" http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/26/world/world11.html an Afghan war video game (symptomatic, or perhaps just stupid) http://www.stickdeath.com/ragbak.html end
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