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RRE links relating to the September 11th attacks, roughly in reverse chronological order
"Intended" US Target Mystifies Villagers
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A388-2002Mar21.html
Report Linking Anthrax and Hijackers Is Investigated (recall that the anthrax in Florida was not as refined as in Washington)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/23/national/23ANTH.html?pagewanted=print
The ABC's of Jihad -- From the US
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5339-2002Mar22.html
"alleged Israeli spy activity in the United States"
* http://www.atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2002-03-20/fishwrapper.html
A Rush to Fix Ground Zero's Damaged Dike
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/nyregion/21SITE.html?pagewanted=print
Rumsfeld Today Outlined the Structure of Wartime Military Commissions
* http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2002/b03212002\_bt140-02.html * http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2002/t03212002\_t0321sd.html * http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/dod/dod032102milcomord1.pdf * http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0203220258mar22
Lessons From The Nuremberg Trials for Al Qaeda Members' War Crimes Proceedings
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020320\_teitel.html
Holocaust Was Aided By Swiss, Study Says
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5713-2002Mar22.html
Minor Atrocities of the Twentieth Century
* http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat6.htm
Denver Police Spied on Activists, ACLU Says
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000020890mar22.story
Identity Card Delusions
* http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/garfinkel0402.asp
US, Mexico Set Plan For a "Smart Border"
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5303-2002Mar22.html
How Codebreakers Cracked the Secrets of the Smart Card
* http://media.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,7541,666457,00.html
investigations of what suspected terrorists have been reading (and, you'll recall, new laws define terrorism very broadly)
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZHRP0H4ZC
clear explanation of the problems with the new tribunal rules
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020320.atc.05.ram
US Faces High Hurdles in Seeking Death for Moussaoui
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/726828.asp
investigation of alleged international money laundering
* http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/10/feature1\_1.shtml
US Arms Illegally Go to "Axis of Evil"
* http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020320/3954405s.htm
$3.2 Million Stolen From Heathrow (once again, airport security at its best)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000020357mar20.story
Biometrics to Get an XML Standard
* http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1490&a=24184,00.asp
more on legal problems with fingerprints
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/20020320.html
the PR firm behind the strategy of associating environmentalists with terrorism
* http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5246
reaction to the Saudi anti-Semitic article
* http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020320/pl\_nm/saudi\_usa\_article\_dc\_1 * http://www.jta.org/page\_view\_story.asp?intarticleid=11072&intcategoryid=3 * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-032002blood.story * http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/20/News/News.45527.html * http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/981mndkn.asp
history of the article's claim
* http://www.jewishfrontier.org/frontier/jf\_1-00\_rosenthal.html
jargon watch: the phrase "no moral equivalence" is dangerous (it means "their guys kill so they're bad; our guys are good so they can kill")
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=105001762
International Campaign for Justice for the Victims of Sabra and Shatila
* http://www.indictsharon.net/
Sucking the Oxygen Out of a Cave
* http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/005abyvw.asp
Afghan Camps Turn Out Holy War Guerillas and Terrorists (lengthy survey of their curriculum -- not good)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/18/international/asia/18DOCU.html?pagewanted=print
Old-Fashioned Hide-Outs Fuel High-Tech Weaponry
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000019557mar17.story
Europe Takes War on Al Qaeda to Courtrooms
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000019552mar17.story
Nature of Threat in Georgia Gorge a Matter of Dispute
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000020086mar19.story
Stability, America's Enemy
* http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/01winter/peters.htm
Pipeline Politics Taint US War
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/oped/chi-0203180046mar18.story
"... American troops, indefinitely, around both Afghanistan and Israel"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/20/opinion/20FRIE.html?pagewanted=print
What Price Oslo? by Edward Said
* http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/577/op2.htm
UN Information System on the Question of Palestine
* http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/
FBI Agents Blamed for Delayed Files on McVeigh
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000020085mar19.story * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53187-2002Mar19.html
Epidemic of Terror Beatings in Ulster
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern\_Ireland/Story/0,2763,669809,00.html
cluster-bombing of civilians in Colombia
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000019553mar17.story
tourist and dining guide to Ground Zero
* http://www.latimes.com/travel/printedition/la-000019443mar17.story * http://www.latimes.com/travel/printedition/la-000019442mar17.story
Can Free Speech Undermine Freedom?
* http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5268 * http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/03/19/dissent/print.html
How the War on Terrorism Affects the Public's Right to Know
* http://www.rcfp.org/news/documents/Homefront\_Confidential.pdf
Bush-Senate Fight Brews Over Extent of US Secrecy
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0203180174mar18
Internal Security Is Attracting a Crowd of Arms Contractors ("network-centric warfare" means pervasive surveillance woven into daily life)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/20/business/20ARMS.html?pagewanted=all
Al Qaeda's Grocery Lists and Manuals of Killing
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/international/asia/17DOCU.html?pagewanted=all
Al-Qaeda Dead Have Vanished
* http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=288042002
Official: Al-Qaida Moving Money Again (I'm curious how they could know all this and not know enough to nab them)
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020316/pl/attacks\_al\_qaida\_1.html
"secret CIA project to investigate sending anthrax through the mail"
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/audiovideo/programmes/newsnight/archive/newsid\_1873000/1873368.stm
US Official: Missile Test "Still Not Realistic" (they call it "success-oriented testing")
* http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/16/missile.defense.test/index.html
Declare War Before Going to War
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0315/p11s01-coop.html
In Last Piles of Rubble, Fresh Pangs of Loss ("I don't like it down here one bit")
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/nyregion/17SITE.html?pagewanted=print
comment on museums' documentation of the September 11th attacks
* http://www.spiked-online.com/Printable/00000002D466.htm
Saudi Government Daily: Jews Use Teenagers' Blood for "Purim" Pastries (among other things -- scroll down)
* http://memri.org/news.html#1016041265c
US Using New Law on Secret Evidence
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0203150268mar15.story
Bush Finally Sees Combat (why choose an exercise to break up a demonstration? the symbolism is ominous)
* http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020315/pl\_nm/bush\_dc\_28
Speeding Up the Checkout Line With Biometrics (I can't stand this use of "about": "It's about customer convenience and security")
* http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020313S0060
Human Rights Bulletin System
* http://www.martus.org/ * http://news.com.com/2100-1023-255522.html
Experts Question "Trade-Offs" in US Security
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000019592mar17.story
"alternatives to unsightly hunks of concrete to deter attacks on buildings"
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000019594mar17.story
Nuclear Posture Review Excerpts
* http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/policy/dod/npr.htm
Congress Investigates Missile Defense Cover-Up Controversy
* http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5239 * http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5243
What One Prominent Pakistani Thinks His Country Should Do With Its Nukes
* http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/03/landesman.htm
anniversary of the US firebombing of Tokyo
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/international/asia/14JAPA.html
Shareholders in the Bank of Terror?
* http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/15/al\_taqwa/print.html
the terrorists' visas (at least \someone\ can get their paperwork through the INS)
* http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc\_o\_day/terrorvisa1.shtml
Iran Contra Alumni in Bush Government
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020313/pl/iran\_contra\_alumni\_1.html
Judge's Ruling Challenges Terrorism Roadblocks
USA: Post 11 September Detainees Deprived of Their Basic Rights
* http://web.amnesty.org/web/news.nsf/WebAll/021956D799890D4C80256B7A0053AF80?OpenDocument
US Sends Suspects to Face Torture
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4372442,00.html
Planning for Martial Law? (subscription required)
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/03/15/martial\_law/print.html
Bill Bennett announces plans to denounce war dissenters as anti-American (e.g., using the dishonest phrase "blame America first")
* http://www.avot.org/stories/storyReader$53 * http://alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12612
jargon watch: study the dismissal of privacy issues in the final quote (reframing the issue in a narrow-sounding way, whether it makes sense or not)
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/072/metro/Parking\_enforcement\_on\_a\_rollP.shtml
At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/circuits/14MANN.html
article that uncritically repeats vendors' hype about face recognition
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid\_1874000/1874738.stm
Remains of 11 Firefighters Are Found at Trade Center ("the collapse compressed 30 floors into no more than 20 feet")
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/13/nyregion/13BODI.html?pagewanted=print
radio story about New York firefighters
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020311.atc.17.ram
The World Trade Center: Before, During, and After
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15224
more conspiracy theory about flight 77 (fascinating in its own cracked way -- as if you could hide a whole airplane)
* http://www.humanunderground.com/11september/pent.html
and there were lots of eyewitnesses
* http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=19882
Bin Laden's Men Wait to Take Bloody Revenge
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,664988,00.html
Sheikh Gilani's American Disciples
* http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/996lxfmd.asp
America as Sparta
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/071/oped/America\_as\_Sparta+.shtml
To Keep a Population in Line, Wage Perpetual War Against a Vague Enemy
* http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/1913245.html
National Review's Editor Suggests Nuking Mecca (it's the death of conscience)
* http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/03/lott-j-03-11.html
Human Rights Not a Foreign Policy Concern (conscience is back in fashion, except when it's not)
* http://www.townhall.com/columnists/donfeder/printdf20020311.shtml
The Killing of Mohammed Salah by Israeli Police on 8 March 2002 (includes graphic images)
* http://electronicintifada.net/features/articles/020312beithanina.shtml
During Gaza Raid, Some Civilians Slain Without Apparent Provocation
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17004-2002Mar12.html
Terrorist Pilots' Student Visas Arrive ("the INS is the Mickey Mouse Club of federal agencies")
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16787-2002Mar12.html
DC Favors Flat Fee For Traffic Cameras
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2201-2002Mar9.html
Air Force Seeks Better Security From Microsoft
* http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/03/11/gilligan.htm
ACLU: Police Illegally Monitor Protest Groups
* http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN\_15\_1025504,00.html
US Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms
* http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-030902bombs.story * http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-arkinmar10.story
US Expands Its Presence Across the Globe
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,663947,00.html
"Bush may pursue Al Qaeda even in countries that do not ask for a US presence"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/international/10PREX.html
planning a war against Iraq
* http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020311fa\_FACT
US Military in Georgia Will Increase Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Security
* http://huknews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&doc\_id=NR20020308670.2\_e94e0005c4fa1ba6
The Big Guys Work For the Carlyle Group
* http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc\_id=206684
long article on the supposed "revolution in military affairs"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/magazine/10MILITARY.html?pagewanted=all
DNA-matching of World Trade Center victims
* http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2002-03-06/smith.html/1/index.html
"children attempted to build a barricade from stones and a burning tire" ("an Israeli jeep burst easily through the rubble")
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/09/international/middleeast/09MIDE.html?pagewanted=all * http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/international/middleeast/10MIDE.html?pagewanted=print * http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/03/medics030902.htm * http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Israel-Arafats-Office.html * http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/opinion/10FRIE.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2228-2002Mar9.html
Civil Liberties Take Back Seat to Safety
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000017740mar10.story
conservative comment on the surveillance state we're building
* http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/fri/opinion/news\_1e8twight.html
New War Building Up in Central Mindanao
* http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/mar/06/top\_stories/20020306top1.html
Military Officers Criticize Rush to Use Ground Troops
* http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020307-59671360.htm
jargon watch: study the quick, hazy caricature of media reports in 1st para. (notice the word "various", the hyperbole, the lack of specifics, etc)
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=105001725
photos of the plane hitting the Pentagon
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/720851.asp
Government Gone Underground
* http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article\_id=18573&group=webcast
the military plans to have soldiers calling in airstrikes using Windows CE! (hopefully the coordinates for Redmond won't be the defaults)
* http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992005
Postol vs. the Pentagon
* http://www.techreview.com/articles/print\_version/taubes0402.asp
Bush Policy Endangers American and Allied Troops
* http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=50068
Airline Allegedly Hindered Marshals
* http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020306/3916146s.htm * http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020306/3916311s.htm * http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020306/3916308s.htm
EDS, Oracle Launch Airport Security Wares (they're called "Known Traveler" and "Secure Employee")
* http://www.idg.net/ic\_826210\_1794\_9-10000.html
OASIS Members Form Technical Committee to Define XML Standard for Biometrics
* http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis\_news\_03\_07\_02.shtml
Department of Defense Biometrics Management Office
* http://www.c3i.osd.mil/biometrics/home.htm
US Tells How Rescue Turned Into Fatal Firefight
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/06/international/asia/06FIGH.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A33286-2002Mar3?language=printer * http://commondreams.org/headlines02/0304-03.htm
How Bin Laden Got Away
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0304/p01s03-wosc.html
Intercepted Al Qaeda E-Mail Is Said to Hint at Regrouping
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/06/international/asia/06INQU.html?pagewanted=print
background on the "thermobaric" bomb
* http://asia.cnn.com/2001/US/12/22/ret.new.weapon/ * http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2002/03/03/FFXXANYPBYC.html * http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/fmsopubs/issues/fuelair/fuelair.htm * http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/blu-118.htm
Worldwide Equipment Guide
* http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/weg.pdf
review of a documentary based on film from the World Trade Center attack
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/06/arts/television/06JAME.html
conspiracy theory that the Pentagon was hit by something other than an airplane
* http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs\_en.htm
MIT Team Tied to Questionable Missile Studies
Why Missile Defense Won't Work
* http://www.techreview.com/articles/postol0402.asp
Doubts Are Cast on the Viability of Saudi Monarchy for Long Term
India: A Madness of Politics, Not Religion
* http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular\_columnists/yasmin\_alibhai\_brown/story.jsp?story=251138
jargon watch: study how he avoids mentioning Palestinian civilian deaths (attacks on civilians by everyone are wrong)
* http://washingtontimes.com/world/default-20023421951.htm
Thoughts About America by Edward Said
* http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/575/op2.htm
Ashcroft Asks Telcos to Help Track Terrorists
* http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174905.html
Ridge Says Arming Pilots "Doesn't Make a Lot of Sense"
* http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&u=/usatoday/20020304/ts\_usatoday/3909653
United States Military Commissions: A Quick Guide to Available Resources
* http://www.llrx.com/features/military.htm
Marines develop slime for crowd control
* http://www.swri.org/9what/releases/mds.htm * http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/nld4/mathis.pdf
anti-Arab ugliness in New Hampshire Senate primary
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020304/el/senate\_arab\_card\_2.html
Tranquil Winter Olympics Serving as Blueprint for Security Operations
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000016532mar05.story
US Planes Pound Enemy as Troops Face Tough Fight (does anyone have URL's from specialized publications with technical detail?)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/international/asia/04AFGH.html * http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/international/asia/03ASSE.html?pagewanted=print * http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33155-2002Mar3.html
Does Bin Laden Matter to the Defense Department Any More?
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0301/p01s02-usmi.html
Why Bin Laden Plot Relied on Saudi Hijackers
Southeast Asian Terror Exhibits Al Qaeda Traits
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000016015mar03.story
lawsuit against anti-narcotics fumigation in Ecuador
* http://www.narconews.com/dyncorpterrorism2.html
Noam Chomsky on the Drug-Terror Link
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12420
Terrorism as Pretext
* http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/terror.html
"the militia's leader ... has a long history of being annoying"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/national/03MONT.html
background on domestic terrorism in the West
* http://www.geocities.com/progpop/Samizdat.1.html * http://testwww.janes.com/security/law\_enforcement/news/misc/mcveigh010611\_n\_3.shtml * http://www.mhrn.org/news/hateviol.html
extreme repression in Zimbabwe
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,660964,00.html
US Seeks DNA of All Captives in Afghan War
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/international/asia/03DETA.html
The Patriot Act: Last Refuge of a Scoundrel
* http://www.ala.org/alonline/netlib/il302.html
Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret (they're right, which is why they shouldn't abandon nonproliferation programs)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20584-2002Feb28.html
Right-Wing Montana Militia Plotted Killings, Sheriff Charges (does anyone have URL's with background on terrorism in the West?)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/national/01PLOT.html
Official Count of September 11th Victims
* http://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns\_display.adp?key=200202252137000168373\_aolns.src
Airports Screened Nine of September 11th Hijackers, Officials Say
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26149-2002Mar1.html
this is very dangerous: permanent war, permanent delegitimation of dissent
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20006-2002Feb28.html * http://www.salon.com/politics/col/spinsanity/2002/03/01/lott/
another argument for letting the CIA spy domestically (the goal, however, is to be a free country)
* http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue\_janfeb\_2002/deutch.html
Bag Scanning System Called Easily Foiled
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000015266feb28.story
automated face recognition "for a state that has requested anonymity" (okay, if the state's citizens can do the same)
* http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020228/282396\_1.html
A Critical Appraisal of Operation Enduring Freedom and the Afghanistan War
* http://www.comw.org/pda/0201strangevic.html
A Selection of Daniel Pearl's Work
* http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/pearlstories022202.htm
US Begins Anti-Terror Assistance in Georgia
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7806-2002Feb26.html
Retired Generals Call for Sharon to Rethink Strategy (does anyone have documents from this campaign?)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4358861,00.html
Alternatives to Illicit Crops in Colombia Have Made Little Progress
* http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gao/clmbiadrgprb0202.pdf
White House Angered at Plan for Pentagon Disinformation
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61716-2002Feb24.html * http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/26/international/26OFFI.html * http://www.msnbc.com/news/711387.asp
A False News Story About False News Stories? (their history of falsehood is vast, but I'm not sure the NYT story was right)
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=100001704
more on the very symptomatic rehabilitation of John Poindexter
* http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062542&device= * http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/020304fa\_FACT
The File Room Censorship Archive
* http://www.thefileroom.org/FileRoom/documents/return.html
The Disappeared
* http://commondreams.org/views02/0226-08.htm
Jerry Falwell's comments on Islam
* http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/25/cf.00.html
conservative denunciation of Pat Robertson
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=105001693
New Front on Ecoterror? (vandalism is bad, but inflating the word "terrorism" is extremely dangerous)
* http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/ecoterror\_support020226.html
London Mayor Approves London Congestion Charges ("a toll area policed by 230 video cameras")
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/livingstone/article/0,2763,658421,00.html
In the Name of Safety: Video Surveillance
* http://www.justicetalking.org/shows/show198.asp
Colleges Fear Anti-Terrorism Law Could Turn Them Into Big Brother
* http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i25/25a03101.htm
read the fourth paragraph of Bush's speech to the Japanese Diet (I suppose he meant to say "half a century")
* http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/02021803.htm * http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1825000/video/\_1828526\_presser01\_bush\_vi.ram * http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/02/25/BU152031.DTL
yet somehow it's not included in this list of stumbles from the trip (which ignores the big picture: the consequences of his extremist rhetoric)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/25/national/25LETT.html
Musharraf Takes on Spy Agency
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0222/p01s04-wosc.html
"US retracting a pledge not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states"
* http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020222-77660232.htm
Bush's War in Afghanistan: A Case of Big Mission Creep?
* http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=19
Europe Seethes as the US Flies Solo in World Affairs
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/international/europe/23NATO.html?pagewanted=all
How the Left Undermined America's Security by David Horowitz (it's like a visit to another planet)
* http://bugler-john.50megs.com/HOROWITZ%20ON%20911.PDF%20FEB%2018%202002.pdf
"National Guard units across the country fake troop level reports"
* http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/02/21/usat-guard.htm
The Video Surveillance Debate
* http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/feb/surveillance/020225.surveillance.html
Risks Prompt US to Limit Access to Data
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58430-2002Feb23.html
Whose History Is It, Anyway? The Public's or the Officials'?
* http://nytimes.com/2002/02/24/weekinreview/24BOHL.html
US Spy Planes Seek Out Filipino Guerrillas
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42212-2002Feb20.html
full-blown war in Colombia
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000013614feb22.story
Al-Qaeda: After Afghanistan
* http://specials.ft.com/attackonterrorism/FT3RSF1QVXC.html
article about the Debkafile online news site (you too can be famous by running a shoddy, irresponsible Web site)
* http://ojr.usc.edu/content/print.cfm?print=694
"Reality" TV Eagerly Marches Off to War (making war cool again)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000013607feb22.story
Anthrax Expert Stands By Her Claim
* http://www.njo.com/news/times/index.ssf?/news/times/02-21-I\_AR1JBB.html * http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/radionation/rn20020131.rm&start="13:16.6"
Behind the Brentwood Anthrax Attack
* http://www.wjla.com/news/showstory.hrb?f=n&s=31629&f1=ite
The Story Behind the Towers
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15181
Imagine New York (public input to the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site)
* http://www.imaginenewyork.org/
US Will Not Lie to Public, Defense Chief Says (unlikely -- they're rebuilding the Reagan administration in every other way)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000013384feb21.story * http://www.msnbc.com/news/711387.asp * http://www.fair.org/activism/osi-propaganda.html
Two PAC Missiles Fail to Hit Target in US Land-Based Missile Defense Test
* http://spacedaily.com/news/020217211535.6h8kn7ih.html
Using 21st Century Technology to Defend the Homeland
* http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/21st-technology.html
FAA, Air Traffic Controllers at Odds Over Security
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49507-2002Feb21.html
Airport Security Test Exposes Flaws
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000013650feb22.story
Government Security, Washington, 23-25 July 2002
Guantanamo Bay lawsuit involving Australian detainee and others
* http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/rasulbush021902pet.pdf
More Online Security Woes for FBI's Data Firm (this is the same company that supplied bad "felon" lists to Florida)
* http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174003.html
"Smart" Biometric Passport Plans Mooted (a wise man said, "a little bit of smartness has a special name: stupidity")
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk\_politics/newsid\_1832000/1832802.stm
Robertson Calls Islam a Religion of Violence, Mayhem
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49436-2002Feb21.html
US Backing Helps Warlord Solidify Power
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25851-2002Feb17.html
Bin Laden's No 2 "Captured in Iran" (who knows)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,652071,00.html
conservatives gung-ho for war with Iraq
* http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/17/122713.shtml
the seriously creepy return of John Poindexter
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,651975,00.html
Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html
leading politician gives major war speech -- press writes about his beard
* http://www.dailyhowler.com/h021802\_1.shtml
refugees dying in Afghanistan
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/magazine/17AFGHAN.html?pagewanted=all
New York Debates Competing Visions for Rebuilding Devastated Downtown
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22040-2002Feb16.html
extensive censorship of biology research
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/politics/17SECR.html
The USA PATRIOT Act and Patron Privacy on Library Internet Terminals
* http://www.llrx.com/features/usapatriotact.htm
Justice Department Hiding Secret Weekly Reports to the Attorney General
* http://cryptome.org/doj-footshot.htm
"smart" biometric ID cards in Hong Kong
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/18KONG.html?pagewanted=print
Center for Identification Technology Research
* http://www.csee.wvu.edu/citer/
Larry Smarr's talks on future Internet architecture and applications (some of which involve pervasive sensor networks with privacy implications)
* http://soeunix.ucsd.edu/~lsmarr/talks/
Scientists Recount US Biodefense Labs' Security Lapses
* http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30241-2002Feb18.html
Airlines Fended Off Security Upgrades
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0202180177feb18.story
Al Qaeda Tunnels, Arms Cache Totaled
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13820-2002Feb15.html
The Philippine Wars
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/opinion/15KRIS.html
What Islamist Conspiracy?
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,650235,00.html
FBI Says Arson Killed Woman Accused in License Scheme
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/national/15LICE.html
jargon watch: "Daschle has chosen to align himself with the axis of evil" (we are numb to the most extreme calumnies against even slight dissent)
* http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002\_02\_10\_archive.html#9758905
US: Military Aid After 9/11 Threatens Human Rights
* http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/02/usmil0215.htm
Bush Should Reject China's Misuse of "Anti-Terror" Campaign
* http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/02/bushchinatrip.htm
Fighting Terror With Databases
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13821-2002Feb15.html
mysterious disappearing evidence in the case against Lotfi Raissi
* http://latimes.com/news/opinion/la-000011286feb14.story
airports buying surveillance technology with no coherent plan
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13786-2002Feb15.html
Canada Customs Set to Use Iris Scans at Airports
* http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q10532C6
Uganda spent money on face recognition to find thirty doubly registered voters (and for some reason the face recognition company seems proud of this)
* http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020215/152291\_1.html
US troops under Philippine command
* http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/feb/13/top\_stories/20020213top4.html
Officials Say Not All Detainees at Camp X-Ray Are Muslim
* http://www.nandotimes.com/world/v-text/story/250131p-2357116c.html
Review: Afghan Civilian Deaths Lower
John Poindexter Takes Over New Agency to Thwart Attacks on US
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/politics/13DARP.html?pagewanted=print
Khatami Urges Immature US Leaders to Wake Up, Change Policy Toward Iran
* http://tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=2/12/02&Cat=2&Num=012
what does it say that conservatives are organizing to promote Steve Emerson? (plenty of people warned of terrorism without getting major things wrong)
* http://www.jewishworldreview.com/on/media1.asp
Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 (August 1996)
* http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume3/chap15/v3c15-1.htm
public interest groups' letter against driver's license as a national ID card
* http://www.epic.org/privacy/id\_cards/presidentltr2.11.02.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1526-2002Feb12.html
Your Papers, Please: From the State Drivers License to a National ID System
* http://www.epic.org/privacy/id\_cards/yourpapersplease.pdf
CIA, FBI Developing Intelligence Supercomputer
* http://www.nti.org/d\_newswire/issues/newswires/2002\_2\_12.html#1
Why Your Digital Data Could One Day Disappear
* http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=2767&sid=0&pid=0&t=operations
Big Brother Is Watching You Read
* http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/02/13/bookstores/print.html
Watchdog Might Urge DNA Theft Be Made an Offence
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,649862,00.html
Does the White House Have a Press Blacklist?
* http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/5/confessore-n.html
Senate Debates Election Overhaul
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020213/pl/election\_changes\_1.html
Road Named for a Confederate Stirs Uncivil Debate (it doesn't even occur to us to label the threats as terrorism)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/14/national/14HIGH.html
US Lets Airlines Continue Dealings With Argenbright
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000011534feb14.story
How Briton Hid Deadly Boot Bomb on Jet
Military Fuses Old, New to Create a Lethal Force
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000010464feb10.story * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000010491feb10.story
"a weapons smorgasbord"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/weekinreview/10DAO.html
Unknown Toll in the Fog of War: Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/international/asia/10AFGH.html?pagewanted=all
Civil Affairs Troops Aim to Win Afghan Hearts, Minds
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000010705feb11.story
Taliban's Enemies Emerge From the Shadows
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60255-2002Feb11.html
Philippine Army Attacks Guerrilla Positions (somehow it seems like a global war should be a bigger deal than this)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000010717feb11.story
September 11th Has Scrambled Our Concept of War
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/042/oped/Sept\_11\_has\_scrambled\_our\_concept\_of\_war+.shtml
September 11th Story: The Silence of the Birds
* http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/02/09/rec.attacks.birdlady.ap/
what happened to all the stuff people donated on September 11th (answer: nobody knows)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/703560.asp
Grim Scavenger Hunt for DNA Drags on for September 11th Families (brave new world)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/09/nyregion/09DNA.html?pagewanted=print
E-mail Transformed Personal Communication After September 11th Attacks
* http://www.uclanews.ucla.edu/Docs/3009.htm
The Koran as a Classroom Lesson? At the Right Time, Yes
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000010355feb10.column
Arab Americans Insist Ashcroft Clarify Offensive Remarks
* http://www.aaiusa.org/newsandviews/newsreleases/020802.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60304-2002Feb11.html
Can Missile Defense Work?
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15132
MIT Professor Alleges Fraud in Missile Defense Research
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/040/metro/MIT\_professor\_alleges\_fraud\_within\_research+.shtml
Public Entity Risk Institute Symposium Papers
* http://www.riskinstitute.org/symposium\_papers.asp
jargon watch: classic PR approach to promoting a national ID (delimit "concerns", then offer "points" that sound good but lack substance)
* http://news.com.com/2010-1078-833684.html
Robbers Flee With $6.5m in Heathrow Airport Heist (insert caustic comment on airport security)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,648897,00.html
test of iris scanning at Heathrow
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid\_1808000/1808187.stm
Digital Dog Tags: Would You Wear One?
* http://news.com.com/2100-1001-833379.html
TiVo's Data Collection and Privacy Practices
* http://www.privacyfoundation.org/privacywatch/report.asp?id=62&action=0
How to Fake a Passport
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/magazine/10PASSPORT.html?pagewanted=all
US Footprints in Steppes of Central Asia
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48200-2002Feb8.html
Searching for Osama
* http://chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0202080013feb08.story
more on Otto Reich, now ass't secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,646835,00.html
Patten Lays Into Bush's America
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,647554,00.html
The Threat to Patriotism by Ronald Dworkin
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15145
peaceful protest defined as terrorism in a Utah bill
* http://www.kwru.org/updates/utahbill100.html
Modernizing the State Identification System (but with dysfunctional DMV's, biometrics just mean better false identities)
* http://www.ppionline.org/ppi\_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=140&subsecid=290&contentid=250175 * http://www.ppionline.org/ppi\_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=140&subsecid=290&contentid=250075
Cyber Security Research and Development Act, HR 3394
* http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107\_cong\_bills&docid=f:h3394eh.txt.pdf * http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/z?cp107:hr355p1:
Problems with the Technology Export Control Bill (danger to international communication about cryptography)
* http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/exportbill.html
"reasons why Mr. Bush may prefer to whip up irrational war hysteria"
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,248-2002062638,00.html
Bush's Comments Bolster Old Guard in Tehran
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/08/international/middleeast/08IRAN.html
Is North Korean Threat Overstated? (it's a bad place, no doubt about it, but extreme language doesn't help anyone)
* http://latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-020702norkor.story
the United States' not entirely admirable history in the Philippines
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/05/eguillermo.DTL
the war on terror lets us admit that military aid to Colombia is about oil (next stop: Venezuela)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/06/international/americas/06COLO.html?pagewanted=print
Is a US Bioweapons Scientist Behind Last Fall's Anthrax Attacks? (requires subscription)
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/02/08/anthrax/print.html
Computer Wins Afghan Battlefield Spurs
* http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020206001717
Robot Weapons Convince Sceptics
* http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020205001456
US Military Might Gains Greater Power From Anti-Terror Campaign
* http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020207002004
New Weapon Systems Are Budget Winners
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42716-2002Feb7.html
indictment of John Walker Lindh
* http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/uswlindh020502cmp.html
images purporting to show an Army attack on a Taliban tank (they're interesting images whatever they are)
* http://www.nbcnco.com/taliban.jpg
article about scrounging for old Russian hardware in the Kandahar airport
* http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/02/06/savidge.day6.otsc/
No Oases for Saudi Youths
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000009590feb07.story
Airport Security Revamp in the Works in Boston
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36158-2002Feb6.html
Michael Moore on his book almost not getting published (this is why media concentration is dangerous)
* http://www.michaelmoore.com/2002\_0205.html
Bush is proposing to spend more on defense than the next 25 countries combined
* http://www.d-n-i.net/charts\_data/25\_power\_standard.htm
radio program discussing the "axis of evil"
* http://kcrw.com/cgi-bin/ram\_wrap.cgi?/tp/tp020204Bush\_Links\_War\_on\_Te
where suicide bombers come from
* http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?020204fa\_FACT
The Sonic Memorial Project (search for audio artifacts from the World Trade Center towers)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020204.atc.06.ram * http://www.picture-projects.com/sonicmemorial/
jargon watch: "every multiculturalist is a recruiting officer for al-Qaeda" (this kind of vast, hyperbolic, primitive thought-form is now utterly routine)
* http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-02&id=1535
Angered by Snubbing, Libya, China, Syria Form Axis of Just as Evil (I guess they all listen to Anthrax)
* http://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/axis.shtml
"Trusted" Air Travelers Would Minimize Wait
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000009144feb05.story
Air-Security Chief Doubts Value of ID Cards for "Trusted" Fliers
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29491-2002Feb5.html
UK Move Towards Compulsory ID Cards
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk\_politics/newsid\_1802000/1802847.stm * http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,645503,00.html
circuit court decision upholding a right to refuse to identify oneself
* http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0016649p.pdf
Data Show Shoddy Due Process for Post-September 11th Immigration Detainees
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZZ3A29CXC
A Security Net of Sawhorses and Soldiers
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000009358feb06.story
report from the Afghan village that we attacked based on bad intelligence
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020204.me.02.ram
Bush Keeps Terror Photo "Scorecard"
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020203/pl/attacks\_bush\_2.html
Bush's Speech Shuts Door on Tenuous Opening to Iran (he'd rather have an enemy than engage with an emerging democracy)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18121-2002Feb3.html * http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,644988,00.html
yet he omitted Syria, whose government has no redeeming value at all
* http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=125006 * http://docsmgmt.hrw.org/syria-pubs.php
"Israeli peace group that supports soldiers who refuse repressive assignments"
* http://www.yesh-gvul.org/english.html
Pearl Uncovered Jaish-Pak Govt Complicity: Paper (I have no idea)
* http://origin.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art\_id=875141272
Al Qaida May Have Tried to Kill Clinton (but it's UPI so who knows)
* http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=04022002-082828-8434r
a bunch of photos to accompany the Post's series on the White House at war
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/flash/photo/politics/10days/index.htm
civilian technology influencing the military
* http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/02/fallows.htm
Muslims Feel September 11th Chill as Mecca Plays It Safe
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/05/international/middleeast/05SAUD.html
thoughtful article on anti-terrorist legislation by Bruce Ackerman
* http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n03/acke2403.htm
Bush May Ax Police Technology Program
* http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Terrorism-Technology.html
ABA Defies Bush on Tribunals
* http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020204/ap\_on\_re\_us/aba\_tribunals\_6 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21229-2002Feb4.html
the government is still ignoring "brain fingerprinting" (thankfully)
* http://www.techreview.com/articles/hogan013002.asp
Factional Fighting Erupts in Afghanistan, 40 Killed (I'm struck how even a very short article from local media feels informative)
* http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=7124
More US Troops Arrive in Philippines
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020120/wl/philippines\_us\_troops\_15.html
Terror War Expansion Troubles Allies
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008677feb03.story
"Shoe Bomber" Suspect Linked to Two Other Plots
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008650feb03.story
Indonesian Cleric Had Role in Skyjackings, Officials Say (the problem is that we mostly just have to believe the "officials")
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008338feb02.story
Itinerant Malaysian Cleric Emerges as Terrorist Leader
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/international/asia/03MALA.html
Split Widens Over Israeli Reservists Refusing to Serve in Palestinian Areas
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle\_east/newsid\_1795000/1795362.stm
argument for returning to a law enforcement model against terrorism (in other words, even if it was a war last month, it's not a war now)
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020131\_spiro.html
1's and 0's Replacing Bullets in US Arsenal
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11471-2002Feb1.html
"US is so much more advanced than its NATO allies that it doesn't need them" ("only one air force can operate in the dark using night-vision equipment")
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/opinion/03FRIE.html
eight-part series purporting to describe how the White House went to war
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14101-2002Feb2.html
Bush Seeks Big Five-Year Buildup at Pentagon (and with tax cuts, he knows there'll be no money for anything else)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/02/politics/02PENT.html
Sorting Military Spending from Squandering ("some key things to watch for in the huge defense-budget boost")
* http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2002/nf20020131\_9382.htm
Pro-Bin Laden Speech Leads to Disorderly Conduct Charge (he was a jerk, but it was the crowd, not him, that was disorderly)
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ1DZ8K6XC
radio story on the proposal to create massive dossiers about air travelers (they sound good in the abstract, but they're expensive and unreliable)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020201.atc.03.ram
Canadian rules for collecting information on air passengers (search for Aeronautics Act in each)
* http://canada.gc.ca/gazette/part1/ascII/g1-13552\_e.txt * http://canada.gc.ca/gazette/part2/ascII/g2-13603\_e.txt
Mixed Reviews on Anti-Terror Interview Plan
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008683feb03.story
The Pentagon's War Reporting Rules Are the Toughest Ever
* http://www.cjr.org/year/02/1/hickey.asp
declassified US documents on human rights in Peru
* http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB64
Mexico's Supreme Court Demanding Inquiry Into '68 Massacre (does anyone have URL's for background and documents on this? Spanish is fine)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/international/americas/01MEXI.html
Screener Discusses His Role in San Francisco Airport Security Breach (why on earth is Argenbright still in charge of airport security?)
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/02/02/state1642EST0063.DTL
About Citizen Corps
* http://www.citizencorps.gov/about.html
Terrorist Information and Prevention System ("truckers, letter carriers, train conductors, ship captains, ...")
* http://www.citizencorps.gov/tips.html
E-Business Edgy After Hackers Shut UK Firm (it could be anyone)
* http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/01/hack.attack.reut/
Warning to Three Nations Downplayed (he was being "more rhetorical than historical")
* http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000007876jan31.story
US and Philippines Launch Joint Hunt for Islamic Gang
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008122feb01.story
Bush Jab at Philippines as Terrorist Haven Piques Local Leaders
* http://www.inq7.net/nat/2002/jan/31/nat\_2-1.htm
The Colder War
* http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=11574035&method=full
jargon watch: this attack on public opinion is the pure essence of conservatism (and he evidently agrees with Burke that prejudice is a good thing)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000007739jan31.story
Intricate Screening of Fliers in Works (Robert O'Harrow Jr. has broken a lot of important privacy stories)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/697721.asp
surgically implanted identification chip for potential kidnapping victims (but they don't say how many people have actually had them installed)
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid\_1794000/1794688.stm
Immigration Judges Call for Independent Court
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000007877jan31.story
FBI: Terrorists Use Internet (the evidence is not real definite -- the news is that they're saying it)
* http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/1-31-2002/200201311012490704.html
claim that al-Qaida cased Salt Lake City
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/02/01/salt\_lake/print.html
Nuclear Power Plants Targeted for Terror (they represent the obsolete centralized approach to power generation)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/696835.asp
Terrorists Noted Flaws in Security, Report Says
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000008118feb01.story
"Bush's startling speech justifying national missile defence"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,641768,00.html
Tragedy Does Not Give America a Free Hand
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,642003,00.html
Candidate Calls NAACP "Terrorists" (calling peaceful protests "terrorism" betrays an authoritarian mentality)
* http://www.goupstate.com/docs/News/gen/4473.asp
Malkin Erases Some/All Distinction in Attack on Protesters
* http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002\_01\_27\_archive.html#9205410
Terror Link Seen in Identity Thefts
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/031/nation/Terror\_link\_seen\_in\_identity\_thefts+.shtml
interesting details on the security alert at SFO (with face recognition false alarms we'll be clearing terminals all the time)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/31/national/31AIRP.html * http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020130/ts/airlines\_scare\_dc\_3.html
FBI terrorist most wanted lists (these appear to be the source for airport face recognition system databases)
* http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/terrorists/fugitives.htm * http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/seekinfo/temp011702.htm
Some States Track Parolees by Satellite
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/31/technology/circuits/31IDEN.html
Geographic Gaffe Misguides Anthrax Inquiry (it's fascinating to watch trivial things become important in retrospect)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/national/30AMES.html
Before the Towers Fell, Fire Department Fought Chaos
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/nyregion/30FIRE.html
suit to gain media access to legal hearings of detainee
* http://www.detroitnews.com/2002/metro/0201/29/d07-402500.htm * http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/1-29-2002/200201291012328704.html * http://www.freep.com/news/metro/suit29\_20020129.htm
Biometrics: Facing Up to Terrorism
* http://www.rand.org/publications/IP/IP218/
Biometric Consortium Conference, Arlington, VA, 13-15 February 2002
* http://www.nist.gov/bcfeb02/
introduction to electromagnetic pulse weapons
* http://www.house.gov/hasc/testimony/106thcongress/99-10-07wood.htm
ChoicePoint Public Sector: Helping Government to Serve the Citizens ("search over 10 billion records on individuals and businesses")
Afghans Blame US for Slaying Innocents During School Raid
* http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0126-07.htm
After Green Beret Operation, Townspeople Have Questions About Bound Bodies
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/28/international/asia/28AFGH.html?pagewanted=print
Seeking Safety, Manhattan Firms are Scattering (replace all that office space with mixed-residential buildings)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/29/nyregion/29DOWN.html?pagewanted=print
Efforts to Track Foreign Students Are Said to Lag (it's harder than it sounds)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/28/national/28VISA.html?pagewanted=all
Standardized Drivers' Licenses Could Be Boon, Burden to Business
* http://www.idg.net/ic\_790506\_1794\_9-10000.html
Iceland Places Trust in Face-Scanning
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid\_1780000/1780150.stm
"the great age of code breaking is over" (unreliable -- there's little or no evidence that al Qaeda used strong crypto)
* http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/02/budiansky.htm
America's Chaotic Road to War
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42754-2002Jan26.html
How Bin Laden Network Spread Its Tentacles
* http://www.observer.co.uk/islam/story/0,1442,636449,00.html * http://www.observer.co.uk/islam/story/0,1442,587375,00.html * http://www.observer.co.uk/islam/story/0,1442,640079,00.html * http://www.observer.co.uk/islam/story/0,1442,577943,00.html * http://www.observer.co.uk/islam/story/0,1442,577971,00.html * http://www.observer.co.uk/islam/story/0,1442,576688,00.html
long article on Mohamed Atta
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000006940jan27.story
Pentagon Plans New Command For US
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42765-2002Jan26.html
CIA's New Celebrity Exposes Its Failings
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000006738jan27.story
WTC Fresh Kills Investigative Site
* http://cryptome.org/wtc-fk/wtc-freshkills.htm
Out of the Rubble, Artifacts of Anguish Saved for Posterity
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/nyregion/27STEE.html
Powell Asks Bush to Reverse Stand on War Captives
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/politics/27DETA.html * http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020126-76636371.htm
A Questionable US Strategy in Southeast Asia
* http://www.feer.com/articles/2002/0201\_31/p019region.html
Feuding Afghan Tribes Said Misleading US Forces
* http://afghan-info.com/afghnews.htm#Feuding
US: Phase II of Our War Will Satisfy India
* http://www.indian-express.com/ie20020125/top1.html
Differences Surface Between India and US: Issues Concerning Pakistan
* http://www.dawn.com/2002/01/24/top2.htm
Warlord Death "Link With Sharon Case" (but then everyone had a motive)
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle\_east/newsid\_1780000/1780946.stm
notice the weird writing style -- you can't quite tell who's being mocked (this sort of diffuse, dissociated nastiness is common in the Washington Times)
* http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20020124-23109880.htm
Will Walker's Statements Be Admitted Against Him?
* http://www.jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/forumnew44.php
Captives and the Law (the underlying problem is the confusion between war and crime)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/opinion/26LEWI.html
Delegations Praise Detainees' Treatment
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40537-2002Jan25.html
The Military Tribunals on Trial (it's amazing how much has been written on this, compared to other things)
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15122
Bush Proposes Tracking System for Noncitizens
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37758-2002Jan25.html
jargon watch: on profiling -- study the anti-logic in the first four paragraphs (this sort of thing is normal on the Journal's opinion pages)
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001778
Operation Enduring Freedom: Why a Higher Rate of Civilian Bombing Casualties
* http://www.comw.org/pda/0201oef.html
Shoe-Bomb Flight: A Trial Run? (informative article from a few weeks ago)
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/06/MN222117.DTL
For the Sufis, Taliban's Fall Means a Revival
Analysis of the Source of the Anthrax Attacks
* http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreport.htm
Irradiated Mail Sickens US Workers (also from a few weeks ago)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/686155.asp
Police in Chechnya Accuse Russia's Troops of Murder
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/international/europe/25CHEC.html?pagewanted=all
new attempts to define peaceful demonstrations as felony "eco-terrorism" (inflated uses of the word "terrorism" are incredibly dangerous)
* http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article\_id=14349
Europeans See Americans "Making Up Rules" on Taliban in Cuba
* http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0124-01.htm
What Is an "Unlawful Combatant", and Why It Matters
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/20020123.html
Strengthening Homeland Security (what they're proposing)
* http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020124-2.html * http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/01/24/rec.bush.mayors/
"aggregators that sell info to the feds aren't liable for its accuracy"
* http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2002/nf20020124\_0582.htm
The New National ID Card Is In Your Wallet
* http://www.privacyfoundation.org/commentary/tipsheet.asp?id=53&action=0
Qaeda Moving Into Indonesia, Officials Fear (but let's not give Indonesia's military too much of an excuse)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/23/international/asia/23INDO.html
Philippine Military Admits It Needs US Help (good details about US military activities in the Philippines)
* http://www.inq7.net/nat/2002/jan/23/nat\_4-1.htm
The al-Qaeda Getaway
* http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?020128fa\_FACT
Pashtun Ire Toward US Grows
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/022/nation/Pashtun\_ire\_toward\_US\_grows+.shtml
conservatives again advocating that we ignore international law (this problem is unfortunately bipartisan)
* http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/810hjeup.asp
the distributed computing project that's working on the anthrax toxin
* http://members.ud.com/projects/anthrax/
Why Bush Deserves His Share of the 9/11 Blame
* http://www.americanprospect.com/webfeatures/2002/01/page-a-01-23.html
The Oliver North and Osama Connection ... or Not (I get so much junk that comes labeled "unbelievable!" -- like, duh)
* http://www.townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/lc20020122.shtml * http://www.northamerican.com/EMAIL\_RESPONSE.htm * http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blnorth.htm * http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/north.htm
Names of Post-September 11th Detainees Not Forthcoming: Justice
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZPP7RBSWC
Treatment of Taliban Raises Concerns, Europeans Say
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/23/international/23CND-DETAIN.html?pagewanted=print
CIA Takes on Major New Military Role
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/020/nation/CIA\_takes\_on\_major\_new\_military\_role+.shtml
St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport Deploys Face Recognition (without mentioning terrorism)
* http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020122/222602\_1.html
National ID in Development ("but enthusiasm for the system appears to be fading, poll says")
* http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/01/22/id-cards.htm
remarkable age skew in a poll on wiretapping
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZCXKPHMWC
more on the tract advocating a massive high-tech surveillance state
* http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173794.html
Uncovering Alleged Government Purchases of Electronic Personal Data
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZLRJGTQWC
East Timor Truth Commission Will Look Into 1974-99 Atrocities (which were much worse than anything in countries that receive more publicity)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000005648jan22.story
Microsoft alleges that software pirates fund terrorists (but the study allegedly proving it isn't online)
* http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,49856,00.html
Conduct of War Is Redefined by Success of Special Forces ("we have more junior level access to important intelligence than ever before")
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/21/international/asia/21FORC.html?pagewanted=all
Oxfam response to Afghanistan (plus interesting documents on reconstruction)
* http://www.oxfam.org/news/afghan.htm
Somali views of "Black Hawk Down"
* http://www.banadir.com/black\_hawk.shtml * http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/22/international/africa/22SOMA.html
Libya "to Pay Damages for Lockerbie"
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=115429
Anthrax Missing From Army Lab
* http://www.ctnow.com/news/specials/hc-detrick0120.artjan20.story * http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.anthrax21jan21.story * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12095-2002Jan20.html
Missing Army Microbes Called Non-Infectious
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15970-2002Jan21.html
When the Cage Bursts (Gaza after Arafat)
jargon watch: it's partly their fault so it's none of ours (this tornado of jargon exemplifies a larger pattern, e.g., in debates on race)
* http://www.city-journal.org/html/12\_1\_why\_the\_muslims.html
more conservative opposition to the national ID card
* http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20020121-166867.htm
huge number of fraudulent drivers' licenses issued by the California DMV (September 2000)
* http://www.ocregister.com/news/features/dmv/dmv00924cci1.shtml
further controversy about the prisoners in Cuba
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/689029.asp * http://makeashorterlink.com/?L21C1215
UK Terror Detentions "Barbaric"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/0,7721,362449,00.html
Anthrax Probe Centers on Labs
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/690133.asp
police rounding up alleged terrorists in Leicester, England
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukresponse/story/0,11017,635966,00.html
jargon watch: "Liberals love erasing the truth" -- it's the new hate (and it's immediately followed by a stream of truth-obliterating fabrications)
* http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20020117.shtml
Using Technology to Detect and Prevent Terrorism (tract advocating a massive, invasive high-tech surveillance state)
* http://www.ndol.org/ndol\_ci.cfm?kaid=124&subid=307&contentid=250070
Invading the Courts: We Don't Need Military "Tribunals" to Sort Out the Guilty (a different precedent than the ones you've heard about)
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZFCHM4LWC
US Troops Set Up Philippines Camp
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/683221.asp
Police Charge Suspected Al-Qaida Chief
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukresponse/story/0,11017,635024,00.html
indictment, US v. Reid
* http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usreid011602ind.html
"in return for security in the region, the US will snap up central Asia's oil"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4336181,00.html
ALERT: National ID Cards from DMV? Protect Your Privacy!
* http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020116\_eff\_dmv\_natl\_id\_alert.html
Airport Chief Reconsiders Face Recognition Technology for Green (after learning that the vendor's claims were overblown)
* http://www.projo.com/cgi-bin/story.pl/news/06877271.htm
What To Do With Al-Qaeda Prisoners
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story\_id=939231
The Chronic Insecurity of the US Nuclear Weapons Complex
* http://www.tompaine.com/op\_ads/opad.cfm?ID=4965
Shoe Bomb Briton Named as Key Agent in Bin Laden's Network
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,634769,00.html
Al Qaeda Trained Bombing Suspect, Indictment Says
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/national/17INQU.html
Spy Trip Log Matches Reid's Travels
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/688607.asp
United States of America v. John Philip Walker Lindh
* http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/uswlindh11502cmp.html
Outfit Banned, But Extremism Survives in Pak
* http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/160102/detnat22.asp
Islam in the United States -- US Deptartment of State
* http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/
Universal Military Training and Service Act of 2001 (search under "bill number" for HR 3598)
* http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c107query.html
The US Is Determined to Dominate the World's Richest New Oil Source
* http://commondreams.org/views02/0113-04.htm
Bush Fuels Oil Conspiracy Theory
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12205
America's Homegrown Terrorists
* http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/01/17/hamm/print.html
"what is really at stake in Mindanao, an island long coveted by Washington?"
* http://www.adobo.com/news/today/article.asp?articleID=35200&newssec=149
What Awaits US "Military Advisers" in Basilan?
* http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/jan/17/top\_stories/20020117top5.html
Unprecedented RP-US Exercise
* http://www.adobo.com/news/today/article.asp?articleID=35189&newssec=143
Keep Out, MILF Warns US, RP Men
* http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/jan/17/top\_stories/20020117top3.html
Jolo Folk Massacre 6 Rangers
* http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/jan/17/top\_stories/20020117top1.html
Anti-Terror Campaign Cloaking Human Rights Abuse
* http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/01/wr2002.htm * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57990-2002Jan16.html * http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3HAO77IWC
US: Geneva Conventions Apply to Guantanamo Detainees (we don't defend people's rights because we like them)
* http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/01/us011102.htm
US Pressed on Detainees' Treatment
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58069-2002Jan16?language=printer
On Defensive, General Says Prisoners Get Mats, Even Bagels (and Froot Loops)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/international/17DETA.html
California Wiretapping Bill Dealt Legal Setback
* http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/wirtap011602.htm
"standard for identification information on driver's license applications"
* http://www.aamva.org/standards/stdAAMVADLIdStandard2000.asp
marvelously language-intensive briefing slides on Army PKI/smart card plans
* http://www.army.mil/disc4/references/Briefings\_Borland/IAC/Borland\_IAC.pdf
manuals for hacking through "social engineering" (why break cryptography when you can just ask people to give you the password?)
* http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/infocus.pl?id=1527 * http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/infocus.pl?id=1533 * http://www.securityfocus.com/guest/5044
Bush, Citing Security, Bans Some Unions at Justice Department (they will use terrorism as an excuse to pursue \any\ agenda)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/16/politics/16UNIO.html
complete archive of presidential directives and executive orders
* http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/direct.htm
Chemical Plants Fail to Cut Hazards as Concerns of Terrorism Grow
* http://www.ombwatch.org/execreport/hazards.html
Activists Document Apparent Chechen Killings
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000004148jan16.story
numerous administration claims about post-Sept. 11th social changes are false (war is not good for you)
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020116/us/attacks\_myths.html
the smear campaign against Barbara Kingsolver (they constantly spread lies about their opponents)
* http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0114-03.htm
Special Forces Sent To Philippines Fight
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51681-2002Jan15.html
CIA Looks to Los Angeles for Would-Be Iranian Spies
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-000003859jan15.story
French conspiracy site about the Pentagon attack (it's got some interesting pictures anyway)
* http://www.reseauvoltaire.net/actu/conflit3.htm
interview with Noam Chomsky (requires subscription)
* http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/01/16/chomsky/print.html
Bush Faces Flak Over Family Links With Winner of US Defence Contract
* http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=114163
"Special Case" INS Detainees Decline, But Not as Fast as Ashcroft Reckons
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZNQ83UGWC
"BlackBerry as an electronic gateway to state and federal criminal databases"
* http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,49740,00.html
ACLU Skewers DMV Proposal As "De Facto" National ID
* http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173656.html
All 50 States Agree to Upgrade Driver's Licenses
Taking "Freedom" Out of the Freedom of Information Act?
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZMG2PQGWC
report from Bagram, Afghanistan
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15102
Manual for a "Raid"
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15106
Terror Suspects Face Credit Card Fraud Charges
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46088-2002Jan14.html
Australian in a Cage, But Still No Answers
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0201/14/world/world1.html
information on the US-Afghanistan Reconstruction Council
* http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2001/afghans/011222.afghans.html
programs relating to Afghan Americans at the Museum of Natural History, NYC
* http://www.amnh.org/education/jan2002/
UK callup of military intelligence reservists
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukresponse/story/0,11017,632455,00.html
Emerging Alternatives in Palestine by Edward Said
* http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/568/op2.htm
unpleasant call for war in India
* http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/jan/14varsha.htm
"conservatives who obstructed Clinton's efforts to fight terrorism are now ..." (requires subscription)
* http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/01/15/clinton/index.html
HHS Secretary Says Agencies Must Speak With One Voice (part of a broad pattern of suppressing scientific opinion within the gov't)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40710-2002Jan13.html
How Politics Helped Redefine the Missile Threat
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40780-2002Jan13.html
States Seek National ID Funds
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41032-2002Jan13.html
State DMVs Plan to Combat License Fraud ("nationalizing driver's license databases raises fears")
* http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/01/14/gen.drivers.license/
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (including information about biometrics and the de facto national ID)
video of an announcement about interlinking of drivers' licenses
* http://www.connectlive.com/events/motorvehicles/
You'll Love Those National ID Cards
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0114/p11s1-coop.html
recent court decision on fingerprint evidence
* http://www.onin.com/fp/daubert\_links3.html#us\_v\_plaza
links to more fingerprint challenges
* http://www.onin.com/fp/daubert\_links.html
New Side to Face-Recognition Technology: Identifying Victims
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/15/science/physical/15FACE.html
more on the tribunals against Nazi saboteurs in 1942 (the problem with war is that strong feelings lead to dangerous precedents)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16626-2002Jan8.html
Flight Crews Will Get Training in Self-Defense
* http://www.miami.com/herald/content/business/digdocs/041248.htm
paper on the consequences of 9/11 for the concept of international security
* http://www.aicgs.org/topics/911/911arora.shtml
Saudi-Backed Web Supports Terrorism, Book Asserts
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000003303jan13.story
story about a firefighter who was pulled alive from the World Trade Center
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/magazine/13SHEA.html?pagewanted=all
Afghanistan/USA: Prisoners Must Be Treated Humanely (we don't defend people's rights because we like them)
* http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index/AMR510042002?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIES\USA * http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,628354,00.html
Nuremberg Documents Online
* http://camlaw.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/nuremberg.htm
more on the assassination of an American gun control activist
* http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-000003204jan13.story
left-wing radio archives
* http://www.radio4all.net/view.php * http://nyc.indymedia.org:8081/audio/ * http://www.microradio.net/audioarchive.html
the suicide pilot in Tampa was a Young Republican (by jargon logic this means that all Republicans are moral degenerates)
* http://www.sptimes.com/2002/01/12/TampaBay/Family\_paints\_pilot\_a.shtml
Somalia Assails US Terror Allegations
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000002973jan12.story
India Puts Its No Nonsense Face Forward
* http://www.timesofindia.com/Articleshow.asp?art\_id=959433914
In the Pit, Dark Relics and Last Obstacles
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/nyregion/13SITE.html?pagewanted=print
Video Captures September 11th Horror in Raw Replay
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/12/nyregion/12TAPE.html
firefighters' call for a World Trade Center investigation
We Must Try to Find Out Why the Twin Towers Fell
* http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.towers03jan03.story
ABC News Special Report: "Planes Crash Into World Trade Center" (transcript) (from a conspiracy site, but I have no reason to believe it's wrong)
* http://emperor.vwh.net/9-11backups/abc911.htm
Escort of Hijacked Aircraft
* http://faa.gov/ATpubs/MIL/Ch7/mil0701.html#7-1-2
Aircraft Piracy (Hijacking) and Destruction of Derelict Airborne Objects
* http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/cjcsd/cjcsi/3610\_01a.pdf
Why Grammar Is the First Casualty of War
* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F12%2F01%2Fnterry01.xml
Reconstructing Afghanistan on Oil and Gas
* http://atimes.com/c-asia/CK24Ag01.html
indictment, US v. Rubin and Krugel (JDL people)
* http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/jdl/usrubin011002ind.pdf
Pentagon Proposed Pretexts for Cuba Invasion in 1962 ("may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the US government")
* http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/
New Cockpit Door Standards Issued
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000002971jan12.story
US Selling Papers Showing How to Make Germ Weapons
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/national/13GERM.html?pagewanted=print
Al Qaeda Feared To Be Lurking In Indonesia
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28483-2002Jan10.html
Oil Negotiations with Taliban May Have Interfered With Efforts to Get Bin Laden (I'm not persuaded yet about these particular accusations)
* http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/09/ltm.06.html * http://tiger.berkeley.edu/sohrab/politics/taliban+us.html
speech by FBI agent who later resigned because FBI wasn't fighting terrorism (he died in the World Trade Center attack weeks later)
* http://www.nationalstrategy.com/speakers/oneill.html
The Ghost of Terror Past (more on Otto Reich and the double standard that everyone knows about but us)
* http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/01/11/reich/print.html
German claims that the US translation of the bin Laden video was faked (I have no opinion -- second URL is a rough English translation)
* http://www.wdr.de/tv/monitor/beitraege.phtml?id=379 * http://www.overthrow.com/lsn/news.asp?fileName=lsn20011227115448.html
Saudi Arabia's Anti-American Fiction
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/010/oped/Saudi\_Arabia\_s\_anti\_American\_fiction+.shtml
The Rise of Complex Terrorism
* http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue\_janfeb\_2002/homer-dixon.html
US acknowledges that missile attacks are less likely than numerous others
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28446-2002Jan10.html
The John Ashcroft Players Present: Our Bill of Rights (the current arguments are precisely how authoritarian regimes get started)
* http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2002/01/10/boll/ * http://www.miami.com/herald/content/opinion/opcol/digdocs/100595.htm
A Wiretap In Every Home (replicating the Patriot Act in the states, starting alas with California)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22888-2002Jan9.html
The Summit on Privacy, Security and Safety, New York, 5-6 March 2002
* http://www.globalprivacysummit.net/
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
* http://www.btselem.org/index.asp
The Complex World of Iranian News
* http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=680 * http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=679
A War of Loose Ends
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/international/asia/10STRA.html
New US Envoy to Kabul Lobbied for Taliban Oil Rights (he's of Afghan descent, but he's a conservative Republican first)
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia\_china/story.jsp?story=113662
Taleban in Texas for Talks With Unocal on Gas Pipeline (1997)
* http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/west\_asia/newsid\_37000/37021.stm
Unocal Corporate Charter Revocation Action Center (they were negotiating with the Taliban, deal with Burma, etc etc)
* http://heed.home.igc.org/charter/revoke.html * http://heed.home.igc.org/charter/updates/update09.html
US Efforts to Make Peace Summed Up by "Oil"
* http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/1119/wor8.htm
Arms Buildup Is a Boon to Carlyle Group
* http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-000002484jan10.story
Carlyle's Way
* http://events.redherring.com/vc/2002/0111/947.html
Ravaged Psyches in a Generation of Fighting
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/09/international/asia/09HOSP.html?pagewanted=print
Wave of US Immigration Likely to Survive September 11th (glad to hear it -- immigration now has strong support across the spectrum)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000002482jan10.story
Security Poor at International Terminals (does anybody have a URL for this report?)
* http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/NEWS/01/10/airport.inspections.ap/
The National ID Card That Isn't, Yet
* http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,191857,00.html
The PR-Driven Heritage Foundation Homeland Security Task Force Report
* http://www.heritage.org/homelanddefense/welcome.html
New Attorney General FOIA Memorandum Issued
* http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/foiapost/2001foiapost19.htm
Media's Patriotism Provides a Shield for Bush (Bush states goals and tells his people to do anything to achieve them)
* http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpkon092542652jan09.story
Invisible War on Terror Accelerates Worldwide
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000001651jan07.story
"why militant Islamicists in Central Asia aren't going to go away"
* http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?020114fa\_FACT
Dubyaman cartoon
* http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articlelist.asp?catkey=920152620&daysactive=365
war news links
* http://globalsecurity.org/military/ops/enduring-freedom-links.htm
liberal war opinion
* http://www.alternet.org/issues/index.html?IssueAreaID=26
Media Education Foundation (video of interviews about the war with liberal leaders)
* http://mediaed.sitepassport.net/btf
large collection of left-wing war resources
* http://www.utoronto.ca/csus/pm/
FBI Reorganizes to Combat Terrorism and Cybercrime
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ8CNAY6WC
Political Dissent Can Bring Federal Agents to Door
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0108/p1s4-usju.html
Airlines Test Out "Clean" Lists
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0108/p1s2-woeu.html
National ID: Beware What You Wish For
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000001978jan09.story
resources on national ID cards
* http://www.epic.org/privacy/id\_cards/
Sensor Networks, San Diego, 22 February 2002
* http://www.soe.ucsd.edu/Research\_Review/
Trade Organization Says Anthrax Treatment Kills Memory Cards
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/683805.asp
New Virus First to Infect Shockwave Flash (we are living in the Stone Age)
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8410601.html
"researcher claims hacker could steal funds from Citibank's c2it.com"
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/683646.asp
how to make an electromagnetic bomb (though I don't know how credible the source is)
* http://popularmechanics.com/science/military/2001/9/e-bomb/print.phtml
Homeland Security, Homeland Profits
* http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=1108
US May Store, Not Destroy, Warheads Cut in Accord (their word means nothing)
* http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2002/01/09/national/NUCLEAR09.htm
The Day Ashcroft Censored Freedom of Information
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/06/ED125108.DTL
Bush's attempt to keep his gubernatorial records secret despite Texas Law
* http://www.citizen.org/litigation/briefs/FOIAGovtSec/articles.cfm?ID=6638
An Executive Order Richard Nixon Would Love
* http://historynewsnetwork.org/articles/article.html?id=494
Remote Afghans Are Slowly Starving
* http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2002/01/07/bonavash/
Good And Bad Terrorism?
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/mariner/20020107.html
Our Own Terror Cells (requires paid subscription)
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/01/08/army\_of\_god/print.html
The Necessity of Fear (no comment)
* http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2001-12-28.htm
excellent rant about the incompetent FBI and the malevolent Saudis (Hitchens should stick to ranting at people who deserve it)
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020121&s=hitchens
stuff that that West got from Islam
* http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/01/08/alphabet/print.html
Still Digging for Lost Sons After a Million Tons of Pain
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/08/nyregion/08GHOS.html
Tribunal Injustice (shortcomings even of the leaked improvements to the tribunal plans)
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020121&s=schwartz
Has John Walker's Religious Quest Convinced the Administration to Go Easy? (he's a fool at best, but as far as I can tell they have no proof of a crime)
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20020103.html
Saudis Freed From US Jails Claim Maltreatment (but apparently give few details)
* http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2002/01/08/FFXZULX45WC.html
Upgraded Driver's Licenses Are Urged as National ID's
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/08/national/08LICE.html
Nuclear Threat Initiative
US Military Reportedly in Somalia (we're in another secret global war, just like the Cold War)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/670355.asp * http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid\_1702000/1702338.stm
Hunt for Twenty Terror Ships (hey, maybe we'll do something about the "flags of convenience" system)
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,624196,00.html
Al-Jazeera Interview With Top Al-Qa'ida Leader Abu Hafs "The Mauritanian"
* http://www.memri.org/sd/SP31301.html
The Political Life of Pakistan's General Babar (May 2001) (interview with Interior Minister who coordinated support of the Taliban)
* http://www.defencejournal.com/globe/2001/may/babar.htm
Afghanistan Media Dossier 2002 (review of psychological warfare operations)
* http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/html/afghan\_us.html
State Department Works to Create Brand of the Free
* http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1101/111601nj2.htm
Occidentalism (Islamist anti-Westernism compared with the early 20th C Japanese far right)
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15100
The Trouble With the CIA
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15109
"the American embrace of terrorism was global"
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64907-2002Jan4.html
Firefighter Mag Raps 9/11 Probe
* http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-01-04/News\_and\_Views/City\_Beat/a-137143.asp
Clipper to Carnivore: Balancing Privacy, Law Enforcement and Industry Interests
* http://papers.tcnj.edu/papers/040/040003ReganPrisc.pdf
jargon watch: attacking due process by presupposing that the accused are guilty (the whole point of a trial is to determine whether they're terrorists or not)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000001279jan06.story
The Rule of Law: Indispensable to a Wider War
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64889-2002Jan4.html
Drawing a Blank: The Failure of Facial Recognition Technology in Tampa, Florida
* http://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy/drawing\_blank.pdf
Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (1997)
* http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/commissions/secrecy/
"nuclear industry ignored warnings that reactors were vulnerable to terrorism"
* http://www.motherjones.com/magazine/JF02/nuclear\_denial.html
Politics vs. Air Safety
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000001254jan06.story
War Command Center in US, Thanks to IT Advances
* http://www.newsbytes.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=newsbytes&story.id=173237
Gul Agha Gets His Province Back
* http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/magazine/06WARLORD.html?pagewanted=all
A Body and Spirit Broken by the Taliban
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64452-2002Jan4.html
Worries of al-Qaida in Somalia
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020104/wl/attacks\_somalia\_1.html
Muslims and the West After September 11
* http://www.nautilus.org/fora/Special-Policy-Forum/43\_Hoodbhoy.html
report critical of the DoE's inspection of nuclear weapons
* http://www.ig.doe.gov/pdf/ig-0535.pdf
History of "Buffer Overflow" Security Problems -- especially in C (maybe you have to be a computer person to realize what an outrage they are)
* http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.84.html#subj10
w00w00's Instant Message: Listen Up, AOL
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64274-2002Jan4.html
ACLU Frowns on Face-Recognition Tool
* http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5101223,00.html
Euro Bank Notes to Embed RFID Chips by 2005 (this makes it more likely that everything else will embed RFID chips)
* http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011219S0016
Bin Laden's Special Complaint With the World Trade Center
* http://slate.msn.com//?id=2060207
13 More Bodies Recovered at World Trade Center Site
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000000634jan03.story
The War in Afghanistan by Noam Chomsky
* http://www.zmag.org/lakdawalalec.htm
Timeline of Competition between Unocal and Bridas for the Afghanistan Pipeline
* http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline\_timeline.htm
Human Rights and Terrorism in the Central Asian OSCE Member States
* http://www.ihf-hr.org/reports/Bishkek/FirstPages.pdf * http://www.ihf-hr.org/reports/Bishkek/Terrorism%20report%20final.pdf
Battling Islamic "Puritans"
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000000283jan02.story * http://www.law.ucla.edu/Faculty/Bios/abouelfadl/
Anti-Occupation Activists Question US Aid
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0152/solomon.php
hopelessness of the Middle East
* http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?020107fa\_FACT1
al-Qaeda cell in the Philippines
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14725-2001Dec21.html
Indian military's propaganda site about Kashmir
* http://www.armyinkashmir.org/
FBI May Use Keystroke-Recording Device Without Wiretap Order
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZDRC3TZVC
Staffing at US-Canadian Border Cut Despite Concerns
* http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134385637\_border01m.html
Digital Images Will Verify Identity of Visitors to US
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000000278jan02.story
Computer in Kabul Holds Chilling Memos
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/679996.asp
Terror Cells Survived Hasty "Mopping Up"
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/364/nation/Terror\_cells\_survived\_hasty\_mopping\_up\_+.shtml
Blame Is Hotly Disputed in Shoe-Bomb Case
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/364/nation/Blame\_is\_hotly\_disputed\_in\_shoe\_bomb\_case+.shtml
For Yemen, a Risk and an Opportunity
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49493-2002Jan1.html
large collection of war images and video
* http://www.msnbc.com/modules/wtc/refdesk/multimedia.asp
The Legacy of the Taliban Is a Sad and Broken Land
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/31/international/asia/31TALI.html?pagewanted=print
"aid workers say they are in awe of the fortitude of the Afghans"
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000103449dec31.story
For Muslims, Bin Laden's Star Is Fading as Quickly as It Rose
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000103444dec31.story
Two Worlds Paired by War
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/31/international/asia/31DIAR.html?pagewanted=all
radio story about the Newfoundlanders who cared for passengers grounded on 9/11
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011231.atc.07.ram
Emerging From the Wreckage Not a Hero, but a Better Man
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000103442dec31.story
UN Fears Abuses of Terror Mandate
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000000281jan02.story
ACLU Exec Voices Concerns
* http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,49317,00.html
The FBI's House Calls (people being reported as criminals for expressing dissent)
* http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1218-07.htm
Ashcroft's Hypocrisy
* http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/1/schrag-p.html
information commissioner quitting over UK's draconian anti-terrorist laws
* http://politics.guardian.co.uk/westminster/story/0,9134,626196,00.html
IMTs: Support in Any Emergency
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42665-2001Dec30.html
Louis Freeh's legacy of insularity and incompetence at the FBI (Republicans protected him because he fed their scandal machine)
* http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/1/franklin-d.html
"New" US War: Commandos, Airstrikes and Allies on the Ground
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/29/international/29STRA.html?pagewanted=all
Many Say US Planned for Terror but Failed to Take Action
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/national/30TERR.html?pagewanted=print
How a Report on Terrorism Flew Under the Radar
* http://www.cjr.org/year/01/6/evans.asp
MI5 Blunders Over Bomber
* http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,625833,00.html
The Making of a Human Timebomb
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,625823,00.html
Bush to Ignore Rule on Written Notices of Intelligence Actions
* http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=uspolitics\_news.ht&s=APCz2EBapQnVzaCB0
Seeking an Arab View of News
* http://www.sunspot.net/technology/bal-te.journal27dec27.column
How Islam Lost Its Way (a call for secularism)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37263-2001Dec28.html
Pak, India to Exchange List of Nuclear Facilities
* http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art\_Id=1077264592
"Plan Colombia" Leads the US Into the Heart of Darkness
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000103060dec30.story
Missile Defense: The Untold Story
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/29/opinion/29KELL.html
Healing After Terror
* http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0111/article/011103.html
right-wing claim that Israeli spies breached the feds' wiretapping system (I have no idea whether it's true; the news is simply that they're claiming it)
* http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/18/224826.shtml
Security Overhaul for Wireless Networks
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid\_1723000/1723171.stm
Military Action Against Terror Begins (it's official: we're engaged in secret war around the world)
* http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-beyond-afghanistan1227dec26.story
Taliban's Victims Face Dire Winter
* http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-51/reg/talibans\_victims\_face.htm
US Bombs Leave Wasteland
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0112280295dec28.story
How We Could Still Lose in Afghanistan
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/362/oped/How\_we\_could\_still\_lose\_in\_Afghanistan+.shtml
the ugliness of blaming all liberals for John Walker (and the vile Weekly Standard now says that al-Qaeda is just another NGO)
Terror Cells Slip Through Europe's Grasp
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/28/international/europe/28EURO.html?pagewanted=all
Holy War Lured Saudis as Rulers Looked Away
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/international/middleeast/27SAUD.html?pagewanted=all
"news that doesn't make it into mainstream media" (links mostly relating to the war, with summaries)
* http://www.prng.net/asimov/Current
analyzing national ID card proposals (e.g., "what problem are IDs trying to solve?")
* http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0112.html#1
Mubarak Says Military Trials Were Always "Right" Policy (using US and UK abrogation of civil liberties to justify its own repression)
* http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-51/eg/mubarak\_says\_military.htm
press unfreedom in the US as seen from Egypt (not that they are claiming to be remotely free)
* http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/564/12war.htm
jargon watch: opposition to racial profiling is a "war on the police" (dissolve the issue into blurry concepts and issue wild accusations)
* http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/723rvluh.asp
"Backflow" Water-Line Attack Feared (I had no idea)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/678279.asp
The Iraq Hawks: Can Their War Plan Work?
* http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?011224fa\_FACT
Rights Activists Worry Over US-Indonesia Military Ties
Language of War Claims Its Own Victims by Umberto Eco
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/26/opinion/opinion4.html
Laughable Campaign to Alter Muslims' Image of US Falls Short
Afghan Journalism's Postwar Mission (someone should help the United States build an independent press too)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/26/opinion/26BORD.html
Tracking Bioterror's Tangled Course
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/26/national/26ANTH.html?pagewanted=all
Sanaa Seeks to Bring Home Up to 500 Yemeni Fighters From Afghanistan
* http://www.yementimes.com/01/iss52/ln.htm#2
President Ali Saleh: Yemen Supports Hamas Operations
* http://www.albawaba.com/headlines/TheNews.php3?action=story&sid=195117⟨=e&dir=news
Yemen news and resources
* http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/
extensive Yemen links from the local phone company
Yemen Times Online
Critics' Attack on Tribunals Turns to Law Among Nations
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/26/national/26LAW.html?pagewanted=print
secret arrests and military tribunals make us less safe, not more
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/25/opinion/25SHAT.html
that 1942 Court decision on tribunals wasn't supposed to be a precedent either
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ9R42KIVC
more on face recognition cameras
* http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20011220.html
Al-Qaeda Were Among Convoy Dead: Afghan Minister
* http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/12/25/FFX1SSFUGVC.html
US Finds Bin Laden's Uranium
* http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/2001/12/25/FFX7B5S4LVC.html
Former Minister Says Fugitive Taliban Leaders Living Life of Luxury in Pakistan
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,624586,00.html
Would-Be Suicide Bomber Not Sri Lankan: Colombo
* http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/12/25/FFXSP5S4LVC.html
Shoe Bomb Graphic (sports shoes are full of compartments and electronics, so it's evolution)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/graphic/0,5812,624724,00.html
information on plastic explosive C-4
* http://www.army.dnd.ca/LFWA\_HQ/Documents/Facts/FS-C4.doc * http://www.llnl.gov/str/Kury.html * http://news.excite.ca/news/cp/011222/22/c-4-a-powerful * http://archive.dumpshock.com/ArchiveShowArticle.php3?ID=548
how to make C-4 (supposedly) (don't try this at home)
* http://www.strange-days.demon.co.uk/anarchy/bomb/aspbomb.html
Next Up: Saddam (Saddam is a bad dude, but the bottom line is there's nothing much we can do)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/677077.asp
a claim that even \Sudan\ is now our ally (say it's not so)
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0151/hentoff.php
Why Not Spare Somalia the Ravages of War
* http://allafrica.com/stories/200112230006.html
Army Harvested Victims' Blood to Boost Anthrax
* http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.md.detrick23dec23.story
Terrorism and the Present Danger: A Perspective for the American Left
* http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portside/message/1688
America the Unready
* http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=917304
Threat of National ID
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/24/opinion/24SAFI.html
ECE Team Helps Build the Ultimate Surveillance System (a small window on the world of research about sensor fusion for surveillance)
* http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ece/newsletter/2001-2002\_fallwinter/sensor.html
shouting down a speaker is freedom of speech! (imagine how lost someone would have to be to write this letter)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000101745dec24.story
jargon watch: accusing people of the views that they are arguing against (they do this constantly: spreading lies through their media echo chamber)
* http://www.dailyhowler.com/h122201\_1.shtml
Opportunism in the Face of Tragedy (survey of repression in the name of anti-terrorism in a dozen countries)
* http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/september11/opportunismwatch.htm
Passenger Describes Helping Subdue Man Trying to Set Fire to Shoe on Jetliner
* http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20011223\_126.html
Flight Instructor Warned FBI of Use of Jet as a Weapon
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000101662dec23.story * http://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/913687.html
Little Change in Security
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17806-2001Dec22.html
the Red Cross as a study in organizational pathology
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/23/magazine/23REDCROSS.html?pagewanted=all
Muslims Must Not Leave Their Message to Oprah
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/24/opinion/opinion4.html
Did Kohl Around Bin Laden's Eyes Poison His Brain? (I have no idea)
* http://unisci.com/stories/20014/1221016.htm
A Nation's Children Forge a Shared Memory
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000101656dec23.story
Trade Center Site Becomes Evolving World of Its Own (read this) ("ironworkers are the unsung heroes, according to everyone else at the site")
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000101658dec23.story
issues in rebuilding the World Trade Center
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/23/arts/design/23MUSC.html?pagewanted=all
Horn of Africa: al-Qaida Regroups?
* http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/12/06horn
UK Warships Raise Fears of Anti-Terror Campaign in Somalia
* http://www.countrywatch.com/files/158/cw\_wire.asp?vCOUNTRY=158&UID=655254
news from Somalia (may crash Netscape)
* http://allafrica.com/somalia/newswire/
Somalia news site based in Toronto
The Campaign Against Terrorism: Prospects After the Fall of the Taliban
* http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2001/rp01-112.pdf
Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq
* http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/
International Federation of Iranian Refugees
Pashtuns Have Cornered Omar "And Will Lynch Him"
* http://www.paknews.com/specialNews.php?id=392&date1=2001-12-20
US Inquiry Tried, but Failed, to Link Iraq to Anthrax Attack
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/national/22INQU.html?pagewanted=print
Compound 1080: Invisible Threat?
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/674131.asp * http://www.google.com/search?q=sodium+monoflouroacetate&btnG=Google+Search
History in the News: Middle East History, Society, and Culture Resources
* http://www.albany.edu/history/middle-east/
Yemen Pursues Hunt for Bin Laden Fighters After 17 Killed
* http://www.albawaba.com/headlines/TheNews.php3?action=story&sid=194454⟨=e&dir=news * http://www.albawaba.com/headlines/TheNews.php3?action=story&sid=194275⟨=e&dir=news
Yemen: Map and CIA Fact Book
* http://www.worldswitch.com/Countries/Yemen/Map.html * http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ym.html
Somalia: Map and CIA Fact Book
* http://www.worldswitch.com/Countries/Somalia/Map.html * http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/so.html
Philippine War's New Front
* http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15303-2001Dec21.html
Philippines: Map and CIA Fact Book
* http://www.worldswitch.com/Countries/Philippines/Map.html * http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/rp.html
Flight School Warned FBI of Suspicions
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/national/22PILO.html?pagewanted=print
Database Flaws Could Hamper Any National ID System, Experts Warn
* http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/story1a122001.html
"Voluntary" Police Interviews of Middle-Easterners Are Wrongful and Ineffective
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20011217\_ramasastry.html
White Paper on the Assassination of Union Leader Casimiro Huanca
* http://www.narconews.com/warlog.html
Architects Ask, "What Did I Do to Cause This?"
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000101120dec21.story
Bin Laden Translation Omitted Sections That Would Embarrass Saudi Arabia
* http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1220-06.htm
Broad Effort Launched After '98 Attacks
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62725-2001Dec18?language=printer * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3616-2001Dec19.html
leftist rant against thoughtless leftist opposition to the war (in the old days, the left couldn't wait to make war on fascists)
* http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/05/dissonnance-cooper.shtml
Voices From Behind the Veil
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1219/p1s3-wogi.html
long two-part radio story about Arabs' views of the United States
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011220.atc.06.ram * http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011220.atc.07.ram
Why Are They So Angry At Us?
* http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/resentment/
entertaining rant about Osama bin Laden
* http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20011217/COSPIDER
FBI Investigates Possible Financial Motive in Anthrax Attacks
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9523-2001Dec20.html
the United States harbors terrorists (you will recall that George Bush even pardoned one of them)
* http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2001-12-20/feature.html/1/index.html
very creepy interview with the guy who's implanting ID chips of people (you must hear his list of potential scenarios for using them)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011219.atc.05.ram
A Pitch for Smart Postal Stamps (someone's law: everything in the world is growing a digital shadow)
* http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,49186,00.html
Smarter Driver's Licenses (someone else's law: say no to anything that's "smart")
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000100654dec20.story
"a look at the FBI's computer surveillance scheme"
* http://www.sfbg.com/News/36/12/fbi.html
jargonheads think in stereotypes so primitive that one fact can prove anything (it's a wonder they can feed themselves)
* http://www.dailyhowler.com/h121901\_1.shtml
Omar in the High Country Where Opium Flowers Grow
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/19/world/world2.html
Graphic: Taliban in Prisons in Afghan
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/19/world/graphic1.html
Chemical, Nuclear Plans Found in Training Camp
* http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/351/nation/Designs\_of\_mass\_destruction+.shtml * http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/alqaedaman1.pdf * http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/alqaedaman2.pdf * http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/alqaedaman3.pdf * http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/alqaedaman4.pdf
Yemen Said to Attack Suspected Bin Laden Supporters
* http://news.findlaw.com/international/s/20011218/attackyemendc.html * http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle\_east/newsid\_1717000/1717461.stm
claim that the bin Laden tape doesn't legally prove his guilt
* http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20011215/877925.html&qs=alan%20dershowitz
Psyching Out the Taliban (but then Americans have been subject to psychological warfare for years)
* http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/691yjwkt.asp
Kabul's Footballers Gear Up
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1712000/1712962.stm
Economic Impact of Terrorist Attack
* http://www.tcf.org/Publications/terrorism\_fs.pdf
signals surveillance technology in Afghanistan
* http://www.aviationnow.com/content/publication/awst/20011217/avi\_news.htm
German Firm Probes Final World Trade Center Deals
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011216/ts/attack\_wtc\_germany\_dc\_1.html
claim that investigations of Clinton kept the FBI from stopping terror
* http://www.kiosk2000.com/dconline/warnings.htm
The John Walker Attack on Liberalism
* http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20011217.html
Generosity, Harry Potter, and the Fight Against Evil
* http://homepage.mac.com/paulcollins/lostinracine.html
Official: CIA Uses Anthrax, But No Link to Letters
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/16/cia.anthrax/
"what we still don't know about anthrax"
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/express/orent121101.html
Anthrax's Dogged Detective
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000100028dec17.story
US Overstates Arrests in Terrorism (once again, inflating the word terrorism to include almost everything)
* http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/12/16/front\_page/terror16.htm
Ghost of a Tribunal Should Haunt Ashcroft
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000099964dec17.story
"firm plans to sell implantable ID devices that can store data about you"
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000100545dec19.story
Coercive and Illegal Tactics Torpedo Scores of Cook County Murder Cases
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-0112160363dec16.story * http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0112170210dec17.story
claim that the FBI is trying to get data stolen by the BadTrans worm
* http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/189387.html
Experts Say Decision Could Undermine Online Journalists
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/technology/circuits/14CYBERLAW.html
Graduation Speech Cut Short by Hecklers
* http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/1335122p-1404788c.html * http://www.csus.edu/commence/addresses.html * http://www.csus.edu/news/121701commencements.htm
Will Spyware Work?
* http://www.techreview.com/magazine/dec01/hoganall.asp
The NRC: What, Me Worry?
* http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2002/jf02/jf02hirsch.html
"Above the Law": An Interview With Greg Palast
* http://www.guerrillanews.com/counter\_intelligence/doc233.html
Asymmetrical Politics
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/672473.asp
The Struggle for the Soul of the 21st Century by Bill Clinton
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/news\_comment/dimbleby/clinton.shtml
community values showing up in focus groups
* http://www.americanprospect.com/print/V12/22/greenberg-s.html
Media Research Center admits that it attacks anyone it disagrees with
* http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/2001/12/121701\_Media\_Research\_Center.html
Conservatives Quiet on Falwell Remarks (not all quiet, but still)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/673639.asp
Falwell Is Raising Money to Press Conservative Family Agenda (I guess we'll see how many people agree with him about God and 9/11)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/national/14FALW.html
What Walker Knows -- And What He Faces (if Walker represents all liberals then McVeigh represents all conservatives)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/673497.asp
explanation of the war etc for children (bottom half of this page)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/kidspost/
"DO NOT USE wire stories which lead with civilian casualties"
* http://www.poynter.org/medianews/memos.htm#casualties
Psychological Operations (PSYOP) in Time of Military Conflict
* http://cryptome.org/dsb-psyop.htm
MEMRI "spreads calumny in an effort to stir up malice toward Muslims"
* http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=668
The Carlyle Group
* http://www.carlylegroup.com/
more on government LSD experiments during the Cold War
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34204-2001Dec12.html
Japan Broke US Code Before Pearl Harbor, Researcher Finds
* http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-120701codes.story
Capitol Hill Anthrax Matches Army's Stocks
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49502-2001Dec15.html
US Scientists Deplore Army's Silence on Anthrax Program
* http://www.iht.com/articles/41998.htm
Wind May Explain Mystery Anthrax Cases
* http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991697
New Anti-Terror Law Brings Consternation
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000099912dec16.story
The Supreme Court Case Cited in Support of Military Tribunals
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20011211.html
A Dangerous List to the Right (finally, conservative -- albeit Democratic -- dissent from the ACTA list)
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/09/IN162710.DTL
Ashcroft's Protection of the Rights of Possible Terrorists to Possess Firearms
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/20011210.html
State Backs Off Crackdown at DMV
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000099873dec16.story
Fraudulent Passports Key Weapon for Terrorists
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000099859dec16.story
National ID Card Gaining Support
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52300-2001Dec16.html
derivative article endorsing a totalitarian society of ubiquitous surveillance (with the usual bogus claim that the powerful will magically be surveilled too)
* http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/surveillance\_pr.html
Chemical Plants Are Feared as Terrorist Targets (community groups have been raised concerns about these plants for years)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47114-2001Dec15.html
Nuclear Sites Ill-Prepared For Attacks, Group Says (would anything short of a police state be adequate to protect them?)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/17/national/17SECU.html?pagewanted=print
Ten Commandments Become Weapon in Church-State Battle (you'd think that theocracy would be a little bit out of style right now)
* http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/1173825
In Case of Terrorist Attack (guide for CEO's)
* http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2001/12/06/boll/
Republicans won't rebuild New York because it votes Democratic
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/16/magazine/16SENATORS.html?pagewanted=all
Saudi Clans Working With US Oil Firms May Be Tied to Bin Laden
* http://www.bostonherald.com/news/americas\_new\_war/side12102001.htm
Bush Advisers Cashed In on Saudi Gravy Train
* http://www.bostonherald.com/news/americas\_new\_war/saud12112001.htm
The White House Connection: Saudi "Agents" Close Bush Friends
* http://www.bostonherald.com/news/americas\_new\_war/akin1112001.htm
How We Lost Afghanistan
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0150/rall.php
US Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting
* http://seattle.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/herold.pdf
Transcript of Bin Laden Videotape
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/672063.asp
the videotape itself
* http://play.rbn.com/?url=ap/nynyt/g2demand/1213osama\_tape.rm&proto=rtsp&mode=compact
Farewell Message from Azzam Publications
* http://66.96.205.195/~azzam/html/articleworldwarthree.htm
program about Israeli/Palestinian conflict through the lives of children
* http://www.promisesproject.org/
Army Working on Weapons-Grade Anthrax
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34707-2001Dec12.html
FBI Queries Expert Who Sees Federal Lab Tie in Anthrax Cases
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/national/14ANTH.html
FBI Confirms "Magic Lantern" Project Exists
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8160201.html
Wounded Army Captain Details Teamwork Against Taliban
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22725-2001Dec10.html
How Many Dead? Major Networks Aren't Counting
* http://www.fair.org/activism/afghanistan-casualties.html
US in Secret Move to Widen War on Terror
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/11/world/world102.html
Fear of US Strikes Grips Somalia
* http://allafrica.com/stories/200112110090.html
Kabul Deal Promotes Regional Stability?
* http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/rca/rca\_200112\_92\_1\_eng.txt
US Ties to Saudi Elite May Be Hurting War on Terrorism
* http://www.bostonherald.com/news/americas\_new\_war/saud12102001.htm
try to follow the logic of these headache-inducing columns from the Wash. Times (they're about John Walker, or about Judaism being a "grey area", or something)
* http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/ed-column-200112715345.htm * http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/ed-column-200112715360.htm
John Walker Lindh's alleged Usenet postings
* http://groups.google.com/groups?q=doodoo@hooked.net&hl=en
indictment, US v. Moussaoui (everyone's wondering why this French citizen isn't getting a military tribunal)
* http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/moussaoui1201.pdf
Central Casting's "Terrorist" Studies, and Then Warns
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/12/arts/12ACTO.html?pagewanted=print
Engineers Study WTC Destruction
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011212/us/attacks\_fireproofing\_1.html
Massport to Test High-Tech ID Check
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/346/metro/Massport\_to\_test\_high\_tech\_ID\_check+.shtml * http://www.msnbc.com/news/671633.asp
review of new biometric products
* http://www.gcn.com/20\_34/news/17626-1.html
Rumsfeld Wants Every Member of al Qaeda Imprisoned (it's hard to be sympathetic to al Qaeda, but what precedent does this set?)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28521-2001Dec11.html
Antivirus Firms: FBI Is Out of Line
* http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100528,00.html * http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8134814.html
McCarthyism Watch (everyone please grow up!)
* http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxmc120801.html
Orders to Purge Records Have Librarians Worried
* http://web.star-telegram.com/content/fortworth/2001/12/08/topstory/fw010102-1208-XA001-security.htm
Conservatives Set Sights on Senator Leahy (this is so vile)
* http://www.thehill.com/121201/leahy.shtm
here is one of the alerts (you wouldn't know from it that they've already given him massive authority)
* http://www.conservativehq.com/activist/60second/action/12-12-01.htm
Pat Robertson's nasty treatment of Islam
* http://www.cbn.com/SpiritualLife/understandingislam/IslamUnveiled.asp
Military Wary of Topographic Map's Release
* http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,49033,00.html
Recent Safety Hazards at Aging Nuclear Plants
* http://www.ocregister.com/sitearchives/2001/12/9/news/nukeax01209cci5.shtml
DOE Amends Rules on Nevada Nuclear Waste Site
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22799-2001Dec10.html
Sociological Research on September 11th
* http://www.socresonline.org.uk/6/3/contents.html
Norah Vincent isn't just stupid -- she's evil (watch her project her own indiscriminate hatred into the people she hates)
* http://www.salon.com/news/col/vincent/2001/12/12/palestinian/
Kandahar on Brink of Chaos as Warlords Ready for Battle
* http://www.observer.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1501,615929,00.html
Two Hundred Peacekeepers, Too Many Warlords
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/10/opinion/opinion2.html
The Unseen Side of the Inter-Afghan Talks in Germany
* http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/12/06/FFXTGCUEVUC.html
In Baltimore, an Afghan Restaurateur Fights Against the Taliban (two of Karzai's brothers run Helmand Afghan restaurants)
* http://www.citypaper.com/2001-09-26/mobs.html
How My Friend Outwitted the Mullahs
* http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/08/wfall308.xml * http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,615225,00.html
Video Shows CIA Threatened to Let Prisoner Be Killed
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia\_china/story.jsp?story=108988 * http://www.msnbc.com/news/668588.asp * http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001560012-2001565689,00.html
Working With the CIA
* http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/01winter/jones.htm
translated excerpts from alleged al-Qaeda Training Manual
* http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/manualpart1.pdf
My Beating by Refugees Is a Symbol of the Hatred and Fury of This Filthy War
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia\_china/story.jsp?dir=71&story=109257&host=3&printable=1 * http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1699000/1699708.stm
articles relating to Afghanistan humanitarian issues
Taliban Ex-Allies Air Few Regrets
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/343/nation/Taliban\_ex\_allies\_air\_few\_regrets+.shtml
How Omar Led Taliban to Power, Then Defeat
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/343/nation/How\_Omar\_led\_Taliban\_to\_power\_then\_defeat+.shtml
jargon watch: liberals in general are responsible for John Walker (study the tricks they use to lump half the country into a stereotype)
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=95001562
"those who say relativism made Walker don't know what they're talking about" (stereotypes come so easily to some people)
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/12/11/walker/
article about Tamim Ansary's widely circulated message of September 12th (but no evidence for its speculation that the message had a material effect)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/magazine/09EMAIL.html
Terror Money Hard to Block, Officials Find
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/10/international/10MONE.html?pagewanted=all
Battlefield Clues Key to Bush's Next Step
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000097775dec09.story
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002
* http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2001\_rpt/hrep107-328.html
The War of Words (propaganda campaigns from previous wars)
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/337/nation/The\_war\_of\_words+.shtml
A Compilation of Evidence and Comments on the Source of the Mailed Anthrax
* http://fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxpaper.htm
Ex-Anthrax Makers Want FBI to Talk With Them (they should change their name to Abdul)
* http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.anthrax09dec09.story
anti-abortion terrorist feels that Ashcroft is on his side
* http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2001/12/07/national0718EST0514.DTL
Anthrax Pervades Florida Site, Experts See Likeness to That Sent to Senators
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/05/national/05ANTH.html
Lobbyists Seek Special Spin on Federal Bioterrorism Bill
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/11/politics/11LOBB.html?pagewanted=print
Smallpox: What Every Clinician Should Know (advertisement for a satellite and webcast training program)
* http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/phtn/1213Factsheet.pdf
Testimony of Attorney General John Ashcroft, December 6, 2001
* http://judiciary.senate.gov/te120601f-ashcroft.htm
widespread condemnation of Ashcroft likening dissent to treason
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/08/opinion/08RICH.html * http://www.msnbc.com/news/668757.asp * http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/20011209edashcroft1209p2.asp * http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/1287465p-1355952c.html * http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c5917686/16696895.html * http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ucrr/20011207/cm/there\_is\_a\_difference\_between\_dissent\_and\_treason\_1.html
jargon watch: tendentiously vague language lets you deny everything (jargonheads talk in a netherworld just beyond the reach of rational thought)
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011207/pl/attack\_justice\_dc\_1.html
Closing Down Debate: Ashcroft's Attack on Dissent (including analysis of Mindy Tucker's even more objectionable follow-up)
* http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20011210.html
ACLU FOIA request for information on detainees
* http://www.aclu.org/court/detainee-foia-complaint.pdf
Bush's (former) stand against secret evidence
* http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/debate001011\_trans\_8.html
Ashcroft's (former) stand against secret evidence
* http://www.islamicinstitute.org/fb2001-1-12.pdf
Innocent Are Caught in Cross Hairs of the Hunt for Suspected Terrorists
National Identification Schemes and the Fight Against Terrorism
* http://www.cpsr.org/program/natlID/natlIDfaq.html
Students Who Speak Out Against War Find Themselves Battling to Be Heard
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14157-2001Dec8.html
Franklin Graham says he doesn't blame Islam, then goes right ahead and does so ("the terrible deeds that are committed as a result of Islamic teaching")
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001576
jargon watch: check out this lie about what Michael Moore said (this is the newspaper that constantly claims to speak in the name of truth)
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=95001567
Stimulus Bill May Mean Tax Breaks for Corporate America (these tax breaks have almost nothing to do with economic stimulus)
* http://www.nandotimes.com/business/story/189970p-1840013c.html
FAA Put Security Testing on Hold
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/343/metro/FAA\_put\_security\_testing\_on\_hold+.shtml
Airport Design in US Took a Big Hit on September 11th
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000097771dec09.story
interview with a Muslim legal scholar on the validity of bin Laden's claims
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZCNQE4JUC
We Are the War Criminals Now
* http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=107292
investigating the concrete used in the World Trade Center
* http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23205
article about the supposedly prescient Samuel Huntington (the one who's trying to start a war between civilizations)
* http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/12/kaplan.htm
Beijing Produces Videos Glorifying Terrorist Attacks on "Arrogant" US (imagine what Chinese propaganda would be like if they had US jargon tech)
* http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/04/wchin04.xml
conspiracy theory: not only is it about oil, but the communists have won
* http://www.bigeye.com/foreignc.htm
President's Statement on Caspian Pipeline Consortium
* http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011128-11.html
Perspectives on September 11th from the Social Sciences
In 1941, Americans Gamely Stumbled Off to War
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5813-2001Dec6.html
Treat the Army of God as a Terrorist Organization
* http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=12459
Anthrax Won't Halt Santa's Letters
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62466-2001Dec5.html
Justice Kept in the Dark
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/666237.asp
Ashcroft Deconstructed ("the attorney general cast defenders of civil liberties as traitors")
* http://slate.msn.com/?id=2059538
The Ashcroft Smear
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5982-2001Dec6.html
Blurring the Lines Between Tribunals and Military Justice System (Ashcroft accusing critics of "fog" is pure projection)
* http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001\_12\_02\_archive.html#7676751
Popularity Proves Poor Way to Measure Anti-Terror Laws (and conservatives support them much more strongly than moderates and liberals)
* http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20011206/3677916s.htm
The USA PATRIOT Act and the US Department of Justice: Losing Our Balances?
* http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/forumnew40.htm
Criminal Enforcement Against Terrorists
* http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/report011203.html
military tribunal resources
* http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/documents/tribunals.html
Attacking the Academy in the Name of Saving It (detailed analysis of the bizarre ACTA report)
* http://la.indymedia.org/specials/weaklink2.html
Congressman Talks of Inquiry of Portland Police
more on the student who was suspended for trying to start an anarchy club
* http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article\_id=13416
conservative hero Ann Coulter makes her living saying horrible things (e.g., "Bush should expand the military tribunals to ... liberal lawyers")
* http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/23/cf.00.html
Americans and Allies Are Getting Different Stories
* http://www.iht.com/articles/40900.html
dramatic increase in classification of government information during 2000 (the Republicans have long fought public accountability)
* http://www.fas.org/sgp/isoo/2000rpt.html
Security Concerns Drive Rise in Secrecy
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1203/p1s3-ussc.html
resources on smart weapons (this is one of the sites that had been taken down earlier)
* http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/
Seven Good Reasons to Stand Up for Information Freedom on Bioweapons Research
* http://www.sunshine-project.org/publications/pr301001.html
Airbus pilot's response to "NTSB Birdbrains Sticking Heads in Rockaway Sand"
* http://avconsulting.com/airlines/flight587.htm
Do Disposable Cell Phones Pose a Security Threat?
* http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000096999dec06.column
special report on security
* http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc\_special/security.htm
Allies Direct the Death Rites of Trapped Taliban Fighters ("going to their doom with a defiance verging on the flamboyant")
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,606765,00.html
CIA Blunder Sparked Taleban Revolt That Became a Mass Suicide
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001540008-2001551563,00.html
Amnesty Calls for Prison Revolt Inquiry
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1680000/1680072.stm
My Lai in Afghanistan (I'm not persuaded about this)
* http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/01/ed.htm
US Planes Rain Death on the Innocent
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,610052,00.html
A Village Is Destroyed. And America Says Nothing Happened
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia\_china/story.jsp?story=108209
Afghan "Highwaymen" Return
* http://metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-48/reg/afghan\_highwaymen\_return.htm
Minority Afghans Tell Taliban Atrocities
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0111260264nov26
Differences Intensify Among Northern Alliance Commanders
* http://www.paknews.com/specialNews.php?id=263&date1=2001-11-29
weekly columns from a reporter now missing in Afghanistan
* http://www.montrealmirror.com/old/2001/nov22/news7.html * http://www.montrealmirror.com/old/2001/nov15/news7.html * http://www.montrealmirror.com/old/2001/nov08/news7.html * http://www.montrealmirror.com/old/2001/nov01/news7.html * http://www.montrealmirror.com/old/2001/oct25/news8.html * http://www.montrealmirror.com/old/2001/oct18/news7.html
technical obstacles to cooperation among the military services
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000096429dec04.story
Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst
Russia, Oil, and Conspiracy Theories
* http://slate.msn.com/?id=2059026
Russia Checkmated Its New Best Friend (it's about oil)
* http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D000094697nov28
photographs from Afghanistan
* http://dallasnews.com/attack\_on\_america/background/alliance/slideshow/picture1.html
Bush Appointee Linked to Terrorism
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,608009,00.html
"in all but name, the United States is at war with Pakistan"
* http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art\_id=2008798215
The Muslim Revolt That Never Came
* http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-48/opin/muslim\_revolt\_that.htm
Rebuilding Afghanistan? (heck, Bush isn't even willing to rebuild New York)
* http://www.counterpunch.org/wblum2.html
The Laws of War
* http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/lawwar.htm * http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/26.htm * http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=317&invol=1
The War Powers Act of 1973
* http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/warpow.html
dangerous thought-pattern: we have been oppressed so we can do whatever we want (the Israelis are hardly alone in this, but that doesn't make it right)
* http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/12/02/Opinion/Opinion.39131.html
The Real Story of Flight 93
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/662607.asp
Clinton Maps Out Road to Peace
* http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-clinton1203.artdec03.story
jargon watch: Washington Times Keeps the Clinton Spin Rolling (the lie echoes through the media, to the point where \not\ lying is "bias")
* http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001\_11\_25\_archive.html#7400438
the quotes in this article on Fox Conservative News are a jackpot of jargon
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/03/business/03FOX.html
jargon watch must-read: David Horowitz's demented response to our WTC courses (scroll past the pundit raving nonsensically based only on the course \names\)
* http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-11-29/finger.html/1/
story about objectivity in coverage of Islamic and Arab World issues
* http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=668
US a Terrorist State: Chomsky
* http://www.dawn.com/2001/11/25/top17.htm
the strange history of the World Trade Center
* http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20011126/3649783s.htm
Bush's first reaction to WTC: "There's one terrible pilot." (I am not making this up)
* http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Bush-Reaction.html
article about watching ground zero on a live video camera
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/651784.asp?cp1=1
Afghanistan: Maps, News, Photos, More
* http://www.nationalgeographic.com/landincrisis/
A Failure of Intelligence?
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14941
"Terrorists Have Won" Declarations Make Us All Losers in the End
* http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/features/1151647
"Day of Reconciliation" Worship Service in Congress Mixes Church and State (its purpose is to appease the God who supposedly attacked the WTC)
* http://www.au.org/press/pr113001.htm
White House Sought to Soften Anti-Terrorism Legislation for Tobacco Companies (wow)
* http://www.public-i.org/story\_01\_112901.htm
the bottommost depths of PR exploitation of the terrorist attacks
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A61373-2001Nov20?language=printer
Kangaroo Courts
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/26/opinion/26SAFI.html
Careless With The Constitution? The Problem With Military Tribunals
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20011129\_grossman.html
Why Congress Must Curb Bush's Military Courts
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/121001/tribe121001.html
Using Our Fears to Justify a Power Grab
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-000095119nov29.story
Null and Void: Guarantees of Liberty
* http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=5162
Tribunal Comparison Taints Courts-Martial, Military Lawyers Say
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/national/02TRIB.html?pagewanted=print
"Ashcroft has sought to conceal menacing facts of the Bush tribunal order"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/04/opinion/04LEWI.html
A Realistic Look at Terrorism Trials by Military Commission
* http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/lathrop.trials.112001.html
John Dean supports tribunals
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20011123.html
Robert Bork argues for extending military tribunals to include US citizens (I am not making this up)
* http://www.nationalreview.com/17dec01/borkprint121701.html
Preserving Our Freedoms While Defending Against Terrorism
* http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/policy/senate.htm * http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/silliman/
Bush Law Chief Tried to Drop Habeas Corpus
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001540012-2001560640,00.html
Ashcroft Seeking to Free FBI to Spy on Groups
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/national/01BURE.html
FBI Agents Rebel Over New Powers
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,610381,00.html
Amnesty letter to the US government about Mazan Al-Najjar (held and deported on secret evidence)
* http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index/AMR511162000?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIES%5CUSA * http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0798/9807028.html * http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/619vpyea.asp * http://www.cafearabica.com/law/law16/lawsec16x3.html * http://www.courttv.com/assault\_on\_america/1102\_evidence\_ap.html * http://news.tbo.com/news/MGA183UHNUC.html
list of the identified detainees charged by the US
* http://cryptome.org/s93/screwed-93.htm
defense lawyers refusing to defend people accused of ties to the attacks (but without defense lawyers, innocent people go to jail)
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ65Y00TUC
Congressional Research Service: The Fifth Amendment
* http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/constitution/amdt5.html
NYC Surveillance Camera Project
* http://www.mediaeater.com/cameras/ * http://www.appliedautonomy.com/isee/ * http://wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,48664,00.html
US Assumes Global Cyber-Police Authority
* http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23036.html
Antivirus Vendors Split Over FBI Trojan Snoops
* http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23057.html
FBI "Magic Lantern" Reality Check
* http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23150.html
Geeks and Spooks
* http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/251-300/00283\_geeks\_and\_spooks.html
A New Legal and Military Approach to Terrorism
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/misc/okculr.html
Uniform Code of Military Justice
* http://jaglink.jag.af.mil/ucmj.htm
EU plans "suspected protester" database
* http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/nov/19sis.htm
jargon watch: quotes from Lynne Cheney's odd speech at Princeton (her opposition to teaching about Islam in response to 9/11 is bizarre)
* http://www.loper.org/~george/trends/2001/Oct/66.html * http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2712628&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept\_id=44551&rfi=6
Many People Saying Bad Things (best response to Cheney's list of alleged enemies of civilization)
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/27/DD24114.DTL
Photographer at Yankee Nuclear Power Plant Threatened With Treason Charge (it's a good thing the Constitition defines treason so carefully)
* http://timesargus.nybor.com/Story/38326.html
Who EU Calling a Terrorist? (no civil rights for terrorists! but the term's been defined very broadly)
* http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,48807,00.html
Bush Freezes Suspected Terror Assets
* http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1151/12-4-2001/200112041007475943.html * http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/dotreas/terroristsanctions110701.html
Somalis Said to Feel Impact of US Freeze of al-Barakaat
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36303-2001Nov29?language=printer
conflict at the NRC over nuclear power plant security (February 1999)
* http://www.ncwarn.org/orrikfilesmay4-01.htm
Emergency Preparedness and the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
* http://www.ashp.org/public/proad/emergency/em\_prep.html * http://www.ashp.org/public/proad/emergency/exec\_summary2001.html
NTSB Birdbrains Sticking Heads in Rockaway Sand
Flight 587 Probe Turns to Pilots' Rudder Training
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/665341.asp
investigation of flight 990
* http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2001-11-15.htm
Loose Nukes
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1205/p1s3-wogi.html
Bioterror: What Can Be Done?
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14971
bioweapon horrors
* http://www.thethresher.com/richardpreston.html * http://newyorker.com/FROM\_THE\_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?011008fr\_archive01
Ames Strain of Anthrax Limited to Few Labs
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36408-2001Nov29.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31242-2001Nov28.html
Republican thugs are trying to paint environmental groups as terrorists (and equating minor property destruction with mass murder)
* http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/11/26/ecoterror/
Cybersecurity Chief Pushes Early-Warning System (another bureaucracy to protect society from Microsoft's products)
* http://www.govexec.com/news/index.cfm?mode=report&articleid=21712&printerfriendlyVers=1&
The Bush Administration and Secrecy
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20011127.html
Hiding Presidential Papers
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/11/ED81976.DTL * http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/03/ED168843.DTL
Suit Filed to Reverse Presidential Papers Order
* http://news.findlaw.com/politics/s/20011128/bushpapersdc.html * http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gwbush/ahanara112801cmp.pdf * http://www.nsarchive.org/news/20011128
The Web Never Forgets (that sensitive information you're supposed to delete is still out there)
* http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000094419nov27.story
more on "brain fingerprinting"
* http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101011126-184979,00.html
ID Mouse Has Finger on Security Concerns
* http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/14993.html
Terrorism Bill "Biggest Threat to Competition Since RIP"
* http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23161.html
Translations From New York's Ethnic Press
Hundreds of Troops Dozed in the Sun. These Were the Taliban Elite
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,605679,00.html
Victorious Warlords Set to Open the Opium Floodgates
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,605618,00.html
Hidden Letters Reveal Dark Secrets of School for Terror
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,605669,00.html
Twisted Laws Fueled Reign of Terror by Talib Police
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000094052nov25.story
Probe Reconstructs Horror, Calculated Attacks on Planes
Beating the Terrorists: Egypt Used Torture to Crack Network
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/article/0,,9002-2001540888,00.html
Terror Links in Europe: MI5 Knew for Years of London Mosque's Role
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/article/0,,9002-2001544231,00.html
Command Given Homeland Defense Mission
* http://www.jfcom.mil/NewsLink/StoryArchive/pa102601.htm * http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2001/b10262001\_bt542-01.html
The War for Oil Subtext in Afghanistan
* http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1125-06.htm
The True Cost of Oil
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7800-2001Nov23.html
After Bombs Must Come Civil Rights
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000093968nov25.story
US Targets Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/article/0,,9002-2001544397,00.html
Mexico's War on Terror
* http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/112401a.html
Personal Faith and State Loyalty
* http://www.dawn.com/2001/11/25/op.htm#3
Muslim Leadership Crisis
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=5&date1=11/24/2001
What Went Wrong in the Arab World? Ask Yourself
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000093988nov25.story
Learning From Israel and Its Mistakes
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/25/opinion/25SEGE.html
Vanished Victims of Israelis Return to Accuse Sharon
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,605668,00.html
Journal Axes Gene Research on Jews and Palestinians
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,605798,00.html
A Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011203&s=cortright
Ashcroft to Face Tough Senate Grilling on Tribunals ("the wave of arrests did not materialize")
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011125/ts/attack\_court\_congress\_dc\_1.html
Anti-Terror Wiretap Rule Is Illegal
* http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpdas232475049nov23.story
anti-terrorism bill had almost nothing to do with the September 11th attacks (the main exception was the part about money laundering)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/watc/20011125.watc.07.ram
America's "Disappeared"
* http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/561/5war2.htm
Pakistani comment on civil liberties in the United States
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=1&date1=11/24/2001
"anti-terrorism bill undermines human rights convention and rule of law"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,605924,00.html
All the Presidents' Words Hushed
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-000093967nov25.story
US Frames New Rules for Visas to Saudis
* http://www.dawn.com/2001/11/25/int9.htm
post-9/11 life is tough on immigrants
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7924-2001Nov23.html
Bloodbath Fears as Bombers Queue to Blitz Siege City
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/24/world/world3.html
Silent Sensors Lie in Wait for Bin Laden
* http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991588
His Grasp of Spin Is Chilling ... (Osama bin Laden's recruiting video)
US State Department slide show about the war
* http://www.usinfo.state.gov/quicktime/defend.mov
trying to make Islam into the new Communism
* http://www.nationalreview.com/15oct01/johnson101501.shtml
Aloof Terrorists Were Town's Elite
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000093210nov22.story
A Bosnian Blueprint for Afghanistan
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000092997nov21.story
US Efforts to Make Peace Summed Up By "Oil"
* http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/1119/wor8.htm
Master of the Afghani Lutes
* http://www.mymusic.com/product.asp?curr=0&muzenbr=109552
Latest 9/11 Lesson: Government, Like Charity, Is Us
* http://www.tmsfeatures.com/TMSFeatures/fs\_feature3/1,1303,20011121ts--s-a,00.html
Scientists: Anthrax "Almost Certainly" From US Defense Lab
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/11/21/anthrax.weapons.ban.ap/
FBI Is Watching Case of Missing Biologist
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/328/nation/FBI\_is\_watching\_case\_of\_missing\_biologist+.shtml
a bad attitude
Rabid Journalists and Pundits Push Bush to Extremes
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11952
Apocalyptic Theology Revitalized by Attacks
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/national/23THEO.html
Sleepers Suffer WTC Nightmares
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011122/us/attacks\_dreams\_2.html
jargon watch: rebut an accusation by mechanically asserting a double standard (notice how he depends on the listener to be unaware of liberals' actual views)
* http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001\_11\_18\_archive.html#7277450
Military Favors a Homeland Command
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61145-2001Nov20.html
The Posse Comitatus Act: A Principle in Need of Renewal
* http://law.wustl.edu/WULQ/75-2/752-10.html
Legal Powers Are Expanded in Bush Plan ("any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws")
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/25/politics/25LEGA.html?pagewanted=print * http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/24/opinion/24RICH.html * http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/24/opinion/24LEWI.html
Abandoning the Constitution to Military Tribunals
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0147/hentoff.php
The WWII Tribunal That Bush Is Citing as a Precedent Was Model of Deception
* http://www.bloomberg.com/feature/feature1006529973.html
Visitors to US Can Expect Probing Terrorism Questions (including the questions themselves and the document that prescribes them)
* http://www.detroitfreepress.com/news/metro/quest24\_20011124.htm * http://www.detroitfreepress.com/news/metro/qlist24\_20011124.htm * http://www.detroitfreepress.com/gallery/2001/interviews/index.htm
New South Wales Internet Censorship Bill 2001
* http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/nswbill.html
An Organization on the Lookout for Patriotic Incorrectness (making clear how little evidence they needed to make grave accusations)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/24/arts/24LIST.html?pagewanted=print
"The spirit of Islam is the spirit of the antichrist"
* http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/daily/20011122/LocalNews/189152.shtml
Breaking Law or Principles to Give Information to US
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/national/23LIBR.html?pagewanted=print
After September 11th, Echelon Attracts New Attention, New Questions
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/661464.asp
US Shuts Down Somalia Internet
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid\_1672000/1672220.stm
Logan Airport to Reinstate Security Firm
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000093227nov22.story
Zimbabwe Correspondents Accused of "Terrorism" (this is where we're headed if we let the word "terrorism" keep inflating)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,605003,00.html
Microsoft Makes Its Pitch on Security, Cyber Terror to House
* http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22933.html * http://energycommerce.house.gov/107/hearings/11152001Hearing420/hearing.htm
The British Connection: Judge Says Cleric Is Vital Link
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/europe/story.jsp?story=105961
In Utah, a Government Hater Sells a Germ-Warfare Book
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/21/national/21BOOK.html
"the Justice Department isn't investigating violent militants on the right"
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/11/22/anthrax/
No TV, No Chess, No Kites: Taliban Penal Code, From A to Z
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/international/asia/22PENA.html?pagewanted=print
CIA-Backed Team Used Brutal Means to Break Up Terrorist Cell in Albania
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/660358.asp
radio story about the caves of Afghanistan
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011121.atc.13.ram
article about a videotape of the attack on the World Trade Center
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/arts/design/22MAGN.html
interviews with the people of Parkesburg, Pennsylvania (population 3,500) (i.e., the same number of people who were killed on September 11th)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011121.atc.06.ram
criticism of tribunals
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0147/dershowitz.php * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000092869nov21.story
Waking Up in Another Country, Not Our Own (criticism of unlimited detentions of foreigners)
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZKKM629UC
Police Are Split on Questioning of Mideast Men
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/national/22POLI.html
US Government Interagency Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan
* http://www.fbi.gov/publications/conplan/conplan.pdf
Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime
* http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/projets/FinalCybercrime.htm
Legal Controversy and the FBI's "Carnivore" Program
* http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/kubiszyn-2000-12a-p1.html
FBI Pushes Telcos to Ease Monitoring (they've been doing that for several years)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/661333.asp
High-Tech Airport Security Devices Displayed
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000092978nov21.story
conflicting views about chemical information on government Web sites
* http://www.stimson.org/cwc/dpnovtest.htm * http://www.house.gov/transportation/water/11-08-01/baumann.html * http://www.pogo.org/nuclear/security/doeweb.htm
the original version of Lynne Cheney's list of alleged enemies of civilization (try not to propagate these URL's -- download it yourself and post or forward) ftp://ftp.media.mit.edu/wex/defciv.pdf
* http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~aaron/defciv.pdf * http://www.uwm.edu/~sands/defciv.pdf
American Council of Trustees and Alumni Defends University of New Mexico Prof (when controversy erupted, they issued this)
* http://www.goacta.org/Press%20Releases/11-14-01PR.htm
Sketches for a New Blacklist
* http://www.counterpunch.org/dprice2.html
Lynne Cheney's Free Speech Blacklist
* http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/11/15/2.html
Up With Dissent
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/324/editorials/Up\_with\_dissent+.shtml
British Taliban Fighters "May Face Treason Charges"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,1271,-1326486,00.html
Suicidal Ignorance by Edward Said
* http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/560/op2.htm
Pentagon Fires on Critical Scientist
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0146/koerner.php
Investigators Liken Anthrax in Leahy Letter to That Sent to Daschle (with interesting details of the operation that found it)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/20/politics/20INQU.html?pagewanted=print
German 911 links
* http://www.bpb.de/aktuelles/html/body\_terrorismus2.html
good amateur pictures of the World Trade Center collapse
* http://camazotz.com/wtc/1.html
New York's Ground Zero of Grief
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/11/20/staten\_island/
civil liberties and security Bush White House Asserts Power Rivaling That of FDR
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55391-2001Nov19.html
"alarm bells at the recent actions of the British and American governments"
* http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=863525
MPs Savage Terror Bill (maybe this will be the issue that finally splits Labour)
* http://politics.guardian.co.uk/attacks/story/0,1320,602299,00.html
"rigged trials are no way to deal with suspected terrorists"
* http://www.reason.com/sullum/112001.shtml
some liberals are caving in to conservative attacks on civil liberties
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000092676nov20.story
ACLU Calls on Fresno Airport to Stop Using Face ID System
* http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000092654nov20.story
Congress Hears National ID Opinions
* http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/1119/web-card-11-19-01.asp
In Immigration Cases, Information on Hearings and Court Records Is Restricted
* http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/WTC\_investigation011119.html
"FBI developing a virus to obtain encryption keys" (not completely clear what this means)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/660096.asp
Iris Recognition
* http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/jgd1000/
American Airlines: fatal accidents, legal problems, security problems, etc
* http://www.airlineinvestigationunit.com/aiu/american.htm
Lynne Cheney demands ideological conformity on college campuses (she has an ugly history of attacks)
* http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=12355
"feds find weird art but not anthrax terrorists at the Art Car Museum"
* http://www.houston-press.com/issues/2001-11-15/news.html/1/index.html
Christian Leader Condemns Islam
* http://msnbc.com/news/659057.asp
war Kabul Greets Its New Dawn
* http://www.theage.com.au/news/state/2001/11/15/FFXGYI5ZZTC.html
Savage Victory
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/17/review/review3.html
Strange Stories of Suicides as "Bin Laden's Foreigners" Refuse to Surrender
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia\_china/story.jsp?story=105399
The Rout of the Taliban
* http://www.observer.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1501,596923,00.html
The Afghan Way of War (detailed account of Mazar campaign)
* http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,183949,00.html
Target Approval Delays Irk Air Force Officers
* http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46827-2001Nov17.html
Secret CIA Units Playing a Central Combat Role
* http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47201-2001Nov17.html
graphic images of a Taliban soldier caught and killed by Alliance
* http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm\_448881.html
In a Rancid Jail the Deposed Lords of Kabul Await Death
* http://www.observer.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1501,596949,00.html
Mujahideen Back to "Rob and Beat Us"
* http://www.observer.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1501,596815,00.html
Slouching Towards Balkanization
* http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/CK14Ag03.html
Nuke Manual Looks Like Internet Hoax
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0147/ridgeway2.php
Making a Molehill of the Moral High Ground
* http://www.theage.com.au/news/state/2001/11/18/FFXNDSG94UC.html
interesting war facts from the a column for military people
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17136-2001Nov12.html
links between far-right extremists and Islamic radicals (a global far-right alliance against the US, so conservatives blame the left)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011115.atc.07.ram
Antrax Hoaxers Should Be Treated Like the Terrorists They Are
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZXNV7I4UC
This Is Not a Test ("after attacks US implemented emergency plans envisioned only in nuclear war")
* http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2001/nd01/nd01schwartz.html
I Tried To Be Patriotic (conspiracy theory doubts about the fall of the World Trade Center)
* http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=13636 * http://www.davidicke.net/newsroom/america/usa/102601b.html * http://www.davidicke.net/newsroom/america/usa/110201a.html
As Dig Goes On, Emotions Are Buried Deep
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/18/nyregion/18CRAN.html
The Rarely Told Story of WWII (American bombing in Germany)
* http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D000085981oct29
another "terrorism" video game (may not work under Explorer)
* http://www.markfiore.com/animation/fresh.html
civil liberties and security Despite Some Concerns, Civil Liberties Are Taking a Back Seat (the hidden problem here is that the word "terrorist" covers a huge territory)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/18/politics/18LIBE.html?pagewanted=all
Bush Going Too Far Curtailing Our Rights
* http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/1135558
Historic High Court Ruling Is Troublesome Model for Modern Terror Trials
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ1430F4UC
Extremist Groups: New Organizational Models Empowered by Networked Systems
* http://www.nipc.gov/publications/highlights/2001/highlight-01-10.pdf
Energy Firms Stand Guard Amid Threats
* http://www.internetweek.com/newslead01/lead111601.htm * http://www.riptech.com/pdfs/understanding\_0101.pdf
Urgent Efforts to Prevent Thefts of Trucks for Use as Bombs
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/18/national/18TRUC.html
Fallout Follows Logan Ouster of Security Firm
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/321/metro/Fallout\_follows\_Logan\_ouster+.shtml
fighting gang violence with respect in Pasadena
* http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-11-08/feature.html/1/
news and information long article on al-Jazeera
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/18/magazine/18ALJAZEERA.html?pagewanted=all
US More Tightlipped Since September 11th (survey of the problems)
* http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2001/11/ap111501.html
Are Americans Getting the Full Picture?
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/18/world/world2.html
Rumsfeld: US Forces in Ground Combat
* http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/11/16/ground\_forces/
Taliban Withdrawal Was Strategy, Not Rout
* http://www.stratfor.com/home/0111132330.htm
Pakistan Boxed Into a Corner
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11920
War in the Dark
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14843
Is There a Good Terrorist?
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14860
article about network warfare
* http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,35142,FF.html
"advocates for women's freedoms under a post-Taliban government"
* http://www.motherjones.com/web\_exclusives/features/news/afghan\_women.html
propaganda article trying to link anti-globalization protesters to terrorists (study the full range of jargon techniques, e.g., just making things up)
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/15/opinion/opinion2.html
Documents on Terrorism
* http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/terrorism/terror.htm * http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/sept\_11/sept\_11.htm
Bosnia's Islamic Infusion
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000091562nov16.story
literary quotes related to September 11th
* http://www.thesunmagazine.org/specialbeams.html
Oil Barons Court Taliban in Texas (December 1997) ("the Taliban ministers and their advisers stayed in a five-star hotel")
news coverage portal for Afghan news, music, etc
A Yugoslav Journalist's Advice to US Media
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11880
Al-Jazeera Reporter Says He Was Beaten by Anti-Taliban Afghans
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31800-2001Nov14.html
civil liberties Seizing Dictatorial Power
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/15/opinion/15SAFI.html
White House Push on Civil Liberties Steps Bypasses Congress
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/15/national/15CIVI.html?pagewanted=print
USA: Presidential Order on Military Tribunals Threatens Principles of Justice
* http://web.amnesty.org/web/news.nsf/weball/74762D56523411A180256B05005C5989
Ashcroft's Unlawful Rule
* http://www.sptimes.com/News/111501/Opinion/Ashcroft\_s\_unlawful\_r.shtml
Bush's Jihad Against Civil Rights
* http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/11/16/rights/
column defending Bush's plan for military tribunals without due process (the author has defended many right-wing legal outrages in the past)
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001468
The New Regulation on Attorney-Client Conversations Threatens Fourth Amendment
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/amar/20011116.html
The Bill of Rights (as recently modified)
* http://www.faisal.com/freespeech/newImprovedBillOfRights.html
The Net Effect: How Not to Fight Terror
* http://www.techreview.com/magazine/dec01/garfinkel.asp
Some Lessons for the Attorney General From the 1919-20 Terrorist Attacks
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20011115\_mylchreest.html
criticism of Pat Leahy's role in the politics of the anti-terrorism bill
* http://www.tnr.com/111901/crowley111901.html
Security Panel to Call for National Identity Cards
* http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-cards14.story
the centralized police database you hear about is already real in China
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/654959.asp
UK: Creating a Shadow Criminal Justice System in the Name of Fighting Terrorism
* http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index/EUR450192001
"ill-conceived proposals to deal with religious incitement"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukresponse/story/0,11017,595838,00.html
Amusement Parks Studying Surveillance Technology
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/11/16/rec.attacks.themeparks.ap/
security None Jailed Appear Linked to Attacks
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000091564nov16.story
Bush Blinked in Confrontation on Airline Security
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/657647.asp?cp1=1
Chef Flew to O'Hare With Cleavers in Bags
* http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-hare14.html
Security Company Is Ousted at Logan
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/320/metro/Security\_company\_is\_ousted\_at\_Logan+.shtml
Pro-, Anti-US "Hacktivists" Battle in Cyberspace (grow up)
Bioterrorism Articles
* http://pubs.ama-assn.org/bioterr.html
See This Goop? It Kills Anthrax
* http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc\_id=204870
Guide for the Selection of Chemical and Biological Decontamination Equipment
* http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/189724.pdf * http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/189725.pdf
Fraudulent Identification and Biography
* http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/fraudid.html
documentation for a ludicrously complicated security patch from Microsoft
* http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-055.asp
Microsoft's plan to suppress information about security vulnerabilities
* http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0111.html#1
"Southern Alliance" in the Offing?
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=3&date1=11/12/2001
Executions of POW's Cast Doubts on Alliance
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/13/international/asia/13AFGH.html
interview with Osama bin Laden threatening to use nuclear weapons
* http://www.dawn.com/2001/11/10/top1.htm
Oil Diplomacy Muddled US Pursuit of Bin Laden, New Book Contends
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/international/12LADE.html?pagewanted=print
Asia Times comment on right-wing calls for imperialism in the West
* http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/CK06Ag01.html
War on Terror: My Cow
* http://www.dawn.com/weekly/ayaz/ayaz.htm
Eleven Concerns About the Justice of the Afghan War
* http://www.justpeace.org/afghanwar.htm
books and essays about the attack and war from University of Chicago Press
* http://www.press.uchicago.edu/News/daysafter.html
Limbaugh Whitewashes His Jennings Misquotes (over and over, when he's caught doing something outrageous, he lies about it)
* http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001\_11\_04\_archive.html#6983932
"why did the World Trade Center buildings fall down when they did?" (temporary link)
* http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/
Investigation of Bioterrorism-Related Anthrax
* http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5043a1.htm
Corporate Patriotism by Ralph Nader
* http://commondreams.org/views01/1110-07.htm
where do the lies on talk radio come from? here's a case study
* http://www.dailyhowler.com/h111201\_1.shtml
Face Scanning at Airports: Ready for Prime Time?
* http://ComputerBytesMan.com/facescan/presentation/index.htm
Risks of National Identity Cards
* http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/insiderisks.html#138
In Sweeping Campus Canvasses, US Checks on Mideast Students
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/national/12STUD.html
Federal Register notice about listening in on attorney-client communications
* http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/freeform/BOPreg\_02?OpenDocument
war Bin Laden: Yes, I Did It
* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/11/wbin11.xml
Rebels Mount Four-Legged Offensive
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000090002nov11.story
assorted links on the BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter"
* http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/blu-82.htm * http://www.sonic.net/~west/daisy.htm
The Humanitarian Front
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1109/p10s2-comv.html
Nuclear Threat Is Real, Experts Warn
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000090204nov11.story
Terrorism and Architecture, Los Angeles, 17 November 2001 (click on the promo banner)
* http://www.archinect.com/about.html
New Bill Targets Disease Spread
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/315/metro/New\_bill\_targets\_disease\_spread+.shtml
Fearing Attack, Blue Plains Sewage Treatment Plant Ceases Toxic Chemical Use
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4983-2001Nov9.html
The Battle for Hearts and Minds
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story\_id=861388
British Take a Blunter Approach to War News
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/09/national/09CRIT.html
Lifting the Veil on How Israelis Got the A-Bomb
civil liberties Provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act That Relate to Online Activities
conservative opposition to the anti-terrorism act
* http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=143236
The National ID Card: If They Build It, Will It Work?
* http://slate.msn.com//?id=2058321
On Amending the Fourth: Another Grave Threat to Liberty
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZPP4XEUTC
Somalis Protest US Raid, Store's Closure
* http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/46181\_somali10.shtml
Britain Placed Under State of Emergency
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,591394,00.html
Privacy Lecture Series, Toronto
* http://privacy.openflows.org/
war Ground War Strategies, Part 2: The Northern Alliance Offensive
* http://www.stratfor.com/home/0111072355.htm
Support Deepens for the Taliban, Refugees Report
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58791-2001Nov7.html
Bin Laden's PR Blunder
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle\_east/newsid\_1648000/1648027.stm
survey of world opinion with links
* http://prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/11/rayman-read-a-11-08.html
A War We Cannot Win by John Le Carre
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011119&s=lecarre
Bombing of Afghanistan is Illegal and Must Be Stopped
* http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumnew36.htm
"the terrorism properly is categorized as a criminal act, not an act of war"
* http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/terrorismdrumbl.htm
Militarization in the Age of Globalization
* http://www.fpif.org/commentary/0111mic.html
"a huge shift of intelligence power away from the Pentagon to the CIA"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,590478,00.html
read Bill Clinton's speech about the war
* http://www.truthout.com/11.10A.Clinton.htm * http://www.georgetown.edu/admin/publicaffairs/protocol\_events/events/clinton\_glf110701.htm
now see the Washington Times twist it (while making room for one personal slight against him for every 140 words)
* http://www.washtimes.com/national/20011108-470100.htm
and watch the Washington Times' distortions ripple through a braindead press (even Andrew Sullivan, having mindlessly propagated them, is mortified)
* http://www.dailyhowler.com/h110901\_1.shtml
Uncle Sam Wants Napster! (very odd)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/washtech/techthursday/columns/dotcom/A59099-2001Nov7.html
Sources: Middle Eastern Terrorists Have South American Link (no surprise: the same area housed the Nazis who ran our friends' regimes)
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/11/07/inv.terror.south/
Manufacturing Dissent: Chomsky Dissembles on Afghan Hunger (it's not just Rush Limbaugh who falsely declares the media to be silent)
* http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001\_11\_04\_archive.html#6884599
a frightening trend: wholesale fabrications that find their way into print (by now a whole generation has grown up surrounded by aggressive irrationality)
* http://www.dailyhowler.com/h110701\_1.shtml
campaign against war profiteering
Official Blames Defeat on Flier That Wrongly Linked Her to Afghanistan
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000089364nov08.story
investigation US Agents Were Told: Back Off Bin Ladens ("soon after George Bush became president")
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/08/world/world4.html * http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4293682,00.html * http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/newsnight/newsid\_1645000/1645527.stm
Lessons from the Al Qaeda Cult Handbook
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11895
aviation security Why DeLay, Armey and Bush are Dead Wrong on Airline Security: Part 1 (with many links)
* http://www.buzzflash.com/BuzzScripts/Buzz.dll/sub3
legislators know from personal experience what a joke airport security is
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000089684nov09.story
The Leader in Airport Security, and in Lapses (meet the company that House Republicans are going to the wall to defend)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/09/business/09SECU.html?pagewanted=print
local radio station's report on security at the Denver Airport
* http://www.850koa.com/news/news\_DIA.html
privacy and civil liberties DOJ Field Guidance on New Authorities Enacted in the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act
* http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/DOJ\_guidance.pdf
proposal for expanded law enforcement access to Social Security files
* http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1152/11-8-2001/20011108004148700.html
Congress Probes Death Data Security
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011107/pl/selling\_dead\_numbers\_2.html
FTC Chief Grilled on Privacy at First Congressional Hearing
* http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171954.html
Ashcroft Proposes to Eavesdrop on Attorney-Client Conversations
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011108/pl/attacks\_monitoring\_2.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64663-2001Nov8.html
Council of Europe Adopts First Cybercrime Treaty
* http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2823645,00.html
Europe Reruns Through Spy Bill
* http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48224,00.html
Irish cell phones are being used as tracking devices
* http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,48251,00.html
Interrogating a Suspected Terrorist
* http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/terrorismparry.htm
Screening, Travel IDs Sought for Air Safety (i.e., massive, detailed, centralized dossiers on most of the population)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000089663nov09.story
Fed Cybersecurity Chief: ID Plan Unpopular
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7816442.html
Go Slow on National Identification Cards
* http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumnew37.htm
Online Index Documents Post-Sept. 11th Censorship, Free Speech Incidents
* http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171976.html * http://www.ncac.org/issues/freeex911.html
Maher Expects to Be Axed (this would be a very dangerous precedent)
* http://www.pagesix.com/celebritynews/4948.htm
freedom of information Eclipsing the Sunshine of E-Government
* http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=661
Bush Tries to Close the Vault of History (listen as his people lie to cover up his father's crimes)
* http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=5069
The Problems With Bush's Executive Order Burying Presidential Records (John Dean has become a remarkably valuable commentator)
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20011109.html
Bush Urged to Rescind Order on Presidential Materials
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51774-2001Nov6.html
Bush Attempts to Have His State Papers Declared Federal Property
* http://www.auschron.com/issues/dispatch/2001-09-28/pols\_feature2.html
Amid War, GAO Puts Legal Fight With Cheney on Hold
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64520-2001Nov8.html
millions of Afghans are starving in the desert (and when they die this winter, the Muslim world will blame us)
* http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=11855
It's About Oil
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/02/ED90804.DTL
A Difficult War by Ahmed Rashid
* http://www.feer.com/2001/0111\_08/p014region.html
Bin Laden Rails Against Crusaders and UN
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/monitoring/media\_reports/newsid\_1636000/1636782.stm
"The Second Half of 48": The Sharon-Ya'alon Plan
* http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/print.php3?article\_id=4433
Synthesis: Ground Zero, the Internet, and Networked Society (with many links)
* http://www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/911/bauwens\_network.html
Wars of the Wide Area Networks
* http://www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/911/deibert\_wide.html
Crisis Response May Harm US Economy
* http://www.stratfor.com/home/0111022300.htm
article on Carlyle Group's hiring of former world potentates (May 2001)
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,37-2001180089,00.html
Pat Robertson's partnership with Osama bin Laden's diamond dealer
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33005-2001Nov2.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27281-2001Nov1.html
Sites Claiming to Fight Bioterrorism Investigated (an explosion of crackpot medical stuff is feeding the net's hypochondriacs)
* http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/037317.htm * http://www.sec.gov/news/headlines/anthraxdisinfect.htm
American Folklife Center's September 11 Documentary Project
* http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/nineeleven/nineelevenhome.html
Afghanistan for Children
* http://www.public.asu.edu/~apnilsen/afghanistan4kids/
Enduring Freedom Picture Cards
* http://www.topps.com/enduringfreedom.html
war The Week It All Went Wobbly for the West
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/11/04/stiusausa02012.html
Talk Grows of a Major US Troop Deployment
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1101/p1s2-usmi.html
Big Ground Force Seen as Necessary to Defeat Taliban (I don't like where this is going)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27171-2001Nov1.html
Thousands of Troops in Big Afghan Push "Within Weeks"
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/11/04/stiusausa02026.html
A Vigorous Debate on US War Tactics
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/international/04STRA.html
Hawks Push Unfamiliar Allies Into a Belligerent Embrace
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,587377,00.html
US Goals "Foggy" to Some Would-Be Allies (that's because of the power struggle in Washington)
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1019/p8s1-wosc.html
More and More, War Is Viewed as America's
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/international/04ABRO.html?pagewanted=print
The Coalition Is Broad, But Can It Hold?
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/weekinreview/04APPL.html
Hunting Bin Laden: US Stymied by Slippery Target
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36323-2001Nov3.html
Torture, Treachery and Spies: Covert War in Afghanistan
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,587311,00.html
Voices from the Region: Interview with Commander Abdul Haq (interview about two weeks before his death)
* http://www.ceip.org/files/Publications/lievendispatch-haq.asp
US Changing Color of Airdropped Food Packs (not good)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27560-2001Nov1.html
Osama bin Laden might have some of Russia's missing nukes
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350022-2001365997,00.html
Bin Laden May Have Miniature Nukes
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=3&date1=10/31/2001
Opponent's Escape Triggers Rebellion Threat Against Taliban Leader
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/04/world/world5.html
US Mum Over Performance of Combat UAVs
* http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2001/november/11\_02\_1.html
"Great Game II" Has a Wealth of Players
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000087197nov02.story
General Gives Uzbek Leader Warm Words and Spotlight
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/31/international/asia/31UZBE.html
extreme repression by our good friend Uzbekistan
* http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-110301uzbek.story
With the Northern Alliance
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14787
Pacific Plan Seeks Clues to Al Qaeda Contacts
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36549-2001Nov3.html
Somalia Draws Anti-Terrorist Focus
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36231-2001Nov3.html
Rising Muslim Power in Africa Causes Unrest in Nigeria and Elsewhere
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/international/africa/01ISLA.html
White Power and Al Qaeda Unite Against America
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0144/ridgeway.php
Musharraf Walking a Tight-Rope
* http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=31266
Dissent Threatens Pakistani Leader
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36303-2001Nov3.html
Pakistan Wary of Its New-Found Friend (i.e., us)
* http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=011101001513
The Risks to Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal
* http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/ * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36075-2001Nov3.html
Pakistan Panics Over Threat to Nuclear Arsenal
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/11/04/stiusausa02016.html
propaganda war US Campaign on a Second Front: Public Opinion
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/31/international/asia/31STRA.html?pagewanted=print
Stop Bombing, and Start Thinking "Hearts and Minds"
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1101/p11s1-coop.html
Psychology is the Key to Victory
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/11/04/stiusausa03003.html
Rumsfeld Shows How Truth Is Our Most Potent Weapon
* http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vppag302438113oct30.story
Brand of the Free (inept US public relations campaign)
* http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=011020001032 * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000086869nov01.story
anthrax and biowar States Urged to Update Antiquated Public Health Laws
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ3WYAOKTC
A Muscular Lobby Tries to Shape Nation's Bioterror Plan
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/business/04PHAR.html?pagewanted=print
Anthrax Probe Is Assailed
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000086866nov01.story
Take the Bin Laden Halloween Mask Off the Anthrax Threat
* http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news\_features/daily/documents/01984065.htm
US Hate Groups Have Some Ties to Germ Warfare
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/national/02HATE.html?pagewanted=print
Fifteen Exposed to Dead Cows Treated for Anthrax
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/10/31/MN66939.DTL
site that gathers absurd anthrax-hysteria stories
* http://www.gaffin.com/anthraxities/
Pasco Man With a "Sore Loserman" Sticker Arrested in Anthrax Scare
* http://www.sptimes.com/News/102701/Pasco/Pasco\_man\_arrested\_in.shtml
The Threat Extends to Our Burgers
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000087168nov02.story
Food Industry Tightens Security
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000086900nov01.story
Panel to Propose National Vaccine Laboratory
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011101/hl/vaccine\_5.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36072-2001Nov3.html
bizarre US military anthrax vaccination propaganda site (you may recall that the subject has been intensely controversial for years)
* http://www.anthrax.osd.mil/Flash\_interface/intro.html
"why W. isn't talking about anthrax"
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/111201/lizza111201.html
Flu Season and the Anthrax Scare (directory of links, including many not mentioned here)
* http://poynter.org/dj/shedden/110101.htm
Analysis: Threat From Disease Weapons
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid\_1618000/1618420.stm
Ventilation Systems Vulnerable, Officials Say
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32470-2001Nov2.html
Smallpox
* http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smallpox.html
US Sets Up Plan to Fight Smallpox in Case of Attack
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/national/04CDC.html?pagewanted=print
And Now, the Good News About Smallpox
* http://slate.msn.com/?id=2057774
civil liberties and security Anti-Terrorism Law Likely to Bring Domestic Apparatus of Unprecedented Scope
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33340-2001Nov3.html
Massive, Secret Detention Effort Aimed Mainly at Preventing More Terror
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36356-2001Nov3.html
Terrorist Net Catches Some Who Aren't
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/651663.asp
Clock Ticks on Terrorism-Related Detentions: New Law May Force DOJ's Hand
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZW7WBIATC
Government Asks Court to Consider Case of Professor Accused in Secret Papers
* http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20011102\_1410.html
Critics Say Illinois Gov. Ryan's Anti-Terrorism Plan Too Broad, Redundant (a prime example of inflating the word "terrorism" to cover almost everything)
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/southwest/chi-0111010174nov01.story
Privacy in an Age of Terror
* http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01\_45/b3756001.htm
New Law Contains ID-Card Proposal (but then it's the Washington Times, which prints the lies that others won't)
* http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20011031-576161.htm
Americans Mull National ID Cards
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/31/rec.national.id.cards/
States Devising Plan for High-Tech National Identification Cards
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32717-2001Nov2.html
national ID debate
* http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01\_45/b3756006.htm * http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01\_45/b3756007.htm
left-right coalition politics of privacy
* http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01\_45/b3756005.htm
Will Face Recognition Keep Airports Safe?
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7753504.html
ACLU: Face Recognition Systems Ineffective (study the fascinating doubletalk in the "false sense of security" quote)
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/11/02/rec.face.recognition.ap/ * http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5099140,00.html
The Fourth Amendment Doesn't Say What Most Libertarians or Judges Think It Does
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ22XJKKTC
Judge Rules Against Anti-War Student (hello? the US is worth defending because it protects "disruptive" speech)
* http://salon.com/mwt/wire/2001/11/01/anarchy\_ruling/
Student, Principal Spar Over Anarchy Club, Clothing
* http://www.wvgazette.com/news/Other+News/2001110128/
"law would force high schools to give students' info to the military"
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000087211nov02.story
Senate Measure Seeks Airline Passenger Lists
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000086861nov01.story
Karl Marx Led to My Arrest as a Terrorist in Germany ("you can't travel with books like this, said the arresting officer")
* http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=102144
military call for proposals on anti-terrorism technology (this is the very odd document whose press release I sent out before) https://www.bids.tswg.gov/tswg/bids.nsf/DownloadBAAs/02-Q-4655/$FILE/ATL+BAA+Package2.pdf Newly Appointed Cyberspace Security Czar Aims to Prevent "Digital Pearl Harbor" (but I have yet to see much evidence that he knows what he's talking about)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36571-2001Nov3.html
threat of nuclear terrorism
* http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=842483
Atomic Agency Warns of Nuclear Terror Risk
* http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3KALWNHTC&live=true&tagid=IXLYK5HZ8CC
Are Nuclear Power Plants Secure?
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32790-2001Nov2.html
European Nuclear Industry Hit by Terrorism Fallout
* http://ens.lycos.com/ens/oct2001/2001L-10-22-04.html
No Room for Mistakes: Rethinking Nuclear Technology
* http://www.fpif.org/briefs/vol6/v6n34nukes.html
Ridge on the Ledge
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011119&s=corn
Ashcroft Reveals Immigration Crackdown
* http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Investigation.html
The Return of "Fortress Europe"?
* http://www.stratfor.com/home/0110312230.htm
Visa Process to Allow More Time for Background Checks
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0111010322nov01.story
Pentagon Crash Highlights a Radar Gap (it's true: we don't know remotely enough about where the planes are)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32597-2001Nov2.html
martial arts training for flight attendants
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000087082nov02.column
Pilots Attack Security Measures
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukresponse/story/0,11017,584446,00.html
DeLay's Arm-Twisting Won Airport Security Fight for GOP
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0111030124nov03.story
Bipartisan to All Partisan on Air Security
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/03/national/03SECU.html
Stalemate in Congress Irks Security Experts
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/03/business/03AIR.html
GOP Moderates See Dangers in Bush's Stance on Aviation Security (votes on airport security and corporate tax rebates will be issues in 2002)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/03/national/03BUSH.html?pagewanted=print * http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/conason.asp
Almanac of American Politics 2002
* http://nationaljournal.com/members/almanac/
the Republicans' amazing "stimulus" proposals Operation Enduring Avarice (in-your-face war profiteering by Republican campaign contributors)
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11839 * http://www.epn.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn\_letter.pl?id=1500
Bush Proposal Is More Troubling in Key Respects Than the House "Stimulus" Bill
* http://www.cbpp.org/10-29-01tax.htm
Stimulus for Whom?
* http://www.epn.org/ideacentral/cc/econ\_crisis.html
they're using the cover of wartime to give money to Texas oil companies
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/31/opinion/31KRUG.html * http://www.thenewrepublic.com/111201/editorial111201.html
meet the leader of this travesty, Ways and Means chair Bill Thomas
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-000087170nov02.column
Wartime Tax Legislation and the Politics of Policymaking
* http://www.epn.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn\_letter.pl?id=1499
Recession Expected to Spread Worldwide
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36367-2001Nov3.html
For the First Time Since Ike, a Whiff of US Deflation (deflation is dangerous: another reason why these "stimulus" plans are nuts)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/business/02NORR.html
Islam and the Muslim world "We Will Replace the Bible with the Koran in Britain"
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,587331,00.html
British Muslim Support for Terror
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/11/04/stiusausa01022.html * http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/11/04/stiusausa01025.html
Britain Ignores the Angry Muslims Within at Its Peril
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/11/04/stinwcnwc01004.html
A Different Perspective: Muslim Websites in Britain (the Muslim community in the UK is extremely different from that in the US)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukresponse/story/0,11017,584801,00.html
Survey on Saudi Arabia
* http://surveys.ft.com/saudi2001/
Saudi Job Famine That Feeds Terror
* http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=011019001156
Saudi Royal Family Faces a Battle Against Bin Laden Followers
Yes, This Is About Islam by Salman Rushdie
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/opinion/02RUSH.html
The Anger of the Damned
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14763
column about anti-Semitism in the Muslim world (no, it's not like Hitler, but it's still reprehensible)
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/110501/sullivan110501.html
The Role of Faith in Peacemaking: An Islamic Perspective
* http://www.usip.org/oc/events/islamic\_peacemaking.html
Mutual Misperceptions: The Historical Context of Muslim-Western Relations
* http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/cib/2001-02/02cib07.htm
Pakistani American news and information portal
* http://www.pakistanlink.com/
Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic, and Religion
* http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/
Experts on Islam Pointing Fingers at One Another
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/03/arts/03EXPE.html?pagewanted=print
The Making of Afghanistan
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14780
"The Taliban Are Well Liked" (we have to ask ourselves why the Taliban haven't collapsed as promised)
* http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/daily/foc/0,8773,180342,00.html
Afghans Are Their Own Best Keepers
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000087169nov02.story
Muslim Leaders Attack Extremists' Claims
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,583879,00.html
A Quiet Throng Hopes to Show "Correct Islam"
* http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-110301meet.story
comment "Terrorism": The History of a Very Frightening Word
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/28/IN159328.DTL
It's Only Going To Get Worse
* http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/26/feature2.shtml
"we should stop the bombing and intensify the international police hunt"
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/11/03/war/
Mistake to Declare This a "War"
* http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in\_review\_id=470295
all in one place, a complete catalogue of the stereotypes of war opponents (plus rebuttals, some valid, hopefully provoking better arguments in response)
* http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hansonprint110201.html
The Real "Fifth Column" (not liberal intellectuals but the far right)
* http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2001/11/01/fifth\_column/
Flight 93 Shot Down? (I have no idea)
* http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article\_id=8369&group=webcast
The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence Agency in the 9/11 Attacks
* http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html
utterly pointless but super-well-produced fake propaganda site
* http://www.designdefenseministry.com/
The US Must Make the Transition From Informal to Formal Empire
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,583902,00.html
Which America Will We Be Now? by Bill Moyers
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011119&s=moyers
How America Responds to the Unexpected
* http://nationaljournal.com/members/news/2001/11/1102nj1.htm
anti-war advertisement from South Africa
* http://www.twf.org/Library/HRFAdvert.pdf * http://www.twf.org/Library/WaronIslam.html
Wider War Watch: The War on Terrorism and the Impetus to Widen It
* http://www.comw.org/pda/widerwarwatch/
The War on Terrorism, the World Oil Market and the US Economy
* http://www.brookings.edu/views/papers/perry/20011024.pdf
America and the War
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14760
more blithering about war dissent from Norah Vincent (this column is so stupid that it isn't even jargon)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000086724nov01.story
Grover Norquist's Strange Alliance With Radical Islam (it blows my mind that conservatives treat Grover Norquist as a leader)
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/111201/foer111201.html
How the Right-Wing Zealots Misuse the Word of God and of Our Founding Fathers
* http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=5021
The Mini-Jihads of David Horowitz
* http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=12234
leading "Christian" commentator pushing for nukes against Afghanistan (and repeating the shameful propaganda about the bombing of Japan)
* http://www.nandotimes.com/opinions/story/161498p-1535347c.html
jargon watch: observe how the most extreme lies can be packaged as innuendoes (I guess many conservatives enjoy this sort of weapons-grade nastiness)
* http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/printac20011101.shtml
news and information journalists and locals exploiting one another in Central Asia
* http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=011027001534
Media Still Wait to Be Called Up
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000086851nov01.story
In Wartime, Government Considers Media a Menace
* http://www.public-i.org/commentary\_01\_103101.htm
Focus on Civilian Casualties Would Be "Perverse"
* http://www.fair.org/activism/cnn-casualties.html
Bibliography on Terrorism, Bioterror, the Middle East, and 9-11 Related Issues
* http://www.llrx.com/features/terrorbiblio.htm
investigation Revealed: The Bloody Pages of Al-Qaeda's Killing Manual
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/11/04/stiusausa02024.html
argument that Ayman al-Zawahiri is the real leader of Al Qaeda
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1031/p6s1-wosc.html
In Overheard Calls, Terrorists Spoke of Major Attack, Officials Say
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/national/02THRE.html
Hijackers' Meticulous Strategy of Brains, Muscle and Practice
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/national/04PLOT.html
Nuclear Plot Suspects Freed After Mix-Up
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,584658,00.html
FBI Raids Trenton, NJ Apartment
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/11/02/inv.nj.raid/
19 Terrorists Obtained Social Security Cards
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27299-2001Nov1.html
response In Neckties or Fire Helmets, Victims Shared a Work Ethic
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/nyregion/04PORT.html
Service Brings Flight 11 Passenger Home
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/304/nation/Service\_brings\_Flight\_11\_passenger\_home+.shtml
Secret CIA Site in New York Was Destroyed on September 11th
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/national/04INTE.html?pagewanted=print
Toxic Chemicals Released From World Trade Center Wreckage
* http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991489
Twin Towers Are at Center of Brawl Over Payments and Rebuilding
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/03/business/03BATT.html?pagewanted=all
House GOP Says McCain Will Pay for "Humor" (gosh, I thought it was liberals who were humorless -- so hard to keep track)
* http://www.thehill.com/103101/humor.shtm
Republicans believe in the free market, except when they don't (most of their beliefs are like that -- the case at hand is insurance)
* http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=011101001516
background The Ex-Presidents' Club (the Carlyle Group)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,583869,00.html
war Confusion Over War's Next Phase as Ground Attack Stalls
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,583876,00.html
Heat on Bush Team as Battle Strategy Comes Under Fire
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/31/world/world3.html
A Puzzling War
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story\_id=840892
America's "Elite" Troops
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,582658,00.html
US Pilots Are Tested by Complex and Sometimes Perilous Missions
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3374-2001Oct28.html
List of Incidents Where US Bombs Have Struck Non-Military Targets
* http://www.jordantimes.com/Fri/news/news3.htm
Afghan Survivors Recount Bombings
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0110270161oct27
Bus Wreckage Testament to Stray US Attack
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/28/stiusausa01004.html
Afghanistan: Accountability for Civilian Deaths
* http://web.amnesty.org/web/content.nsf/pages/gbrsep11crisis
Taliban Claim US Using Chemical Weapons
* http://www.reuters.com/news\_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=328586
Desperate Call From the Valley of Death: "Help Us..." (capture and execution of Abdul Haq)
* http://www.observer.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1501,582247,00.html
what Abdul Haq was trying to do
* http://www.afgha.com/article.php?sid=8994&mode=threadℴ=0&thold=0
Bush Gives Green Light to CIA for Assassination of Named Terrorists
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,582588,00.html
CIA Weighs "Targeted Killing" Missions
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63203-2001Oct27.html
My Journey to the Taleban Stronghold
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001370004-2001375333,00.html
Warlords: For Sale or Rent
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/648883.asp
Afghanistan: The Pipeline War?
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1626000/1626889.stm
Pentagon Shuffles Command (messing with Posse Comitatus)
* http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/300/nation/Pentagon\_shuffles\_command+.shtml
The Situation in Afghanistan and Its Implications for International Peace and Security
* http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/7b9593362f40f74e8025686600578393?Opendocument
Straw: War May Last Indefinitely
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,582386,00.html
Why Can't They Find Where He's Hiding?
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/28/stiusausa01011.html
Survey Shows Doubts Stirring on Terror War
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/national/30POLL.html?pagewanted=print
New Sense of Impatience Is Emerging
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085507oct27.story
Many Americans Who Deplore Terrorist Acts of September 11th Question US Actions
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3642-2001Oct28.html
For Afghans, No Hope, No Help, No Time Left
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000085763oct28.story
Aid Agencies Prepare for "Anarchy" in Afghanistan
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3656-2001Oct28.html
On Way to Afghan Valley, Relief Travels a Perilous Road
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36228-2001Oct22.html
US Lesson: How to Tell Cluster Bombs From Food (why cluster bombs should be illegal)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8723-2001Oct29.html
Tehran Gripped by Worst Rioting Since Revolution
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle\_east/story.jsp?story=101730
Above America, NATO Crew Keeps Its Radar Eyes Peeled
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000086077oct29.story
Colombia Investigating Miami Ties to Paramilitaries
* http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-zcolombia27oct27.story
Scenario Planners Trying to Predict the Unthinkable
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/10/28/MN180760.DTL
propaganda war Al-Qaida Is Winning War, Allies Warned
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,583789,00.html
Get the Message Out (propaganda war)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59981-2001Oct26.html
Beating Bin Laden in the West Bank
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/mariner/20011019.html
Lies, Damned Lies and War Propaganda
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/29/world/world8.html
US Appears to Be Losing Public Relations War So Far
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/international/middleeast/28PROM.html
Bad Moves in the War of Words
* http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011029\_8298.htm
We Need People, Not Propaganda, to Sell America to the World
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000086112oct29.column
Egypt's Elite Torn by Arab Roots and Western Ties
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/international/middleeast/27EGYP.html?pagewanted=print
War Without Witnesses (except that Al Jazeera has all the video of mangled bodies it can use)
* http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,581873,00.html
home-grown nuts US Fringe Groups Praising Terrorist Actions
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0110270173oct27
Hate Groups Applaud Terror Attacks, Watch Reaction Warily
Anthrax Attacks "Work of Neo-Nazis"
* http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,582231,00.html
FBI Probing Anthrax Threats to Abortion Clinics in 17 States
* http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/terrorism/anthrax/1030clinics.html
Terrorist Hoax Cases
* http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/cases/hoax.html
One Reported Case on Sentencing for Bioterror Threats (US v. Leahy)
* http://laws.findlaw.com/7th/981176.html
Anthrax Team Seeks US "Mad Scientist"
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/28/stiusausa02015.html
Anthrax Preparation Indicates Home-Grown Origin
* http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991490
A Study of Racist "Christian" Theologies
* http://human-nature.com/nibbs/01/ogilvie.html
anthrax and biowar The Odyssey of an Anthrax-Tainted Envelope and a Trail of Death and Illness
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/31/national/31TRAI.html
Anthrax Letter Imperiled Many En Route to Washington, DC
Little Red "Bites" Were the First Sign That I Was Victim
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/28/stiusausa03014.html
A Public Health Mystery Is Transformed Into a Criminal Investigation
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/31/national/31BOCA.html?pagewanted=print
Congressional Mail Still Untested Two Weeks After Daschle Anthrax Letter
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14527-2001Oct30.html
New York Worker's Anthrax Deepens Mystery
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14837-2001Oct30.html
New Jersey Anthrax Case Poses a Mystery
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000086323oct30.story
Postal Workers Union to Sue for Anthrax Tests
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000086081oct29.story
Germ Tests Point Away From Iraq
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8559-2001Oct29.html
Sorting the Mail, Searching for "a Shadow Enemy"
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63397-2001Oct27.html
Past Bioterrorism Arrests Have Relied Mostly on Luck
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085506oct27.story
New Bioterror Sentence Guidelines Set
* http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/10-29-2001/20011029024722990.html
Efforts to Calm the Nation's Fears Spin Out of Control
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/weekinreview/28SCHW.html
Particles Are Tiny, but Damage Can Be Great
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/earth/30PART.html
Learning Anthrax, Case by Case
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085487oct27.story
Anthrax Prods a Rewriting of Medical Dogma, Quickly
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/31/national/31TREA.html
Anthrax Cases Unleash Worries About Pets (let's keep the paranoia under control)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3684-2001Oct28.html
Iran Says US Paying for Giving Anthrax to Iraq
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011026/ts/attack\_iran\_anthrax\_dc.html
Design of Newer Buildings Reduces Bioterrorism Risk
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/29/national/29PROT.html
Today's Germ War, Yesterday's Weapons
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000085744oct28.story
A Closer Look at "Chem-Bio Detectors"
* http://www.janes.com/regional\_news/americas/news/nbcd/nbcd011016\_1\_n.shtml
Funding the Impossible a Specialty for DARPA
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085943oct28.story
Access to Microbes Is Easily Obtained
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63210-2001Oct27.html
Authorities Discover How Little They Know
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/national/28LEAR.html?pagewanted=print
Developing Warning System for Biological Attack Proves Difficult
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/national/28DETE.html
Feel Sick? Diagnosis Hysteria
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085490oct27.story
You Can't Cure Fear of Terrorism With Antibiotics
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000086040oct29.story
another article about the 1957 anthrax outbreak in New Hampshire
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/national/27MILL.html
US Starts High-Speed Smallpox Vaccine Programme
* http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991479
Rapid Spread of West Nile Virus Has Health Officials Scrambling
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085936oct28.story
How New York's Mosquito-Spray Campaign Spawned a Deadly Neurotoxin
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0129/baard.php
AOL President: Anthrax Attacks Will Boost Internet Traffic (twit)
* http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171476.html
investigation The Making of the World's Most Wanted Man
* http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,582138,00.html
Victory Could Hinge on Islamabad's Spy Agency
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000086325oct30.story
Pakistani Intelligence Had Links to Al Qaeda, US Officials Say
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/29/international/asia/29PROB.html?pagewanted=print
Italian Tapes Portray Young Arabs Operating on the Edges of Islamic Terror
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/29/international/europe/29MILA.html?pagewanted=print
Probe Targets Cleric in London
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63383-2001Oct27.html
A Glimpse Behind the Plot Against the American Embassy in Paris
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/international/europe/28EMBA.html
15 Hijackers Obtained Visas in Saudi Arabia
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14788-2001Oct30.html
Hijackers Were From Wealthy Saudi Families
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/28/stiusausa02023.html
Bin Laden's Sister Implicates Arab Royals
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/28/stiusausa01008.html
All Suicide Bombers Are Not Alike
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/magazine/28TERRORIST.html?pagewanted=all
MI5 Turns to Newsgroups to Find Bin Laden Supporters
* http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/22499.html
PBS Frontline: Trail of a Terrorist
* http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/trail/etc/synopsis.html
Partners in "Jihad": Bin Laden Ties to Taliban
Veiled Messages of Terrorists May Lurk in Cyberspace (I have no idea if this is credible)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/physical/30STEG.html
Balkan Zealots Planned Suicide Attacks
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/28/stiusausa01019.html
Jubilant Calls on September 11th Led to FBI Arrests
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/national/28ATTA.html?pagewanted=print
civil liberties and security the anti-terrorism act that is now law
* http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.03162:
Liberties Lost: Unintended Consequences of the Anti-Terror Law
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/648339.asp
overly broad definition of "terrorism" in the anti-terrorism bill
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11818
New Search Law Likely to Provoke Fourth Amendment Challenge
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ8ID5IATC
Ralph Nader's speech about civil liberties
* http://www.democracyrising.org/transcripts/ralph\_nader\_sf\_10\_11\_01.pdf
Why The Terrorism Bill Doesn't Go Far Enough
* http://nationaljournal.com/members/buzz/openingargument.htm
anti-terrorism politics in Germany
* http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9252/1.html * http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9944/1.html
FBI Gaining Net Rights
* http://www.interactiveweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D605%2526a%253D16851,00.asp
Stu Baker: Fox News Goes Overboard on Internet Wiretap Story
* http://www.politechbot.com/p-02722.html
Governor Gilmore Gives Recommendations on Cyber Terrorism
* http://www.house.gov/science/press/107pr/107-103.htm
We Don't Need a Secret New "Cyber Court" for Hackers
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20011024\_ramasastry.html
electromagnetic bombs could throw civilization back 200 years -- for $400
* http://popularmechanics.com/science/military/2001/9/e-bomb/print.phtml
Treasury Department Unit Notes Rise in ID Theft, Hacking
* http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171424.html
NIST Computer Security Resource Center
* http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/
Detentions After Attacks Pass 1,000, US Says ("the secret detention of 800 is frighteningly close to 'disappearing'")
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/national/30DETA.html
Secrecy on Arrests Fuels Rights Debate
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/302/nation/Secrecy\_on\_arrests\_fuels\_rights\_debate+.shtml
FOIA request for information on people secretly detained since September 11th
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=foia20011029
Groups Decry Secrecy, Demand List of Prisoners
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000086335oct30.story
With Powers Like These, Can Repression Be Far Behind?
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000086194oct30.story
Anti-Terror Tools Include High-Tech
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011028/pl/attacks\_tech\_tools\_1.html
article about digital license plate readers
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/technology/circuits/25HOWW.html
Oakland Airport to Get Facial Recognition Technology
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000086110oct29.story
Green Airport (Rhode Island) to Install Face-Recognition Technology
* http://www.boston.com/dailynews/300/region/T\_F\_Green\_Airport\_to\_install\_f:.shtml
Airport Security Crackdown Ordered (I will believe it when I see it)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14751-2001Oct30.html
FAA Looking at Ways to Prescreen Frequent Flyers
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/10/30/airline.security.ap/
Focus Shifts for Hearings on LAX Expansion Plan (local politics of airport security)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000085769oct28.story
Taking Care of Business (shocking politics of airport security and handouts to big business)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/opinion/28KRUG.html
Republican Zealotry (on airport security)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/opinion/28SUN1.html
Most Airport Limo, Bus Drivers Aren't Screened
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000085406oct27.story
Arming Pilots Isn't Realistic
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000085482oct27.story
FAA Culture of Bureaucracy Stymies Security Reform Efforts, Critics Say
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085510oct27.story
The Big One (preventing nuclear terrorism)
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/110501/easterbrook110501.html
Rethinking Security at the San Onofre Nuclear Plant
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000085770oct28.story
A Chance to Avoid Nuclear Disaster
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000085747oct28.story
Private Flights Are Halted Near Nuclear Installations (about time)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/31/business/31FAA.html?pagewanted=print
Pentagon Seeks Ideas on Combating Terrorism (odd)
* http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2001/b10252001\_bt540-01.html
The Many Fronts of Homeland Defense
* http://nationaljournal.com/pubs/techdaily/features/issues/issu011029.htm
They'd Kill for Their Receivables ("the credit card lobby works the Hill -- and endangers lives")
* http://www.americanpolitics.com/20011026Insider.html
Postings to Aid Security Leave Gaps in West
Bush Seeks to Tighten Immigration
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000086326oct30.story
With Security Tight, Border Officials Focus on Fake ID's
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8737-2001Oct29.html
Refugees at America's Door Find It Closed After Attacks
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/29/nyregion/29REFU.html
Asylum Seekers to Be Given ID Cards
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Refugees\_in\_Britain/Story/0,2763,583303,00.html
Companies Move Away From Centralized Offices
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/29/technology/ebusiness/29DIST.html
Some Companies Find Opportunity for Profit in War on Terror
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085920oct28.story
Spy Agencies Facing Questions of Tactics
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085905oct28.story
Olympian Security as a Town Prepares for Games
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/national/28RESO.html?pagewanted=print
freedom of speech, press, and information Terrorism Law Could Restrict Speech
"journalist is taken into custody by police and forced to destroy photos"
* http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2001-10-25/cover.asp
Robert "Fightin' Bob" LaFollette Defends Free Speech in Wartime (1917)
* http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/r\_lafollette\_s2.html
article on Bush administration secrecy
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/express/zengerle103001.html
CNN Discussion Bans "Indym3d14", Covers Up Censorship
* http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article\_id=8273&group=webcast
Secrecy Moves in Tallahassee Are Perilous Affront to Public
* http://tampatrib.com/News/MGAXGCTM8TC.html
Information Lockdown
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11816
Government Clamps Down on Agency Web Sites
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/national/28INFO.html?pagewanted=print
Security Concerns Prompt Army to Review Web Sites, Access
* http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2001/10/dier102601.html
Cursor Launches the Internet's Most Complete Al-Jazeera Resource
* http://www.cursor.org/aljazeera.htm
Afghan Media Monitor (translating articles from the Pashto press in Peshawar)
* http://www.megastories.com/attack/aip/aipindex.shtml
comment How to Lose a War
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/opinion/27RICH.html
10 Reasons to Stop Bombing Afghanistan
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11764
"the House's stimulus package is so bad it's downright unpatriotic"
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/647873.asp
Forgoing More Tax Cuts Is the Price of War
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000086079oct29.column
campaign against the House's retroactive repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax
* http://www.moveon.org/warprofiteering/
Bill Moyers speech about wartime opportunists corrupting democracy
* http://grannyd.com/moyers.htm
Can Democrats Still Play the Game?
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/opinion/28TOOB.html
Liberal Activists Finding Themselves Caught Between a Flag and a Hard Place
* http://www0.mercurycenter.com/opinion/perspective/docs/left28tk.htm
argument that US has an advantage in winter warfare in Afghanistan
* http://tnr.com/express/thompson102901.html
September 11th Tragedy Marks Another Historical Turning Point
* http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20011029/3575860s.htm
A Sad State of Affairs (libertarian analysis by Ron Paul (R-TX))
* http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr102501.htm
US Bows to Turkey
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011112&s=urbina
weird conspiracy site
* http://hardtruth.topcities.com/wake\_up\_america.html
Hidden Agenda Behind War on Terror
* http://mirror.icnetwork.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=11392430&method=full
The New War Against Terror by Noam Chomsky
* http://www.zmag.org/globalwatch/chomskymit.htm
America's Terrorist Training Camp
* http://www.monbiot.com/dsp\_article.cfm?article\_id=465
"on Sept. 11 we learned all the things about Saudi Arabia that we didn't know"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/opinion/30FRIE.html
Pressure on the Saudi Safety Valve
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,579546,00.html
on the theory that the war is really about access to Caspian region oil
* http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/10/29/central\_asian\_oil/print.html
War Is Peace -- Now We Know
* http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/26/feature1.shtml
Working-Class Heroes
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011112&s=freeman
US Ineptness Invites More Terrorism
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000085765oct28.story
Past Provides Lessons for Afghanistan's Future
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000085749oct28.story
No More Jury Trials for Terrorists (filled with ugly rhetoric)
* http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20011024.shtml
jargon watch: calling people "traitors" whether it makes sense or not
* http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20011029.html
Tom DeLay tells Pat Robertson he wants a religious ceremony in the Capitol (recall that Robertson thinks that God attacked the World Trade Center)
* http://www.christianity.com/partner/Article\_Display\_Page/0,,PTID2546|CHID102815|CIID980118,00.html
Forcing God's Hand: Why Millions Pray for the Destruction of Earth
* http://www.middleeastbooks.com/html/books/halsell-f.html
Islam and the Muslim world In Arab World, Stifled Dissent Seen at Extremism's Root
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63359-2001Oct27.html
Muslims Love Bin Laden (the guy's a right-winger, but one does wish the denunciations were louder)
* http://www.israelinsider.com/views/articles/views\_0174.htm
support for bin Laden among Muslims in France
* http://213.159.10.102/francemain.asp?pad=278,316,&item\_id=15035
Egyptian Islamist "Set Up Internet Sites for Bin Laden Network"
* http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-43/net/egyptian\_islamist\_set.htm
Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice
Palestinian Denounces September 11th Culprits but Justifies Some Violence
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/10/30/MN37242.DTL
American Muslim Organizations Call for End to Bombing
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/29/national/29MUSL.html
Moderates Start Speaking Out Against Islamic Intolerance
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/nyregion/28MUSL.html
Rep. Issa Says His Arab Name Kept Him Off Flight
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085509oct27.story
How Islam Won, and Lost, the Lead in Science
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/social/30ISLA.html
response "Can't Cry Hard Enough": A Tribute to the Victims of September 11, 2001 (Shockwave)
* http://www.cantcryhardenough.com/
article about a guy who evacuated people from the World Trade Center
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56956-2001Oct26.html
Passenger on Ill-Fated Flight 93 a Hero by Any Label
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085626oct28.story
Towers of Missing Paperwork
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000086327oct30.story
Red Tape at Red Cross: Groups Now in a Tangle
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/nyregion/28DONA.html
Terrorism Attacks Spur House Plans for Sharp Hikes in Defense Funds
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000086332oct30.story
On Campus and Off, Antiwar Movements See New Vigor
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085915oct28.story
Bin Laden Family Strives to Reestablish Its Reputation
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/international/middleeast/28BINL.html?pagewanted=print
Terror's Damage: Calculating the Devastation
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63343-2001Oct27.html
Lloyd's Group Sees Terror Profit
* http://news.findlaw.com/ap/f/1310/10-29-2001/20011029161531440.html
Power, Imagination and New York's Future
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/arts/design/28MUSC.html
background FBI Wary of Investigating Extremist Muslim Leaders
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3418-2001Oct28.html
speculation about anti-Taliban military activity back in June
* http://www.indiareacts.com/archivefeatures/nat2.asp?recno=10∓ctg=policy
Afghanistan by Friedrich Engels (1958) (includes a concise history of the English defeat)
* http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/afghanistan/index.htm
Hydrocarbons and a New Strategic Region: The Caspian Sea and Central Asia
* http://www.cgsc.army.mil/milrev/English/MayJun01/grau.htm
The Lawless Frontier Between Afghanistan and Pakistan (2000)
* http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/09/kaplan.htm
Islam Through Western Eyes (1980)
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=archive&s=19800426said
Online, Conspiracy Searchers Find Plots Virtually Everywhere
* http://www.pcmike.com/ejterror.htm * http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/wandawi.htm
war The War of the Night
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/645623.asp?0nw=n1d
US Special Forces Beat Retreat as Enemy "Fought Back Like Maniacs"
Taliban Fires on Bazaar; Two Sellers Die
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084632oct24.story * http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/international/asia/24FIGH.html?pagewanted=print
Tenacious Taliban Cling to Power
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/international/asia/26TALI.html
Taliban Battle Will Be Tough, US Concedes
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085033oct25.story
US Forces Set to Battle "Myth" of Cave Fighters
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085296oct26.story
Taliban Forces Halt Alliance Advance
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/25/world/world1.html
US Bombing Tactics Ineffective, Says Opposition
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/25/world/world2.html
Cluster Bombs Stoke Humanitarian Crisis Fears as Civilian Toll Mounts
* http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011025/1/1l4le.html
counting the casualties
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11782
UN Says US Bombs Struck Mosque, Village as Civilian Casualties Mount
* http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1024-05.htm
War Descends Like a Scythe on Innocent Afghan Village
* http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1025-01.htm
US Planes Bomb a Red Cross Site for Second Time
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/international/asia/27MILI.html?pagewanted=print
High-Tech US Bombs Are Precise but Not Perfect
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084654oct24.story
Kandahar: A Once Grand City Reduced to Ruins
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/25/world/world7.html
We Won't Stop for Ramadan: US
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/24/world/world1.html
Experts Challenge Military, Political Tacks in Central Asia
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085313oct26.story
US Wakes Up to Osama's Nuke Dreams
* http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art\_id=1862859664
Muslim Allies Getting Restive About the War in Afghanistan
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59474-2001Oct26.html
US DOD "Background Briefing" on Enemy Denial and Deception
* http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2001/t10242001\_t1024dd.html
Naming of Hijackers as Saudis May Further Erode Ties to US
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/international/25SAUD.html
Bush Thanks Saudis for Anti-Terrorism Aid (he's lying)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53113-2001Oct25.html
Israeli Raid Turned Village Into War Zone
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/international/26MIDE.html
West Bank Villagers Describe Raid as "Like a Horror Movie"
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085321oct26.story
Vigilantes Blamed for Attack on Palestinians
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/25/world/world12.html
Debate Emerges Over Sharon's Motives
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084660oct24.story
Definitions of Terrorism Dog US Officials (terrorism has long been a political word)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47946-2001Oct24.html
Witnesses Say Soldiers Kill 200 in Nigeria
* http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-nigeria-killings.html
"Conflict Index" Warns When a Nation Faces Civil War
* http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991472
E-Mail Capability Changes Lives of Sailors Far Away
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084354oct23.story
propaganda war War Needs Good Public Relations
* http://www.fair.org/media-beat/011025.html
Pentagon Hires Image Firm to Explain Airstrikes to World (the government's cluelessness on the propaganda front is truly worrying)
* http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/pr19.htm
Ad Group May Help Sell US to Muslim, Arab Countries
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084638oct24.story
US Broadcasts "Not Being Heard"
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1619000/1619548.stm
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Interview with Al Jezeera
* http://www.counterpunch.org/rummy1.html
A Harvest of Anger at the US
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084630oct24.story
anthrax and biowar FBI and CIA Suspect Domestic Extremists
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59509-2001Oct26.html
Anthrax Probe Shifts to Homegrown Hate Groups
* http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1025-03.htm
Additive Made Spores Deadlier (more evidence for a domestic source)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47864-2001Oct24.html
Salmonella Vials Sent to Former President Clinton's Office
* http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/10/25/salmonella/
argument that the anthrax attacks are far-right domestic terrorism
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/10/26/far\_right/print.html
anthrax and the militia movement
* http://english.pravda.ru/usa/2001/10/18/18529.html
Agents Start Digging Up Old Files on Anthrax Hoaxes
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/national/27INQU.html?pagewanted=print
background on anthrax threats at clinics
* http://www.newyorker.com/THE\_TALK\_OF\_THE\_TOWN/CONTENT/?011029ta\_talk\_return\_to\_sender
1998 criminal complaint against domestic would-be bioterrorists
* http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj\_home/news/packages/anthrax/newaff.html
Rush Limbaugh's rant likening Tom Daschle to Satan
* http://www.spinsanity.org/posts/limbaugh7-21-01.html
Few Agree on Who Wrote Anthrax Letters
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47885-2001Oct24.html
Origin of Anthrax Letters Elusive
* http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Letters.html
Evidence Reveals Few Clues to Powder's Source
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085311oct26.story
Osama Bought Anthrax for 10G (I have no independent confirmation of this)
* http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/32458.htm
Years Ago, the Military Sprayed Germs on US Cities
* http://freedomofpress.tripod.com/wsj3.html
US Admits Secret Bio Tests on Unwary Sailors in 1960s
* http://chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0110230264oct23
Attack: Anthrax Bacteria Likely to Be US Military Strain
* http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991473
US Says Anthrax Germ in Mail Is "Ames" Strain
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53147-2001Oct25.html
Contradicting Some US Officials, Scientists Call Anthrax Powder High-Grade
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/national/25WEAP.html?pagewanted=print
New Case, New Fears in a Complex Mystery
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53141-2001Oct25.html
Anthrax Checks Widen as Officials Admit Error
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/national/24CND-ANTH.html?pagewanted=print
Stung by Criticism, Officials Meet to Coordinate Efforts on Anthrax
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/national/25RESP.html?pagewanted=print
How to Botch a Crisis
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38307-2001Oct23.html
"almost as scary as anthrax was the incompetence in Washington" (but I'm sympathetic: nobody ever had to face this before)
* http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/399uzfwq.asp
Postal Workers Critical of Government Response
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084649oct24.story
Postal Workers' Illness Set Off No Alarms
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/national/24VICT.html?pagewanted=print
Cipro, but No Testing for Postal Workers (nearly incomprehensible story from the Times' chief character assassin)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/national/24WORK.html?pagewanted=print
Through Rain, Snow ... and Anthrax?
* http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/10/26/postal\_service/
Accuracy of Test at White House Mail Site Questioned
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48195-2001Oct24.html
disturbing political spin on the fallout of Afghanistan versus Washington
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/national/25BUSH.html?pagewanted=print
French Anthrax Scare Spreads to Drinking Water
* http://213.159.10.102/francemain.asp?pad=278,313,&item\_id=15479
Pranksters, Panicked Americans Perpetrate Hoaxes
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53134-2001Oct25.html
Mother Mails Son's Ashes, Triggering Anthrax Scare
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085047oct25.story
What To Do If You Receive an Anthrax Threat
* http://www.usps.com/news/2001/press/pr01\_1010tips.htm
Past Studies of Anthrax Have Limited Use in Current Outbreak
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59520-2001Oct26.html
Shining Light on Biowar Dark Winter
* http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org/lessons.html
Research Could Offer New Defenses Against Anthrax
* http://ens-news.com/ens/oct2001/2001L-10-24-06.html
Anthrax
* http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/anthrax\_g.htm
Anthrax: Pre-Publication and Special Issue
* http://www.nature.com/nature/anthrax/
Congress Trying to Guard Food Supply
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011025/aponline172401\_000.htm
The Nixon Administration's Decision to End US Biological Warfare Programs
* http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB58/
Saddam Connection: West Nile Virus the First Bioweapon? (but, as usual with newsmax, the evidence is basically nonexistent)
* http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/10/24/180937.shtml
New Scientist's Bioterrorism Page
* http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/bioterrorism/
Some 10,000 People Take Anthrax Drug
* http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/10/25/ciplo/
Ciprofloxacin: The Dispute Over Compulsory Licenses
* http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/cl/cipro/
Cipro Frenzy Bodes Ill for Online Drug Sales, Regulators Say
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/296/business/Cipro\_frenzy\_bodes\_ill\_regulators\_say+.shtml
Anthrax Vaccine: Changes to the Manufacturing Process
* http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-02-181t
skepticism on anthrax vaccine
* http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/
Biopesticide and Bioweapons
* http://www.i-sis.org/biopesticide&bioweapons.shtml
Add This to the Bioterror Menu: Designer Disease (speculation)
* http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20011022/748201.html
Amid Fears, Junk Mail Is Dropping Its Disguises
Could "Smart Mail" Ease Postal Fears?
* http://www.atnewyork.com/rebuild/article/0,1471,3041\_909941,00.html
Could This Be the End of Snail Mail?
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/647565.asp
civil liberties and security Bush Signs Into Law New Enforcement Era
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59571-2001Oct26.html * http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/national/27TERR.html
Antiterrorism Bill Passes; US Gets Expanded Powers
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/national/26CONG.html?pagewanted=print * http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/national/26RIGH.html
New Anti-Terror Laws for US
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid\_1620000/1620473.stm
Terror Bill's Effects to Be Immediate
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085299oct26.story
Tough Anti-Terror Campaign Pledged
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53129-2001Oct25.html
Legislation Gutting Privacy Standards Passes; Several Provisions Survive Sunset
* http://www.cdt.org/press/011025press.shtml
Memo to Ashcroft: Read "Marbury"
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZQJ7036TC
Law Could Open Doors for Net Surveillance ("Ashcroft will direct prosecutors and FBI to monitor Internet traffic")
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7656969.html
FBI Seeking to Wiretap Internet
* http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,37203,00.html
House bill provides oversight of Carnivore
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011024/us/attacks\_e\_mail\_1.html
Surveillance: Businesses to Hold E-Mail Records for 12 Months
* http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=011017001949
German Carriers Told to Install Cyber-Snooping Tech
* http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171516.html
Internet Could Reveal Sensitive Information to Enemies
* http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/GoodMorningAmerica/WTC\_011015\_InternetSecrets.html
Pakistani Hackers Deface US Site With Ultimatum
* http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171217.html * http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/10/17/anburs.kc.noaa.gov * http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/10/20/www.dtepi.mil
Information Warfare
* http://www.techreview.com/magazine/nov01/freedman.asp
"cyber-liberties swept away by tidal wave of security concerns"
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/646793.asp
"today's curbs on freedom are nothing compared with earlier wars" (the Wall Street Journal is leading the assault on civil liberties)
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001363
extreme assault on civil liberties in Florida
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZTMIY39TC
Airlines Aggressively Profile Fliers
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/646421.asp
Amsterdam airport using iris scanning
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/international/europe/25AMST.html
Logan Will Test Face-Data Security
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/298/metro/Logan\_will\_test\_face\_data\_security+.shtml
face recognition systems at "several Logan airport checkpoints"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/national/26LOGA.html
Army Kicks Off New Secure Smart ID Card Era
* http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-tech-smartcards-military.html
ID System for Port Workers Considered
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000084897oct25.story
Two in France Sentenced for Supplying Fake IDs to Extremists
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085316oct26.story
National ID Card System Failing to Attract Supporters (despite what you hear from Oracle's hype machine and the San Jose Mercury)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084646oct24.story
Pentagon Makes Rush Order for Anti-Terror Surveillance Technology ("against faraway enemies, as well as American airports and shopping malls")
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53844-2001Oct25.html
Risks, Costs Weighed in Terror Response
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085045oct25.story
panel discussion on wartime civil liberties issues
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/privacy\_panel\_transcript.html
Convention Against Torture
* http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h\_cat39.htm
US Ratification of the Convention Against Torture (search on "United States")
* http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/treaty12\_asp.htm
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
* http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a\_ccpr.htm
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
* http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm
US Map of Human Rights Groups
* http://www.tolerance.org/maps/human\_rights/
Airline Safety and Politics
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-000084497oct23.story
Airport Security Companies Talk of Lawsuits If US Takes Over Their Duties (ugh)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/business/25AIR.html?pagewanted=print
House Zealots Block Anti-Terror Efforts
* http://www.newyorkobserver.com/pages/conason.asp
Safety Panel Nudges Agency on Revising Pilot Rest Rules
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/national/24PLAN.html
Air Security May Require IT Overhaul (if so then it will take years and be a nightmare)
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/10/23/airport.security.idg/
F-16s Force Down Small Plane
* http://www.sptimes.com/News/102501/TampaBay/F\_16s\_force\_down\_smal.shtml
Man Boards Plane With Pistol (they fired the employee who let him through -- that'll fix it!)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47913-2001Oct24.html
conservative opposition to airport safety and money laundering regulations
* http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/49/new-bearman2.shtml
Crime, Illicit Markets, and Money Laundering
* http://www.ceip.org/files/pdf/mgi-ch3.pdf
Anti-Money Laundering: Efforts in the Securities Industry
* http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-02-111
Agents to Track Money
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53142-2001Oct25.html
Agencies Seek Better Ways to Spot Terrorist Funds
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47813-2001Oct24.html
Bin Laden's Nuclear Threat
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350025-2001372097,00.html
Terrorism and Nuclear Power
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=bivens20011024
Nuclear Plants' Vulnerability Raised Attack Concerns
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48190-2001Oct24.html
IOC Official: US War on Terrorism Puts Salt Lake City Games in Doubt
* http://www.sltrib.com/2001/oct/10242001/utah/142882.htm
For This Homeland Defender, Terror Is a Local Matter
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/27/national/27LIVE.html?pagewanted=print
Error and Attack Tolerance of Complex Networks (2000)
* http://www.nd.edu/~networks/Papers/nature\_attack.pdf
Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security (1982)
* http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/art7095.php
arguments that it's all about oil "Afghanistan as a corridor to the untapped fuel reserves in central Asia"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,579401,00.html
"a pro-western Kabul regime should give the US an Afghan route for Caspian oil"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,579174,00.html
Route to Riches
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,579401,00.html
The Geopolitics of War
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011105&s=klare
A Essay on the Events of September 11 2001 to the Anti-Globalisation Movement
* http://www.nologo.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/11/1833245&mode=nocomment&threshold=
US Seeks Export Route for Turkmen Gas, Bypassing Iran
* http://www.middleeastwire.com/iran/business/stories/20011022\_2\_meno.shtml
comment sources of the problem in Saudi Wahhabism
* http://www.indexonline.org/news/401\_20011018\_ali.shtml
Arab Intellectual: We, Not the US, Are the Lawful Parents of Bin Laden (you might have to scroll down a bit)
* http://www.newaus.com.au/news290arabletter.html
"Now Is the Time for Islamic Introspection"
* http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=87288
September 11 Attacks Impossible Without Help of US Groups
* http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/22/01&Cat=2&Num=014
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
* http://members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.htm
It's Time Americans Asked, "Why Us?"
* http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=10017
What Powerful States Call Terrorism May Be an Inevitable Response to Injustice ("inevitable" is a weasel word, but "terrorism" is too often used selectively)
* http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1025-06.htm
A True Patriot Can Pose Hard Questions
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000084510oct23.story
Anti-Terrorism Questions for Bush
* http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/092901b.html
Unintended Consequences (of US policy in Iran)
* http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=11796
Holy War: America Keeps Its Faith in the B-2 Bomber
* http://www.pitch.com/issues/2001-10-25/janovy.html
At the Pace of the Offensive, the Taliban Will Survive the Winter
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000085244oct26.story
Bush's Mideast Charade
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/opinion/25SAFI.html
"Brutality Smeared in Peanut Butter" ("why America must stop the war now")
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4283081,00.html
Unilateralism Dead? That's a Myth Perception
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000084530oct24.column
Heritage Foundation Hawks
* http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=12191
A New Agenda to Counter Terrorism
* http://www.fpif.org/justice/tobedone.html
crumbling public sector makes US vulnerable
* http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1024-01.htm
Poor Services Aid Terrorists
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,581095,00.html
the CPUSA argues that the Soviet Union was Afghanistan's best friend (some interesting history, though)
* http://www.pww.org/past-weeks-2001/Afghanistan%20-%20Some%20overlooked%20history.htm
Islamic Militancy in Central Asia: What Is to Be Done?
* http://www.fpif.org/commentary/0110ismil.html
Taliban Should Be Overthrown by the Uprising of Afghan Nation
* http://rawa.false.net/us-strikes.htm
"we have privatized our national security in many dangerous ways"
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000084803oct25.story
Don't Scare the Public With Vague Warnings
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000084529oct24.story
Reassurance Through Illusion, Rhetoric, and Fear-Mongering
* http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2001-09.html
ACLU, Unlike Taliban, Fights for Rights of All Americans
* http://kz.mlive.com/columns/index.ssf?/news/stories/20011023kopnvcornwell1023.frm
Why Al Gore Would Be a Better Wartime President
* http://democrats.com/view.cfm?id=4957
Sealing Off the Capitol Would Wound Democracy
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000084531oct24.story
Take a Guess: Who's Going to Pay for the Terror Economy?
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000084509oct23.story
the shameful House "stimulus" bill Lawmakers' Votes on Economic Legislation Will Test Talk of Bipartisanship
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/national/24STIM.html?pagewanted=print
Ripple Effect From Attack: Suppliers Have No Demand (this is why the House "stimulus" bill is a lie: without demand, why invest?)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/23/fashion/23FASH.html
return to ideology in the House
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53739-2001Oct25.html * http://www.tmsfeatures.com/TMSFeatures/fs\_feature3/1,1303,20011024ts--s-a,00.html
abject evil of the House "stimulus package"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/opinion/24KRUG.html
House Consideration of Republican "Stimulus" Bill
* http://www.truthout.com/10.26B.Rangel.outrage.htm
argument for economic stimulus in the normal sense of the word (recessions are caused by a lack of demand, not a lack of investment)
* http://www.senate.gov/~kennedy/statements/01/10/2001A25B49.html
news, information, and freedom of expression Squelching the News in Democracy's Name
* http://www.motherjones.com/web\_exclusives/commentary/opinion/warmedia.html
Chilling Effects of Anti-Terrorism
* http://eff.org/Censorship/Terrorism\_militias/antiterrorism\_chill.html
The Media, the Military, and Striking the Right Balance
* http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/taylor2001-10-23.htm
Media Are Out of Step With Democracy: Acting as a Branch of Government
* http://chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/oped/chi-0110220219oct22.story
New War Takes an Unclear Approach to Giving Out Information
* http://chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0110250031oct25.story
Suppression Stifles Some Sites
* http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,47835,00.html
Taliban Reports Arrest of Japanese Journalist
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084641oct24.story
Jerry Falwell Tries to Cash In on Controversy
* http://www.au.org/press/pr102201.htm
text of Sunera Thobani's speech (the one that set off the National Post)
* http://www.casac.ca/conf01\_thobani.htm
Online Agitators Breaching Barriers in Mideast
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42283-2001Oct23.html
Guerra Contra el Terrorismo (animated information graphics on the war)
* http://www.elpais.es/multimedia/internacional/bases.html
US Terrorist Attacks: Global Terrorism Resources
* http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id1737/pg1/
Where to Find Military Information
* http://web.nps.navy.mil/~library/militaryinfo.htm
investigation The Story of Ziad Samir Jarrah (alleged terror pilot on flight 93)
* http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/featurestories/jarrah\_101001/story.html
Business-Class Suspect Caught in Container
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350024-2001371211,00.html
Tracking Bin Laden's Disciples: Wiretaps Unravel Networks
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/296/nation/Wiretaps\_unravel\_networks+.shtml
Germany Admits Failure to Detect Terrorist Plot
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,579883,00.html
Attackers Did Not Know They Were to Die
* http://politics.guardian.co.uk/archive/article/0,,4276865,00.html
Egypt Terrorism Case Shows Limits to Allies' Cooperation
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085306oct26.story
Friends of Terror Suspect Say Allegations Make No Sense
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084350oct23.story
tolerance story about a Muslim family in New Jersey
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59547-2001Oct26.html
Hate Crimes Against Muslims Nationwide Abate
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53119-2001Oct25.html
Muslim Population Inflated, Studies Find
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085068oct25.story
In a Shift, Muslim Groups Cast Themselves as Loyal Critics
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/national/25ARAB.html
Tug of Faith Unsettles British Muslims
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/international/europe/24BRIT.html?pagewanted=print
response Unearthing an Elusive Death Count
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42272-2001Oct23.html
notes on the robots used in the WTC search
* http://www.csee.usf.edu/robotics/crasar/
New York Attack Site Emits Toxins, Data Show
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60045-2001Oct26.html
Competing Plans Hope to Shape a Trade Center Memorial
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/arts/25MEMO.html?pagewanted=print
Manhattan Neighbors Plan to "Rely on the Local Folks"
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000085337oct26.story
town in Canada that put up huge numbers of stranded passengers on Sept. 11th
* http://www.gandercanada.com/
Dems Propose Creating E-Congress
* http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/1022/web-ecap-10-24-01.asp * http://www.ndol.org/ndol\_ci.cfm?kaid=131&subid=192&contentid=3865
The Transformation of Defense and Proliferation Policies After September 11th
* http://www.ceip.org/files/nonprolif/templates/events.asp?p=8&EventID=397
Bin Laden Family to End Ties to Carlyle
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,5-2001365686,00.html
The Case for Catastrophe Bonds
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/business/25SCEN.html?pagewanted=print
evidence that Republicans are behind the recall attempt against Barbara Lee (you may recall that they secretly backed a Green in Washington State)
* http://www.sf.indymedia.org/2001/10/106816.php
A Year Later, Bigger Government Suddenly Gets a Better Reception
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084383oct23.story
background Cuban intelligence file on Orlando Bosch, terrorist who Bush Sr. pardoned
* http://cuban-exile.com/doc\_051-075/doc0057.htm * http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/lost13.html
war US to Launch More "Fierce and Bloody" Afghan Raids
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/21/stiusausa02035.html
The Ground War: Into the Fray
* http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,180475,00.html
Under the Devastating Fire of the Spectres
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/21/stiusausa01034.html
CIA Told to Do "Whatever Necessary" to Kill Bin Laden ("Cheney says war against terrorism 'may never end'")
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27452-2001Oct20.html
Taliban Placing Hopes on Age-Old Hit-and-Hide Strategy
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083918oct21.story
despite predictions, a few days of bombing hasn't caused the Taliban to crumble
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083898oct21.story
Alliance May Get US Nod to Take Kabul
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/23/world/world1.html
Today the Soldiers Hurl Taunts; Tomorrow It Will Be Rockets
* http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,564797,00.html
Help for Rebels as Bush Takes Gloves Off
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/23/world/world2.html
article about one of our nastiest "allies" in Northern Afghanistan
* http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20011019/744421.html&qs=goats
Straw Calls for Quick Response to Taliban Collapse
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,579096,00.html
Meeting in Orange County, Afghans Talk of Rebuilding Nation
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000083865oct21.story
At Pentagon, Worries Over War's Costs, Consequences ("you've probably created hundreds of new terrorists")
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27875-2001Oct20.html
Bush Works to Define a War Without Clear Lines
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084169oct22.story
US Said to Pledge Not to Expand War
* http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1015-02.htm
Afghanistan "Small Piece" of War, Top US Brass Says
* http://news.excite.com/news/r/011021/12/politics-attack-military-piece-dc
full-text scripts of radio the US is broadcasting into Afghanistan
* http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2001/d20011015radio.pdf
"I know where bin Laden is"
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350019-2001363425,00.html
Pakistan's Wild West
* http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/pakistan/
Propaganda War May Miss Targets
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/21/ret.propaganda.war/
Allies' Support Steady, but Concern Is Growing
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084170oct22.story
US Still Unilateralist: French Foreign Minister
* http://www.ttc.org/ta11021b.htm
How the US and Britain Reward Countries Offering Support in War Against Taliban
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4281381,00.html
US Looks to Drones for Edge on Battlefield
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083598oct20.story
For Toughest US Troops, Highest-Tech Combat Gear
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083580oct20.story
Fernandes Warns of "Specific Action" Against Pak Proxy War (danger of escalation in Kashmir)
* http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/211001/dlnat20.asp
Vietnam Calls Orange County Group Terrorists, Demands Halt
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083896oct21.story
Prominent Lawyer Killed in Mexico (this is terrorism)
* http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Mexico-Lawyer-Killed.html
the problem of Saudi Arabia Saudi Wall of Denial Foils Investigators
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0110200166oct20.story
Secrets of the Saudis
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/21/stiusausa02004.html
The High, Hidden Cost of Saudi Arabian Oil
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/weekinreview/21BANE.html
US Must Press Tainted Kingdom
* http://www.suntimes.com/output/commentary/cst-edt-edits21.html
Feeling Sensitive, Saudi Sheiks Ask US Press to Lay Off
* http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/special/terror/front/1097448
Few Checks on Saudis Coming to US
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011020/us/attacks\_saudi\_visas\_1.html
Saudi Arabia Warns Citizens to Avoid Militants
* http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20011018\_34.html
Oil Omissions: Bush Sr, Cheney Have Big Stakes in Saudi Status Quo
* http://www.ccmep.org/hotnews/oil101801.html
Tracking Bin Laden's Money Flow Leads Back to Midland, Texas
* http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/25/feature3.shtml
Muslim world Israel Intensifies Assault on Palestinians
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083903oct21.story
In Arab World, Palestinian Plight Eclipses Afghanistan
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083920oct21.story
Java's Angry Young Muslims
* http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=824598
Why Peshawar's Youth Are Tinder for Islamic Extremism
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/magazine/21PESHAWAR.html
How Restive Are Europe's Muslims?
* http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=824394
Milan Mosque Denies Link as Terror Incubator
* http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0110220252oct22.story
Police May Swoop on Baker Street Mullah
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/21/stiusausa02027.html
The View From the Mosque
* http://www.observer.co.uk/uk\_news/story/0,6903,577838,00.html * http://www.observer.co.uk/uk\_news/story/0,6903,577836,00.html * http://www.observer.co.uk/uk\_news/story/0,6903,577837,00.html
"violent eruptions in Nigeria may have more to do with politics than religion"
* http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=825403
Some Muslims Want to Kill Bin Laden Because He's Soft
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/21/stiusausa02030.html
Interpreting Islamic Law for American Muslims
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/national/21LAW.html?pagewanted=print
Moderate Muslims Fear Their Message Is Being Ignored
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/international/middleeast/21ISLA.html?pagewanted=print
Bombing Carves a Rift Among Muslims in US
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083584oct20.story
New York Cleric's Departure From Mosque Leaves Mystery
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/23/nyregion/23IMAM.html
Muslim Makes Bin Laden a Laughing Matter
* http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/18/nfuny18.xml
Osama Bert Laden
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/weekinreview/14BOXB.html
The Crusaders' Giant Footprints
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35989-2001Oct22.html
Seeing Jesus From a Centuries-Old Muslim Perspective Is Fascinating
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000083555oct20.story
Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Islam Has Become Its Own Enemy
* http://www.observer.co.uk/islam/story/0,1442,577943,00.html
investigation Arrests Have Yielded Little So Far, Investigators Say
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/national/21DETA.html?pagewanted=print
Al Qaeda's Tracks Deepen in Europe
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31330-2001Oct21.html
In Paris, a Frightening Look at Terror's Inconspicuous Face
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083901oct21.story
FBI Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Al-Qaida Cells in Britain
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,579145,00.html
FBI Considers Torture as Suspects Stay Silent (just this once, they figure -- we can stop whenever we want)
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350021-2001364909,00.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27748-2001Oct20.html
Some Got Warning: Don't Go Downtown on September 11th
* http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-10-12/News\_and\_Views/City\_Beat/a-128273.asp
No Insider Trading Before New York Attacks, Says FSA
* http://www.fincareer.com/Features/FeaturesCtl.jsp?microsite=reuters&articleId=3126
Egyptian Raised Terror Funds in US in 1990's
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/23/international/middleeast/23JIHA.html?pagewanted=print
Money Trail Leads to Gulf Accounts
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083585oct20.story
Focus of FBI Is Seen Shifting to Terrorism (amazing if true)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/national/21BURE.html
anthrax and biowar On Many Fronts, Experts Plan for the Unthinkable: Biowarfare
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/23/health/anatomy/23PREP.html?pagewanted=all
Prompt Response for Politicians, a Slower One for Postal Workers
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/23/national/23RESP.html?pagewanted=print
Anthrax Concerns Mount in Postal Service
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/10/22/anthrax/
Washington Post Office: Being Left in Gloom of Night Over Threat
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/23/national/23MAIL.html
In Anthrax Puzzle, Some See Evidence Pointing Within US
Anthrax Attacks Now Being Linked to US Right-Wing Cranks
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=100635
Domestic Extremists Ready to Take Advantage of Anthrax Scares
* http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/WorldNewsTonight/strike\_domestic\_threat011019.html
Emboldened Abortion Foes Use Anthrax Threat to Spread Fear
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27538-2001Oct20.html
Anthrax Threats Common at Clinics
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083593oct20.story
Soviets' Silent Hysteria (the anthrax outbreak that they covered up)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083582oct20.story * http://archive.showmenews.com/2001/oct/20011021news026.asp * http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/10/22/003.html
US Agrees to Clean Up Anthrax Site in Uzbekistan
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/23/international/asia/23TREA.html?pagewanted=print
Q&A series on the anthrax attacks from the Palm Beach Post (a real newspaper)
* http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/friday/news\_b3fcfa91132c705b00e9.html
Fears of Global Anthrax Threat Grow
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011020/aponline111714\_000.htm
Anthrax: An Old Scare
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31255-2001Oct21.html
Bush tries to use the anthrax attacks to erode Congress' spending authority
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011022/pl/attack\_bush\_budget\_dc\_7.html
Antibiotic May Not Be the "Protection" You Envision
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33778-2001Oct22.html
"instant screening for anthrax is now possible"
* http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=821937
Scientists Hunt Genetic Print of Anthrax Spores
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083928oct21.story
Germ Banks Stock Dishes of Anthrax
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/645421.asp
Staging Battle Against Anthrax in Mail Rooms
* http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-000083472oct20.story
Ironing Your Mail Not Such a Hot Idea
* http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134356050\_solve19.html
Secret US Germ Tests Threat to Treaty (9/5/01)
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001305743,00.html
Emergency Plans Made to Head Off Smallpox
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/293/nation/Emergency\_plans\_made\_to\_head\_off\_smallpox+.shtml
UN's Smallpox Terror Alert
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,578112,00.html
Vets Warn of Terrorist Food Threat
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid\_1601000/1601846.stm
skepticism about the danger of chemical etc terror
* http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200110/msg00311.html
Keeping Panic at Bay
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/opinion/21DIAM.html
Coded Images Show Plans for Massive Germ Attack on US, Killing Millions (if this is a parody then it's a work of genius; if not then ...)
* http://www.bringmenews.com/Messages/National\_Security/Alerts/Alert\_003.htm
civil liberties and security Terror Probe Raises Concerns About Civil Rights
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/22/inv.civil.rights/
"Who Is This Kafka That People Keep Mentioning?" (an innocent Saudi who was been swept up in the recent police raids)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/magazine/21MUSLIM.html
Civic Center Security Called Too Restrictive (people are being required to show ID to attend public meetings)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000083516oct20.story
History Speaks Ill of Power to Snoop
* http://www0.mercurycenter.com/opinion/perspective/docs/spy21.htm
Chretien Not Keen on Sunset Clause in Terror Bill (opposition to a sunset clause has no rational justification)
* http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20011022/748243.html
Hijacking Justice in the Name of National Security
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,579082,00.html
Democracy and Justice Are Casualties
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,248-2001365460,00.html
latest key escrow proposal is abandoned
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/10/22/encryption.abandoned.idg/
Sneak and Peek Search Warrants on Anti-Terrorism Legislation
* http://www.aclu.org/congress/l101901a.html
Bad Oracle: ID Cards Pick Up Steam
* http://www.nationalreview.com/daily/nr101901.shtml
Digital IDs Can Help Prevent Terrorism by Larry Ellison (or at least they can help sell databases)
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001336 * http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/ellisonqa20.htm
Citibank Attacks Money-Laundering Regulations
* http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/25/news2.shtml
"badly needed money-laundering legislation may be killed by special interests"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/22/opinion/22MORG.html
Egypt Renews Call to Put Nuclear Installations in ME Under IAEA Supervision
* http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011020/2001102035.html
Sellafield Attack "Could Be Worse Than Chernobyl"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,578991,00.html
Democrats Push for Airline Security Bill
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/10/20/rec.airline.security/
Feds: Airport Security Firm to Admit Violation
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/20/inv.airport.security/
DeLay Forges Ahead With GOP Plan for Airport Safety (embracing the private security companies despite their endless violations)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27885-2001Oct20.html
Airports Deactivate Thousands of Defunct Security Badges
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083938oct21.story
Lax Security Still Plagues Many Airports ("Every airport had its own security. They were little empires.")
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27523-2001Oct20.html
For Flight Crews, Security Is New Focus
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30933-2001Oct21.html
Terrorism and Technology in the New Millennium (very strange but sort of instructive)
* http://www.afp.gov.au/raw/Publications/Platypus/Dec99/terror.htm
architectural consequences of the terrorist attacks
* http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-000083719oct21.story
Blacklisted Groups Visible on Web
* http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,47616,00.html
news and freedom of expression right-wing Canadian newspaper's campaign against a war dissident (search for "Thobani" at the National Post site)
* http://www.nationalpost.com/
defenses of Thobani
* http://www.zmag.org/landsbigotry.htm * http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/columns/rebick/rebick011005.html
what Thobani actually said
* http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/vancouver/sunerathobaniO1-56video.rm * http://www.vancouver.indymedia.org/front.php3?article\_id=5903&group=webcast
The Right's Fights for Free(ish) Speech
* http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/10/nyhan-b-10-22.html
the demand for lock-step wartime uniformity is not the American way
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-000083808oct21.story
AAUP Statement Decries Attempts to "Demonize" Scholars Critical of War
* http://chronicle.com/daily/2001/10/2001102202n.htm
Bush's War at Home: Government Censorship, Secrecy, and Lies
* http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/oct2001/demo-o13.shtml
A New Crop of War Reporters
* http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-000082212oct15.story
hazards of reporting on the war
* http://dailynorthwestern.com/daily/issues/2001/10/11/nyou/laforet.shtml
criticism of British reporter who tried to sneak into Afghanistan
* http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,573958,00.html
Thirty Journalists Reported to Be Held Hostage by Afghans
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,1271,-1256999,00.html
Arab TV-News Station Is Playing It Fair
* http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vppin182419767oct18.column
Mideast News Network Has Fans Here
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/10/18/MN8417.DTL
The CNN of the Arab World Deserves Our Respect
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000084262oct22.story
Military Is Putting Heavier Limits on Reporters' Access
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/international/21VIDE.html?pagewanted=print
another site with links to world newspapers
* http://www.ipl.org/reading/news/
comment Bush Is Giving Bin Laden the War He Wants
* http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/25/feature1.shtml
The Wrong Battle Plan
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19459-2001Oct19.html
America's Ill-Conceived War on Terror
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/645002.asp
Why This War Will Not Work
* http://www.observer.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1501,578021,00.html
We Can't Win This Way
* http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE\_ID=24969
"Unclear Objectives"
* http://yellowtimes.org/bjohnson/bjohnson\_102001.html
This Is the Third World War and the Stakes Are High
* http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=100457
A Half-Baked Plan to Oust Saddam
* http://www.bouldernews.com/opinion/columnists/20eoped.html
"Nuke 'em" Not a Valid Tactic
The So-Called Evidence Is a Farce
* http://www.narconews.com/goff1.html
Don't Blame It on Bill Clinton
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/column.billpress/
Quarterly Forecast: Emerging from the Wreckage
* http://www.stratfor.com/SERVICES/GIU/4q2001.htm
The Dollar Could Be Headed for Hard Times If OPEC Switches to the Euro
* http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2001/03/09/
Evil Evildoers of Evil ("how to feel patriotic and yet not reassured by Bush and company")
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/10/19/notes101901.DTL
There's More to This War Than "Goodness vs. Evil"
* http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.witcover19oct19.column?coll=ba
comment from an international mediator at a Mennonite university
* http://www.mediate.com/articles/terror911.cfm
If the CIA Had Butted Out of Iran (our opposition to democracy in the Middle East is come back to bite us)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-000083832oct21.story
Egyptian report on the US antiwar movement
* http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/554/fall2.htm
jargon watch: stop abusing moral language to pretend that others have no morals (Americans should stand up to this kind of toxic sophistry)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000083565oct20.story
jargon watch: "let's take back our schools, churches and charities" (a fabulous museum of jargon techniques honed down to the flick of a wrist)
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=95001347
background Who the Afghans Are and What Motivates Them: A Reading List
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/20/books/20TANK.html
Taliban May Have Origin in Ancient Tribe of Israel
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/10/20/MN.DTL
University Helped US Reach Out to Taliban
* http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0110210071oct21.story
Did China Buy US Cruise Missiles From Bin Laden?
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4281417,00.html
links from the Study of Islam Section at the American Academy of Religion
* http://groups.colgate.edu/aarislam/response.htm
Bin Laden's Oxford Days
* http://www.truthout.com/0691.Laden.Oxford.htm
article on Halliburton's dealings with Iraq during Dick Cheney's time as CEO
* http://www.sfbg.com/reality/04.html
Oil Development, Conflict and Displacement in Western Upper Nile, Sudan
* http://www.ideationconferences.com/sudanreport2001/resourcepage.htm
links relating to Caspian region oil
* http://www.cornellcaspian.com/pub/19\_0108Kazakh-China.htm * http://resources.net.az/d/rn.htm
Journal of Counterterrorism and Security International
* http://www.iacsp.com/publications.html
CIA Internship Program
* http://www.cia.gov/cia/employment/jobpostings/intern.htm
response Sifting Mountains of Debris for Slivers of Solace
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/nyregion/21BELO.html
New York State of Minds Now Emotionally Fragile
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000084172oct22.story
nobody is having a good day
* http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/sunday/news\_b32d0504412562340009.html
after the attacks, Republican smears have stopped working in Virginia
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/102901/zengerle102901.html
Afghans Report Beginning of Backlash
* http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0110210078oct21.story
Muslim Students Find Montana Town Friendly
* http://fyi.cnn.com/2001/fyi/news/10/15/montana/index.html
Once-Insular Americans Studying Up on the World
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083899oct21.story
war More Than 100 GI's Participate in Helicopter Assaults
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/20/international/20MILI.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23389-2001Oct19.html
Special Forces Operate Ground Campaign
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18411-2001Oct18.html
Special Troops Ready to Search and Destroy
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083156oct18.story
US Arms Unmanned Aircraft
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12129-2001Oct17.html
Why Bombing Can Go Wrong
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid\_1603000/1603181.stm
Military Plans Informed by Polls
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18369-2001Oct18.html
All Options Stink
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/642649.asp
War on Many Fronts
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story\_id=820871
Pace of US Campaign Stirs Unease (among people who want the maximum possible violence)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000082838oct17.story
Lacking a Center, Terrorist Networks Are Hard to Find, Let Alone Fight
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/20/arts/20NET.html
Fighting a Spreading Anti-US Fire
* http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011012\_8025.htm
US Embassy in Bosnia Closes for Security
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083146oct18.story
Conflict Profile: Uzbekistan
* http://www.fpif.org/selfdetermination/conflicts/uzbek.html
Indonesia at the Crossroads: US Weapons Sales and Military Training
* http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/indo101001.htm
In Tajikistan, Calls for a Jihad Fall on Weary Ears
* http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01\_43/b3754045.htm
Republican loon supports using nuclear weapons in Afghanistan
* http://www.lafayettejc.com/news20011019/200110191local\_news1003494346.shtml * http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/wrtv/20011018/lo/929540\_1.html
Bounty Hunter Bill Introduced by Paul
* http://www.texascrossroads.com/scripts/editorial.dll?bfromind=679&eeid=5448863&eetype=article&render=y&ck=&ver=3.0 * http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2001/tst101501.htm * http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.3076:
We Won't Clean Up the Mess, Says UN
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/19/world/world2.html
Gun Control Leader Bucked the Tide (and was assassinated -- this is terrorism)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000082543oct16.story * http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/17/national/17SLAY.html?pagewanted=print
anthrax and biowar At Anthrax Ground Zero ("this is no time for panic, they kept saying in Florida")
* http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/371pxdty.asp
Government's Anthrax Muddle: Many Voices, Few Facts ("it's not clear who is in charge")
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11819-2001Oct17.html * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083138oct18.story
Two Tested for Anthrax; Letter to Clinic Stirs Alarm (a positive test at a clinic would have serious implications)
* http://www.miami.com/herald/partners/yahoo/digdocs/066754.htm
US Abortion Clinics in Anthrax Scare
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid\_1608000/1608280.stm
Anthrax Anxiety at Top UN Environmental Agency
* http://ens-news.com/ens/oct2001/2001L-10-18-02.html
anthrax threats against Americans are nothing new (but they're threats against liberals, so we don't much care)
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/290/metro/Ask\_clinics\_about\_fearP.shtml * http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=12181 * http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about/pr/101501anthrax.html
Arrest on Germ Warfare Charge Start of a Legend? (February 1998)
* http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/special/1998/feb/24/506873292.html
US Militia, Not Osama Behind Anthrax Scare: Expert (this is hardly proven, and the attacks may have several sources)
* http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art\_id=983950989
Who Made the Anthrax?
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/18/opinion/18BUTL.html
Iraq's Chemists Bought Anthrax From America
"there is no evidence to suggest Iraq is behind the anthrax attack"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,576755,00.html
Anxious About Anthrax
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/642621.asp
Panic Carries Its Own Threat of Contagion (but for the jargon-minded, "hysteria" means any opposition to conservatism)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18298-2001Oct18.html
Cure May Be Health Hazard (overuse of antibiotics may lead to drug-resistant anthrax)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-000082833oct17.story
Germ Expert Says Panicky People Can Iron Mail
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011017/od/iron\_dc\_1.html
FBI-based graphic on how to spot suspicious mail
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/graphics/attack/investigation\_28.html
Labs Asked To Verify List Of Hazardous Materials
* http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usstrai172418910oct17.story
Anthrax for Export (April 1998)
* http://www.progressive.org/0901/anth0498.html
Obtaining Anthrax Not Very Difficult
* http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usstrai182420319oct18.story
American Type Culture Collection (order bacteria and viruses online)
Center for Nonproliferation Studies
* http://cns.miis.edu/dbinfo/about.htm
Considerations for Investing Resources in Chemical and Biological Preparedness
* http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-02-162t
Biological Warfare Canaries (biodetector chips)
* http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/oct01/bio.html
Anthrax and Bioterrorism Webliography (including many medical and public health resources not listed here)
* http://www.freepint.com/gary/bioterror.html
Public Health Emergency Response
CDC Calls Public Health IT a "Pony Express" System
* http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47\_STO64893,00.html
Lack of Anthrax Database Cited
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000082848oct17.story
Appropriate Responses to Bioterrorist Threats (British Medical Journal)
* http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7318/877
Psychological Implications of Chemical and Biological Weapons
* http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7318/878
US Fear of Bioterrorism Spreads as Anthrax Cases Increase
* http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7318/883
Anthrax: What Every Clinician Should Know (webcast from the CDC)
* http://www.sph.unc.edu/about/webcasts/bioter\_10-18\_stream1.htm
Center for the Study of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections
* http://bioterrorism.slu.edu/
bioterrorism and anthrax directory sites
* http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/bioterrorism.html * http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/anthrax.html
How Do You Test for Anthrax?
* http://slate.msn.com/code/explainer/explainer.asp?Show=10/16/2001&idMessage=8441
Why Vaccines Are Our Best Shot
* http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011018\_7395.htm
Medscape Resource Center -- Bioterrorism
* http://www.medscape.com/Medscape/features/ResourceCenter/BioTerr/public/RC-index-BioTerr.html
Expert Picks Apart Government's Handling of Anthrax Investigations
* http://ww2.pstripes.osd.mil/01/oct01/ed101601a.html
The Real Nature of Bioterrorism
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=820842
The International Anthrax Scare
* http://prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/10/rayman-read-a-10-18.html
Anthrax Scares Mount Across UK
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,575073,00.html
Russians Are Unfazed by Anthrax, a Common Rural Problem (and not just in Russia)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/20/international/europe/20RUSS.html
proposed constitutional amendment to address mass death of Congress members
* http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.J.RES.67:
investigation Incident Report at Airport Cited Two Hijacking Suspects
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/17/national/17ATTA.html?pagewanted=print
Whether Grounding Jets Prevented Hijackings Is Still Unclear
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/18/national/18HIJA.html
Point Man in a Painful Hunt
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23689-2001Oct19.html
Atta Skillfully Evaded Authorities in the US
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23647-2001Oct19.html
Probe Unraveling Saudis' Role
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5321-2001Oct16.html
The Mind of a Terrorist
* http://web.theglobeandmail.com/special/attack/pages/analysis\_0922\_f1\_1.html
More Than a Deputy, This Man Could Be Bin Laden's Inspiration (Ayman al-Zawahiri)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,565823,00.html
Terrorist Network of 19 Hijackers
* http://www.orgnet.com/hijackers.html
radio story about social network analysis of terrorist networks (the same techniques could be used against legitimate groups or consumers)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20011012.me.03.ram
ID card controversies Sun and Oracle's campaign for a national ID card
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/10/16/sunoracle.DTL&type=printable
lengthy report on the Virginia DMV where the hijackers got their false ID's (including lots of high-quality PR doubletalk from the DMV spokesperson)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011018.atc.06.ram
Public Relations Machinery Gears Up Behind Ellison's National ID Card Proposal
* http://SiliconValley.com/docs/hottopics/attack/014110.htm
the "smart ID card" industry is using the terror attacks to promote its wares
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/10/14/smart.id.cards.ap/
The Case for a National ID Card (not)
* http://www.time.com/time/columnist/stengel/article/0,9565,180144,00.html
civil liberties and security Why Free Speech and Other Rights Are Not as Safe as You Might Think
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20011017\_levinson.html
The Military Mind and Civil Defense (the militarization of society as a threat to democracy)
* http://prospect.org/print/V12/19/dreyfuss-r.html
"how the eavesdropping legislation vastly alters the existing legal terrain"
* http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011018\_3451.htm
Who Will Watch the Watchmen?
* http://www.stallman.org/watchmen.html
New Face of Security Troubling to Advocates of Privacy
* http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-000082613oct17.story
Oakland to Be First US Airport to Use Face-Recognition ID System
* http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/hottopics/attack/image101801.htm
Between Theory and Practice: The Surveillance Camera Players
* http://monkeyfist.com/Talk/SCP/
Rush to Round Up Suspects Raises Fears Over Civil Rights
* http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=011017001819
ACLU Asks Ashcroft for Details on Widespread Detention
* http://www.aclu.org/congress/l101701a.html
How Conservatives Became the ACLU's Best Friends (the title is an exaggeration, but civil liberties are a left-right issue)
* http://prospect.org/print/V12/19/confessore-n.html
"a man was kept off a recent flight because of a book he was carrying"
* http://www.citypaper.net/articles/101801/news.godfrey.shtml
Canada Pushes Broad Antiterror Measure; Some Fear Erosion of Rights
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/18/international/18CANA.html
Executive Order Establishing the Office of Homeland Security
* http://www.ciao.gov/News/EOonOfficeofHomelandSecurity.html * http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011008.html
Measures to Keep Weapons From Terrorists Found to Be Weak
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/643914.asp
Report: FBI Probe Targeted Drugs, Not Terrorism
* http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local\_regional/terr10172001.htm
"long-ignored US-Canada crossing getting beefed-up security in wake of attacks"
* http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/43284\_border18.shtml
Postal Security Is Hardly First Class
* http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011018\_7651.htm
Terrorist Awareness
* http://www.trackerschool.com/preparedness/terroristawareness.php3
About Covert Activities Against Activist Groups (I don't know this guy, but on a quick skim it's consistent with my knowledge)
* http://www.xs4all.nl/~felipe/articles/infiltration\_lecture.htm
No to "Total Security"
* http://www.notbored.org/french-statement.html
nuclear security Nuclear Weapons Complex Vulnerable to Terrorist Attack
* http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/10/17/
Terrorists Eye Nuclear Plants, Expert Says
* http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20011015/736917.html
National Guard Troops Deployed to Nuclear Plants
aviation security the airport security companies are crawling out from under their rock (and they've bought the Republicans)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20011019.me.15.ram
Airlines Foiled Police Logan Probe (now they're getting a bailout -- preposterous)
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/290/metro/Airlines\_foiled\_police\_Logan\_probeP.shtml
Aviation Security Firms Transformed
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/644566.asp
Screeners at Dulles Fail Test
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5214-2001Oct16.html
jargon watch: create selective associations to smear government workers (why don't they ever refer to the police or military as "government"?)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000083377oct19.story
FAA to Tighten Checks on Airport Workers (a little)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083166oct18.story
Questions About Airport Security
* http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,314935-412,00.shtml
article on plans for tamper-proof transponders
* http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel\_comm.jsp?view=story&id=news/rhon1011.xml
Luggage Loophole for US Skies Stirs Fears
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000082513oct16.story
Nonmetallic Knives Defy Heightened Air Security
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083141oct18.story
Security Is Prime Topic at Airport Architecture Fair
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000082523oct16.story
Airbus Leaps Ahead on Cockpit Doors
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/643880.asp
money laundering Officials Fault Past Efforts on Terrorist Assets
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000082522oct16.story
US Seeking a Stronger Role for Banks on Terrorists' Cash
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/20/national/20MONE.html
political opposition to scrutiny of offshore bank accounts
* http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,179467,00.html
Narco News Editorial on Citigroup and White Collar Terrorism
* http://www.narconews.com/whitecollarterror1.html
cyber security Terror Attack Highlights Problem in Telecom Sector's Monopoly Legacy ("nation's networks may be too concentrated" -- duh)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/644931.asp
Net Security: An Oxymoron
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1014-201-7572885-0.html
New Malicious Computer Worm Preys on Anthrax Scare
* http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/056744.htm
How We Lost The High-Tech War of 2007 (a conservative nightmare from 1996)
* http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/5439/2007.html
Recording Industry Exploits WTC Tragedy to Hack You
* http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22252.html
Bush Forms Cyberterrorism Panel
* http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1151/10-17-2001/20011017001216730.html * http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011016-12.html
Bush Backs Changes in Hacking Disclosure
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18052-2001Oct18.html
Lawmakers Push IT Equivalent of National Guard
* http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/10/16/011016hnnetguard.xml
America's War on Terrorism: Information Security
* http://fas.org/terrorism/is/
"the National Cryptologic Museum has been closed until further notice"
* http://www.nsa.gov/museum/map.html
comment A Memo to American Muslims ("how can Islam inspire thousands of youth to killing others?")
* http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/10/18/muslimmemo/
Where Are the Arab World's Moderate Voices?
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000083375oct19.story
The Coming Arab Crash
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,575994,00.html
We're Losing the Psychological Battle
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/289/oped/We\_re\_losing\_the\_psychological\_battle+.shtml
Words That Move the West Offend in Muslim Lands
* http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/10/12/
Hearts and Minds: Avoiding a New Cold War
* http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1018-07.htm
Is Musharraf as Powerful as He Seems?
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=3&date1=10/16/2001
extensive liberal comment
* http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/
America's Dirty War (recruitment of criminals for anti-terrorist intelligence)
* http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/9830/1.html
America Is Awakening to a World It Does Not Understand
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,576054,00.html
Kabul's Poorest Have No Escape from US Bombs
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11734
US Attacks, a Pre-Planned Plot (from Iranian government news service)
* http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/14/01&Cat=2&Num=015
Arrogance Spills Over in the White House
* http://www.aviationnow.com/content/publication/awst/20011015/avi\_edit.htm
The What-If's of September 11th
* http://Consortiumnews.com/2001/101701a.html
Crime, Drug Prohibition, and Terrorism: An Inevitable Convergence
"to link the war on terror to the Palestinian issue is now unavoidable"
* http://commondreams.org/views01/1018-02.htm
A Shameful Propagandistic Use of the Term "Terrorism"
* http://www.granma.cu/ingles/octu3/42noam-i.html
Antiterrorism as a Cover for Terrorism
* http://www.zmag.org/hermancover.htm
a wildly silly liberal attack on Noam Chomsky
* http://prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/10/isaac-j-10-16.html
at least David Horowitz's incredibly twisted follow-up had grains of truth
* http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/2001/10/08/chomsky/
A Better Society in a Time of War
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/opinion/19PUTN.html
Defining a Just War
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011029&s=falk
How Will It Play Out? Two Scenarios for the Next 12 Months
* http://slate.msn.com/war/01-10-18/war.asp
A New Kind of War: "We're Making It Up as We Go Along"
* http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/updates/101301.html#1
a police action, not a war
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000083376oct19.story
political motives for a slow Afghan war
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/102901/kaplan102901.html
An Open-Ended War
* http://www.fpif.org/commentary/0110war.html
US Has Put Itself Out on a Long Limb
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000082888oct18.story
How to Be Tough on Terrorism by Robert B. Reich
* http://prospect.org/print/V12/19/reich-r.html
Why Not a Real War on Terrorism?
* http://www.tompaine.com/history/2001/10/12/
"Why do they hate us?" by Pat Buchanan
* http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE\_ID=24936
Hoist by Our Own Petard
* http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumnew33.htm
International Law and the Use of Force in Response to the Attacks
* http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumnew34.htm
Legal Issues Arising from the War in Afghanistan and Related Anti-Terrorism
* http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/september11/ihlqna.htm/
Central America Reminded of Its Own Era of Conflict
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/20/international/americas/20CENT.html?pagewanted=print
nasty Hindu anti-Islam site
* http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate
Sunshine Patriots
* http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/19/begala-p.html
"far right reacts with anti-Semitic hatred, threats and conspiracy theories"
* http://www.splcenter.org/cgi-bin/goframe.pl?dirname=/intelligenceproject&pagename=ip-4t99.html
Trent Lott has long been involved with the Council of Conservative Citizens
* http://www.adl.org/mwd/ccc.htm
Lynne Cheney is back (conservatism is the philosophy of unknowing: about Islam, for example)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/17/education/17LESS.html
Pat Robertson Draws Criticism for Remarks on Islam (why do we treat him as a clown and not as a major voice of conservatism?)
Conservative Hero Ann Coulter Goes Even Farther Off the Deep End
* http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001\_10\_14\_archive.html#6442434 * http://www.poppolitics.com/articles/2001-10-18-justice.shtml
jargon watch: you really must read the third of these letters to the editor (e.g., the trick that likens opponents to the bombers without quite saying so)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000082474oct16.story
jargon watch: Norah Vincent never makes the slightest sense (it's astounding that this person's work appears in print)
* http://www.salon.com/news/col/vincent/2001/10/18/academy/
ACLU Are Terrorists Like the Taliban (bizarre, demented, twisted, hateful -- and not at all unusual)
* http://kz.mlive.com/columns/index.ssf?/news/stories/20011016kopnvholden1016.frm
news and information E-Mail Goes to War
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid\_1602000/1602548.stm
Wartime Secrecy Presents Hazards to US Freedom
* http://newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-vpcoc162417210oct16.column
Andrew Sullivan's Jihad
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/10/20/sullivan/
Religion as a Fit Subject for Comedy (comment against the UK's dangerous "incitement to religious hatred" bill)
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C59-2001361433%2C00.html
Ari Fleischer's actual comments about Bill Maher (he claimed he was quoted out of context, so here's the context)
* http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010926-5.html#BillMaher-Comments
The Onion's parody of Fleischer's comments
* http://www.theonion.com/onion3736/freedoms\_curtailed.html
prosecution of seditious libel in the early United States (October 2000)
* http://www.prospect.org/print/v11/24/epps-g.html
argument in favor of broadcasting Osama bin Laden's videotapes
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZP98UVYSC
Private Censorship
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=20011011miller
Stopping Signals From Satellite TV Proves Difficult
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/business/media/15SAT.html
Bin Laden's Voice Out of Nowhere
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000082520oct16.story
Rumsfeld OKs Principles for Media Access to Troops (or lack thereof)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000083400oct19.story
Media Finds Access to War Denied
* http://www.sunspot.net/bal-media17.story
US Wields $ Not Law to Censor Satellites
* http://www.lawmeme.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/18/0236202 * http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991444 * http://www.bouldernews.com/news/terror/oct01/16asatt.html
Ashcroft Urges Caution With FOIA Requests (notice the jargon: "caution" instead of "restricting information")
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5308-2001Oct16.html
New Attorney General FOIA Memorandum Issued
* http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/foiapost/2001foiapost19.htm
Government Adopts New Standard for Openness (October 1993)
* http://www.fas.org/sgp/clinton/reno.html
Florida Lawmakers Might Place Limits on Public Records
* http://www.sptimes.com/News/101701/State/Lawmakers\_might\_place.shtml
The Post-September 11 Environment: Access to Government Information
* http://www.ombwatch.org/info/2001/access.html
Propaganda, Inc.: Behind the Curtain at the USIA
* http://www.guerrillanews.com/counter\_intel/propaganda\_inc/snow\_trans.html * http://www.guerrillanews.com/counter\_intel/propaganda\_inc/snow\_trans2.html
White House Enlists Hollywood for War Effort
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20011018/en/industry-hollywood\_1.html
Israeli Media Shifts to the Right
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1016/p6s1-wome.html
Legislation Related to the Attack of September 11, 2001
* http://thomas.loc.gov/home/terrorleg.htm
Ha'aretz (liberal Israeli newspaper)
* http://www.haaretzdaily.com/
Middle East International Magazine
background US energy companies' courtship of the Taliban
* http://www.motherjones.com/web\_exclusives/features/news/pipedreams.html
transcript of yesterday's sentencing hearing of terrorists in New York
* http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/binladen/usbinldn101801.pdf
Embassy Bomb Plot Terrorists Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZZCX58ZSC
Kashmir and the "War on Terrorism"
* http://www.nd.edu/~krocinst/polbriefs/pbrief8.html
There Are No Shades of Grey in a World Divided Into Believers and Infidels (and the Taliban's worldview is pretty extreme too)
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/19/world/world7.html
Bush Sr., Cheney Have Big Stakes in Saudi Status Quo
* http://commondreams.org/views01/1018-10.htm
Anti-Western and Extremist Views Pervade Saudi Schools
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/international/middleeast/19SAUD.html
Saudis Seek US Muslims for Their Sect
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/20/national/20MUSL.html?pagewanted=print
In Pakistan, a Softer Side of Islam
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23872-2001Oct19.html
Islamic Extremists and the Threat to America (1993)
* http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/adl/hamas/
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Hamas
* http://www.palestine-info.com/hamas/
Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy
* http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/
response a tale of serious lameness from Karl Rove
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18703-2001Oct18.html
Muppets at War: Sesame Street's Bert at Pro-Bin Laden Rally (I don't have any independent verification of this claim)
* http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0110/msg00070.html
Popular Cleric's Role Shocks Kuwait
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24161-2001Oct19.html
Influential American Muslims Temper Their Tone
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/national/19MUSL.html?pagewanted=print
Post-Attack Incident to Draw Hate Charge
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000083262oct19.story
Tough but Hopeful Weeks for the Muslims of Laramie
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/18/national/18WYOM.html?pagewanted=print
Bush Opposes More Aid Now for New York
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/18/nyregion/18AID.html
The "New" New York City Skyline, CUNY Graduate Center, October 29th
* http://www.gothamcenter.org/forums/newskyline.htm
World Cup in Chaos as Insurers Pull Out
* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/13/wcup13.xml
"survivors are stumbling across sometimes shocking information"
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000082515oct16.story
A Fireball, a Prayer to Die, Then a Hard Battle to Live
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/17/nyregion/17BURN.html
war Cave Complexes Smashed by Bombs, Pentagon Says
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46330-2001Oct11.html
US Planes Dump Bunker-Busters on Underground Targets
* http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel\_military.jsp?view=story&id=news/mgbus1011.xml
Taliban Troops Prepare for Underground Fight
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/14/stiusausa01029.html
US to Use Helicopters, Covert Raids
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56067-2001Oct13.html
New Secret Satellite Could Help In Strikes On Afghanistan
* http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel\_military.jsp?view=story&id=news/satlas1010.xml
Strikes on Second City May Decide Ground Action
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350015-2001355660,00.html
Allies Are Cautious on "Bush Doctrine"
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63752-2001Oct15.html
Tenth Mountain Takes Storied History With Them Into Central Asia
* http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-534252.php
Are Russian Troops Fighting in Afghanistan?
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1015/p13s1-wosc.html
Taliban Atrocities
* http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wartali12.story
"Taliban fighters secretly loathe their leaders and bin Laden"
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/14/stiusausa03002.html
UN Demands Pause in Bombing to Let Aid Reach Starving Afghans
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia\_china/story.jsp?story=99276
US Raid Kills Unknown Number in an Afghan Village
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/13/international/asia/13DEAT.html
meet the civilian casualities in Afghanistan
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350015-2001355775,00.html
Life Inside Afghanistan: Chaos, Fear, and Refugees
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55949-2001Oct13.html
Puzzled Afghans Left to Chew on Peanut Butter
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350015-2001355618,00.html
Afghanistan Humanitarian Crisis
* http://www.oxfam.org.uk/atwork/emerg/afghanistan.htm
Why the US Is Losing the Propaganda War
* http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/10/12/propaganda/
Bush and Blair Have Already Lost the Talking War Across the Middle East
* http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=98659
Taliban Alarms US and UK With Television Propaganda Move
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,573293,00.html
Afghan Alternatives
* http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec01/afghan\_10-9.html
The War on Terrorism Is Being Run by Lawyers (and a good thing, too)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,565830,00.html
Some Right-Wing Pentagon Officials and Advisers Seek to Oust Iraq's Leader
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/international/middleeast/12EXPA.html?pagewanted=print
Anti-US Protests Worldwide
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,573291,00.html
Hundreds in South-East Asia Sign Up for Jihad Against American Global Hegemony
* http://muslimedia.com/sea-jihad.htm
Saudi Aid to War on Terror Is Criticized
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081747oct13.story
US Conducted Covert Alliance With Uzbekistan
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55834-2001Oct13.html
200 May Be Dead in Nigeria Riots
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59693-2001Oct14.html
War Looms in Black Sea Enclave
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/chechnya/Story/0,2763,574158,00.html
Paramilitary Attack Kills 24 in Colombia (this is terrorism)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/international/americas/12COLO.html?pagewanted=print
Amazon Populist's Killing Exposes Bitter Conflicts
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/international/americas/12BRAZ.html?pagewanted=print
American Gun Control Advocate Is Shot, Killed at His Home
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081785oct13.story
anthrax and biowar Fear Hits Newsroom in a Cloud of Powder
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/national/14LETT.html
Anthrax Easy to Grow, Distribute (though others disagree)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081981oct14.story
Determining the Presence of Anthrax Can Be Difficult
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63726-2001Oct15.html
CDC Team Tackles Anthrax
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/health/16DOCS.html
CDC on Bio Threat (interesting)
* http://www.interesting-people.org/200110/0181.html
How to Handle Anthrax and Other Biological Agent Threats
* http://www.bt.cdc.gov/DocumentsApp/Anthrax/10122001Handle/10122001Handle.asp * http://www.state.sd.us/doh/Lab/anthrax.htm * http://www.vdem.state.va.us/emupdate/anthrax/anthraxjan01.htm * http://www.emergency.com/fbiantrx.htm
Experts Offer Advice on Handling Potentially Dangerous Mail (paper mail, that is)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/national/14MAIL.html
fascinating description of the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile (March 2000)
* http://www.cdc.gov/washington/legislative/03082000.htm
secret Cold War trials for an anthrax attack on London
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,568017,00.html
Nashua, New Hampshire's Anthrax Epidemic of 1957
* http://stacks.msnbc.com/local/mul/m100635.asp
abortion clinics nationwide get threatening letters with "powdery substances" (toward the end of this summary of anthrax news)
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/10/15/anthrax/
Anthrax Suspect Was Convicted in Plague Case
* http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/Harris\_0219.html
speculation (and nothing more) that the anthrax letters were home-grown
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/business/media/15MEDI.html?pagewanted=print
Lax Security Eases Access to Lethal Strains
Supermarket Tabloids Are in Role Reversal
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/national/14TAB.html?pagewanted=print
Problems in Bioterror Response
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56061-2001Oct13.html
Smallpox as a Biological Weapon
* http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v281n22/ffull/jst90000.html
Anti-Terror Campaign Turns to Doctors
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55906-2001Oct13.html
Iraqi involvement: pro and con
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,573893,00.html * http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000081446oct12.story
Experienced Israel Shrugs Off Anthrax Letter Fears
* http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=261982
Direct Marketers Face Hit From Anthrax Scare
* http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=25068845
Anthrax (the heavy metal band band) on the fact that their name sucks
* http://www.anthrax.com/html/ANTHRAX\_home.htm
attack and investigation Airlines Watched and Worked in Horror as Hijackings Unfolded
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/642996.asp
"We Have Some Planes", Hijacker Told Controller
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/national/16PLAN.html?pagewanted=print
Hijackers Reportedly Made Trial Air Trips
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/284/metro/Hijackers\_reportedly\_made\_trial\_air\_trips+.shtml
Probers Say Bin Laden Group Had Cell in Hub
INS Stumped on How Some Hijackers Entered the US
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46203-2001Oct11.html
Terrorist Hunt a Massive Endeavor
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081508oct12.story
Cyanide Threat: Tapes Reveal Poison Plan
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/14/stiusausa01025.html
Bin Laden's Nuclear Plot
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/14/stiusausa01024.html
Der Terrorpilot von Flug 011 (aftermath at Atta's Hamburg-Harburg Technical University)
* http://www.zeit.de/2001/66/Politik/200166\_hauptext.html * http://www.tu-harburg.de/
Mystery of Terror "Insider Dealers"
* http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=99402
Fresh Evidence of Massive Dealing in Airline Shares Before Attack
* http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=95025
Investigators Say Some Terror Cells Broken Up in US
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/national/15INQU.html?pagewanted=print
A European Dragnet Captures New Clues to Bin Laden's Network
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/international/europe/12EURO.html
Inside the Mind of a Fanatic
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/14/stiusausa02022.html
The Trial of Osama Bin Laden
* http://slate.msn.com/foreigners/entries/01-10-15\_117305.asp
Islam and the Muslim world Myths Over Attacks on US Swirl Inside Islamic World
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52410-2001Oct12.html
Fear and Mistrust in Mideast Nations
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000081945oct14.story
Why Do They Hate Us?
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/639057.asp
The Despair Beneath the Arab World's Growing Rage
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/international/middleeast/14ARAB.html
Saudi Clerics Issue Edicts Against Helping "Infidels"
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1012/p7s1-wome.html
Muslim Scholars Back Fight Against Terrorists
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/national/12FATW.html?pagewanted=print
The Fatwa Against the Royal Family
* http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=813971
No Brother of Mine (Abdullah bin Laden)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,568151,00.html
Bin Laden's Son Defiant
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid\_1597000/1597981.stm
Egypt Sees Wanted Terrorists Extradited
* http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-41/eg/egypt\_sees\_wanted.htm
Inside Wahhabi Islam
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle\_east/newsid\_1571000/1571144.stm
In Suburban Squalor Near Paris, Echoes of Jihad
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/international/europe/16FRAN.html?pagewanted=print
Why Egypt Produces Extremists
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1012/p11s1-coop.html
Diplomats Worry About Indonesian Tolerance of Islamic Radicals
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52622-2001Oct12.html
Pakistan's Militant Clerics: Mullahs Spread the Gospel of Hate
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/14/stiusausa02015.html
Jewish Lobby Behind WTC Attacks: JUI
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/home.asp?id=2&date1=10/15/2001
interview with a "secularist Muslim intellectual" with a critique of Islam
* http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s386913.htm
Institute for the Secularization of Islamic Society
* http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm
American Muslims Sense a New Political Opportunity
* http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/10/15/18083.html
Why US Can't Lean on Saudi Arabia
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0141/ridgeway3.php
Saudi Royals and Reality
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/opinion/16FRIE.html
Inside the Taliban
* http://www.feer.com/2001/0110\_18/p021region.html
Afghanistan: Heart of Darkness (August 1999)
* http://www.feer.com/1999/9908\_05/p08cover.html
Jihad Harks Back to Caliphate that Ended in 1924
* http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/ny-warisla102406659oct10.story
Two Views: Can the Koran Condone Terror?
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/13/arts/13TANK.html
The Deep Intellectual Roots of Islamic Terror
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/13/arts/13ROOT.html
Many Palestinians Turn Their Frustration Inward
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46654-2001Oct11.html
June 2001 Palestinian Attitudes Poll
* http://www.jmcc.org/polls/2001/no41.htm
"are Muslims and the West doomed to perpetual confrontation?" (August 1994)
* http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story\_id=812816
The Clash of Civilisations (not)
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/14/stiusausa03004.html
W.'s Unreliable Advisor on Islam
* http://www.tnr.com/102201/foer102201.html
column criticizing cultural stereotypes about war
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4273925,00.html
parallels of standard interpretation of jihad and western concept of moral war
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1011/p14s1-lire.html
Why Muslim and Christian Scholars Come Together
* http://www.islam-online.net/English/contemporary/qpolitic-17/qpolitic1.shtml
The Bishop and the Imam (December 1990)
* http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story\_id=812943
Arab-American Community TV Program
Trans-Arab Research Institute
Fiqh Council of North America
English Words of Arabic Origin: Still a Vast Unknown World
* http://www.vocabula.com/VRJune01Salloum.htm
The Odyssey of the Arabic Language and Its Script
* http://www.vocabula.com/VROCT01Salloum.htm
civil liberties and security Senate Passes Bill Boosting Electronic Surveillance
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46480-2001Oct11.html
Congress Moves Quickly to Pass Criminal Justice Legislation
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZUZC3HQSC
the anti-terrorism bill, HR 3108, as it passed the House on Friday
* http://www.house.gov/rules/sensen\_028.pdf
The Antiterror Pill That House Republicans Refuse to Swallow (their maneuvering on this issue has been ugly even by their standards)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/national/16SECU.html?pagewanted=print
US House Approves Antiterror Legislation With Protections for Student Privacy
* http://www.chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001101502n.htm
Rogue-Nation Students Banned From Chemistry Courses by Canada
* http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm\_414475.html
In Federal Law Enforcement, "All the Walls Are Down"
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56015-2001Oct13.html
spurious argument in favor of national ID cards (when anyone says "national ID card", think "internal passport")
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/13/opinion/13DERS.html?searchpv=past7days
argument against national ID cards
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11694
Group Classification on National ID Cards as a Factor in Human Rights Violations
* http://www.preventgenocide.org/prevent/removing-facilitating-factors/IDcards/
Many Held in Terror Probe Report Rights Being Abused
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000082272oct15.story
Why Middle Eastern Immigrants Are Worried
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20011012.html
National Immigration Law Center
Security for Activists: Overcoming Repression
* http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/Security\_for\_Activists.htm
articles on terrorism legislation in Canada
* http://www.nationalpost.com/features/siege/story.html?f=/stories/20011013/734759.html * http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Attacks-Canada.html
Can't Say That? Muzzling the Modern Germans
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/international/europe/12GERM.html
Greed Meets Terror (critical of companies pushing face recognition)
* http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc\_id=204613
Most Wanted Terrorists (which photographs are good enough for an automatic face recognition system?)
* http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/terrorists/fugitives.htm
California Creates Identity Theft Law
* http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171055.html
protests by the Surveillance Camera Players
* http://www.notbored.org/9oct01.html * http://www.notbored.org/11oct01.html
Memo Warns Against Use of Profiling as Defense
Air Safety Spins Out of Control
* http://www.mostnewyork.com/2001-10-15/News\_and\_Views/Beyond\_the\_City/a-128553.asp
FAA: A Failure on Aviation Security
Source: FAA Chief Quits in Protest
* http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/10/11/faa/
FAA Officers Defend Chief of Security
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081758oct13.story
Airport Screening Company That Hired Criminals Is Faulted Again
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/national/12SCRE.html * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081762oct13.story
Airports Fail to Scan Baggage, Official Says
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081525oct12.story
Flight Attendants' Group: Flight Security Isn't Better
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011011/ts/attacks\_flight\_attendants\_1.html
Safety Steps Taken on Air Cargo, Mail
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/284/nation/Safety\_steps\_taken\_on\_air\_cargo\_mail+.shtml
Salesman Who Encountered Lax Logan Security Is Disappointed
Homeland Security: Key Elements of a Risk Management Approach
* http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-02-150t
Defense of the Homeland Comes With Hefty Price Tag
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000082271oct15.story
Explosive Material Used in Seismic Exploration Missing (surely this happens all the time, but now it's suddenly newsworthy)
* http://www.dallasnews.com/texas\_southwest/STORY.e97cc280db.b0.af.0.a4.1553.html
FBI Fears Truck Bombs Are Next Terror Weapon
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350015-2001355592,00.html
Risks of Terrorism From Posting Offsite Consequence Analysis on the Internet
* http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/april18final.pdf
Industrial Chemicals and Terrorism: Analysis, Mitigation and Prevention
* http://www.mapcruzin.com/scruztri/docs/cep1118992.htm
Worst-Case Chemical Plant Studies Languish
* http://sundaygazettemail.com/news/Valley+%26+State/200109226/
Alaskan Pipeline Poses Special Kind of Security Risk
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081976oct14.story
Truckers Subjected to Growing Scrutiny
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52675-2001Oct12.html
article on phone system vulnerabilities
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/technology/15PHON.html?pagewanted=print
Malicious Internet Activity Increases Following 11 September Attacks
* http://www.janes.com/business/news/jir/jir010925\_1\_n.shtml
GovNet Request for Information
* http://www.fts.gsa.gov/govnet/govnet.doc
comment Calling for a Wider but Smarter War
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11699
Pot Calling the Kettle Black: The USA and International Terrorism (please note that the author of this article is a different person from me)
* http://www.counterpunch.org/agee1.html
Blowback: The American Policy Debate (I don't think I've ever heard Noam Chomsky's voice in the media before)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011012.atc.16.ram
Rushdie's Rhetoric and Righteous Response
* http://www.monkeyfist.com/articles/788
The Ordinariness of American Feelings
* http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document\_details.asp?CatID=98&DocID=723
Quaker statements
* http://www.fcnl.org/issues/afghanistan/terrorism/stmt\_quaker-orgs.htm * http://www.fcnl.org/issues/afghanistan/war-taliban.htm
military and political analysis of the war
* http://zinos.com/cool/zinos/scan/se=AR003384/sp=view\_article/rs=yes/go.html
anti-Americanism is bad, but anti-anti-Americanism is often worse
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011029&s=alterman
the "it's all about oil" party needs a better ratio of facts to rhetoric (of course oil is part of it, but you need evidence to say more)
* http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20011015.html
essay on the often-made analogy to World War II
* http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/2001/10/war/
environmental politics after September 11th
* http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/maindish/101101.asp
The Domino Effect: WTC Could Be Just the First Thing to Topple
* http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134353330\_risks13.html
Afghanistan and Pakistan at the Whim of a Self-Serving and Unreliable "Friend"
* http://muslimedia.com/afg-future.htm
The Making of a Master Criminal by John le Carre
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/14/stiusausa02005.html
conversation with Studs Terkel
* http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2001-10-12.htm
Both Parties Obliged to Reassess Washington's Role
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000082275oct15.column
"the most potent weapon in the West's arsenal is aid, not armaments"
* http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,573609,00.html
Condemnation Without Absolutes
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/opinion/15FISH.html
Liberals Stuck in Scold Mode (but, as he well knows, the losers he mentions hardly represent all liberals)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000081948oct14.story
A Fight Without Precedent
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000081942oct14.story
No Glory in Unjust War on the Weak
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000081943oct14.story
Pakistani magazine parodies George Bush's call to Pervez Musharraf
* http://www.thefridaytimes.com/back.htm
jargon watch: accepting personal responsibility is "relativism" (the projection, name-calling and twisted logic here are unusually disgraceful)
* http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/011012/opinion/12john.htm
jargon watch: these hateful calumnies against war dissenters repay close study (e.g., the word tricks that deprive opponents of any principled motivation)
* http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/319jjykr.asp
news and information Experts Say Photos Are Misleading
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081753oct13.story
articles about Al-Jazeera
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/14/stiusausa02003.html * http://news.excite.com/news/r/011011/04/television-aljazeera * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52278-2001Oct12.html * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081520oct12.story * http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/international/middleeast/12BROA.html?pagewanted=print * http://www.reason.com/hod/my100801.html
FBI Debunks E-Mail From "Friend of a Friend"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/national/12RUMO.html
Big News Media Give Up on Vote Audit
* http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200110/12+media101201\_news.html+20011012
Different War, Same Pictures
* http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-41/eg/different\_war\_.htm
How Much Can We Believe in the News Campaign?
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,573710,00.html
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Goes Overboard by Shutting Down Entire Web Site
* http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=862
Journalism Groups Critique Security
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011013/us/security\_journalists\_1.html
Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre
The Indian Experience in a Connected World
National Security News Service
* http://www.publicedcenter.org/
"the enduring legacies of the violent traumas of the 20th century"
* http://www.legacy-project.org/
Agencies Remove Info From Web Sites
* http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=Technology&storyId=260932
The US Media in Torment After 11 September
* http://www.rsf.fr/uk/html/ameriques/rap01/amerique/111001.html
The US Retaliates -- The World Responds
* http://prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/10/sobel-l-10-09.html
the most complete story on the Osama "Bert" posters in Bangladesh
* http://www.lindqvist.com/bert.php
Dutch Creator Pulls Plug on Bert-Bin Laden Site (and the Sesame Street people make legal noises)
* http://www.reuters.com/news\_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=289088
Al-Manar Television, Lebanon (surprisingly good audio, fuzzy video)
* http://www.manartv.com/html/live/livefeed.html
response Slowed by World Trade Center Site's Fragility, the Heavy Lifting Has Only Begun
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/13/nyregion/13DIG.html
Three Labs Sift DNA Evidence at Ground Zero
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081829oct14.story
Cleanup Hazards at Ground Zero an Ongoing Worry
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63870-2001Oct15.html
Salvaging Electronic Last Words
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63748-2001Oct15.html
Haunted by Years of Missed Warnings
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081969oct14.story
Failure to Heed Signs of Change in Terror Goals
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/international/14INQU.html?pagewanted=print
A Rush to Complete Plans for Downtown
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/arts/design/14MUSC.html?pagewanted=print
Trade Center Stairway Design Is Rethought
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081985oct14.story
As Risks Soar, Insurers Seek Washington's Help
* http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-101501insure.story
GOP Bypasses the Bipartisan Truce
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081978oct14.story
Foreign Aid Bill Held Up by GOP to Promote Judicial Activism
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52169-2001Oct12.html
Caught in the Middle, With Disdain for Bin Laden and Criticism for the US
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/13/national/13MOSQ.html?pagewanted=print
The Future of New York
* http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/01\_43/B3754futureny.htm
background Analysis of the US Bombing of Terrorist Camps in Afghanistan (November 1998)
* http://www.subcontinent.com/sapra/terrorism/tr\_1998\_11\_001\_s.html
Guided Weapons: Predators with an Accurate Mind of their Own
* http://www.armada.ch/e/4-99/011.htm
India in Anti-Taliban Military Plan (June 2001)
* http://www.indiareacts.com/Story33.htm
The Political Economy of War and Peace in Afghanistan (June 1999)
* http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/dev\_xyz/economy/political\_economy\_of\_war\_peace.htm
war in Afghanistan US Targets Terrorist Hub
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/12/world/world1.html
Taliban Leaders Believed Killed in Raids
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/11/gen.attack.on.terror/
US photos showing the effects of the October 7-8 air attacks
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,566844,00.html
US Military Strategy Will Shift Soon, Officials Say
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080904oct10.story
After Clearing the Air, Now the Risky Bit
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/11/world/world3.html
America's Military Strategy
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=812542
Al Qaeda Promises More Attacks on US
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080920oct10.story * http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/11/world/world1.html
Bin Laden, Taliban Are Seen as Inexorably Linked
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081223oct11.story * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40211-2001Oct10.html
Taliban Charges French Reporter With Espionage
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40091-2001Oct10.html * http://213.159.10.102/francemain.asp?pad=278,313,&item\_id=14918
Many US Pilots See Combat for First Time
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40051-2001Oct10.html
Words and Image Dominate the Other War (by failing to respect Islam, we are decisively losing the propaganda war)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40171-2001Oct10.html
Adversaries Maintaining Radio Contacts Across the Front Line
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/international/asia/10AFGH.html
Secret Spy Planes Take Up the Fight
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,567428,00.html
Lawyer Braves Bombs to See Aid Workers
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/12/world/world11.html
Graphic: Refugee Movements From Afghanistan
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/12/graphics/12wldflight.gif
world war New War Fronts
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/11/html/editorial.html
Hawkish US Stance Threatens Fragile Coalition
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/11/world/world8.html
US Envoy Delivers Clear Message to Iraq
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/12/world/world9.html
All Quiet in the Muslim World
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=813153
Pakistan's Riot History Gives the US Pause
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080918oct10.story
Attack Altering Politics Across Southeast Asia
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40123-2001Oct10.html
Asia-Pacific New Front in War on Terror
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/12/world/world2.html
US Advisers May Aid Philippine Antiterror Effort
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/11/international/asia/11PHIL.html?pagewanted=print
Indonesian Police to Charge Radical Muslim Leader
* http://news.findlaw.com/international/s/20011011/attackindonesiapolicedc.html
Megawati to Be Tested to the Limit
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/12/world/world3.html
Blair, a Target, Soothes Arab Feelings and Maps Out Postwar Vision
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/11/world/world9.html
Group Calls Blair Target for Muslims
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081237oct11.story
Ex-Soviet Asian Republics Are Now Courted by the US
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/international/asia/10ASIA.html?pagewanted=print
Turkey Expands Military Options
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081232oct11.story
Colombian Lawmaker Assassinated in Bogota
* http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Colombia-Congressman-Slain.html
Yemen, Once a Magnet, Now Expels Terrorists
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080919oct10.story
Military Overhaul Considered
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40223-2001Oct10.html
investigation Piecing Together the Jigsaw
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=814490
Suspect Sought Medicine for Red Hands
* http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/today/news\_18.html
Hijackers "Ignorant of Suicide Mission"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,566806,00.html
Saudi Cooperation on Bin Laden Lags, US Aides Say
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/11/international/11DIPL.html?pagewanted=print
"US Had Specific Information on Laden"
* http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art\_id=710291385
how bin Laden moves his money
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/101501/cottle101501.html
Trade in Honey Is Said to Provide Money and Cover for Bin Laden
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/11/international/middleeast/11HONE.html
"Other Terrorist" Still Commands Attention
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081241oct11.story
Indian paper claims Pakistani intelligence moved money for the hijackers
* http://news.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art\_id=1454238160
anthrax and biowar Possible Anthrax Match Found
* http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/national/digdocs/003786.htm
Anthrax Was Genetically Modified (for the real anthrax story, read the Palm Beach Post)
* http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/wednesday/news\_1.html
AMI Workers Shunned by Neighbors, Family
* http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/thursday/news\_3.html
Hoaxes Cause Biowar Scares Around US
* http://www.sptimes.com/News/101001/State/Hoaxes\_cause\_biowar\_s.shtml
Bioterrorism: Anthrax and Smallpox (about, e.g., DNA-tracking of anthrax)
* http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/attack\_tucker1009.htm
more on the controversy about anthrax vaccine production
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011010/hl/anthrax\_vaccine\_1.html
Anthrax Facts, Playing Scared, and Vaccination Politics
* http://ojr.usc.edu/content/spike.cfm?request=876
Clinical and Epidemiologic Principles of Anthrax
* http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no4/cieslak.htm
extracts and photos from a lecture on anthrax
* http://www.bact.wisc.edu/bact330/lectureanthrax
Surviving Chemical and Biological Warfare
* http://stinet.dtic.mil/dticrev/vol2-number4.html
Bioterrorism: A Grim Reality
* http://stinet.dtic.mil/dticrev/vol4-number3.html
The Specter of Biological Weapons
* http://www.sciam.com/1296issue/1296cole.html
Biological Warfare Agents
* http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/bw/agent.htm * http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic853.htm
encyclopedia article on biological warfare
* http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/01484.html
civil liberties and security Bills Would Give Ashcroft Many Anti-Terrorism Tools
* http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.congress10oct10.story
Surveillance Powers: Changes Being Considered by Congress
* http://www.aclu.org/congress/patriot\_chart.html
Anti-Terrorist Bills Stall on the Hill
* http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/10/09/anti-terrorist-bills.htm
Attempt to Quickly Pass Anti-Terrorism Bill Blocked (Russ Feingold gets a lot of credit)
* http://www.usatoday.com/news/attack/2001/10/10/terror-laws.htm
Anti-Terror Bill Action May Come Today
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40178-2001Oct10.html
Patience and Antiterrorism
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/11/opinion/11THU3.html
When Care Beats Haste (anti-terrorism bills)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34283-2001Oct9.html
Hidden Web Codes Could Be Linked to Bin Laden (or they could not)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,566942,00.html
Should the Government Get Its Own Net? (no, it should shut down Microsoft)
* http://news.excite.com/news/zd/011011/07/should-the-government * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40092-2001Oct10.html * http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7481276.html
Industry Insiders Remain Resistant to Carnivore
* http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,65443,tk,dn101001X,00.asp
Eugene Spafford's Congressional Testimony on Computer Security Research
* http://www.acm.org/usacm/crypto/spaf.pdf
Real-Time Tactical Intelligence and Targeting Information
* http://stinet.dtic.mil/dticrev/vol5-number2.html
Weaknesses in Airport Security and Options for Screening Responsibilities
* http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-01-1165T
A Weak Spot: The Luggage Hold
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/11/opinion/11SAMU.html
Limp Liberals Fail to Protect Their Most Profound Values
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4274017,00.html
German Reaction to Terrorism: Shut Down Nuclear Plants (not to mention all those dumps full of nuclear waste with no place to go)
* http://ens-news.com/ens/oct2001/2001L-10-10-02.html
Banks Seek to Alter Money Laundering Bill
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40136-2001Oct10.html
States Rush to Plug Their Security Holes
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080902oct10.story
the oil angle Missing the Oil Story
* http://tompaine.com/news/2001/10/11/
House Testimony by Unocal About Central Asian Oil Pipelines (February 1998)
* http://www.house.gov/international\_relations/105th/ap/wsap212982.htm
US Companies to Invest in Pak Oil, Gas Sectors
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=22&date1=10/10/2001
comment Into Pakistan's Maelstrom
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4274016,00.html
The War Bin Laden Has Already Won
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4274014,00.html
Extremism Exists in Every Major Faith, and Sometimes Turns Violent
* http://www.beliefnet.com/frameset.asp?pageLoc=\story\88\story\_8849\_1.html&bo
High Cost of Coalition
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/opinion/04SAFI.html
Council on American-Islamic Relations (not generally considered to be the best face of Muslim Americans)
"post-traumatic stress disorder surely afflicts Congressional conservatives"
* http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/conason.asp
A Tear in the Country's Safety Net
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/282/oped/A\_tear\_in\_the\_country\_s\_safety\_netP.shtml
Intolerant Liberalism
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,565215,00.html
Protecting the Line Between Self-Defence and Wild Aggression
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/11/opinion/opinion4.html
nasty Hindu extremist site
Fear Must Not Trump Wisdom in the New Cold War
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/11/opinion/opinion1.html
Heeding the Lessons of the War Against Drugs
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZSAFH2MSC
tedious left-wing anti-war site
* http://struggle.ws/stopthewar.html
Middle East Forum (conservative opinion site)
"Islam is at the heart of this"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,565876,00.html
Not Even Islam's Disdain for Modernity Will Halt Progress
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/12/opinion/opinion3.html
Era of Prolonged, Violent Conflicts
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011010/us/attacks\_culture\_clash\_1.html
news and information Shades of Truth in a Time of War
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081227oct11.story
Bush Adviser Calls Networks Over Message From Bin Laden Spokesman
* http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Hidden-Message.html * http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/11/national/11TUBE.html?pagewanted=print
Limited Access to Conflict Leaves Media Frustrated
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080910oct10.story
An Informed Public Is the Greatest Weapon of Democracy
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000081168oct11.story
Al-Jazeera Devoting Much Time to Vitriol: Powell
* http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/101001/dLAME140.asp
Bush Uses TV Show to Combat Terrorism
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/11/national/11MEDI.html?pagewanted=print
liberal criticism of September 11th-related news coverage
* http://www.fair.org/issues-news/terrorism.html
The Media as Propaganda Ministry (comparison to the Gulf War)
* http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/Binion100201/binion100201.html
subject-indexed guide to RRE links about the war
* http://www.elandnews.com/news/rre/
How the Internet Was Used by Millions After the Terror Attacks
* http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=46
who has been whispering in Osama's ear? (the Dutch site sometimes returns a version with the strange bit cropped away)
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20011009/wl/imdf09102001085522a.html * http://www.tctubantia.nl/CDA/regioportal/1,2078,1654\_\_772741\_,00.html * http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/11/muppets.binladen/ * http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/attack/bangladesh/20011005/dha03d * http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,36218,00.html * http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2097093,00.html * http://images.google.com/images?q=Osama+bin+Laden * http://www.fractalcow.com/bert/bert.htm
the BBC's soap opera for the Afghan refugees
* http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/46/new-bearman.shtml
pop culture responses to the attack
* http://www.polarity1.com/popcult.html
Islamic News and Information Network
"only online weekly published inside Afghanistan"
* http://www.payamemujahid.com/
web-searchable archive of Arabic-Info scholarly list
* http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/arabic-info.html
FlashNet -- Terrorism Pager Service (ugh)
* http://www.intelcenter.com/flashnet/flashnet-t.html
Institute for Afghan Studies
* http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/
background links for a course at UCLA about the attacks
* http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/01F/hnrs98-42/links.htm
archive of TV materials relating to September 11th
* http://tvnews3.televisionarchive.org/tvarchive/html/
Top 20 Words from Online Dictionaries in September 2001
* http://dictionary.cambridge.org/top20.htm
Freedom of Information Center
National Freedom of Information Coalition
response Afghans in US Thrust Into Spotlight
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000081088oct11.story
Islamic Scholars Say US Muslim Soldiers Must Fight for Country
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40545-2001Oct10.html
British Muslims Fear Military Escalation
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,566962,00.html
Pakistani pizza delivery guy gets investigated for, uh, no reason
* http://www.msnbc.com/local/WNYT/M102220.asp
Leaders Seek to Give Islam a Different, Quieter Voice
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/12/world/world8.html
Poverty to Rise in Wake of Terrorist Attacks in US
* http://www.worldbank.org/developmentnews/stories/html/100101a.htm
Grand Architectural Plans on Hold After New York Attacks
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40537-2001Oct10.html
Rescue Worker Boot Camp
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000081239oct11.story
Living On With a Bitter Fact: "Yes, Aidan, Daddy Is Dead"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/11/nyregion/11SQUA.html
background Afghanistan's Harsh Paradise
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1591000/1591584.stm
Envoy Tells of Talks With Taliban Leader
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,567393,00.html
A Classroom of Terror for 5,000 Young Men
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/11/world/world2.html
Islamic Scholar With the President's Ear
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/11/world/world15.html
Future Directions: Preparing for the 21st Century
* http://stinet.dtic.mil/dticrev/vol2-number2.html
Optical and Infrared Detection and Countermeasures
* http://stinet.dtic.mil/dticrev/vol2-number3.html
Terrorism, Peacekeeping, and Operations Other Than War
* http://stinet.dtic.mil/dticrev/vol3-number1.html
There Are No Moderates: Dealing with Fundamentalist Islam (1995)
* http://www.danielpipes.org/articles/1995fall.shtml
"it's no accident that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction" (February 1998)
* http://www.sfbg.com/News/32/21/Features/iraq.html
the terrorists that the US harbors in Miami (April 2000)
* http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2000-04-20/mullin.html
Clinton Wants Senate to Hurry With New Anti-Terrorism Laws (1996)
* http://www2.cnn.com/US/9607/30/clinton.terrorism/
a neatly organized archive of RRE's attack- and war-related links
* http://economics.wustl.edu/~bparks/agre.attack/agre.attack.html
War Views: Finding Bin Laden Is Not the Priority
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid\_1566000/1566329.stm
How the Plotters Slipped US Net (NSA failed because of the sheer volume of data, not crypto or stego)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,558371,00.html
An Abandoned Afghanistan
* http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i05/05b00601.htm
Newspaper Columnist Fired After Writing That Bush Showed "Cowardice" (just think if columnists were fired for writing worse things about Clinton)
* http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20010926\_1564.html
Supreme Court precedent on ID cards
* http://usff.com/hldl/courtcases/kolendervlawson.html
war Strikes Target Taliban's Air Defenses (good maps)
* http://www.sptimes.com/News/100801/Worldandnation/Strikes\_target\_Taliba.shtml * http://www.sptimes.com/News/100801/Worldandnation/troops-flash.shtml * http://www2.sptimes.com/pdfs/afghanistan-close-up.pdf * http://www.sptimes.com/News/100801/Worldandnation/map1-flash.shtml
A Few Words Down the Line, Then Hell Breaks Loose
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/10/world/world4.html
Civilians Die in Afghan Raids
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1588000/1588466.stm
UN Office Destroyed in Kabul, 81 Deaths Confirmed
* http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2001-10/09/article20.shtml
Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan as US Continues Strikes
* http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2001-10/09/article21.shtml
Bombed and Darkened, Kabul Is a City in Fear
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080550oct09.story
Bin Laden Left Kandahar Three Days Before Strikes
* http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2001-10/09/article2.shtml
DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers
* http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2001/t10082001\_t1008sdm.html
slides from today's DOD briefing
* http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2001/g011009-D-6570C.html
Official EU statement on initial strikes
* http://ue.eu.int/newsroom/LoadDoc.cfm?MAX=1&DOC=!!!&BID=71&DID=67973&GRP=3809&LANG=1
Transcript of Tony Blair Interview on Al-Jazeera
* http://www.pm.gov.uk/news.asp?NewsId=2695
CIA's Stealth War Centers on Eroding Taliban Loyalty and Aiding Opposition
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33989-2001Oct9.html
In Afghanistan, Anti-Taliban Forces See US Airstrikes as Falling Short
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080562oct09.story
Afghan Troops Are Next Target
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080547oct09.story
American Action Is Held Likely in Asia
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/international/asia/10INTE.html
US to Use Leaflets, Radio to Get Its Message to Afghan People
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080564oct09.story
Terror War Fallout Could Create Central Asia Fronts
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1009/p7s2-wosc.html
Missile Strikes, Drought, Disease, and Hunger
* http://ens-news.com/ens/oct2001/2001L-10-08-03.html
The Quality of Mercy: Food Drops in Minefields
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/10/world/world8.html
Immensity of the War Emerges
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/10/world/world2.html
Bin Laden Suddenly a Secondary Concern
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/10/world/world3.html
US Reserves Right to Attack State Sponsors Of Terrorists
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28565-2001Oct8.html
America Helped Design, Build Tunnels Used by Bin Laden
* http://www.sunspot.net/news/custom/attack/bal-te.search09oct09.story
US Hints Iraq in Its Sights
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/10/world/world1.html
Kashmir Chief Calls for War
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1576000/1576294.stm
Arabs Warn Against Wider Attacks
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle\_east/newsid\_1589000/1589750.stm
Anti-US Demonstrations Sweep Indonesia
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33712-2001Oct9.html
Anti-US Sentiments Reach Simmering Point Throughout the Arab World
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080569oct09.story
Call for Holy War Renewed
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011009/wl/attacks\_al\_qaida.html
Pakistan Committed to Uproot Terrorism: Shahida
* http://www.app.com.pk/news/national.htm
Doctors Without Borders
International Rescue Committee
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
investigation Probe Focuses on 220 Detained After Attacks
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33982-2001Oct9.html
A Portrait of the Terrorist
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/international/middleeast/10TERR.html
civil liberties and security Not So Fast, Senator Says, as Terror Bill Gains Ground
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/national/10RIGH.html
Oppose Extreme and Unnecessary Expansions of Government Authority!
* http://www.aclu.org/action/usa107.html
Ashcroft Centralizing Control Over the Prosecution and Prevention of Terrorism
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/national/10INQU.html?pagewanted=print
Bush Wants to Use Terrorism Panel in Criminal Probes
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/10/06/MN183971.DTL
Databases and Security vs. Privacy (argument against national ID cards)
* http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2001/tc2001108\_3550.htm
Technology Helps Put Surveillance in Focus
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080591oct09.story
A Taste of Big Brother in US
* http://commondreams.org/headlines01/1007-01.htm
Terrorism and the Constitution
* http://www.cdt.org/policy/terrorism/terrorismbook.html
Dutch Government Wants to Regulate Strong Cryptography
* http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9763/1.html
Stopping the Next One (whole issue on supposed prevention technologies)
* http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,17505,FF.html
How the Terror Trail Went Unseen
* http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9751/1.html
INS Culls Foreign Student Info
* http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,47353,00.html
London "Haven" for Terrorist Money Laundering
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,566665,00.html * http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,566493,00.html * http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,566503,00.html
In New Role, Ridge Tackles Security Gaps
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080556oct09.story
US to Intensify Effort Against Threat of Computer Terrorism (this article confuses terrorists' \use\ of net with attacks \against\ the net)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080558oct09.story
Feds Unveil Airline Security Plans
* http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,65043,tk,dn100801X,00.asp
doctrinaire conservative resistance to federalizing airport security
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/opinion/10KRUG.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33778-2001Oct9.html
Real Security, Not Eye-Wash
* http://www.equipped.org/editorial\_092701.htm
Journal of Homeland Security
* http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/index.cfm
Anthrax: Chapter from "Textbook of Military Medicine"
* http://www.nbc-med.org/SiteContent/HomePage/WhatsNew/MedAspects/Ch-22electrv699.pdf
Bioterrorism: Public Health and Medical Preparedness
* http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-02-141t
High-Tech Gadgets Sniff Out Threats
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/639847.asp
New Technology May Detect Biochemical Attacks
* http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/10/8/tech-fights-bioterrorism.htm
Graphic: Anthrax Causes and Symptoms
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/10/graphics/anthrax.gif
comment What Happened in America Is a Crime Rejected by Islaam
* http://www.fatwa-online.com/questions/0010918\_2.htm
Say What You Want, But This War Is Illegal
* http://www.tummy.com/efm/Michael\_Mandel\_Say\_What\_You\_Want.html
This Man May Become Our Nemesis ("for the Muslim dispossessed, Bin Laden is the new Saladin")
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,566745,00.html
article criticizing Pakistani intelligence links to the Taliban
* http://slate.msn.com/pol/01-10-09/pol.asp
Fundamentalism and Terrorism
* http://www.psychematters.com/papers/young2.htm
The West Ignores Arab Resentment at Its Peril
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,565983,00.html
Defeating Terrorism Through Dialogue, Not War
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/10/opinion/opinion4.html
Attack in the USA: Lessons to Learn
* http://www.albalagh.net/current\_affairs/attack\_lessons.shtml
The School for Violence
* http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/45/cover-knode.shtml
"Osamagate"
* http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html
Georgia: War on Terrorism Brings Renewed Russian Pressure
* http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/10/03102001124455.asp
Lost in the Rhetorical Fog of War
* http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=98407
The Case for American Empire (another conservative competing to revive the most hideous, backward ideas)
* http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/318qpvmc.asp
conspiracy site
standard-issue conspiracy theory
* http://www.eionews.addr.com/psyops/plot\_within\_a\_plot\_part1.htm
news and information war reports based on radio monitoring (highly recommended)
* http://www.clandestineradio.com/
A Public Flooded With Images From Friend and Foe Alike
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/arts/television/10NOTE.html
An Arab Station Offers Ground-Breaking Coverage
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/09/international/asia/09STAT.html * http://www.msnbc.com/news/640162.asp
US Urges Curb on Arab TV Channel
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid\_1578000/1578619.stm * http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,178347,00.html * http://commondreams.org/headlines01/1004-01.htm
CNN Softens Its Stance on Rights to Al Jazeera Footage
* http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-100901cnn.story
Top Spin Doctor Apologises Over Remarkably Cynical War Memo
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,566271,00.html
public TV war resources
* http://pbs.org/americaresponds/
Hotline World Extra -- war resources
* http://www.theatlantic.com/hotline/
resource site for the global NGO community on issues including the war
response Bechtel Engineer's Chronicle of Ground Zero Excavation
* http://www.theflow.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=505
radio story about community organizing to help residents of Lower Manhattan
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011009.atc.05.ram
Support of Airstrikes a Shift for Muslims
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000080601oct09.story
Feds Want Terrorist Trials Held in US, but Others Favor a World Tribunal
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZKSSOJGSC
anti-war group
* http://www.internationalanswer.org/
background Colombian Army Tied to Paramilitary, Yet Another Report Says (both sides in Colombia are terrorists, and the paramilitaries are the worst)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079550oct05.story
"Muslims make up between 10,000 and 20,000 members of the American military" (glad to hear it)
* http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2001/n10042001\_200110043.html
Taliban Terror Tactics Fuel Ethnic Hatred
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/10/world/world10.html
The Evolution of Islamic Terrorism: An Overview
* http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/modern.html
Afghanistan: Lessons from the Last War
* http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/NSAEBB57/
In 80's, Afghan Militias Fought With US Rifles (NRA fights restrictions on .50 caliber sniper rifles)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/national/07GUNS.html?pagewanted=print
Zbigniew Brzezinski: How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen
* http://www.counterpunch.org/brzezinski.html
At Home With the Taliban
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/10/10/taliban/
war US Strikes Again at Afghan Targets; Americans Told to Be Alert to Attacks
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28026-2001Oct8.html
More Than Twenty Reported Dead Following Raids
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia\_china/story.jsp?story=98312
Kabul and Kandahar Hit in Attacks Through Night
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22711-2001Oct7.html
Enduring Fury: The Opening Blitz
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/09/world/world2.html
Graphic: Where the US/British Attacked
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/09/graphics/09wldstrike.gif
Kabul Rocked but Defiant
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/09/world/world1.html
Dual Strategy of Assault, Reward
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22905-2001Oct7.html * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080351oct08.story
peanut butter and jelly dropped on Afghanistan (they're holding off on the Krispy Kreme until the next batch)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,565548,00.html * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080366oct08.story
Aid Agencies Reject "Risky", "Virtually Useless" US Air Drops
* http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1008-01.htm
Next Phase to Include More Troops
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28338-2001Oct8.html * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080372oct08.story
Few Commando Units in Striking Distance
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/national/07FORC.html?pagewanted=print
The Propaganda War
* http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story\_ID=806392
In War on Terrorism, Information Becomes a Prime Weapon
* http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/story1c100301.html
Search for Bin Laden Extends to Earth Orbit
* http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/10/5/attack-space-search.htm
Analysis: Piecing Together the Intelligence Jigsaw
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid\_1577000/1577313.stm
where the Diego Garcia airbase came from (November 2000)
* http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/110400-01.htm
"I will see my mother again once I have settled my father's death"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/international/story/0,6903,564747,00.html
Taliban Soldier, Ready for War, Contemplates September 11th
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23161-2001Oct7.html
Taliban Threatens to Expel Zahir Shah, Burn Houses of Supporters
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=1&date1=10/8/2001
Mullah Omar Is Mentally Unfit: Doc
* http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/081001/detFOR03.asp
Get Out the Lamb and Sticky Rice, It's Rebel Party Time
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/09/world/world6.html
America Turns Sights on Iraq
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350003-2001351538,00.html
Sandinistas Have Ties to Iraq, Libya, Says Bush Administration
Uzbekistan Bets Role in Region, Internal Security on US Alliance
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28558-2001Oct8.html
war on terror merges with the war on drugs
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63773-2001Oct3.html
Orders Go Out to Pursue Leads to Try to Avert Any More Attacks
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/09/national/09INQU.html?pagewanted=print
Europe Laws May Hinder Extradition
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011007/wl/attacks\_britain\_extradition\_1.html * http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/07/wdeal07.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/10/07/ixhome.html
Donald Rumsfeld: The Hawk With His Finger on the Trigger
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stinwcpro03001.html
Osama bin Laden and his family "Osama's Psychotic Hatred Amazed Me" (well, okay, but the Telegraph's grip on reality is not so strong either)
* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/07/wbin207.xml
"Ever Since I Can Recall, I Despised and Felt Hatred Towards Americans"
Osama Family Moves to Disinherit Sons Loyal to Him
* http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art\_ID=550353161 * http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/07/stiusausa02025.html
text of Osama bin Laden's videotape
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23215-2001Oct7.html * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080468oct08.story
Bin Laden's Brother, in US, Reiterates Condemnation (stop the conspiracy theories about the bin Laden family)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/international/07WIRE-BROTHER.html
Inside Bin Laden's Academies of Terror
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/07/stiusausa02016.html
Kill Bin Laden or Risk Catastrophe, Says FBI
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/international/story/0,6903,564735,00.html
anthrax and biowar FBI Probe Possible Terror Anthrax Link
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011008/ts/anthrax\_case\_35.html * http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/10/08/florida.anthrax.case/
Florida's Eerie Anthrax Scare (requires subscription)
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/10/09/anthrax/
Florida Media Firm Where Anthrax Appeared Has Had Harsh Words for Bin Laden
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28365-2001Oct8.html
New Technologies for the Next Medical Battle
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/09/health/anatomy/09BIOT.html
Biochem Terror: A Reality Check
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1005/p1s2-usmi.html
civil liberties and security Hill Is Due to Take Up Anti-Terror Legislation
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28248-2001Oct8.html
Ashcroft Seeks to Boost Power of Secret Court
* http://www.wfla.com/MGAW6JPP9SC.html
Don't Make Privacy the Next Victim of Terror
* http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf2001104\_7412.htm
Rush to Conform Endangers Liberty
* http://www.observer.com/pages/conason.asp
As a Security Measure, ID Card Is a Phony
* http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/terrorism/opinion/1007edidcard.html
radio story about Internet service providers giving user info to authorities
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesun/20011007.wesun.05.ram
Automatic Face Recognition in Public Shows Mixed Results
* http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/terrorism/opinion/1007toner.html
surveillance protest in front of this camera on October 11th at noon ET
* http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/cam6\_nojava.html
Revamping the Statutory Tools to Combat Terrorism
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/aronson/20011008.html
UK Home Secretary Blunkett Attacks Judiciary in Fight Over Terrorism
* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/04/nlab04.xml
Librarian Recalls Man Researching Canton Water-System Maps, Parasitic Diseases (and so calls FBI)
* http://www.ohio.com/dist/nl/030959.htm
Entire Nation on High Alert as Security Is Stepped Up
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/08/national/08SECU.html?pagewanted=print * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23193-2001Oct7.html
Extensive List of Terrorist Suspects Made Public
* http://www.helsinki-hs.net/news.asp?id=20011004IE4&pvm=20011004 * http://www.helsinki-hs.net/news.asp?id=20011005IE7&pvm=20011005
Five Young Israelis, Caught in Net of Suspicion
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/08/nyregion/08DETA.html
Hacker Cracks Islamist Mailing List
* http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,29008,00.html
Extremist Web Sites Under Scrutiny
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/639701\_asp.htm
The Lesson of Air France Flight 8969 (earlier attempt to turn a hijacked plane into a guided missile)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/635213.asp
Watts Breaks Security Rules at City Airport
* http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show\_article?ID=764450&pic=none&TP=getarticle
How to Fly Without ID (at least, before last month)
* http://permanenttourist.com/4paths/fly-without-id.html
comment "Think Before You Bomb"
* http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/554/fall64.htm
War Disturbs the Most Dangerous Political Tectonic Plate in the World
* http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=98298
"to achieve peace, the US must do more than fight and feed Afghans"
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/09/world/world13.html
America Told to Rely on Brains Over Brawn
* http://www.austin360.com/auto\_docs/epaper/editions/thursday/news\_4.html
it's in our interest to avoid belligerence
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/10/08/plowshares/
article attacking Colin Powell's emphasis on diplomacy (and oblivious to the reasons for it)
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/101501/kaplan101501.html
The Long War: Bush's Crusade Has No End in Sight
* http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2524/ireland2524.html
Metaphors of Terror: The Power of Images
* http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2524/lakoff2524.html
the $43m that Bush supposedly gave the Taliban
* http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20011008.html
Our Friends Are Killers, Crooks and Torturers
* http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=98181
We Need More Than Rate Cuts
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/281/oped/We\_need\_more\_than\_rate\_cuts+.shtml
Prayers Laud Palestinian Struggle
* http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/ap/ap\_story.html/Intl/AP.V7659.AP-Mideast-Friday-.html
Retaliation Immoral: Let Law Rule
* http://www.newsobserver.com/sunday/news/q/Story/827262p-818184c.html
impact on the symbolism of anti-globalization protests
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011022&s=klein
On the War
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14660
The Many Threats of Terror
* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14661
US Strategy and Pak Concerns
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=1&date1=10/8/2001
FBI's Investigation of the WTC Tragedy Exposed
* http://www.hipakistan.com/htmls/yousay/yoursay\_2001\_09\_investigation.html
The Oil Behind Bush and Son's Campaigns
* http://atimes.com/global-econ/CJ06Dj01.html
our coarsening culture: peace activists are "America-haters and moral cretins" (this kind of viciousness is absolutely routine in those precincts)
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001290
they trash Bush's critics despite every evidence they'd do the same to Gore (making absolutely no sense is no longer a liability in the pundit business)
* http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2001/hewitt.html
radio interview with Harry Shearer about humor after the attack
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/fa/20011004.fa.ram
Muslim world Gulf Media Blame Taliban for Their Own Downfall but Iraq Condemns US
* http://www.khaleejtimes.co.ae/middleeast.htm#storyC
Arab and Muslim suspicion of US war aims
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/08/opinion/08GERG.html
"Now, Jihad Has Begun"
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11661
Pakistan riots in wake of Afghanistan strikes
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1586000/1586021.stm * http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1586000/1586214.stm
Pakistan Leader Purges Top Ranks of Military, Spy Service
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22795-2001Oct7.html
Arab Street Contradicts the Silence of Its Leaders
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28564-2001Oct8.html
Radical Muslim Groups Assail Indonesia's Ties With US
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28113-2001Oct8.html
Explaining Arab Rage
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/639275.asp?0sp=w17b5
Arab Regimes Breed Discontent and Anger at US, Analysts Say
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080359oct08.story
Islam Preaches Love to Humanity Not Terrorism: Taliban Leader Omer
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=2&date1=10/8/2001
Muslim creationists blame the attacks on Darwin
* http://www.harunyahya.com/ * http://www.islamdenouncesterrorism.com/darwinism\_materialism.html
Mohamed Jabri on Islam and democracy
* http://www.geocities.com/athens/forum/3778/abdouh.htm
Female Foes of Taliban Seeking Support Abroad
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23210-2001Oct7.html
"we should make the Northern Alliance sign a contract on women's rights"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4266035,00.html
Exploring the Realities of "Muslim Feminism"
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28575-2001Oct8.html
The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma'ilis (in case you've heard that these Muslims were "the first terrorists")
* http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmrs/publications/comitatus/26/26babak.htm
Experts Say Bin Laden Is Distorting Islamic Law
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/08/national/08ISLAM.html?pagewanted=print
In New Glare, Questions Dog Afghan Rebels
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/international/asia/07ALLI.html
Your Best Source for Islam on the Internet
* http://www.submission.org/islam/
response Under the Towers, Ruin and Resilience
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/09/science/physical/09WALL.html
a small town in Newfoundland takes in stranded travelers
* http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/story1a100101.html
Snapshots of September 11th: A Gathering of Witnesses
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/09/arts/design/09GALL.html
gnarly post-attack trade politics in the House
* http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2001/10/news1008d.html
The Flip Side of Anti-Muslim Bias
* http://www.sptimes.com/News/100801/Floridian/Word\_for\_Word\_\_The\_fl.shtml
domestic terrorists not as smart as bin Laden and company, but do admire them (it's definitely time to profile white people)
* http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/story1b092801.html * http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/story1a092601.html
UN Terrorism Talks Favor Cooperation Over Retaliation
* http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1006-03.htm
campus debates about the war
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1009/p12s1-leca.html
estimate of the economic impact of the World Trade Center attack
* http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/report.pdf
Making Sure the Rich Stay Rich, Even in Crisis
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/business/yourmoney/07RICH.html?pagewanted=print
news and information Governors' Limits on Press Raise Concerns
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/08/national/08PAPE.html?pagewanted=print
White House Tackles Public Perceptions of War (heads up: your perceptions are being tackled)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28350-2001Oct8.html
Disputing the Focus on Bin Laden
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/09/arts/television/09FREE.html?pagewanted=print
Cheney censored heck out of the Gulf War, but the press forgot (October 2000)
* http://ajr.newslink.org/ajrsharkoct00.html
transcript of DOD meeting with media over war censorship rules
* http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/t09302001\_t0928asd.html
Flying Blind with a Lazy Press
* http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1007-05.htm
pictures of newspaper front pages
* http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/terrorism/photos/newspapers/image1.html
Afghanistan on 50 Websites a Day (includes several items not mentioned here)
* http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,47243,00.html?tw=wn20011008
Afghanistan Military Guide (neat high-resolution satellite relief maps)
* http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/
another good map of Afghanistan
* http://news.mod.uk/veritas/vimages/map.gif
UK Ministry of Defence (Operation Veritas is the name of the UK military effort)
* http://news.mod.uk/veritas/vindex.htm
National Imagery and Mapping Agency
audio from Australian Broadcasting Corp.
* http://www.abc.net.au/streaming/newsradio.ram
Live TV Channels from the Middle East (interesting even if you can't understand Arabic)
* http://islamicity.com/multimedia/livetv/
attack, investigation, and war US Launches Attack on Afghanistan
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/07/gen.america.under.attack/
First Wave of US Strike Against Taliban Begins
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/627086.asp
A New Kind of War Plan (it's all about special forces now, so should we demobilize the big armies?)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/international/07MILI.html
Onslaught on Kabul Imminent ("satellites to play major role in directing allied forces")
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/PrintPage.asp?id=1&date1=10/7/2001&news2=outer1
Fall of Kabul Within Next 48 Hours
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=3&date1=10/7/2001
Taliban Cannot Withstand an Allied Assault
* http://www.thefridaytimes.com/ejaz.htm
story speculating that US actions so far have all been psychological warfare
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20011004.me.01.ram
New Plan to Destroy Taliban: Diplomatic Moves to Unite Tribal Groupings
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,564394,00.html
Taliban Warn Traitors of Dire Consequences
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=1&date1=10/6/2001
Taliban Reject Broad-Based Government
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=2&date1=10/6/2001
Race to Pinpoint Bin Laden Lair
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/07/world/world6.html
Newly Released TV Footage Shows Osama Bin Laden Celebrating With Guerrillas
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,564398,00.html
Hekmatyar Affirms US Troops Presence
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=17&date1=10/7/2001
the benefits of US caution are already being seen (extremist conservatives have been discredited)
* http://www.indian-express.com/columnists/saee/20011005.html
Hawkish Defense Aide Doesn't Bend (Paul Wolfowitz is a nut -- we should be cautious and minimize violence)
* http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D100701wolf
Cloaked Spies on the Ground Watch Taliban's Men Dig in Round Kabul
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/07/stiusausa01008.html
Rights Group Cautions Against US Siding With Afghans Tied to Abuses
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080248oct07.story
After Taliban, a Power Vacuum?
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18071-2001Oct6.html
Bosnia Seen as Hospitable Base and Sanctuary for Terrorists
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080235oct07.story
Egypt's Brutal Response to Militants
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14715-2001Oct6.html
Bin Laden Aide Implicated
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18002-2001Oct6.html
US Ties Hijackers' Money to Al Qaeda
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17934-2001Oct6.html
Europe: Breaking a Web
* http://www.time.com/time/europe/eu/magazine/0,9868,177032,00.html
The Proof They Did Not Reveal
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/07/stiusausa02012.html
Germans Fear Neo-Nazi Link With Islamists (every country is projecting its own fears; little evidence is presented)
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,564743,00.html
civil liberties and security criticism of UK's anti-terrorism legislation
* http://www.magnacartaplus.org/bills/terrorism/index.htm
House Votes for More Spy Aid and to Pull in Reins on Inquiry
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/06/national/06INTE.html
conservative support for the extreme provisions of the anti-terrorism bill
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001279 * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-000080099oct07.story
Sinjari: Iraqi Threat of Germ Warfare Should Be Taken Seriously
* http://www.TurkishDailyNews.com/FrTDN/latest/for.htm#f7
Police Hold Four Over Possible Threats to France-Algeria Football Clash
* http://www.ttc.org/pa11006a.htm
Source of Anthrax in Death Investigated
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080259oct07.story
US Still Probing Chem-Bio Warfare
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080237oct07.story
A High-Tech Home Front (including criticism of face recognition systems) (may not work under Netscape, or Explorer either for that matter)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/635417.asp
National ID Cards: One Size Fits All
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/weekinreview/07WAKI.html
New Slogan in Washington: Watch What You Say ("a suspension of freedom unlike anything since World War II")
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/national/07PRES.html
Demonizing Dissent
* http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=12064
Now We Really Need Rights
* http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,564633,00.html
tolerance history of Arabs in the United States
* http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/terrorism/islam/arab1004.html
Our Previous Wartime Profiling of Japanese-Americans Brought Us Enduring Shame
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZTPC9DGSC
Two Afghan Mosques in Flushing Worry in Attack Aftermath
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0139/craft.php
Virginia Muslim Enclave Seen as Threat -- or Threatened
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18671-2001Oct7.html
Stereotyping Complaints Rise Over Airline Security
* http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/today/news\_b3eb4a7c421a21690097.html
Christian men's group urging its members to reach out to Arab-Americans
* http://www.promisekeepers.org/usmn/usmn115.htm
Islamic art shows in New York
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/arts/design/07COTT.html * http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/arts/design/07HOLL.html?pagewanted=print
comment Fouad Ajami on Mohamed Atta
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/magazine/07WWLN.html
This Is a Religious War (no it's not)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/magazine/07RELIGION.html
The Clash of Ignorance by Edward W. Said
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011022&s=said
War Against an Undefined Term
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/638594.asp
New Slogan in the US: Love It or Leave It!
* http://www.TurkishDailyNews.com/FrTDN/latest/birand.htm
A New, Nuanced Patriotism
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suneditorials/la-000080111oct07.story
Arming the Taliban's Opponents Will Only Deepen the Agony of a Ruined Nation
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,564222,00.html
Jaish Bomb Blew Up in Pak Face Too
* http://www.indian-express.com/ie20011007/top2.html
Omens of Terror
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-000080098oct07.story
politics of surveillance satellites
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/weekinreview/07WEIN.html
Split Down the Middle (analysis of internal Pakistani politics)
* http://www.thefridaytimes.com/news9.htm
Pakistan: A Regime Living Amid Its Ghosts
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-000080100oct07.story
Fighting Islam's Ku Klux Klan
* http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,564657,00.html
Conservatives Sound Refrain: It's Clinton's Fault (personal responsibility is for other people; so is wartime unity)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17702-2001Oct6.html
story about a repellent Ford commercial exploiting the attack to sell trucks
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesat/20011006.wesat.09.ram
"This American Life" show about life during war
* http://www.thislife.org/ra/195.ram
response President Blair: America Rallies Behind "Forceful" Prime Minister (such a deal: I'm sure the British would let us have him)
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/07/stiusausa03029.html? * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080240oct07.story * http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/07/wblur07.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/10/07/ixhome.html
Former Enron Executive to Head Homeland Security (my goodness, they have quite a talent pool there at Enron)
* http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/politics/1073145
Nazi Taunt Sends Israel, US Relations to New Low
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/07/world/world7.html
Taliban Leaders' Accounts Frozen
* http://www.dawn.com/2001/10/07/top12.htm
Pakistan's Economy Suffers Blow
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080247oct07.story
Taliban's Drug War Risks Unraveling
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080239oct07.story
In US Plans, Taxpayers Would Cover Terror Claims (in other words, bailing out insurance companies too)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/business/07INSU.html
Show Offers New Yorkers a Platform for Their Pain
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080249oct07.story
For Most Trauma Victims, Life Is More Meaningful
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080250oct07.story
A Grim Stroll to Borough of Hades
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079981oct07.story
Is Ground Zero Safe?
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/638853.asp
Rebuilding Would Be Chance to Redo Controversial Downtown New York Layout
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17789-2001Oct6.html
background "state-sanctioned anti-western fervour" in Cairo
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/07/stiusausa03005.html
Profile: Mullah Mohammed Omar
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1550000/1550419.stm
Bin Laden's Followers Adhere to Austere Form of Islam
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/international/middleeast/07SAUD.html?pagewanted=print
In Hindsight, CIA Sees Flaws That Hindered Efforts on Terror
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/international/07INTE.html?pagewanted=print
news Real video from the BBC
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/live/now2.ram
Real video from the CBC
* http://www.cbcradio3.com/ram/cbctvlive2.ram
World TV Links
* http://millennium.fortunecity.com/cslewis/176/livetv.htm
live video from C-SPAN
* http://www.cspan.org/watch/ * http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dfullschedule
attack, investigation, and war Stakes Never Higher in Combat That Must Come Before the Snow
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/06/world/world1.html
Elite Army Division Soldiers Gear Up to Go the Distance
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079924oct06.story
Emphasis on Small, Covert Operations
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079913oct06.story
British Subs Will Fire Missiles (the British press is full of leaks, but what's real and what's psych warfare?)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,564370,00.html
US Pressed on Nuclear Response
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8353-2001Oct4.html
Hezbollah and Hamas Put on Back Burner
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/international/04GROU.html
Ayman Al-Zawahiri: Attention Turns to the Other Prime Suspect
* http://www.janes.com/security/international\_security/news/jir/jir011003\_1\_n.shtml
British Say Islamic Group Taught Combat Courses in US ("it ran the training in the US because of less restrictive gun laws there.")
* http://www.newsday.com/ny-wolond04.story
British government's evidence in the attacks
* http://www.pm.gov.uk/text/default.htm
Bush resistance to approaching the UN Security Council
* http://prospect.org/print/V12/18/halperin-m.html
Toppling of Arab Regimes Called Wider Goal of Terror
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079520oct05.story
Over There: FBI's Limited Power on Foreign Soil
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZPAHB0FSC
anti-terrorism bill argument for a sunset clause in the anti-terrorism bill
* http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/taylor2001-10-02.htm
Do New Anti-Terrorism Proposals Pass Constitutional Muster?
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZKRW2IGSC
argument against Bush's proposals to restrict civil liberties
* http://prospect.org/print/V12/18/cole-d.html
The Terrorism Bill Does Too Much and Not Enough
* http://www.tnr.com/101501/rosen101501.html
Leahy on "Protecting Constitutional Freedoms in the Face of Terrorism"
* http://www.senate.gov/~leahy/press/200110/100301.html
text of the Senate's anti-terrorism bill
* http://www.senate.gov/~leahy/press/200110/USA.pdf * http://www.senate.gov/~leahy/press/200110/100401a.html
Indefinite Detention Based Upon Suspicion Under the New Anti-Terrorism Act
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20011005\_ramasastry.html
Surveillance Warrants Keep Secret Court Busy
* http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20011004/3508205s.htm
concerns about efforts to revise government controls on strong encryption
* http://www.acm.org/usacm/crypto/crypto-controls-memo.html
overly-broad definition of "terrorism" in the Administration's proposal
* http://www.acm.org/usacm/terrorist-memo.html
ACLU Calls New Senate Terrorism Bill Significantly Worse
* http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree/
"Sunset Clause" Could Trip Up Anti-Terror Bill
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079529oct05.story
Judge Strikes Down Parts of 1996 Terrorism Law
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079527oct05.story
security and civil liberties Paul Wolfowitz wants to replace Posse Comitatus (add up their proposals and you're well on the way to martial law)
* http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-attacks-defense-strategy1004oct04.story
Britain as a Cautionary Tale for a New Age of Surveillance
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/magazine/07SURVEILLANCE.html?pagewanted=all
Florida's Continued Alert Status Criticized
* http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/dade/digdocs/112393.htm
recommendations to help secure computing infrastructure against attacks
* http://www.acm.org/usacm/crypto/comp-sec-memo.html
hard-to-evaluate claim that the hijackers used steganography
* http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/DailyNews/PRIMETIME\_011004\_steganography.html
The Supreme Court Returns to a Changed Legal Landscape
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/20011003.html
Censorship After 9/11: The Bill Maher "Coward" Comment
* http://www.holtuncensored.com/members/column269.html
FBI testimony to the Senate about terrorist groups
* http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress01/freeh051001.htm
Senator Rethinks Stance on Students
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079922oct06.story
FAA, Airlines Stalled Major Security Plans
* http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-100601air.story
Watchdog Sites Shut Down in Interest of National Security
* http://newsfactor.com/perl/story/13990.html
Security Breaches Vary Widely at US Airports
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/05/inv.airport.security/
Tighter Airport Security Is Just a Flight of Fancy
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000079574oct05.column
bioterrorism the poor anthrax guy: maybe it was the industrial hog waste that got him
* http://www.sptimes.com/News/100501/State/Terror\_or\_accidents.shtml
France Prepares for Bio Terror Attacks
* http://213.159.10.102/francemain.asp?pad=278,313,&item\_id=14705
"taking precautions against bioterrorism may not be as futile as you think"
* http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/10/03/precautions/print.html
Soviet Anthrax Lying Unguarded on Test Island
tolerance (or lack thereof) sick argument from a conservative hero for mass deportation of immigrants
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ucac/20011003/cm/detainment\_isn\_t\_enough\_1.html
conservative hero Ann Coulter's amazing paper trail
* http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0111.coulterwisdom.html
Islamists Out, Says French Far-Right Leader
* http://www.ttc.org/pa11005b.htm
relevance of the Japanese-American internment to the current situation
* http://monkeyfist.com/articles/787
"what are some examples of Islamophobia in the media?"
* http://www.patelscornershop.com/imwintro.asp
Sometimes-Hostile Scrutiny Difficult for San Diego's Muslim Community
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000079572oct05.story
For Muslims, Benevolence Prevails Over Backlash
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13999-2001Oct5.html
Afghan Music's Awkward Pause
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/arts/04POPL.html
it's not even a good time to be an Afghan hound
* http://nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20011004/719227.html
commentary Listen to the Damned
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4266864,00.html
Muslims Abhor the Double Standard
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000079717oct05.story
The Spirit of Munich Is Alive in the Middle East (some people are comfortable with the Manicheanism that makes it never end)
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,252-2001313763,00.html
Terror and Liberalism
* http://prospect.org/print/V12/18/berman-p.html
A War Economy ... But Without the Usual Wartime Stimulus?
* http://prospect.org/print/V12/18/galbraith-j.html
Bad Business as Usual for Iran and Great Satan
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/06/world/world5.html
Saddam's Shadow Haunts Quiet Americans
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/06/world/world6.html
The Need for the US to Take a More Multilateral Approach to Terrorism
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20011004\_dworkin.html
Word of Caution to US: Paki Knavery Afoot (I have no idea)
* http://www.omaid.com/english\_section/curr\_issue.htm#item1
Bio-Chem Hype Spreads Like a New Form of Infectious Disease
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000079716oct05.story
The Long View: What Is Attack's Place in History?
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/06/arts/06HIST.html?pagewanted=print
unbelievably vile attack on African-American leaders (e.g., claiming on zero evidence that they have been disloyal)
* http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001\_09\_30\_archive.html#6133856
media and information first minutes of the media's response to the attacks
* http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-10-05/cols\_ventura.html
reflections on TV coverage of terror
* http://prospect.org/print/V12/18/stossel-s.html
criticism of excessive media focus on bin Laden versus the whole network
* http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-000079457oct05.story
Bin Laden Taunts the West With His Video Show
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/06/world/world4.html
Books on Terrorism and Islamic Fundamentalists
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20011003.html
Media Gain Respect After Attacks
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079918oct06.story
The September 11th Source Books
* http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB55/index1.html
Mid-East Realities
* http://www.middleeast.org/mernew.htm
background Almost All Heroin Routes Lead Back to Afghanistan
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia\_china/story.jsp?story=98020
US and Britain Accused of Creating Heroin Trail
* http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?dir=1&story=98021&host=1&printable=1
aftereffects of the US attack on Sudan in 1998
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4268146,00.html
US military wanted to kill Americans to provoke war with Cuba (January 2001)
* http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs\_010501.html
response Engineer Finds Clues in WTC Wreckage
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/05/inv.attacks.steel/
Assessment of the Airline Industry's Estimated Losses
* http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-02-133r
The Big Bank's Dirty Little Secret
* http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2001/000088.html
Bush's Jobless Aid Plan Assailed
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13875-2001Oct5.html
Gephardt Says He Will Fight Bush on Trade
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/05/politics/05TRAD.html
attack, investigation, and war US Commandos Establish Base in Afghanistan
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=15&date1=10/4/2001
Dust Storms in Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan (it is \so\ weird to care about dust storms in Turkmenistan)
* http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Dust/MidEast/DSTmidE277\_N6L.jpg * http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Dust/MidEast/DSTmidE277\_N6.jpg
Who's Got the Stingers?
* http://slate.msn.com/Gist/01-10-02/Gist.asp
Killer "Melting" Plague Hits Afghan Border
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/04/world/world108.html * http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/04/wref04.xml
Aid Groups May Be Weapon in Terrorism Fight
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZC5TRLDSC
The UK's Bin Laden Dossier in Full
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk\_politics/newsid\_1579000/1579043.stm
Full Text of Tony Blair's Speech to Parliament
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,563205,00.html
So What Is This Evidence Against Bin Laden?
* http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,177983,00.html
diagram of connections among the hijackers
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/graphics/attack/investigation\_24.html
A Mundane Itinerary on the Eve of Terror
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/05/national/05PORT.html
Arrested Italian Cell Sheds Light on Bin Laden's European Network
* http://www.public-i.org/story\_01\_100401.htm
Florida Man Hospitalized With Anthrax (now all sorts of things are taking on great significance)
* http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/10/04/anthrax/
France Blast Possible Terror Attack
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011004/wl/france\_explosion\_2.html
radio calls from the September 11 collapse of the World Trade Center towers
* http://www.cnn.com/video/us/2001/10/04/dispatch.tapes.affl.med.html
civil liberties and security White House, Senate Reach Agreement on Anti-Terrorism Bill
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079336oct04.story
Terror Laws Near Votes in House and Senate
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/05/national/05RIGH.html?pagewanted=print
Ashcroft Pushes Stronger Antiterrorism Bill
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/04/inv.ashcroft.terrorism/
Toward a Balanced Terrorism Bill
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/opinion/04THU3.html
Proposed Legislation Significantly Affecting the Computer Profession
* http://www.usenix.org/whatsnew/legislation.html
Consortium Responds to More Restrictive Access to Visas by Non-Immigrants
* http://www.uciep.org/press1.htm
Report Warns of Rights Abuse Risk
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079340oct04.story
Viisage Selected to Deploy the First Face-Recognition System in a US Airport
* http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011004/42302\_1.html
Nixed "Holy War" Web Site Offered PGP Encryption Key
* http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170828.html
Massive Search Reveals No Secret Code in Web Images
* http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991340
Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities
* http://66.129.1.101/top20.htm
Securing the Lines of a Wired Nation
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/technology/circuits/04SECU.html
Immigrants' Driver's License Bill a Victim of Terrible Timing
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000079422oct04.column
Muslim Leaders Condemn Thatcher Attack
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,563247,00.html
"in America, history shows, war does not override the calculus of politics"
* http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2001-10-03.htm
Bill to Boost Defendants' Rights in Italy Hinders Terrorism War (Berlusconi and his cronies are changing criminal law to protect themselves)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079343oct04.story
Senate Favors Federal Airport Screeners
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079338oct04.story
comment "it is not Islam or poverty that succours terrorism, but failure to be heard"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,560193,00.html
Beyond Bin Laden: The Temptations of a Wider War
* http://www.comw.org/pda/0109bm22.html
Afghanistan's Invincibility: Piercing the Myths
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000079270oct04.story
Forbes attack on the generosity of Bush's economic stimulus plan
* http://www.forbes.com/2001/10/04/1004topnews.html
Networks, Netwars, and the Fight for the Future
* http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6\_10/ronfeldt/
Why People Hate America?
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=4&date1=10/4/2001
problems with the utterly incompetent FBI and CIA ("FBI argued in the 1990s that bin Laden was not a primary security threat")
* http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=808795
One Country's Terrorists Are Another's Liberators
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079328oct04.story
good thing Gore isn't president now, because the right would be slashing him! (we've started treating conservative smears as an impersonal law of nature)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/637451.asp?0dm=C1ETN
this obnoxious and arbitrary business of calling people anti-American (oppose some policies, you're American; oppose others, you're anti-American)
* http://www.dailyhowler.com/h100401\_1.shtml
response Senate Panel Approves Money Laundering Legislation
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/05/business/05BANK.html
conservatives upset with new government role
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/05/national/05REPU.html?pagewanted=print
Attacks Through the Mind of a Child
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/638118.asp
New York Attack May Cost $105B
* http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/10/04/news/wtc\_cost/
Overhaul Sought for Spy Agencies
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079327oct04.story
Tourist-Centric Anaheim Finds Itself "Devastated" by Terror's Shock Waves
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079330oct04.story
designing towers that last longer under that kind of attack
* http://www.technologyreview.com/web/special/roush.asp
background History, Memory, Trauma: Problems in Representing the Extreme (1999)
* http://www.rlg.org/annmtg/roth99.html
Elder Bush in Big GOP Cast Toiling for Top Equity Firm (March 2001)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/politics/05CARL.html?pagewanted=all
news and information video archive of C-SPAN shows about the attack etc
* http://www.c-span.org/terrorism/
Browsing During Wartime
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2771-2001Oct3.html
The Effects of September 11 on the Leading Search Engine
* http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6\_10/wiggins/
Arabic Programs in the US and Around the World
* http://www.wm.edu/aata/New-programs.htm
Arab Names (e.g., what "bin" means)
* http://www.arab.net/arabnames/
attack, investigation, and war Taliban Preparing Capital for War
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2416-2001Oct3.html
Reports Swirl Out of Afghanistan of Panic and Taliban Defections
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/international/asia/04STAN.html
On Afghan Border, Uzbek Fear Runs Deep
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2284-2001Oct3.html
Legal Warning on War Aims
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,563013,00.html
War Education Tackles New Tactics (life is war)
* http://fyi.cnn.com/2001/fyi/news/10/03/war.education/
diary from a communications guy at ground zero
* http://bill.innanen.com/elrod\_nyc/
Agents Following Suspects' Lengthy Electronic Trail
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2325-2001Oct3.html
Authorities Question Criteria for Access to Flight Simulators
* http://www.public-i.org/story\_01\_092301.htm
"London has become one of the major money laundering capitals of the world"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,563039,00.html
Money-Laundering Fight Could Hit the Wrong Targets
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,37-2001341189,00.html
FBI Finds No Link in Boy's Remarks, Attacks
* http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1069555
civil liberties and security House Panel Approves Bill Expanding Surveillance
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/national/04RIGH.html
the anti-terrorism bill
* http://www.house.gov/judiciary/hr2975terrorismbill.pdf
analysis of the bill
* http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/20011001\_house\_patriot\_analysis.html * http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/cong\_ltr\_10\_02\_01.html
argument against racial profiling in the investigation
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZWEVL1BSC
Senator Feinstein Urges Major Changes in US Student Visa Program
* http://www.senate.gov/~feinstein/releases01/stvisas1.htm
Democracy in Wartime
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/opinion/03SCHL.html
Can the New York Times Count -- or Quote -- Peace Activists?
* http://www.fair.org/activism/nyt-peace-activists.html
A Battle-Ready Net?
* http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2001/tc2001101\_7845.htm
What Went Wrong (with the CIA)
Unscreened Ground Crews Add to Flying Jitters
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000078980oct03.column
comment The Necessity of Skepticism: Backlash and Backtrack, by Edward Said
* http://www.zmag.org/saidcalam2.htm
What Now for Federalism, Judges and Scandal?
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZR8MA3CSC
liberal Jewish group's resources on the attack
* http://www.shalomctr.org/html/peace.html
Ten Things to Know About US Policy in the Middle East
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11592
NYC Independent Media Center half-hour video on the 911 attack
* http://freespeech.org/ramfiles/911\_nycimc.ram
sleaze: they're even exploiting the terror attack to push their trade agenda (they're like robots, remorseless and relentless)
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=nichols2\_20011003
National Review's explanation of its parting with Ann Coulter (no wimps here: they proudly slam Islam, call for holy war, and back the Shah)
* http://www.nationalreview.com/nr\_comment/nr\_comment100301.shtml
conservatives can be paid to scream insanely without presenting any evidence (the jargoneers manufacture phantoms that they can scream at)
* http://www.dailyhowler.com/h100301\_1.shtml
the "we're more nuts than you" piece was allegedly plagiarized from this
* http://www.writtenbyme.com/content/63250
news, information, and background Agencies Scrub Web Sites of Sensitive Chemical Data (the chemical industry has been working furiously toward this for years)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2738-2001Oct3.html * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079125oct03.story
A Post-September 11 Attack on Right-to-Know
* http://www.ombwatch.org/info/2001/rtkstatement.html
Mapping Agency Blocks Access, Postpones Outsourcing Pact
* http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0901/092501p1.htm
Terrorism, Nonlinearity and Complex Adaptive Systems (a collection of papers that's much broader than the title suggests)
* http://www.cna.org/isaac/terrorism\_and\_cas.htm
attack, investigation, and war Fighting Taliban Is an Inside Job, Afghans Warn US
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1002/p7s1-wosc.html
"Saudi Arabia's reluctance to join the international terrorist search"
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/02/opinion/opinion2.html
Afghanistan - Darunta Camp Complex
* http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/darunta.htm
Inside Al-Qaeda
* http://www.janes.com/security/international\_security/news/misc/janes010928\_1\_n.shtml
The International Coalition to Combat Terrorism (video)
* http://www.ceip.org/files/events/events.asp?EventID=392
Tony Blair's Speech
* http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labourconference2001/story/0,1220,561985,00.html
The Terrorists Next Door
* http://www.sptimes.com/News/100201/Floridian/The\_terrorists\_next\_d.shtml
people alleged to have helped terrorists get drivers' licenses
* http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGB0BIZ1BSC.html * http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/usgalicia92801.pdf * http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/usmartinezflores92801.pdf * http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts\_search.pl?title=18&sec=2 * http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts\_search.pl?title=18&sec=1028 * http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20011001/attackdocumentsdc.html
photos from the World Trade Center evacuation
* http://www.worth1000.com/toys/wtc/default2.asp
911 Calls from WTC Reveal Diary of Terror
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/01/attacks.911.calls.ap/
Rhetorical Contradictions Flourish in War on Terrorism
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61014-2001Oct2.html
civil liberties and security the followers of John Adams are bringing back the Alien and Sedition Acts
* http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/10/03/ashcroft/print.html
conservative dupes learn what they really voted for
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/national/03WEST.html
Anti-Terrorism Bill Hits Snag on the Hill
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61023-2001Oct2.html
Florida Task Force's Recommendation: Give State Police Added Power
* http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/tuesday/news\_4.html
USACM letter regarding encryption controls
* http://www.acm.org/usacm/crypto/gregg-crypto-letter.html
pro-Carnivore column employing several jargon techniques
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20011001\_hodes.html
Net Freedom Fears "Hurt Terror Fight"
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk\_politics/newsid\_1568000/1568254.stm
Detecting Steganographic Content on the Internet
* http://www.citi.umich.edu/techreports/reports/citi-tr-01-11.pdf
Bill Introduced to Encourage Public-Private Information Sharing
* http://www.gcn.com/vol1\_no1/daily-updates/17197-1.html
documents relevant to Homeland Defense
* http://stinet.dtic.mil/dticrev/vol5-number4.html
Battling Bioterror
* http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usbio012393546oct01.story
radio story and background article about new high-tech spy planes (when they fly over Afghanistan, it's a war story; here, it's civil liberties)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20011002.me.10.ram * http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/global\_hawk.htm
Challenges for the Supreme Court in the Wake of Terrorism
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20011002.html
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Part I, Chemical Agents (Internet Journal of Rescue and Disaster Medicine)
* http://ispub.com/journals/IJRDM/Vol2N1/terror1.html
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Part II, Biological Weapons
* http://ispub.com/journals/IJRDM/Vol2N1/terror2.html
comment "will the terror attack permanently damage New York's economic position?"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/opinion/03KRUG.html
Beating the Taliban with Military Tact and American Good Will
* http://208.251.133.165/html/USUnderAttack/alert63.html
In New Fight, Shades of Cold War (so we'll fund evil crazies to fight the Taliban, and then they'll attack us)
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1002/p1s1-usmi.html
A Time to Listen to What the World Says About the US
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/perspective/chi-0109300080sep30.story
jargon watch: stereotyping the generation that stood up to conservatism (that's what jargon is: systematic stereotyping)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55872-2001Oct1.html
jargon watch: study Rush Limbaugh's PR-driven mechanical use of speculation (disconnect the bad thing from Giuliani and, fact-free, stick it on Clinton)
* http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001\_09\_30\_archive.html#6058921
we've finally found the depths to which the National Review won't go (and they're pretty deep)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55454-2001Oct1.html * http://www.salon.com/politics/red/2001/10/02/blue/
background Sudan Offered Up Bin Laden in 1996
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61251-2001Oct2.html
CIA Trained Pakistanis to Nab Terrorist
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61219-2001Oct2.html
Pakistan's Two Schools of Thought
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1003/p7s1-wosc.html
US Commission on National Security in the 21st Century (this site is flaky)
* http://www.nssg.gov/PhaseII.pdf
news and information The Taliban and the Media
* http://www.rsf.fr/uk/html/asie/rapport/taliban.html
"news and analysis on Israeli-Palestinian conflict from broad range of sources"
* http://www.alternativenews.org/
Media Assembles Fractured Picture of War
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0140/cotts.php
book recommendations from a political bookstore in Washington
* http://www.politics-prose.com/radio.htm
attack, investigation, and war US Backs Away From Talk of More Attacks
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/02/national/02INQU.html?pagewanted=print
Hijackers' E-Mails Sifted for Clues (no evidence that they were using cryptography)
* http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20011001/3496196s.htm
"FBI agents weren't given approval to search terrorist suspect's hard drive"
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/636610.asp
"on the history, organisation and modus operandi of Al Qaeda"
* http://www.flonnet.com/fl1820/18200280.htm
Famished Afghan Children Fade Away
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000078514oct01.story
campaign for humanitarian aid for Afghanistan
* http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/afghan-crisis.html
interview with Donald Rumsfeld on "Meet the Press"
* http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/t09302001\_t0930sd.html
Quadrennial Defense Review (released today, it's not up on the Defense Department's Web site yet)
* http://www.comw.org/qdr/ * http://www.ndu.edu/inss/press/QDR\_2001/sdcasqdr.pdf
Some Reflections on the Future of War
* http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/Review/2000/autumn/art2-a00.htm * http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/review/2000/autumn/crem%2Dbio.thm
civil liberties, security, and tolerance House Bill Would Expand Federal Detention Powers
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55410-2001Oct1.html
Defining Terrorism Stirs Words of Dispute
* http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D100101legal
Statement on Terrorism, Civil Liberties, and the Internet
* http://www.pfir.org/statements/liberties
Don't Blame the Internet
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43828-2001Sep29.html
analysis of the anti-hacking provisions of the proposed anti-terrorism act
* http://www.politechbot.com/p-02597.html
British ID Cards Backlash Begins
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,7369,561043,00.html
"Amazing" Lapse in Security Cited at Logan
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/274/metro/\_Amazing\_lapse\_in\_security\_cited\_at\_Logan+.shtml
Bioterrorism: Federal Research and Preparedness Activities
* http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-01-915
Will Other Voices Be Heard?
* http://chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0110010037oct01.story
the very dangerous attacks on Bill Maher
* http://www.dailyhowler.com/h100101\_1.shtml
Censorship and the War on Terrorism
* http://www.mediachannel.org/views/interviews/macarthur.shtml
We Must Dismantle Our Democracy in Order to Save It
* http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2001/10/01/tomo/
Muslim Leaders Struggle With Mixed Messages
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55677-2001Oct1.html
this is what cool young Arabs are listening to
* http://www.musicarab.com/secure/itm00545.shtml
interesting window on American Muslim culture
comment The Algebra of Infinite Justice
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4266289,00.html
Roots of Anti-Americanism in Pakistan
* http://www.thefridaytimes.com/news6a.htm
Mohamed Atta: Just a Face in the Crowd
* http://www.miami.com/herald/content/opinion/columnists/hiaasen/digdocs/111144.htm
The Suicide of Fundamentalism
* http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document\_details.asp?CatID=95&DocID=651
using the attacks for another evidence-free assault on straw-man relativism
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000078573oct01.story
Bash the Arabs and Clobber the Left
* http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/09/fritz-b-09-28.html
African National Congress comment on the attack and war
* http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/anctoday/2001/at36.htm
Conservatives Still Kicking Clinton Around
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52091-2001Oct1.html
"we're more nuts than you" (humor)
* http://www.interesting-people.org/200110/0007.html
other topics World Trade Center in RISKS
* http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.67.html#subj18
Top Muslim Leaders Stress Aid, Not Violence
* http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20011001.@03&irec=3
McGraw-Hill Trade Offers Free eBook on Coping with Post-Traumatic Stress
* http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/media/news/2001/09/20010928b.html
W3C Patent Plan Draws Protests
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7373745.html
CNN on Its Use of the Word "Terrorist"
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/30/terrorist/
American Military Operation Name Generating Device
* http://ftrain.com/cgi-bin/l\_operation.cgi
war The Secret War (long article with much new detail)
* http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,560658,00.html
Unlikely Doves: Counter-Terrorism Experts
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11601
Hawks and Doves Fight for Control of Campaign (hawks seem to have no problem with mobilizing a billion Muslims against us)
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,560644,00.html
Bin Laden Follower Details Training in Poisons
US and Britain to Strike Terror Camps Within Days
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,560772,00.html
Saudi Rules Out Foreign Attack on Muslims From Its Soil
* http://www.arabia.com/news/article/english/0,1690,76369,00.html
Pakistani President Not Convinced of Bin Laden's Guilt
* http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/nat/newsnat-1oct2001-14.htm
The Lessons of Blowback
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-000078169sep30.story * http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011015&s=johnson
Hard Lessons From Global Battlefields
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000078199sep30.story * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000078211sep30.story * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000078212sep30.story * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000078213sep30.story * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000078214sep30.story
column from the Middle East attacking US policy
* http://www.middleeastwire.com/newswire/stories/20010927\_meno.shtml
Gallup International Poll on Terrorism in the US ("... with TV and radio still dominating and the internet almost nowhere")
* http://www.gallup-international.com/surveys.htm * http://www.gallup-international.com/terrorismpoll\_figures.htm
Hike in US Defence Spending to Benefit Osama's Family (Bush Sr.'s business ties to bin Laden's family are all over the regional papers)
* http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/280901/dLAME27.asp
Americans Learn It's a Strange World Out There
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/01/world/world13.html
civil liberties and security Can Facial Recognition Help? ("many skeptical of much ballyhooed technology")
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/634892.asp
"The List" a Focal Point of FBI's Manhunt
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000078207sep30.story
1984 + 17: Crisis Monitoring
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/weekinreview/30SCHW.html
"the White House has ruled out creating a national identity card system" (but it's the Washington Times, so who knows)
* http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010927-90529994.htm
Compulsory ID Cards to Access British Schools, Hospitals
* http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,560736,00.html
Hill Puts Brakes on Expanding Police Powers
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46633-2001Sep29.html
Commentary: Security vs. Civil Liberties
* http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01\_40/b3751724.htm
For Sale: New Jersey Driver's Licenses
* http://www.bergenrecord.com/news/dmvll200109301.htm
The Secret Court That Wields the Wiretap (they've denied only one wiretap or warrant request in twenty-plus years)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000078200sep30.story
resources on wiretapping
* http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/
news and background Inside a Newsroom on High Alert
* http://www.poynter.org/newsletters/index.htm
Middle East Newswire
* http://www.middleeastwire.com/newswire/
The Israeli Response to the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre
* http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/calahan.htm
Address by George Bush on the Persian Gulf Crisis, September 11th, 1990
* http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/papers/1990/90091101.html
Issue Now: Does the US Have a Plan? ("we could do a lot more harm than good" -- duh)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/27/international/27ASSE.html
Bush Backs Away From All-Out War
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/27/world/world1.html
Military Strike Not Imminent, Officials Say
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32178-2001Sep26.html
Strikes Seem Later Rather Than Sooner
* http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010927/top1.html
US Says Military Strikes Are Just a Part of Big Plan
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/27/international/europe/27NATO.html?pagewanted=print
Massive Buildup Gives US Political, Military Options
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077148sep26.story
Foreign Policy's "Pivotal Moment"
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32163-2001Sep26.html
Softly, Softly Powell Calls All the Shots
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/27/world/world2.html
Support for Using Force May Have Limits
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077160sep26.story
With Targets Few and Elusive, the War Is Fodder for Diplomats
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000077095sep26.story
Talks on Military Action at Early Stage: Pakistan
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=1&date1=9/26/2001
Sentiment in Pakistani Town Is Ardently Pro-Taliban
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/27/international/asia/27FRON.html?pagewanted=print
US Has a Long Way to Go to Bring Around Egyptians
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/international/middleeast/26EGYP.html?pagewanted=print
US Faces Atmosphere of Mistrust
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32169-2001Sep26.html
US Allies Are Killers and Drug Dealers (it's a one-time thing; it just happens a lot)
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/27/world/world11.html
Taliban Foreign Minister Recalls US Support for Afghan Jihad
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=2&date1=9/26/2001
Tribesmen to Back Taliban
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=4&date1=9/26/2001
Russian Memo Lists Bin Laden Camps in Afghanistan
* http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20010926/attackafghanbinladenstrengthdc.html
many links on the technical and military aspects of the attacks and war
* http://www.netsurf.com/nss/nss.04.10.html
EU Seeks Muslim Allies Against Terrorism
* http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/eurb/cgint.exe/127212-960?1100=1&204&OIDN=1502283&-home=home
Attacks Are Labeled a Crime Against Humanity
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077156sep26.story
Pakistan Warns US Against Helping Afghan Rebels
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077165sep26.story
Tribal Hatred Drives Refugees Into Desert
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330019-2001334165,00.html
Afghans Push to Be Admitted Into Pakistan ("we're losing contact with entire cities")
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077127sep26.story
Terror Arrests Across Europe
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/26/inv.europe.arrests/
German Officials Link Hijackers to Terror Network
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32160-2001Sep26.html
Scotland Yard Says Hijackers May Have Trained in Britain
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32194-2001Sep26.html
Raids Crush Terrorist Cells and Foil Plot to Kill Bush
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330019-2001334102,00.html
More Suspects Are Detained in Search for Attack Answers
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/national/26SUSP.html
Three Men Held in San Diego as Material Witnesses
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077132sep26.story
Al Qaeda May Have Crude Chemical, Germ Capabilities
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32100-2001Sep26.html
Traffic Snarled by Police Searches for Hazardous Material
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32110-2001Sep26.html
Bush Pursues Charities in Terror Money Chase
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/27/world/world6.html
Bank Account the Vital Link to Bin Laden
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/27/world/world4.html
Age-Old Way of Moving Cash Leaves Little Trail
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077116sep26.story
US Could Use Cybertactics to Seize Bin Laden's Assets
* http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47\_STO64072,00.html
Strategies to Combat Money Laundering (lots of details)
California Forms Anti-Terrorism Information-Sharing Center
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000077069sep26.story
Terrorist Groups Already Here, Academic Warns
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/27/world/world8.html
Surveillance Major Sticking Point in Anti-Terrorism Legislation
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ884E82SC
Ashcroft Relenting on Terrorism Bill (but his proposals are still completely over the top)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077157sep26.story
Rights Caught in Dragnet ("hundreds detained by the US since Sept. 11th do not have legal protections")
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077118sep26.story
Lawmaker: More Encryption Needed
* http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,5097301-2,00.html
Immigrant ID Card on the Fast Track
* http://www.canada.com/ottawa/story.asp?id={471E6D82-1725-4349-85CF-D16F44AFA12E}
Blunkett Qualifies Likely Role of ID Cards ("citizen's entitlement card")
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk\_news/story/0,3604,558685,00.html
Florida takes driver's license data offline in response to investigations
* http://sptimes.com/News/092001/State/Driver\_records\_put\_on.shtml
smallpox as a bioterrorist threat (includes grisly pictures)
* http://www.lsic.ucla.edu/classes/mimg/summer1\_01/micro12/Website/PrestonNY/smallpoxPestonNY.htm
The Specter of Biological Terror
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/opinion/26WED2.html?pagewanted=print
Amid Fears, Anthrax Antibiotic Selling Fast
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/269/business/Amid\_fears\_antibiotic\_selling\_fastP.shtml
Airport Guard Tries to Check Officer's ID, Gets Arrested
* http://makeashorterlink.com/?W55A32F0 * http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/hubs/20010926/commentLetters.html
Airport Ground Crews Escaping Tightened Security, Critics Say
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32158-2001Sep26.html
Cockpit Security Plans Questioned
* http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010926S0049
FAA Finds Logan Security Among Worst in US
LAX Plan to Shift Focus to Security Issues
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000077048sep26.story
Legislative Leaders Reluctant to Arm Pilots
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077163sep26.story
Call to Ease LAX Security Is Rejected
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077164sep26.story
Terrorists' Use of Hazardous Materials Seen
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077121sep26.story
business response to the attack, e.g., at a hazmat shipping company
* http://www.sptimes.com/News/092401/Business/Doing\_business\_in\_unc.shtml
Forging a Third Way to Fight (crossing law enforcement and war)
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZO05N42SC
Cyber Attacks During the War on Terrorism: A Predictive Analysis
* http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/ISTS/counterterrorism/cyber\_attacks.htm
Key US Computer Systems Called Vulnerable to Attack (again)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32105-2001Sep26.html
Obscure Team Scans Systems to See Where Enemy May Hit
* http://lists.jammed.com/politech/2001/06/0033.html
wartime security caution at online sites for military families
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/27/technology/circuits/27MILI.html
Added Security for Dams, Reservoirs and Aqueducts
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/national/26WATE.html?pagewanted=print * http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/269/metro/Vigilance\_grows\_over\_waterP.shtml
Nuclear Reactors Vulnerable to Attack
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330019-2001334212,00.html
Life on the Home Front
* http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101011001/
Many Britons Smile on Spread of Candid Cameras (British culture, unfortunately, has a long tradition of deference)
* http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2001/09/26/cameras.htm
The Effect of Closed Circuit Television on Recorded Crime Rates (1999) (i.e., not much)
* http://www.scotcrim.u-net.com/researchc2.htm
ACLU Calls on Law Enforcement to Support Privacy for Video Surveillance (1999)
* http://www.aclu.org/news/1999/n040899b.html
Int'l Trade in Surveillance Technology, Links to the Arms Industry (1995)
* http://www.privacy.org/pi/reports/big\_bro/
ACLU comment on proposal for public video surveillance (May 1997)
* http://www.aclunc.org/police/oak-video.html * http://www.aclunc.org/aclunews/news499/oakland-cams.html
Face Recognition Technology and Video Surveillance (July 2001)
* http://www.chipcenter.com/columns/COL\_20010718.html?PRINT=true
Privacy International resources on video surveillance
* http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/cctv/
America's War, and India's Role
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=3&date1=9/26/2001
The Real Culprits of Disaster (conspiracy theory: Mossad did it)
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=6&date1=9/26/2001
No Role for India
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=1&date1=9/26/2001
America's War Against Terrorism
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=7&date1=9/26/2001
Post-Taliban Afghanistan
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/editorials.asp?id=1&date1=9/26/2001
doubts on the reality of a recent "message" from Osama bin Laden
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/editorials.asp?id=2&date1=9/26/2001
Why a Strike Against Afghanistan Would Actually Help Bin Laden
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20010926\_murphy.html
Righteous Terrorism, American-Style (does the "war" include our own terrorists?)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000077094sep26.column
This Time, Fighting Should Not Be Left to Just a Few
* http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/columnists/wickham/2001-09-24-wickham.htm
argument that the CIA didn't create bin Laden
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/100801/trb100801.html
Eagle and the Tiger Hunt Together, for the Moment
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/27/opinion/opinion3.html
liberal comment
After the Attacks: America's Changed Political and Legislative Landscape
* http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/postterrorism.asp
when Clinton was at war with bin Laden, Republicans were at war with Clinton
* http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/edi/woplyons26.asp
Todd Gitlin looks at the ruins and watches the US search for words
* http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document\_details.asp?CatID=95&DocID=680&DebateID=152
This Umbrage Over Presumed US Rejection Doesn't Behove Us
* http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010927/ed1.html
argument against revenge from India
* http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document\_details.asp?CatID=95&DocID=664
comment from the rebels in Chechnya
* http://www.kavkaz.org/english/analysis.htm
Depth of Hatred at US Hard to Fathom
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/27/opinion/opinion1.html
"Why Do They Hate Us?"
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0927/p1s1-wogi.html
pro-and-con columns on the war from Richard Perle and Howard Zinn
* http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i05/05b00902.htm * http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i05/05b00801.htm
Happy New Year: It's 1984 (i.e., permanent war)
* http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0922-07.htm
the holy war against pacificism rages in complete freedom from facts
* http://www.dailyhowler.com/h092601\_1.shtml * http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,47099,00.html
Berlusconi: The West Must Conquer Islam (yammerheads in the US also rant about "the superiority of our civilization")
* http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2001/09/26/berlusconi/
Will Anyone Dare to Ask Why? (the Nazi perspective)
* http://www.duke.org/writings/09-17-01.shtml
humor returns with several rather funny jokes from The Onion
Vint Cerf warns against hate-motivated hacking
* http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,47099,00.html
White House Taps Ohio Scholar's Writings on Radical Islam
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25521-2001Sep25.html
No "Us" or "Them": An Iranian-American Tries to Explain
* http://www.iranian.com/ZaraHoushmand/2001/September/Explain/
Dossier Lists 100 Hate Attacks on Muslim Targets
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330019-2001334204,00.html
Urged by Their Fearful Parents, Some Arab Students Head Home
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/27/national/27COLL.html
The Other War, Against Intolerance
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/national/26LESS.html?pagewanted=print
Offer Muslims Hand of Friendship, Prescott Says
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330019-2001334205,00.html
Expressions of Support Surprising to Muslims (decent Americans are ashamed at the outbursts of the hate wackos)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000077046sep26.story
they keep spinning, no matter what ("Americans ... need to watch what they say, watch what they do")
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/27/spin/
White House Drops Claim of Threat to Bush
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32319-2001Sep26.html
War Means Never Having to Tell the Truth: The Return of Censorship
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0139/cotts.php
A Culture of Secrecy Only Feeds Our Fear of the Unknown
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330019-2001334224,00.html
VOA Airs Report Over Objection of State Department
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31659-2001Sep26.html
An Early Casualty of War Is Constructive Debate
* http://www.nashscene.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?story=This\_Week:Politics:Advise\_and\_Dissent
A Web Site With the Inside Dope on the Middle East (it's debka.com, which I haven't mentioned because its design is so awful)
* http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/offtherec.asp
Media Ballot Review Delayed
* http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Media-Ballot-Review.html
Russian Media Digest
* http://www.therussianissues.com/
Film, Videos, and DVD's from the Arab World and Middle East
Saudi Arabia's First English Language Daily
The IRA's Rich Friends in New York
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid\_1563000/1563119.stm
Meeting with the Mujahideen
* http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/2001/jf01/jf01stern.html
MP3's from the Soldiers of Allah
* http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/42/soldiers\_of\_allah.html
A Few Trusted Men Lead Bin Laden's Sprawling Network
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32149-2001Sep26.html
Portrait of the Terrorist as a Young Man
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4263738,00.html
Bin Laden Recruits With Graphic Video
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32438-2001Sep26.html
Hate-Filled Words Behind a POW's Gentle Voice
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077117sep26.story
history of the US war against terrorism
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/632825.asp?0nw=n1d
"Teach-In" on Terrorism Is an Echo of the '60s (I heard it on the radio: it wasn't any kind of sixties stereotype)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000077049sep26.story * http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show\_code=ww&air\_date=9/24/01&tmplt\_type=show
Orwell's unpublished preface to Animal Farm (it has an unnerving way of being relevant in every situation)
* http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/Orwell.html
Measuring a Building's Fate With the Pulse of a Laser
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/27/technology/circuits/27VIBE.html
Agile in a Crisis, Robots Show Their Mettle
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/27/technology/circuits/27ROBO.html
Most Victims Male; Many Were Parents
* http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/27/tower-numbers.htm
Science's Search for Answers
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32203-2001Sep26.html
Rites of Grief, Without a Body to Cry Over
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/27/nyregion/27MEMO.html
New Yorkers Can't Shake Fears
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077125sep26.story
New York Second Circuit Chief Judge Returns to Work, Reassures Staffers
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZUHNKD2SC
Starbucks Charged Rescuers for Water
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,558564,00.html
House Republican Leaders Balk at Any Help for Laid-Off Workers (but corporations who let terrorists onto airplanes? hey, no problem)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/business/26BENE.html?pagewanted=print
Republicans are stalling the defense bill with special interest deals
* http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2001/09/26/defense\_budget/ * http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/26/house.htm
Party Divisions Begin to Show Again (good, because the Republicans have shown they're willing to exploit the war)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000077162sep26.story
House Diverts Money for Terror Fight
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010926/us/terrorist\_attacks\_240.html
Torricelli Wants Probe Into "Stunning" Intelligence Failure
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/26/inv.intelligence.board/
Israel Furious at British Remarks "Justifying" Terror (Straw didn't "justify" anything; he reported facts)
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/26/world/world16.html
Cheap Heroin Set to Swamp the World
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/27/world/world12.html
New, Costly Obstacles for Overseas Commerce?
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZFQ2R82SC
pinheads selling hate gear on eBay
* http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1642533699 * http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1009755109
Architects Don't Foresee Skyscraper's Demise
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/26/rec.skyscraper.future/
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⟨=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"
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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 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
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&SearchOrder=1&SearchWV=TRUE&SearchThesaurus=FALSE&SearchFuzzy=FALSE&Start=1&Count=20&SearchEntry=ResultEntry)
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Israeli-Palestinian Human Rights and Peace Groups
* http://www.ariga.com/humanrights/index.asp
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
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/
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/
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
SAS Troops Clash With Taliban Unit Deep Inside Afghanistan (the British papers are full of leaks from government and military sources)
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiusausa02036.html
The March to the Brink of Battle
* http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,556643,00.html
Shock Troops Prepare for the Descent to Battle
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001320012-2001330376,00.html
Revealed: British Plan for Afghan Onslaught
* http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,556734,00.html
Bin Laden Hiding in Central Afghanistan: Iran Radio
* http://www.khaleejtimes.com/subcont.htm#storya
MI6 Spies Find Evil Bin Laden
* http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/4326959
Poised to Strike as Never Before
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiusausa02042.html
"fighting is likely to be mostly at night, at close quarters by elite forces"
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,556224,00.html
Kabul Looted as Order Disintegrates
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001320012-2001330450,00.html
Emirates Give Taliban 24 Hours to Leave
* http://www.khaleejtimes.com/lead.htm#b
First US Planes Land at Uzbek Air Base
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10804-2001Sep22.html
CIA Gets Go-Ahead for a Return to Murderous Cold War Tactics
* http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,556634,00.html
Gun Law in the War Bazaar
* http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,556684,00.html
US Plans to Install Puppet Regime in Kabul (we take for granted now that a paper in NW Pakistan will be online in English)
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=4&date1=9/22/2001
US Inches Towards Alliance With Northern Alliance
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=4&date1=9/22/2001
Pakistan Could Lose Control of Its Arsenal
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001320010-2001324777,00.html
Threat of US Strikes Passed to Taliban Weeks Before NY Attack
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,556279,00.html
EU to Move Quickly on Terrorism Plan
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075974sep22.story
Conclusions of the Extraordinary European Council
* http://www.eu2001.be/VE\_ADV\_PRESS/detail.asp?cat\_code=AA&item\_id=844&sess=770620974⟨=en&reference=12-01.02-01& * http://www.eu2001.be/Images/pdf/concl-bxl.en1.pdf
Waging War in Afghanistan Could Rattle Region
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/international/asia/23ASSE.html
The Hunt for Bin Laden Gears Up on a Trail Gone Cold
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/international/asia/23STAN.html?pagewanted=print
Some Afghans Would Welcome Taliban's Demise
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10649-2001Sep22.html
Borderless Network of Terror
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10543-2001Sep22.html
Investigators Assemble Pieces to Jumbled Puzzle
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10839-2001Sep22.html
Search for the Missing Pieces
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiusausa02040.html
Unpolished Secret Agents Were Able to Hide in Plain Sight ("the operation probably did not cost much more than $200,000")
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/national/23PLOT.html?pagewanted=all
FBI Knew Flight Schools Had Been Infiltrated
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10840-2001Sep22.html
Investigators Identify 4 to 5 Groups Linked to Bin Laden Operating in US
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10846-2001Sep22.html
Cases Arising from the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks
* http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/cases.html
Spy Chiefs Agree Plan to Hit Bin Laden Cells
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiusausa02050.html
Linked and Dangerous: Terror Inc
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiusausa02019.html
Gallery of Terror: Profiles of the Hijackers Are Emerging
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiusausa01039.html
Warning on Boston Unfounded, FBI Says
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/265/metro/Warning\_on\_Boston\_unfounded\_FBI\_says+.shtml
A Top Boss in Europe, an Unseen Cell in Gaza and Decoys Everywhere
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/international/23NETW.html
conservative criticism of Bush's anti-terrorism legislation ("much of the legislation turns out to have nothing to do with terrorism")
* http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel092101.shtml
Congressional Response to Terrorist Attacks ("150 bills proposed from 12 to 20 September sorted into rough categories")
* http://monkeyfist.com/articles/783
All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
* http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679767320/qid=1001220541/sr=1-2/ref=sr\_1\_2\_2/104-1136354-5838345 * http://www.pbs.org/newshour/gergen/november98/gergen\_11-11.html
Terrorism "Watch List" Was No Match for Hijackers
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10829-2001Sep22.html
Across US, a Security Scramble
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10845-2001Sep22.html
Expert: Hijackers Likely Skilled With Fake IDs (\now\ maybe we'll fix our totally broken identification systems)
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/21/inv.id.theft/
Terrorists' Trade in Stolen Identities
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001320012-2001330486,00.html
"three in four Americans favour tough anti-encryption laws"
* http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21791.html
Stolen Jet Fuel and Bus in Northern California
* http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/news/22bus\_b1.html
Weapons Slipped Past Security at San Jose, San Francisco Airports
* http://www0.mercurycenter.com/local/center/fakebomb0922.htm
"anger directed at ground staff can erode airline security"
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stitrltrl01016.html
Despite Protection, Airlines Face Lawsuits for Millions in Damages (criminal negligence charges against airline executives would be better)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075955sep22.story
US Assesses Biochemical Concerns
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075975sep22.story
Defense May Be Inadequate for Germ or Toxic Attacks
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/national/23GERM.html
"this is a war without end and a war that we can never be certain we have won"
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stinwcldr03001.html
"why have we Muslims turned a blind eye to the evil within our societies?"
* http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,556636,00.html
US Bank Laws Fund Terrorists
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11556
Mobilising the Muslim World
* http://www.hinduonnet.com/stories/05231342.htm
"the future of Afghanistan itself should lie at the root of Western thinking"
* http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,556553,00.html
UN Environment Chief: Fight Root Causes Of Terrorism
* http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2001/2001L-09-21-02.html
George Lakoff analyzes the metaphors of the attack
* http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/lakoff.pdf
Pay Tribute to Reason and Think Long-Term: Reflections on the 9-11 Tragedy
* http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumnew31.htm
Jon Stewart's monologue from the first post-attack episode of The Daily Show
* http://www.comedycentral.com/tv\_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/dailyshow\_politics.jhtml
Attack on America: An Islamic Perspective
* http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumnew29.htm
dangers for India
* http://www.hinduonnet.com/stories/0523134a.htm
What Happened to the Other News?
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/from\_our\_own\_correspondent/newsid\_1556000/1556880.stm
Noam Chomsky Interview on the Current Situation
* http://www.counterpunch.org/chomskyintv.html
Destined to Shadowbox With the Devil
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-091801scheer.story
Sustained Intelligence War a Must to Stamp Out Terrorism
* http://www.yomari.com/p-review/2001/09/20092001/sust.html
history of the US "ban" on assassinations of foreign leaders
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0921/p11s1-cods.html
The Future of the City ("New York's vulnerability raises serious questions")
* http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01\_40/b3751726.htm
Pat Robertson's Gold
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7124-2001Sep21.html
a version of my "notes on war" article without so many editing errors
* http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/notes-on-war.html
guide to Islam
Islamic and Middle Eastern Law
* http://www.soas.ac.uk/Centres/IslamicLaw/Materials.html
Information about Jihad and the Mujahideen Everywhere (interesting jihad site, has been going up and down)
My Life With the Mujaheddin
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiusausa02023.html
Why Do They Hate America?
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiusausa01024.html
support for bin Laden in Kashmir
* http://www.hinduonnet.com/stories/0523134b.htm
No Laden Look-Alikes During Durga Puja, Warns Kolkata Police
* http://www.ptinews.com/nextstory.asp?main=Indian&ID=5923&rec=none
FBI Tries to Ease Muslim Fears (the cops have been tolerant as far as I've heard; this is progress too)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000076019sep22.story
Collateral Damage in War on Terrorism ("suspect shouted: 'I stand for America all the way!'")
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075987sep22.story
Once Appalled by Race Profiling, Many Find Themselves Doing It (but "so many people have come in to the restaurant to offer some support")
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/national/23PROF.html
Fears of Backlash Heighten Arab-Americans' Concern Over Immigration Reforms
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ8R84XURC
Religious Literacy Pays Off
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000076050sep22.story
"most violence globally is home-grown, played out in little-noticed conflicts"
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076068sep22.story
compendium of databases maintained by the UN High Comissisoner for Refugees
* http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/welcome.htm
links on steganography
* http://www.business2.com/webguide/0,1660,66953|125|0|0|1|a,00.html
Donald Duck destroys the World Trade Center in a 1997 Swedish comic book
* http://www.geocities.com/kalleankascan/
Welcome to the Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima
* http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/pmm.html * http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/indexE.html * http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2125.html
Sleepless Nights, Shattered Psyches
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10325-2001Sep22.html
Trauma Takes Its Toll on America
* http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,556741,00.html
Rescue Turns Into Brutal Excavation
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiusausa02044.html
Stars Hurled Abuse in Hotel as American Guests Tried to Phone Their Loved Ones
* http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/4326839
Anguish for Vast Toll of Children Left Behind
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/nyregion/23CHIL.html
links to memorials and diaries
* http://www.beyondwriting.com/autoshrines.htm
even more pictures of global memorials
* http://thankyou.fast-networks.net/
Bush's war speech
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075838sep21.story
Bush's Challenge: Defining an Achievable Military Goal
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075792sep21.story
US Puts Afghan Strike Ahead of Full Plan
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/international/22MILI.html
Ground Troops Join Move Toward Gulf
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075802sep21.story
weather forecast for Kabul
* http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/Kabul\_AH\_f.html
"the weaponry the Taliban could turn on us may be our own"
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/22/blowback/
US to Target Bin Laden First, Then Other Groups
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075799sep21.story
Secret Memo Reveals US Plan to Overthrow Taliban Regime
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,555517,00.html
Alliance Members "Will Send In Troops"
* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/22/weu222.xml
US and UK Ready for Joint Military Action
Blair Hints at Early Military Strike
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk\_news/story/0,3604,555520,00.html
Hate Unites an Enemy Without an Army
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075836sep21.story
"at an emergency meeting, European leaders back a 'targeted' campaign" (but is the US increasing its support for the Europeans' own anti-terrorism?)
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/22/europe/ * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7203-2001Sep21.html
NY Times reports that Bush views this as a Christian war (which is a disaster from the point of view of Muslim opinion)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/national/22MEMO.html
"foreigners living in Pakistan are leaving the country in large numbers"
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11529
Russian Troops and Armour Mass on Afghan Border
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,555510,00.html
Jihad in Chechnya
* http://www.minna.com/index.htm
Warring Afghans While Away the Time with Artillery Duel
German Commando Unit Reported to Be Lined Up for Rescue Mission
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,555508,00.html
International Opinion Opposes US Military Strike: Poll
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010921/ts/attack\_poll\_dc\_2.html * http://www.gallup-international.com/terrorismpoll\_figures.htm
Rumsfeld quite alarmingly avoids repudiating the use of nuclear weapons
* http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2001/t09162001\_t0916sd.html
Rumors of New Attacks Leave Cities on Edge
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6608-2001Sep21.html
Homeland Security Post to Be Comprehensive
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075800sep21.story
Nun Who Worked for Human Rights in Colombia Is Killed (this is terrorism)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075825sep21.story
Afghanistan Humanitarian Update
* http://www.unhcr.ch/news/media/afghan/latest.htm
Afghans Flee as Internal War Precedes Terrorism War
* http://www.abc.net.au/news/2001/09/item20010921195909\_1.htm
Afghans Face Humanitarian Disaster
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,554310,00.html * http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/09/09202001/reu\_45026.asp
Aid Agencies Prepare for Afghan Tragedy
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1556000/1556117.stm
Humanitarian Implications of UN Security Council Sanctions in Afghanistan
* http://www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/afgsanc.pdf
Afghanistan has the world's largest refugee problem
* http://www.unhcr.ch/world/mide/afghan.htm * http://www.unhcr.ch/news/media/afghan/stat0917.pdf
Afghanistan: The Unending Refugee Crisis
* http://www.unhcr.ch/pubs/rm108/rm10801.htm
"Afghanistan has some of the most alarming health indicators in the world"
* http://www.pcpafg.org/appeal/appeal2000/Documents/Provision\_of\_Basic\_Social\_Services.shtml
UN Asking US to Weigh Impact of Raids on Afghans
Tape Reveals Wild Struggle on Flight 93 (including more details on the assassination of Ahmed Shah Massoud)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/national/22INQU.html?pagewanted=print
Lack of Warning Highlights Spy Agencies' Shortcomings (from last week)
* http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.intelligence13sep13.story
Attorney General Warns Menino, Swift of Possible Threat in Boston
* http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local\_regional/auslocl09212001.htm
criminal complaints against three Muslims arrested in Michigan
* http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/usalihaimoud91801cc.pdf * http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/uskoubriti91801cc.pdf * http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/ushannan91801cc.pdf
article arguing that bin Laden didn't do it
* http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/552/p14fall1.htm
Were Clues Missed in Student's Case?
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6719-2001Sep21.html
A Fanatic's Quiet Path from Egypt to Terror
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6769-2001Sep21.html
Knives Hint at Thwarted Hijackings
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6769-2001Sep21.html
FBI Chief Raises New Doubts Over Hijackers' Identities
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075808sep21.story
thoughtful comment on Bush's speech from Muslim news editors
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010921.atc.02.ram
Another Chance to America or to Pakistan? (why even moderate Pakistanis might well distrust the US)
* http://www.paknews.com/PrintPage.php?id=1&date1=2001-09-16&news2=articles1
why many Muslims think we hate them
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/focus/\_The\_harm\_done\_to\_innocents\_+.shtml
In Europe, Some Say the Attacks Stemmed From American Failings
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/international/europe/22DEBA.html
On Security and Terror
* http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/200109/msg00269.html
the legacy of Arab states' own crackdowns on Islamic extremists
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/opinion/21FRIE.html
The US Has a Problem: The Afghans Really Have Nothing to Lose
* http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010921/ed6.html
Musharraf's Manoeuvres
* http://www.assamtribune.com/sep2101/edit.html
A War Without End: When the Enemy Is a Methodology Like Terrorism (declaring war on an abstraction usually fails: cancer, drugs, poverty, etc)
* http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2001/09/21/3.html
The Appropriate Limits of Nonpartisanship in a Crisis
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20010921\_buchanan.html
The Mistake of Treating This War as Christianity Versus Islam
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20010921.html
Limits of the Military Metaphor
* http://prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/09/pitts-j-09-20.html
Unthinkable, Unstoppable
* http://slate.msn.com/framegame/entries/01-09-13\_115402.asp
criticism of Saudi Arabia's relations with bin Laden
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/100101/peretz100101.html
argument against Oklahoma City as a model for designing memorials
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/opinion/22KELL.html
comment advocating a design approach to security problems (and disputing the false "trade-off" between security and civil liberties)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010921.atc.08.ram
comment falsely describing Americans as sheep waiting for orders from on high
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010921.atc.05.ram
It Isn't Just "Freedom" They Hate ("they may have had real grievances -- and we should discuss them")
* http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/09/22/freedom/
Will US Be an Unwitting Tool in Bin Laden's Game?
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000075778sep21.story
"as television hypes the coming war, we've shut ourselves up"
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/21/networks/
"he didn't compare his war strategy to its real predecessor: The War on Drugs"
* http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/21/speech/
Japan Must Avoid Treading Gulf War Path
* http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010921a2.htm
pinhead referring to the terrorist attack as a "faith-based initiative" (will you \think\ for one second?)
* http://prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/09/kaminer-w-09-17.html
Wall Street Journal says Bush should use the war to push his domestic agenda (one more reason why people say that conservatives like war)
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/?id=95001169
Ann Coulter Advocates Profiling of Arab "Aliens", Deportation (okay, her friend got killed, but hate only makes things worse)
* http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001\_09\_16\_archive.html#5825903
left-wing links
* http://www.icaer.org/emma/blast/
Terrorism Act Threatens Our Rights ("proposal would unleash secret surveillance networks")
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/631886.asp
"law enforcement officials are taking advantage ... everything they ever wanted"
* http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/09/22/end\_of\_liberty/
Proposed Wiretap Changes Under Review
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075805sep21.story
The Land of the Free May Become Less So
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075790sep21.story
European organization working against wartime limits on civil liberties
Terror Groups Hide Behind Web Encryption
* http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-02-05-binladen.htm
Phil Zimmerman dealing with the possibility that the terrorists used PGP
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1234-2001Sep20.html
Interest in Facial Scans Surges (though we have to take the companies' word for it)
* http://www.sptimes.com/News/092001/Worldandnation/Interest\_in\_facial\_sc.shtml
EarthLink Rejects FBI's Request to Install Carnivore
* http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/078338.htm
Activist Berrigan Confined Alone After Terrorist Attacks
* http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0921-02.htm
Justice Drafts New Rules for Deportation
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52767-2001Sep18.html
US Has Wide Leeway to Detain Material Witnesses
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6740-2001Sep21.html
The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted Third-Party Encryption (i.e., the main technical proposals to regulate the use of cryptography)
* http://www.counterpane.com/key-escrow.html
Strong Country, Strong Crypto
* http://www.securius.com/newsletter/archive/207.txt * http://www.securius.com/
Steganography: Truths and Fictions
* http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-9810.html#steganography
Americans Under State of High Alert
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/632335.asp
okay, so we have a Homeland Security Agency -- what is it?
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/national/22HOME.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6718-2001Sep21.html
Biological Attack Concerns Spur Warning ("restoration of broken public health system is best preparation")
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6638-2001Sep21.html
Mineta, Senators Clash Over Airport Security (Bush doesn't want to federalize, and letting Democrat Mineta take the heat)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075816sep21.story
Israeli-Style Security May Have Helped
* http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010912/18/israel-safe-aviation * http://news.excite.com/news/r/010914/07/international-attack-israel-elal-dc
How Safe Can We Get? ("marginal improvements to airport security aren't enough")
* http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/bsecurity.html
A Big Hole at LAX
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000075770sep21.story
Many Pilots Take a Tougher Stance
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075814sep21.story
Aviation Experts Say Passengers Should Adopt New Aggressive Stance (now there's something that can be overdone)
* http://www.boston.com/dailynews/264/nation/Aviation\_experts\_say\_passenger:.shtml
Identifying and Reducing the Risks of Environmental Terrorism
* http://www.pacinst.org/environment\_and\_terrorism.htm
Fear and Vigilance as Security Plans
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/national/22THRE.html
Seized Weapons in Courthouses Show Need for Security Devices
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000075736sep21.story
The Warnings Were on Page 1
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000075779sep21.column
Some Passengers Singled Out for Exclusion by Flight Crew
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/national/22PASS.html
For Middle Eastern Travelers, Security Already Increasing ("some security experts say need for profiling hasn't been proved")
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7197-2001Sep21.html
Civil Rights Lawyers Sound Alarm ("for now, focus is on enlisting help for victims of hate")
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZN5JIAVRC
For Muslims in US, Grief Over Attacks is Followed by Fear
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7210-2001Sep21.html
At Mosques, Fear Mixes with Support for US
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6714-2001Sep21.html
Arab-Americans Are Finding New Tolerance Amid the Turmoil
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/national/22MICH.html
British Muslims Despair Over Extremists
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,556226,00.html
Explaining Arab Anger
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle\_east/newsid\_1552000/1552900.stm
"Arabs will likely view an attack on terrorism as a war on Islam"
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/21/lebanon/print.html
"Wahhabism is the most extreme form of Islamic fundamentalism" (and the Saudis subsidize it)
* http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-09-22&id=1104
King Fahd Reiterates the Kingdom's Categorical Rejection of Terrorism
* http://www.ain-al-yaqeen.com/issues/20010921/feat1en.htm * http://www.ain-al-yaqeen.com/issues/20010914/feat2en.htm
Arafat Closes TV Station After Killing Report
* http://www.abc.net.au/news/2001/09/item20010921202346\_1.htm
bin Laden's unfortunately high reputation in parts of the Middle East
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011008&s=hiro
Afghanistan Short on Credible Leaders
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075793sep21.story
full text of University of California Press books on the Middle East
* http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/middle\_east
The Beginnings of Islam as an Apocalyptic Movement
* http://www.mille.org/publications/winter2001/cook.html
extensive links on the Middle East
* http://al-awda.org/newyork/links.html
Fatwa or Divine Decree Concerning the UK Terrorism Act 2000 (January 2001) (this is not a happy document)
* http://www.obm.clara.net/shariahcourt/fatwas/fg4.html
The Saudi Fatwah Against Suicide Terrorism (May 2001)
* http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=214
Understanding Islam and Muslims
* http://islamicity.com/Mosque/uiatm/un\_islam.htm
Discover Islam
* http://www.islamonline.org/english/discover/discover.shtml
The Spiritual Significance of Jihad
* http://www.al-islam.org/al-serat/jihad-nasr.htm
The Concept of Martyrdom In Islam
* http://www.al-islam.org/al-serat/Concept-Ezzati.htm
Recent Terrorism Events: Background and Context
* http://www.cqpress.com/context/
Will Truth Again Be First Casualty?
* http://www.public-i.org/story\_01\_092001.htm
Annotated Bibliography of Nonviolent Action Training
* http://www.igc.apc.org/nonviolence/biblio.htm
Write to Congress and State Legislators
CSICOP Tracks Misinformation and Hoaxes in the Wake of the Terrorist Attacks (CSICOP are fundamentalists in their own way, but this page looks sound)
* http://www.csicop.org/hoaxwatch/
the Washington Times again fabricates claims of "liberal bias" in the media
* http://www.dailyhowler.com/h092201\_1.shtml
The September 11th Source Books, Volume I: Terrorism and U.S. Policy
* http://www.nsarchive.org/NSAEBB/sept11/
Protecting the Homeland: The Best Defense is to Give No Offense (1998)
* http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-306es.html
Terrorism: Theirs and Ours (October 1998)
* http://www.sangam.org/ANALYSIS/Ahmad.htm
Science, Technology and the CIA
* http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/
article about the coroner in the county where flight 93 crashed
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/national/22LIVE.html
In Search of the Missing in America
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci\_tech/highlights/010921\_messages.shtml
Burst of Inspiration Proves Fruitless in Search for Corpses
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075811sep21.story
Web Communities Respond to 9-11 (extensive links)
* http://www.fullcirc.com/community/911response.htm
Sympathy from Relatives of Argentina's "Disappeared"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/international/americas/22ARGE.html?pagewanted=print
On Campus, Rumblings of Peace (but with outdated tactics and imprecise rhetoric)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075791sep21.story
Action Campaign: Justice, not Terror
* http://www.moveon.org/justice/
Dow Falls Again in Worst Week Since 1933
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3077-2001Sep21.html
the largest banks and institutions were behind this week's stock sell-off (and people who took the universal advice to stay in got hosed)
Alaska Refuge Drilling May Ride on Military Funding Bill (apparently the temptation to pile other agendas onto the war is overwhelming)
* http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2001/2001L-09-20-04.html
Bush Advisers Split on Scope of Retaliation
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/international/20POLI.html
Secret Plans for 10-Year War
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001320010-2001325231,00.html
Debate Over Targets Highlights Difficulty of War on Terrorism
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A433-2001Sep20.html
Bold Move Could Be Quite Challenging
* http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010920/3646685s.htm
US Army Says Ready for Land Combat (but then Rumsfeld, decrying all precedents, refuses even to call it "combat")
* http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Military.html
Taliban Tries to Sell a Lemon, US Won't Buy
* http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010921/top1.html
US "Planned Attack on Taleban"
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1550000/1550366.stm
Weekend Alert as FBI Warns of New Attack
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001320010-2001324997,00.html
Analysis: Catching Bin Laden
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid\_1550000/1550962.stm
Officials Told of "Major Assault" Plans
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075563sep20.story
British Forces in Action "Within Days"
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=95249
Osama Has Already Left Afghanistan (Pakistan newspaper)
* http://www.jang-group.com/thenews/sep2001-daily/21-09-2001/main/main2.htm
article on Muslim militancy in Southeast Asia
* http://www.feer.com/2001/0109\_27/p020region.html
US Promises Indonesia Millions in Aid After Key Talks
* http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20010920185509&irec=1
list of organizations allegedly allied with Osama bin Laden, by country
* http://www.forbes.com/2001/09/14/0914osamaallies.html
Militant Islam Unsettles Indonesia and Its Region
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/international/asia/21REGI.html
Tajiks, Uzbeks Deny Deal for Airbases
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A475-2001Sep20.html
Unfolding Catastrophe for Afghan Refugees
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1152-2001Sep20.html
UN Bolsters Afghan Refugee Aid
* http://asia.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/19/ret.afghan.refugees/
UN's Top Refugee Official Urges Afghanistan's Neighbours to Keep Borders Open
* http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/page2.html#20
Malaysia's Move to Curb Militants Now Seen as Prescient
* http://www.nstpi.com.my/Current\_News/NST/Sunday/NewsBreak/20010916174439/Article/
Dangers Loom in the New Conflict
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075556sep20.story
Taliban Will Unravel if Key Players Gone, Experts Say
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075552sep20.story
"Infinite Justice" May Not Stand, Pentagon (now they're going to call it Operation Holy War)
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010920/ts/attack\_name\_dc\_2.html
Bin Laden's Money Takes Hidden Paths to Agents of Terror
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A642-2001Sep20.html
Following the Money Trail
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid\_1553000/1553153.stm
Money Trail a Long and Winding Road
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075578sep20.story
Apparent Role of Saudis Draws Scrutiny to Kingdom's Tensions
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1161-2001Sep20.html
Texas Muslims Draw FBI Scrutiny
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075562sep20.story
Terrorists Leave Paperless Trail
* http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46991,00.html
Mossad Warned CIA of Attacks: Report
* http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/09/17/News/News.34954.html
Hijackers Exploited DMV Loophole
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1156-2001Sep20.html
A Saddam Connection?
* http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/21/iraq/print.html
"Suicide Hijacker" Is an Airline Pilot Alive and Well in Jeddah
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle\_east/story.jsp?story=94438
Some Hijackers' Identities Unclear
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/628563.asp
Saudis and Indians Cast Doubts on Identities of Accused
* http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/20WIRE-SUSPECTS.html
Takeoff Delay May Have Been Vital for Flight 93
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075560sep20.story
Aboard Flight 11, a Chilling Voice
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075553sep20.story
"Watch List" Didn't Get to Airline
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075548sep20.story
Musharrafspeak: The General's Rabble-Rousing Is Best Ignored
* http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010921/ed1.html
Fatwa Question Details
* http://www.islamonline.net/fatwaapplication/english/display.asp?hFatwaID=49756
Terrorism Can Be Fought Only Politically
* http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010921/ed4.html
True Patriotism Is the Opposite of Jingoism
* http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article\_id=10566
Why a Crusade Will Lead to a Jihad
* http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=94583
summaries of newspaper reactions to US foreign policy from around the world
* http://usinfo.state.gov/admin/005/wwwhmenu.html
Dave Letterman's 9/17 monologue on resuming his show after the attack
* http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/dave\_tv/ls\_dtv\_monologues.shtml
It's the US Foreign Policy, Stupid
Outlaws of the World Outside the Law's Reach
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/21/opinion/opinion4.html
Victory May Prove as Elusive as Justice for an Angry US
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/21/opinion/opinion5.html
Fighting Terrorism
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/21/html/editorial.html
First, Define the Battlefield (you can't fight terror by becoming a terrorist)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/opinion/21WALZ.html
World Press Review - Terrorist Attacks on United States
* http://www.worldpress.org/specials/wtc/front.htm
The Empathy Gap
* http://www.tmsfeatures.com/TMSFeatures/fs\_feature3/1,1303,20010919ts--s-a,00.html
Louis Farrakhan's Press Conference: "Attack on America"
* http://noi.org/press-events/transcript\_us.attacked09-16-2001.htm
The Electronic Intifada ("countering myth, distortion, and spin from the Israeli media war machine")
* http://www.electronicintifada.org/new.html
Freedom Flees in Terror from September 11 Disaster
* http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14924
The Free Market Tide Has Turned
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,554867,00.html
Don't Let CIA Loose Again
* http://www.denverpost.com/news/carman.htm/
Courage, Cowardice, And Terrorism: Choosing Our Goal Carefully
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20010918.html
Terrorism, Liberty, and Community: We Need a Stronger Focus On the Common Good (communitarians have some good ideas but they're going off the deep end)
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20010918\_idleman.html
Not War, Crimes
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20010919\_spiro.html
"to fight will be hard, but not to fight would be worse"
* http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=788398
Revenge, Retaliation and Collective Guilt
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/mariner/20010917.html
comment advocating support for the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000075484sep20.story
Why the Spooks Screwed Up (they \always\ screw up because they care about operations not intelligence)
* http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/nintelligence.html
Andrew Sullivan's "Fifth Column" Rhetoric (demented accusations that opponents of the war are traitors)
* http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001\_09\_16\_archive.html#5801755
Grieving Voice Pleads for Peace
* http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-09-18/News\_and\_Views/City\_Beat/a-125616.asp
Groups Fault Plan to Listen, Search, and Seize
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/national/21CIVI.html * http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010920.atc.17.ram
Caution Is Urged on Terrorism Legislation
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1156-2001Sep20.html
Concern Over Proposed Changes in Internet Surveillance
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/technology/21CYBERLAW.html
Databases May Be Used to Screen Air Travelers
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075576sep20.story
The Press' Newsgathering Privilege Must Be Respected
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20010920\_hentoff.html
The Civil Liberties We Need to Keep, and Those We Can Afford to Lose
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20010920.htm
Sunset Provision Can Put a Halt to Twilight of Liberty (sunset provisions are a good step, but don't fix flawed proposals)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000075483sep20.story
EU Tighten Anti-Terrorist Laws (does anyone have analysis from European civil liberties organizations?)
* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/20/urest.xml
University of Texas president denounces a professor for his war dissent
* http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~fugue/nowar/jensen-houchron.txt
Hackers Strike Middle Eastern Sites
* http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/09/19/hack-attack-launched.htm
Holes in US Airport Security
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid\_1554000/1554241.stm * http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010920.atc.07.ram
Arduous Airport Searches Welcomed by TIA Travelers
* http://www.sptimes.com/News/092001/TampaBay/Arduous\_airport\_searc.shtml
Warplanes Tail Commercial Jet After Pilots Lose Radio Contact
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0109190249sep19.story
Many Travelers on Airlines Appeal for Tighter Security (but still the airlines resist)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/national/21AIRP.html
Change Ahead for Troubled Boston Airport Agency
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/national/21MASS.html?pagewanted=print
Metro Moves to Improve Bus, Rail Security
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A219-2001Sep20.html
US Seeking Greater Role in Airport Security
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A710-2001Sep20.html
Airlines Fought Security Changes
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/263/nation/Airlines\_fought\_security\_changes+.shtml
President Calls on Congress to Pass Airport Security Bill
* http://www-tech.mit.edu/V116/N40/airport.40w.html
Terror Up Close Gave Air Safety a Lift in Britain (American air safety is definitely a joke compared to British)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/international/europe/20MANC.html
Flight Security Still All but Overlooks Workers
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075559sep20.story
A Weapon Unfathomed: Jet Fuel
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075557sep20.story
'rethinking skycraper design and building evacuation procedures"
* http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/usterror/usterror.jsp?id=ns99991319
proposed technical fixes to prevent hijacking of aircraft (all of which invite their own unintended consequences)
* http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/usterror/usterror.jsp?id=ns99991322
Financial Firms Are Scattering Operations
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/business/21WALL.html
child shoots himself with a gun his father bought to protect against terrorists ("the gun was hanging on a window curtain rod above the child's bed")
* http://www.wtop.com/news/news-story.jhtml?NewsId=193102
Delta pilot orders a Pakistani passenger off the plane for no reason
* http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=987&xlc=307544&xld=987 * http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010920.atc.19.ram
Afghan Kebab House Disappears From New York
* http://www.nstpi.com.my/Current\_News/NST/Thursday/Frontpage/20010920153632/Article/
repulsive Congressman's non-apology for disparaging Arab-Americans
* http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-attacks-congressman0920sep20.story
A Priestly Collar, a Mosque, a Friendship
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000075482sep20.story
Turbans Make Sikhs Innocent Targets
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075577sep20.story
Suspicion and Silence Jolt Self-Image of the Tolerant (Muslims aren't any more likely to be criminals than any other group)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075574sep20.story
Feeling Like the Enemy Within
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075549sep20.story
Terrorist Acts Illustrate Severe Weaknesses in Aviation Security
* http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-01-1166t
Terrorist Acts Demand Urgent Need to Improve Security at the Nation's Airports
* http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-01-1162t
Commercial Aviation: A Framework for Considering Financial Assistance
* http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-01-1163t
Combating Terrorism: Selected Challenges and Related Recommendations
* http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-01-822
International Terrorism (from MI5 in UK)
* http://www.mi5.gov.uk/threats2.htm
Canadian Security Intelligence Service: Biological Weapons Proliferation
* http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/eng/miscdocs/200005\_e.html
Chronological History of Biological Warfare and Terrorism
* http://www.bioterry.com/History\_of\_Biological\_Terrorism.asp
Analysts Rethink Image of Suicide Bombers
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075573sep20.story
War, Peace and Security Guide, from Canadian Forces College
* http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/
Homeland Defense: Defending America in the 21st Century ("homeland defense" is a very unfortunate phrase; recall "heimatschutz")
* http://www.csis.org/homeland/
The Trial of German Major War Criminals (explaining the original use of "heimatschutz")
* http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-01/tgmwc-01-07-05.shtml
Bull's-Eye Say Egyptians as They Celebrate Anti-US Attacks ("story was censored from this week's edition")
* http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/eg/bulls\_eye\_say.htm
CU Veterinarian Aids Rescue Dogs at Site of World Trade Center
* http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicles/9.20.01/WTC\_dogs.html
Students, Faculty Hold Teach-In to Try to Understand Roots of Terrorism
* http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicles/9.20.01/teach-in.html
a particularly good global photo collection of attack memorials
* http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tchemp/temp/thankyou.html
New York at Risk of Flooding
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid\_1553000/1553074.stm
What's Lurking in That Smoke? (conflicting reports in the media about dangers from the smoke)
* http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2001/nf20010920\_2238.htm
An Unimaginable Emergency Put Communications to the Test
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/technology/circuits/20INFR.html
Billions Will Be Spent on Replacing Technology (with technology that is utterly and egregiously insecure)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/nyregion/20COMP.html
US Weighs $180-Billion Economic Rescue Package
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075550sep20.story
A Law Professor Discusses His Difficult Return to the Classroom
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20010917\_wolff.html
national support group for surviving family members of fire fighters
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010920.atc.20.ram
World in Crisis, Media in Conflict
* http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/conflict/
New York Public Library: Dealing With Disaster
* http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib115.html
resources relating to the terrorist attacks
* http://sonewmedia.com/resources/war2001/
Resources for Dealing with Tragedy
* http://www.ala.org/alsc/dealing\_with\_tragedy.html
Resources for Teachers on the September 11th Tragedy and the Response
* http://www.teachingforchange.org/Sept11.htm
another world newspaper site, now in a free trial period
* http://test.newspaperdirect.com/servlets/catalog/member
fact sheet about oil and oil pipelines in Afghanistan (December 2000)
* http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/afghan.html
Blundering Into Afghanistan
* http://slate.msn.com/HistoryLesson/01-09-19/HistoryLesson.asp
Middle East Research and Information Project
Revisiting the Twelve Myths of Central Asia
* http://www.ceip.org/files/pdf/Olcott.pdf
"the leading authority on money laundering"
* http://www.moneylaundering.com/
Saudi bin Ladin Group (this is the bin Ladin family's company, not Osama's)
* http://www.saudi-binladin-group.com/
New Book on NSA Sheds Light on Secrets (April 2001)
* http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-te.md.nsa24apr24.story
To Some Pakistanis, Bin Laden "Like a God" but Moderates See Future in West
* http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010920/3646686s.htm
The Myth of Surgical Bombing in the Gulf War
* http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-myth.htm
The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on "The Highway of Death"
* http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-death.htm
How the US deliberately destroyed Iraq's water
* http://www.progressive.org/0801issue/nagy0901.html
Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities
* http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/declassdocs/dia/19950901/950901\_511rept\_91.html
Iraq: A decade of sanctions
* http://www.icrc.org/Icrceng.nsf/Index/040171E49481B741412568A20030CA99
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
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
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
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 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)
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
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)
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
World Leaders List Conditions on Cooperation (we're quietly moving back to the status quo ante: the US versus world opinion)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/international/19DIPL.html
Lawmakers Resist a Rush to Vengeance (that's why they voted an overnight blank check for military action)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075208sep19.story
Graphic of US Firepower in the Region of Afghanistan (the only problem is there's nothing to shoot at)
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/20/graphics/afghanwar.gif
Young Men Contemplate Going to War
* http://www.usatoday.com/life/2001-09-19-men-contemplate.htm
Defense Experts Worldwide Offer Advice
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075206sep19.story
Anti-Taleban Faction Sides With Bin Laden (a reminder that bin Laden unfortunately has a wide following)
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1551000/1551297.stm
Second Open Letter From Saddam Hussein
* http://www.uruklink.net/iraqnews/enews12.htm
UN Official: Opium Cuts May Hit Afghan Capability
* http://www.reuters.com/news\_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=230834
graphic showing refugee points of exit in Afghanistan
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/19/graphics/19exodus.gif
Saudis Cast Doubt Over FBI List of Hijackers
* http://www.reuters.com/news\_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=230814
Paramilitary Army Seeks Political Role in Colombia (will we put them in the "freedom fighter" box or the "terrorist" box?)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52731-2001Sep18.html
Tense Tajikistan Braces for Instability (every country in this mess has its own complex history and dynamics)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53287-2001Sep18.html
Bush Meeting With Indonesian to Focus on Islamic Militancy (but the ultraviolence of Indonesian military and militias is \not\ terrorism)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/international/asia/19INDO.html
Cyber-Spy With Caution (let's not restrict civil liberties as a symbolic response)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000075179sep19.story
The Terrorists Are Winning the Cyber War (everyone, good and bad, is winning from new technologies -- that's reality)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075202sep19.story
Exploring Technology to Protect Passengers With Fingerprint or Retina Scans (main focus is on face recognition, despite no evidence that it would help)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/nyregion/19TECH.html
US Widens Power to Detain Immigrants in Emergencies (but the constitution wisely gives rights to everyone, not just to citizens)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/18/national/18CND-CIVIL.html
Government Moving Quickly to Find More Secure Cockpit Doors (but air travel is an inherently low-profit carriage industry, so they resist)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075214sep19.story
spend money now on rebuilding New York, not later on a capital gains tax cut
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/opinion/19KRUG.html
radio interview with religious leaders on forgiveness (religious leaders should speak explicitly against those who worship vengeance)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20010919.me.12.ram
Spare the Afghans by Seeking Justice, Not Revenge
* http://www.iht.com/articles/32906.html
libertarian comment
* http://www.reason.com/terror.html
comment from Liberia
* http://theperspective.org/index.html
far-left editorial describing Marxist opposition to terrorism as a tactic (terrorism was a tremendous topic of debate in late 19C-early 20C Russia)
* http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/1766/sw176614.htm
jargon watch: they hate us because they envy us (conservatives say this to all protests, moral or not, against abuse of power)
* http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-nws-novak19.html
yes, maybe God was smiting evil America, but how heartless to say it now (this is the voice of moderate conservatism)
* http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-dreher091601.shtml
pacifist resources
* http://www.yesmagazine.org/19technology/setp11.htm
argument against turning planned S29 anti-globalization march into peace march
* http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article\_id=10438
American Friends Service Committee
Mark Twain's "The War Prayer"
* http://members.aol.com/rasphila/war\_prayer.pdf
Tough Task Getting NYC Television Stations Back on Air
* http://www.nypost.com/seven/09172001/entertainment/4232.htm
News Outlets Reduce the Use of First, Searing Crash Images (I haven't watched one minute of TV during all this; I can only imagine)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075221sep19.story
NewsLib research queries following World Trade Center Attack
* http://www.ibiblio.org/journalism/NWSworldtradecenter.html
sites that gather largely US news sources on Afghanistan and Pakistan
* http://www.afghannews.net/ * http://pakistannews.net/
current coverage from the Canadian Press wire service, similar to Reuters
* http://www.cp.org/premium/ONLINE/member/elxn\_en/pTerror.html
another extensive directory of newspapers on the net
* http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV: The Power of Free Speech (an article about Al-Jazeera, the CNN of the Arabic world, from June 2000)
* http://www.meib.org/articles/0006\_me2.htm * http://www.aljazeera.net/
Investigators Believe Second Wave of Attacks Planned
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/19/world/world104.html
Bin Laden's Vast Financial Network (by all means increase global banking transparency; just protect due process)
* http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2001/09/18/bin\_laden/
Who Did It? Foreign Report Presents an Alternative View
* http://www.janes.com/security/international\_security/news/fr/fr010919\_1\_n.shtml
Terrorists' Online Methods Elusive
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52687-2001Sep18.html
The CIA's Failure of Imagination
* http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3KHYVBMRC&live=true
Collection of DNA Samples From Relatives of Those Missing Due to WTC Attacks
* http://www.nyc.gov/html/em/dnapr.html
More Than 50 Countries Lost Citizens in Trade Center Towers (immigrants make our country interesting and strong; we're proud to have them)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52821-2001Sep18.html
Afghan-Americans condemn the attacks but oppose destructive retaliation (decent Americans welcome Afghan immigrants, few of whom support the psychos)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000075145sep19.story
Arab American Youths Endure Taunts at Schools (throughout, Arab Americans have been models of forgiveness -- real Americans)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000075156sep19.story
hate wackos are so stupid they kill people who aren't even the ones they hate
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000075151sep19.story * http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/national/19HATE.html
radio report on the rescue crews working underneath the World Trade Center site (awful as it is, we need more pictures from beneath the pile)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010918.atc.04.ram
detailed graphic on the failure of Washington's emergency response
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/graphics/attack/images/was\_wash\_prepared.gif
The Government, Once Scorned, Becomes Savior (government is the problem, except when it isn't)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000075207sep19.column
A Homegrown Memorial Brings Strangers Together (why aren't the conservatives sneering at these "victims" to "get over it"?)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/arts/19SQUA.html
Attacks Shift Balance of Power, Alliances Among Interest Groups (politics doesn't stop during war; it just hides behind patriotism)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52871-2001Sep18.html
Behind the Show of Bipartisanship: Muted Dissent (real patriots have the guts, and the right, to speak against bad policies)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41232-2001Sep16.html
Former CIA Director Richard Helms' Afghani Niece Leads Corps of Taliban Reps
* http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0124/ridgeway.php
Overview of the Foreign Assets Control Regulations Relating to Iran
* http://www.treas.gov/ofac/t11iran.pdf
Summary of Sanctions Against the Taliban
* http://www.ustreas.gov/ofac/t11tali.pdf
Summary of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Trade Control Regulations
* http://www.ustreas.gov/ofac/t11wmd.pdf
Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons
* http://www.ustreas.gov/ofac/t11sdn.pdf * http://www.ustreas.gov/ofac/t11sdnew.pdf
When Evil Itself Becomes the Primary Foe ("eliminating evil" is a dangerous formula for a permanent, total, futile war)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000074971sep18.story
"New War" to Be Fought With Unprecedented Secrecy (secrecy is sometimes necessary, but it also corrodes democracy)
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/17/ret.us.secret.war/
Analysts: Bin Laden Seeks Islamic Uprising (and going around bombing is exactly what bin Laden wants Bush to do)
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0109180322sep18.story
the logistical problems of attacking Afghanistan
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1548000/1548842.stm
Afghan Taliban Sees Holy War Against US
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack\_afghan\_holywar\_dc\_4.html
Clerics Put Off Meet on Osama
* http://www.hinduonnet.com/stories/01190001.htm
Pak Mufti Talks Jihad Ahead of US Strike
White House Apologizes for Using "Crusade" to Describe War on Terrorism
* http://www.masslive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory\_ssf.cgi?a0720\_BC\_Attacks-Crusade&&news&newsflash-washington http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?db=\&term=crusade
India Identifies Air Bases for US
* http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art\_id=1325922827
Mubarak Calls for Counterterrorism Treaty
* http://washingtontimes.com/world/20010917-97599642.htm
China Demands US Attack Evidence
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid\_1550000/1550495.stm
"how far can the United States push Pakistan before it cracks up?"
* http://slate.msn.com/pol/01-09-17/pol.asp
Pakistan's Nuclear Wild Card
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000074988sep18.story
Nuclear Installations Are Safe, Says Dr. Qadeer
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=18&date1=9/18/2001
US Embassy, Interests in France Targeted by Terrorists: Officials
* http://www.ttc.org/pa10918a.htm
EU Calls Emergency Summit on Terrorism
* http://www.ttc.org/da10918a.htm
Soviet Union's Afghan Lessons
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/18/ret.russia.afghanwar/
Iraqi Terror Connection? (is this disinformation or not? in a secret total war we can never know)
* http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,311414-412,00.shtml
Fleeing Afghans Go From Frying Pan to Fire
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/wl/attack\_afghan\_camps\_dc\_1.html
UN Refugee Commission Readies for Afghan Crisis
* http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2001/2001L-09-17-01.html
Terrorist Cell Networks: Mapping the Invisible Enemy
* http://www.orgnet.com/tnet.html
before-and-after aerial photos (watch out: the "after" photo is gigantic)
* http://www.planetizen.com/oped/files/20010917fullmanhattanbefore.jpg * http://a573.g.akamai.net/7/573/5036/v002/www.spaceimaging.com/ikonos/wtc0915\_2.jpg
World Trade Centre: Some Engineering Aspects
* http://www.civil.usyd.edu.au/wtc.htm#general
Trade Center Towers' Design Not at Fault in Collapse
* http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/ncl\_docs/134452.htm
The Pentagon's Weak Defenses
* http://www.cincypost.com/2001/sep/13/pent091301.html
Building Giants Ponder Reconstruction
* http://www.theage.com.au/business/2001/09/14/FFXLYRTFJRC.html
Powerful Symbols of America's Power Now Reflect Its Weaknesses
* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/13/MN216641.DTL
Building Debate: Should Twin Towers Go Up Again?
* http://www.dallasnews.com/national/472263\_nycarchitect\_1.html
We Cannot Allow Fear to Dictate Commercial Architecture
* http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep01/goulcol17091601a.asp
The End of Tall Buildings
* http://www.planetizen.com/oped/item.php?id=30
Rebuild or Not: Architects Respond
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/magazine/23REBUILD.html
The Disaster and Its Urban Consequences
* http://www.hughpearman.com/articles2/wtc.html
Good Guys and Bad Guys: Mr. Bush's Map of the World Is Redrawn
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,553601,00.html
Crusader Bush Blunders Into His Own Holy War
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/19/world/world9.html
Bush Is Walking Into a Trap
* http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0916-06.htm
comments on terrorism and revenge from Nepal
* http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishdaily/ktmpost/2001/sep/sep18/editorial.htm
No Sympathy From China's Cyber Elite
* http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2001/nf20010917\_8982.htm
Terrorist Attack on US: Turning-Point in Post-Cold War Pattern (Chinese government publication)
* http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200109/14/eng20010914\_80248.html
audio of Canadian radio interview program about the attacks on Thursday
* http://radio.cbc.ca/insite/AS\_IT\_HAPPENS\_TORONTO/2001/9/14.html
Questions: Seeking Uncommon Ground
* http://www.uia.org/musings/uncommon.htm
Khobar Towers: A Case of Futility
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZPX58TQRC
Media March to War
* http://www.fair.org/press-releases/wtc-war-punditry.html
This New War Requires a Break With the Past
* http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpgit182370261sep18.story
The Need for Dissent
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,553744,00.html
No Blank Check on Economic Policy (deficits are back: liberals and conservatives are greatly relieved)
* http://www.americanprospect.com/webfeatures/2001/09/kuttner-r-09-18.html
The Bigger They Come the Harder They Fall
* http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0915-13.htm
WWII Pilot Urges Caution in Response to Terrorists
* http://www.citizen-times.com/news/16690241.shtml
a Lebanese-American's thoughts on citizenship and the war
* http://www.farha.com/american.html
Did We Handcuff the CIA? (No)
* http://slate.msn.com/pol/01-09-18/pol.asp
A Tinderbox in Palestine
* http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2523/seitz2523.html
Violence Breeds More Violence (bin Laden wants Bush to provoke a global intifada -- will Bush go along?)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000074774sep17.story
disturbing rhetoric at National Review Online
* http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001\_09\_16\_archive.html#5755134
more craziness about guns on planes (the first one sees and raises by advocating racial profiling as well)
* http://www.theweeklystandard.com/magazine/mag\_7\_2\_01/dealey\_art\_7\_2\_01.asp * http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj\_home/2001/Sep-16-Sun-2001/opinion/17003646.html * http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel091401.shtml
jargon: "the West must stop apologizing for the greatness of our civilization" (this statement is so aggressively twisted, it causes me real concern)
* http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001154
still the Bush hagiographers can do no better than "exceeds expectations" (even as he proves himself to be a vulgar jerk)
* http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/9/16/125727
incredibly bizarre conservative attack on "Satanic" America (isn't this what "anti-American" is supposed to mean)
* http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE\_ID=24458
long background piece on the Taliban ("even Taliban officials are said to be fleeing the capital")
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=786722
biography of Osama bin Laden
* http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/wosama.html
the strange story of Osama bin Laden's involvement in the gum arabic trade (I have no idea)
* http://www.tdo.com/local/graphics/laden/html/2c.htm * http://www.house.gov/wolf/2000907gumarabic.htm * http://www.gumarab.com/body.htm * http://www.plthomas.com/
Uzbekistan News (an "Islamic Uzbekistan" site; no items on this page after March 2001)
* http://www.ummah.com/uzbekistan/news.html
Aiding the Investigators: What the RFPA Allows You To Do (how financial privacy laws affect banks helping police investigations)
* http://www.privacyheadquarters.com/priv\_basics/aidinv.html
On Edge: Afghanistan's Neighbours (Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Isbekistan, and Turkmenistan)
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1548000/1548452.stm
photo essays on Afghani refugees
* http://www.iranian.com/Arts/2001/September/Afghan/ * http://www.iranian.com/Arts/2000/June/Afghan/
About the Ismaili Imamat and the Origin of Shiism
* http://www.akdn.org/imamat/imamat.html
more background links on Afghanistan and the Taliban
* http://www.windweaver.com/politics/terrorism.htm
lots of maps
* http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/browse.html * http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/browsepages/atlases.html * http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm * http://www.grida.no/db/maps/prod/level0/
Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf (1991)
* http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML\_docs/Texts/Scholarly/Lakoff\_Gulf\_Metaphor\_1.html
Senate amendment, passed Thursday, to expand wiretapping
* http://www.cdt.org/security/091101response.shtml/
New York Legislature Approves Sweeping Anti-Terrorism Package
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZGDPEYQRC
Disposable Phones: A Security Risk?
* http://news.excite.com/news/zd/010917/20/disposable-phones-a-security
Who's Protecting Our Infrastructure? (better question: who's making them design it right in the first place?)
* http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2001/nf20010918\_8931.htm
Gore Commission Demanded Airline Security, Airlines and Conservatives Said No
* http://democrats.com/view.cfm?id=4532
New Security Rules Leave Workers Idle
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000074975sep18.story
Potential Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
* http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2001/01-021.htm * http://www.dshield.org/
Making Planes Safer by Making Fuels Safer
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/18/science/18BOMB.html
Anti-War Songs Banned by Commercial Radio Giant (somehow they missed "Working for the Clampdown" and "Maggie's Farm")
* http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article\_id=6934&group=webcast
Band's Web Site Bulletin Board Is Pulled
* http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-091501band.story
Pop Culture Takes a Serious Reality Check (this page also has pointers to photo essays and other materials)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000074965sep18.story
Anti-Muslim Violence Up, Officials Say
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000074972sep18.story
How Americans Used the Internet After the Terror Attack
* http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=45
Canadian news magazine special issue on the attack
* http://www.macleans.ca/default.asp
Institute for War and Peace Reporting (covers Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans in some depth)
Iranian-American magazine and online community
* http://www.iranian.com/today.html
News Navigator (directory of world newspapers etc)
* http://www.transnational.org/new/TNN.html
Search the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
* http://www.gpo.gov/nara/pubpaps/srchpaps.html
Sudan Globe
fairly reasoned petition against military retaliation for the attack
* http://home.uchicago.edu/~dhpicker/petition
teachers who took care of the children affected by the New York attack
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/18/opinion/18TUE3.html
"schools respond with lessons in working together and trying to understand"
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0918/p15s1-lekt.html
National Association of School Psychologists: Coping with a National Tragedy
* http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/crisis\_0911.html
Reflections on Humanity and Media after Tragedy
* http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/
Disaster Response Information Portal
* http://www.sla.org/content/Help/webcomms/sept11help/disip/index.cfm
Disaster Relief for Taxpayers Affected by the September 11th Terrorist Attack
* http://www.irs.gov/news/n-01-61.pdf
Giuliani Earning Praise for His Displays of Compassion
* http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010918/3639129s.htm
Red Cross National Headquarters Statement on Internet Fraud
* http://www.redcross.org/press/mediarel/me\_pr/010913fraud.html
Rep. Doggett Balks at Airline Bailout Plan (whatever happened to personal responsibility?)
* http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/today/news\_24.html
FBI Issues Call for Translators to Assist Probe (this tells you how clueless the US has been about the rest of the world)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000074980sep18.story
Congress Struggles to Stay Under Umbrella of Unity (look, democracy doesn't exist without an opposition, even in wartime)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000074967sep18.story
FAA Office of Civil Aviation Security: Criminal Acts Against Civil Aviation
* http://cas.faa.gov/crimacts/
The Global Portal for Airports
* http://www.airporthub.com/home/default.asp
American Association of Airport Executives (motto: "boy, did we screw up")
US Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General
Troops Mass on Afghan Border (Sydney Morning Herald has had the world's best coverage, that I've seen)
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/18/world/world1.html
Situation at Pak, Afghan Border Tense: Taliban Move Heavy Artillery to Torkham
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=4&date1=9/17/2001
Iranian Team Arrives in Panjshir to Review Situation with Northern Alliance
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=5&date1=9/17/2001
Did Bin Laden Kill Afghan Rebel?
* http://www.iht.com/articles/32722.htm
13,000 Army Protects Osama
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=13&date1=9/17/2001
Afghanistan: A Nightmare Battlefield
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41121-2001Sep16.html
Press Conference With Taliban Spokesman Wakil Ahmed Mutawakel
* http://kavkaz.org/english/news/2001/09/17/news3.htm
The World Isolates the Taliban
* http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/06/04taliban
The Murky Deals That Fuelled International Terrorism
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,551971,00.html
Afghanistan: The Massacre in Mazar-I Sharif (November 1998)
* http://www.hrw.org/reports98/afghan/
World's Indifference to the Afghan Tragedy (June 2001)
* http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2001/June/Afghan/
Fielding's Most Dangerous Places (e.g., Afghanistan)
* http://www.comebackalive.com/df/dplaces.htm
brief outline of Afghan history (despite what you may have heard, Afghanistan \has\ been conquered)
* http://ebooks.whsmithonline.co.uk/encyclopedia/01/c0000001.htm
Azadi Afghan Radio
Afghanistan Maps
* http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/afghanistan.html
Afghanistan News and Media
* http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/Afghanistan/News\_and\_Media/
Anti-Terror Push Stirs Fears for Liberties
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46828-2001Sep17.html
Ashcroft Wants Quick Action on Broader Wiretapping Plan
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/18/national/18CONG.html
Technology Will Play Bigger Role in Security
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/18/national/18RULE.html
Preserve Your Rights Online - Act Now
* http://slashdot.org/yro/01/09/16/1647231.shtml
Investigators Explore Boundaries of Everything the Law Allows
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/national/17CIVI.html
New Powers Sought for Surveillance
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41055-2001Sep16.html
Lawmakers Hear Ashcroft Outline Antiterror Plans
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/national/17CONG.html
Terrorist Threat Shifts Priorities in Online Rights Debate
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-7149229-0.html
Alleged Hijackers May Have Trained at US Bases (by all means let's get rid of those terrorist training bases)
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/629529.asp
Four People Flown to New York for Questioning in Connection With Attacks
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/national/17PLOT.html?pagewanted=all
Diary of the Terrorists
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/18/world/world14.html
Hijackers May Have Accessed Computers at Public Libraries
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41034-2001Sep16.html
Dozens of Arabs, Muslims Buried under New York Rubble
* http://www.middleeastwire.com/newswire/stories/20010914\_4\_meno.shtml
scams, hoaxes, conspiracy theories, etc about the attack
* http://www.dangerousideas.net/infowatch.asp
Where Once the Towers Stood (very impressive satellite image)
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid\_1548000/1548493.stm
animated "virtual flyover" of the World Trade Center site (may crash Netscape)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/nation/worldtradeanimation.htm
"Bush aims to uproot perceived terrorist networks spanning 60 countries"
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid\_1547000/1547561.stm
Special Forces Poised for Action
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,553040,00.html
"the essence of this first war of the century is it's not against a nation"
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41015-2001Sep16.html
Rumsfeld: War on Terrorism to Require Unconventional Methods
* http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/09/16/rumsdfeld/
US Calculates a War With Little Room for Error
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0918/p1s2-wogi.html
On the Streets, A Jittery Nation Is in War Mode
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/18/national/18REAC.html
about the "national emergency" that Bush has declared
* http://monkeyfist.com/articles/781
Police Guard Lone Dissenter in Congress on Use of Force (may not work on Internet Explorer)
* http://www.reuters.com/news\_article.jhtml?type=politicsnews&StoryID=226333
Europe Cautious Over US Response
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid\_1548000/1548441.stm
Official Declaration of the EU (pdf)
* http://ue.eu.int/Newsroom/LoadDoc.cfm?MAX=1&DOC=!!!&BID=102&DID=67761&GRP=3753&LANG=1
America's New War Against Terrorism
* http://www.forumsondemand.com/brookings/terrorism/20010914/amterrorism.ram * http://www.brookings.edu/comm/events/20010914.htm
SAS Geared Up for Attack on Bin Laden
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001322341,00.html
British parliament debate on the attacks
* http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/cm010914/debindx/10914-x.htm
Arab Envoys Contemplate Broad Realignment
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47131-2001Sep17.html
Tajikistan Won't Allow US to Launch Attacks From Its Territory
* http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/80232p-1118811c.html
War Against Terror Tests Fragile Saudi Relations With US
* http://nytimes.com/2001/09/15/international/middleeast/15SAUD.html?pagewanted=print
Prince Abdullah May Arrive in Pakistan Shortly
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/PrintPage.asp?id=3&date1=9/17/2001&news2=outer1
Army Backs Musharraf's Promise to World Comity
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=1&date1=9/15/2001
"Get Us Bin Laden" Order from Bush Could Spark Pakistani Army Mutiny
* http://www.counterpunch.org/tariqpakistani.html
Uzbeks Eager to Join US Alliance
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41263-2001Sep16.html
It's Really War Against the Islamic Axis (calls for US invasions of several countries)
* http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-09-17/News\_and\_Views/Beyond\_the\_City/a-125519.asp
Is Rational Discourse Another Casualty of Tuesday's Attacks?
* http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20010917.html
Editorial on Jerry Falwell's Comments
* http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/20010917edfal17p3.asp
Rev. Falwell Apologizes for Remarks
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010917/us/attacks\_falwell\_apology\_1.html
Ban the Word "Crusade"
* http://63.208.24.134/terrorism/roy9.htm
Toward the Brink
* http://consortiumnews.com/2001/091701a.html
Americans Don't Understand That Their Heritage Is Itself a Threat
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/magazine/23TERROR.2.html
an excellent example of selectively labeling one's opponents as terrorists
* http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/news/article.html?in\_article\_id=72654∈\_page\_id=1264
One Step Nearer a Middle East Bloodbath
Al-Azhar's Grand Imam (in Cairo) Condemns Killing of Civilians
* http://www.islam-online.net/english/news/2001-09/15/article2.shtml
"the US must convince the Islamic world that bin Laden is a dangerous fugitive"
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/13/justice/
fairly interesting if rambling leftist commentary
extensive survey of US conservative opinion on the attacks
* http://instapundit.blogspot.com/
As US Priorities Change, So Does Its Leader
* http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishdaily/ktmpost/2001/sep/sep17/index.htm#4
Don't Rebuild the Twin Towers
* http://www.counterpunch.org/dontrebuild.html
The Perils of Solidarity
* http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9571/1.html
Globalvision News Network: Global Views
* http://208.251.133.165/html/USUnderAttack/index.html
Arab Media Send Out Dual Message on US
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41009-2001Sep16.html
"no peace until we convince Israel to make peace with the Palestinians"
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/17/israel/print.html
Chemical and Biological Terrorism
* http://www.stimson.org/cwc/terror.htm
Responding to Terrorism: What Military Options Does the President Have?
* http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/options.html
The CDISS Database: Terrorist Incidents 1945 to 1998
* http://www.cdiss.org/terror.htm
US Policy on Counterterrorism (June 1995)
* http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd39.htm
Combating Terrorism: Presidential Decision Directive 62 (May 1998)
* http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd-62.htm * http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/paper598.htm
Combating Terrorism: Options to Improve the Federal Response (April 2001)
* http://www.house.gov/transportation/pbed/04-24-01/04-24-01memo.html
Bioterrorism: An Even More Devastating Threat
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41225-2001Sep16.html
Source: Clinton Approved Action Against Bin Laden in 1998
* http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/09/16/clinton\_laden/
Introduction to Islam
* http://www.mideasti.org/library/islam/introislam.htm
Osama Bin Laden's Neighborhood (audio of an expert briefing on the countries in the region)
* http://www.ceip.org/files/events/events.asp?EventID=381
protocols for commercial airliners in a military emergency
* http://www.faa.gov/atpubs/MIL/Apdices/milapd17.html
"Talk of the Nation" radio program entitled "An American Empire?" (broadcast just before the attack)
* http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=09/10/2001&PrgID=5
massive collection of intelligence links
* http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/intel.html
Presidential Directives 1993-2000
* http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd/
Status of Federal Critical Infrastructure Protection Activities (January 2001)
* http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd/CIP\_2001\_CongRept.pdf
Palestinian Media Watch
extensive discussion of the press coverage
news sources related to the Middle East
* http://www.newsisfree.com/sources/bycat/78/
check out the bestsellers list at Amazon right now
* http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/lists/best/amazon-bestsellers.html/002-8247372-8244044
Austin-Based Stratfor Attempts to Make Smart Money on Global Intelligence
* http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-09-14/pols\_feature.html
"what happens if a suicide bomber dives into one of our 103 nuclear power plants?" (good question)
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=bivens\_wtc\_20010916
Hey, Wait a Minute: Why Punish the Skycaps? (what's really needed is martial arts training for flight attendants)
* http://slate.msn.com/code/ThisJustIn/ThisJustIn.asp?Show=9/17/2001&idMessage=8313
Engineers Tackle Havoc Beneath Trade Center (serious problems under ground)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/18/science/18UNDE.html
business recovery resources
* http://www.globalcontinuity.com/
children's stories relating to terror, in many languages
* http://www.peaceculture.net/
Publications on Helping Children Cope with Terrorism
* http://www.specialednews.com/educators/ednews/terroristlinks091301.html#pubs
Anti-Islamic Violence Breaks Out Around World
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,551257,00.html
USF Robotics Team Arrives At Ground Zero
* http://tampatrib.com/News/MGAEBFXHLRC.html
FEMA Wireless Emergency Response Team
* http://www.fema.gov/nwz01/nwz01\_108.htm
Monitors Say Health Risk From Smoke Is Very Small
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/nyregion/14ENVI.html
NYC Emergency Information
District Unprepared to Cope with Attack
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41105-2001Sep16.html
Blair Must Say "Don't Go Mad, George"
* http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,552801,00.html
Standing with the American People Should Not Mean Subjection to US Policy
* http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,552763,00.html
skeptical comment on the war from a liberal paper in Britain
* http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/0,6903,156041,00.html
Who Will Dare Damn Israel?
* http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,552607,00.html
comment on the prospective war from an Iranian government-run news service
* http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=9/17/01&Cat=4&Num=026
Iran Blocks Borders to Afghanistan (Iranian government news agency)
* http://www.irna.com/en/tnews/010916005027.etn00.shtml
Tehran Must Stop Supporting Terrorism or Face Grave Consequences: Analysts (I assume and think this service is independent)
* http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles\_2001/sep\_2001/us\_terrorism\_13901.htm
links to several news publications run by the Iranian government
* http://www.netiran.com/dailynews.html
large collection of links to iranian media (several in english)
"All the Way with the USA" a Legal Minefield for Australia
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/17/world/world12.html
A New War in a New Century
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/17/html/editorial.html
liberal opinion about the prospective war from New Zealand
* http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00106.htm * http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00115.htm
comment by Edward Said ("it is depressing how little time is spent trying to understand America")
* http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,552764,00.html
belligerent demand to absorb Palestine into Israel
* http://www.ornery.org/essays/2001-09-11-1.html
Strike at the Roots ("but action against terrorism mustn't take anti-Islamic hue")
* http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010917/ed1.html
The View From Islamabad
* http://www.zmag.org/hoodcalam.htm
A Political, Not a Military Solution Is Required
* http://www.zmag.org/alicalam.htm
The Politics of Hate
It Will Be War Without Battlefields: Bush
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/17/world/world8.html
US Is Said to Weigh Afghan Invasion
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/nation/US\_is\_said\_to\_weigh\_Afghan\_invasion+.shtml
"We Will Smoke Them Out"
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/17/world/world1.html
New Wave of Assaults May Hit Oil Refineries
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/17/world/world3.html
Pakistan Key for Afghan Attack
* http://www.stratfor.com/home/0109162215.htm
US Faces Islamic Radical Network
* http://www.stratfor.com/home/0109162100.htm
Quiet Anger of Islam's Foot Soldiers Spells Danger for Attackers
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/17/world/world10.html
Even Some Adversaries Offer Kind Words, but Deepening Violence Is Feared
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38393-2001Sep15.html
The Conflict Over War
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38104-2001Sep15.html
Leaders Take Cautious Approach
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/17/world/world9.html
speculation from India about what Pakistan wants for cooperating with the US
* http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010917/top1.html
Experts Suggest Bio War Could Be Worse
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010916/us/attacks\_bioterror\_4.html
"McCain is concerned about broad authority granted to the president"
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000074619sep16.story
Jailed Aid Workers' Cause Nearly Forgotten
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000074615sep16.story
Israeli Security Issued Urgent Warning to CIA of Large-Scale Terror Attacks
* http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wcia16.xml
Black September and the Black September Terror Movement (from a Lebanese site)
* http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2587/black.html
United States Institute of Peace: How Terrorism Ends
* http://www.usip.org/oc/sr/sr990525/sr990525.html
Land of the Not-as-Free?
* http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/opinion/edit/082562.htm
argument against eroding civil liberties
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000074529sep16.story
Ashcroft: Toughen Laws to Fight Terrorism
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.ashcroft.congress/
Logan Reopens Amid Tight Security
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/nation/Logan\_reopens\_amid\_tight\_security+.shtml
how New Yorkers responded to the disaster
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/629543.asp
Search and Rescue: A Firefighter's Ambivalent Take
* http://slate.msn.com/code/ThisJustIn/ThisJustIn.asp?Show=9/16/2001&idMessage=8302
"dozens of wireless signals have originated from the wreckage of the WTC"
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-202-7191650.html
The Taliban and Afghanistan: Implications for Regional Security
* http://www.usip.org/oc/sr/sr\_afghan.html
Taliban and Afghanistan Web Links
* http://www.usip.org/library/regions/afghan.html
good site on Afghan geography, languages, history, etc
* http://watanonline.homestead.com/main.html
Aviation Security: Long-Standing Problems Impair Airport Screeners' Performance
* http://www.gao.gov/archive/2000/rc00075.pdf
Resources Relating to the Events of September 11, 2001 (from a respected librarian in Washington)
* http://www.freepint.com/gary/91101.html
Indymedia retraction of the report that CNN used old video of Palestinians
* http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article\_id=64419 * http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article\_id=64366
When Words Fail: The Stilted Language of Tragedy
* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000074516sep16.story
Some Therapists Caution That Trauma Services Could Backfire (need to distinguish between normal and pathological responses to trauma)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/16/health/16MENT.html
psychological response to the attacks in Boston
* http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/256/nation/A\_widely\_shared\_loss\_leaves\_few\_unmarked+.shtml
Disaster Mental Health Guidebook
* http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/departments/socialwork/provider/DMHS.htm
Training Manual for Mental Health and Human Service Workers in Major Disasters
* http://www.mentalhealth.org/publications/allpubs/ADM90-538/
Helping Children Cope with Disasters and Trauma (video)
* http://www.wmsu.org/programs/jean\_baker.htm
Primary Care Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
* http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000901/1035.html
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Burden to the Individual and to Society
* http://www.psychiatrist.com/supplenet/v61s05/02index.htm
Comorbidity of Psychiatric Disorders and PTSD
* http://www.psychiatrist.com/supplenet/v61s07/61s07.pdf#nameddest=brady
Advice on Communicating with Children about Disasters
* http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/disastercomm.htm
Law Enforcement Traumatic Stress
* http://www.aaets.org/arts/art87.htm
Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster
* http://www.psych.org/pract\_of\_psych/disaster.cfm
National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Child Survivor of Traumatic Stress
* http://users.umassmed.edu/Kenneth.Fletcher/kidsurv.html
Recovering from Disasters and Other Traumatic Events
* http://helping.apa.org/therapy/traumaticstress.html
information on bereavement
* http://www.utulsa.edu/cpsc/bereavement.htm
Bin Laden: Architect of New Global Terrorism
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38213-2001Sep15.html
Congressional Research Service reports, some recently updated (apparently you can't link to the reports individually)
* http://www.house.gov/shays/CRS/CRSProducts.htm
Response to Terrorism: US Government Documents and Sources, 1995-2001
* http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/archive1.htm
Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism with Weapons of Mass Destruction (December 2000)
* http://www.rand.org/nsrd/terrpanel/
Occupant Behavior During the 1993 World Trade Center Evacuation
* http://fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/fire95/art137.html
Terrorism and Threats to US Interests in the Middle East (July 2000)
* http://www.house.gov/hasc/pressreleases/2000/00-07-13saxton.html * http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/security/has195240.000/has195240\_0f.htm
How Terrorism's Leaders Mobilize
* http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/news/experts/stern\_dec2000.htm
Executive Order Prohibiting Transactions With Middle East Terrorists (1998)
* http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/eo1998.html#13099 * http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/eo1995.html#12947
Terrorist Group Profiles
* http://web.nps.navy.mil/~library/tgp/tgpndx.htm
The Global Rise of Religious Violence
* http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8874.html
Terrorism Experts Discuss Convictions in the Africa Embassy Bombings (May 2001)
* http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/jan-june01/bombing\_5-29.html
USS Cole Attacked (October 2000)
* http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec00/cole\_10-12.html
The Taliban: Exporting Extremism (November 1999)
* http://www.foreignaffairs.org/Search/document\_briefings.asp?i=19991101faessay1017.xml
License to Kill (November 1998) (Osama bin Laden's main jihad grievance: US troops in Arabia)
* http://www.foreignaffairs.org/Search/document\_briefings.asp?i=19981101facomment1428.xml
Beyond Border Control (November 2000) (new technologies and techniques for border control)
* http://www.foreignaffairs.org/Search/document\_briefings.asp?i=20001101faessay936.xml
Keeping America's Military Edge (January 2001) (new missions ranging from peacekeeping to dealing with terrorism)
* http://www.foreignaffairs.org/Search/document\_briefings.asp?i=20010101FAEssay4246.xml
Catastrophic Terrorism: Tackling the New Danger (November 1998)
* http://www.foreignaffairs.org/Search/document\_briefings.asp?i=19981101faessay1434.xml
The New Threat of Mass Destruction (January 1998) (domestic terrorism and civil defense)
* http://www.foreignaffairs.org/Search/document\_briefings.asp?i=19980101faessay1356.xml
Pakistan's Jihad Culture (November 2000)
* http://www.foreignaffairs.org/articles/stern1112.html
Broad New US Strategy Emerging to Fight Terror
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000074603sep16.story
Old US Military Strategies Are Shaken to the Core (last time, the military refused to fight bin Laden; that was then)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000074617sep16.column
Dick Cheney on Meet the Press
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/629714.asp?0dm=C224V
Official Statements on Terrorist Attack
* http://www.state.gov/s/ct/index.cfm?id=4274
Worldwide Caution for US Travelers Abroad (Wednesday)
* http://travel.state.gov/wwc1.html
Bush Finalises Battle Plan
* http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wusa16.xml
SAS to Join American Special Forces
* http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wusa116.xml
Attack "Could Come This Weekend"
* http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/15/watt15.xml
War Plan: The West's Military Options
* http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/16/stiusausa01012.html?999
How to Strike at the World's Most Inaccessible Land
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,552747,00.html
US Has Forces in Place to Strike Afghanistan
* http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art\_ID=533683054
"America has ploughed billions of dollars into building an awesome arsenal"
* http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/4321512
What the US's Allies Say (country-by-country lineup)
* http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art\_ID=1577194015
Is China Going to Be Embroiled in Global Crusade Against "Rogues"?
* http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/09/15/15278.html
Chinese Spokesperson on the Reported Relations Between China and Taliban
* http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/17986.html
Afghans Flee Kabul But Taliban Defiant
* http://www.khaleejtimes.com/usattack.htm#story13
Supporters of Osama Leave Kabul
* http://www.dawn.com/2001/09/16/top11.htm
Taliban Urge Afghans to Stay and Wage Holy War
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=5&date1=9/16/2001
Spare the People: Afghan Opposition Tells US
* http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art\_ID=1400564993
Tussle on for Masood's Successor
* http://www.thefridaytimes.com/news3a.htm
Weary Afghans Expect US Strikes, Seek Refuge
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp?id=2&date1=9/16/2001
Pakistan's Dilemma
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/editorials.asp?id=1&date1=9/16/2001
Former Pakistani General Warns of Threat to Nuclear Installations
* http://www.dawn.com/2001/09/16/top5.htm
US Prepping for Possible Germ Warfare
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20010905/hl/germwarfare010904\_1.html
great article from the first issue Wired on the military's post-Gulf worldview (but is the world now totally different; in particular, can it be simulated?)
* http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.01/virthell.html
Spy Chiefs Call for New Rules and Money to Stop Terrorists
* http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,552770,00.html * http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/16/international/16INTE.html
history of American suppression of civil liberties in times of crisis (and the need for rules to be fair and not target an unpopular group)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/watc/20010915.watc.12.ram
another "trade-off between security and civil liberties" story (rather good analysis, but still unnecessarily buys the "tradeoff" story)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/16/weekinreview/16GREE.html?pagewanted=all
Please Make Stable Non-US Homes for Strong Crypto Projects
* http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@wasabisystems.com/msg00659.html
"we are a nation that is unwilling to pay the price of public safety" (it was the mindless opposition to government that let the killers in)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/16/opinion/16KRUG.html
At the Airports: Risks to Security Detected, Debated for Many Years
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38092-2001Sep15.html
At the Pentagon: Response Hampered by Confusion, Lack of Preparedness (fascinating study in how procedures are adapted to old imagined scenarios)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37991-2001Sep15.html
Retrofitting the Pentagon for Blast Resistance (July 2001)
* http://dwp.bigplanet.com/engineers/nss-folder/download/pentagon.pdf
In Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age (1997)
* http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR880/
Critical Foundations: Protecting America's Infrastructures (1997)
* http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/PDF/PCCIP/pccip.intro.pdf * http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/PDF/PCCIP/pccip.part1.pdf * http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/PDF/PCCIP/pccip.part2.pdf * http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/PDF/PCCIP/pccip.appa.pdf * http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/PDF/PCCIP/pccip.appb.pdf
"one man sold out Osama bin Laden, and now reveals his chilling insights"
* http://www.canoe.ca/TimeCanada0102/19\_time26.html
article about Osama bin Laden from a Pakistani paper
* http://www.dawn.com/weekly/cowas/cowas.htm
history of Osama Bin Laden's relations with the United States
* http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html
speech by Taliban ambassador (May 2001)
* http://www.glo.org/article.php?sid=636
FBI to Question "Terror Chief" Arrested at Heathrow
* http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/16/whunt16.xml
Officials Mum on Sarpy (Nebraska) Detention of Saudi
* http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u\_np=0&u\_div=3&u\_hdg=0&u\_sid=198524
12 Arrested for False Badges at Miami Airport
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38127-2001Sep15.html
Anonymity Easy in Florida ("the wacko factor is so high, you've got to screw up big-time to be noticed")
* http://www.miami.com/herald/content/opinion/columnists/hiaasen/digdocs/105737.htm
article about the firefighters digging out the wreckage in New York
* http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,552784,00.html
detailed reconstruction of the hijackings
* http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,552749,00.html
Intelligence Memo Points to Mossad Link (poor countries can't afford high-priced propagandists, get what they pay for)
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=8&date1=9/16/2001
Moscow Blast Date Coincides With US Tragedy (amazing how many plausible theories there are about the choice of Sept. 11th)
* http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/09/14/011.html
Masterminds of Attacks on US Same as Those of Russian Blasts 2 Years Ago
* http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/09/15/15284.html
interactive map of the area around the World Trade Center
* http://www.the-infinite.org/misc/nys14\_2pm\_reuters.swf
extensive directory of newspaper and Web site graphics about the attack
* http://www.nixlog.com/infographics/
seismic data for September 11th (subtract five hours from GMT to get New York time)
* http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/LCSN/WebSeis/24hr\_heli.pl?id=&year=2001&jday=254
this site debunks the Nostradamus email hoax
* http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa091101b.htm
Falwell's Finger-Pointing Inappropriate, Bush Says
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/15/national/15FALW.html
damage to people's cars from tow trucks at Logan airport
* http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/257/metro/Tow\_trucks\_do\_their\_own\_damage+.shtml
Expert Says Hold, Not Buy, Shares Tomorrow (main danger with reopening securities markets is volume rather than a crash)
* http://web.siliconvalley.com/content/sv/2001/09/16/opinion/dgillmor/weblog/
Indian Sikh Shot Dead in US in Apparent Backlash to Terror Attacks
* http://www.khaleejtimes.com/usattack.htm#story11 * http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/breaking/0916shooting16.html
harsh comment on US media coverage in a leading conservative German newspaper
Palestinian Solidarity with the American People in Pictures
* http://www.infopal.org/docs/spics.htm
CNN's denial that its video of Palestinians celebrating the bombing was old
* http://www.poynter.org/medianews/letters.htm#jordan
Counter-Terrorism: Prevention or Cure ("counter-terrorism measures alone cannot hope to address the issue")
* http://www.thefridaytimes.com/ejaz.htm
The Taliban Will Never Surrender ("Washington is anti-Taliban because the Taliban refuse to do its bidding")
* http://www.thefridaytimes.com/news6a.htm
Taliban Judge Takes Hard Line on SNI Prisoners ("UN sanctions will continue to drive the Taliban to greater militancy")
* http://www.thefridaytimes.com/news2.htm
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
"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
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/
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
environmentalists' letter on terrorism dangers from industrial chemicals
* http://www.rtknet.org/wcs/site.htm
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
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
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
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
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)
Transportation Research Board, new area on transportation system security
* http://www4.trb.org/trb/homepage.nsf/web/security/
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/
Arab American Antidiscrimination Committee
Muslims Witness Support Amid Anger
* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0109150149sep15.story
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
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
photos from New York and Washington
* http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/shattered/
very impressive story of escaping the World Trade Center (may not work in Netscape)
story about a Congressional Research Service report on the bin Laden network
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010914.atc.15.ram
Business Offices and Governmental Offices in the World Trade Center (this is much updated from the list whose URL I sent out before)
* http://tbtf.com/unblinking/arc/2001-09a.htm
denunciations of the attack from Muslim political leaders (from Wednesday)
* http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20010912.me.11.ram
What the Papers Say in the Middle East
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,551050,00.html
Ally Egypt Says Cooperating with US, Urges Caution (no surprise; they're in mortal danger from their own Islamist opposition)
* http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-attack-egypt-maher.html
Mubarak Opposes Anti-Terrorist Coalition Outside UN Auspices: Report
* http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010915/1/1gk39.html
reaction from North Africa
* http://allafrica.com/stories/200109120327.html * http://allafrica.com/northafrica/
United Arab Emirates Reviews Taliban Ties, Vows to Help Fight Terror
* http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-attack-uae.html
liberal Pakistani opinion
* http://www.thefridaytimes.com/
comment from Iran
* http://80.75.0.12/Description.asp?Da=9/15/2001&Cat=14&Num=1
Saddam Hussein Warns US, West Not to Launch "New crusade"
* http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/79482p-1111449c.html
Saddam Hussein Urges Restraint, Healing
* http://web.realcities.com/content/rc/news/attack/tallahassee/1956265121.htm
Saddam Hussein Issues Open Letter
* http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm\_399309.html
Hackers Call for Attacks Against Arab and Islamic Sites
* http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2001-09/15/article7.shtml
Afghan News Network
Lemar-Aaftab Afghan Magazine
* http://www.afghanmagazine.com/
Afghan Info Center
Arabic News
Middle East Network Information Center
* http://link.lanic.utexas.edu/menic/
Information Resources for Islamic, Middle Eastern and Near Eastern Studies
* http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/neareast.html
anthropological take on fundamentalism
* http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/publications/FUNDMNTALISM.htm
Taleban Grants Access to Strike Target (September 1998)
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_165000/165083.stm
Osama Bin Laden to Lead Taliban Military Operations (you may have seen this; I mention it to say that it's almost certainly wrong)
* http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/2001/08/01/11487.html
Der Bergbunker von Osama bin Laden
* http://www.bild.de/service/archiv/2001/sep/15/news/bunker/bunker.html
the guy who screwed up Logan security was a Republican patronage appointment ("not his fault he wasn't extraordinary in a culture that accepted mediocrity")
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/258/metro/Logan\_security\_director\_sought\_free\_rein+.shtml
Senate Use of Force Resolution
* http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/WTC\_dc010914.html#sidebar
We Need the Rule of Law, Not the Rule of War
much informed commentary here
* http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/strands\_home.asp
wacky far-right rant full of false and irrelevant accusations
* http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=9218
Total Barbarism Demands Total War (but he's a moderate: he's not demanding that we plow salt into their fields)
* http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-09-14/News\_and\_Views/Opinion/a-125208.asp?last
jargon watch: conservative Muslim says that "victims" can't be real Americans (to be a real American, you have to pretend that discrimination doesn't exist)
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001128
Israel Launches Seven Attacks Against Palestinians
* http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010915/1/1gk5n.html
China Denies Reports of Links to Taliban
* http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-attack-china.html
revised version of my article about infrastructural warfare (please link to it here rather than posting it on other Web sites)
* http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/war.html
Information Security: A New Priority
* http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,28987,00.html
Economist summary of the investigation
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=786197
"the prime suspect is Osama bin Laden, but it may be impossible to prove this"
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=786151
Why? An Attempt to Explain the Unexplainable
* http://www.janes.com/regional\_news/americas/news/jdw/jdw010914\_1\_n.shtml
intelligent article about shooting down planes (or failing to)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/15/national/15CONT.html
Bin Laden: The Former CIA "Client" Obsessed With Training Pilots
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,551037,00.html
Bin Laden Linked to Two Fundamentalist Islamic Groups in Egypt
* http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/reg/bin\_laden\_linked.htm
Terrorists' Funding Targeted (maybe it's a financial war: follow the money, prevent them paying for attacks)
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34495-2001Sep14.html
Belgian Police Probe Bin Laden Links
* http://213.159.10.102/belgiummain.asp?pad=88,89,&item\_id=13895
Newspaper: Echelon Gave Authorities Warning Of Attacks (I have no idea if this is reliable or even plausible)
* http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170072.html
staffer's eyewitness account from the New Yorker
* http://www.newyorker.com/ON-LINE\_ONLY/ARCHIVES/?010917on\_onlineonly02
Fear on the 86th Floor
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34032-2001Sep14.html
The Day the World Changed
* http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=780341
Pakistani Leaders Agree on Measures to Assist US
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32037-2001Sep14.html
Russian General Against Siding With USA in Possible Strikes
* http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010915002989
Putin Would Not Support a US Invasion of Afghanistan
* http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010915001404
Americans and Islamists blaming one another
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=785171
New Yorkers at Dovish Rally Are Torn over War and Peace
Gunmen Shoot Boy as Warning to India Not to Help US Against Taliban
* http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm\_399225.html
Turkey Lowers Flags in Respect for Victims of Savage Terrorist Attacks
* http://www.TurkishDailyNews.com/FrTDN/latest/for.htm#f6
A Defiant New York City
* http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=780368
article on "workplace-recovery centers"
* http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/08/elhai.htm
Air Travel Under Siege
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story\_ID=786126
Terror Doesn't Spare Young ("it's too much for my brain to tolerate")
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34501-2001Sep14.html
Child Trauma Academy: Coping with Traumatic Events
Microsoft to Change Flight Game
* http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Attacks-Flight-Simulator.html
A Wide, Aggressive Probe Collides With Civil Rights
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34046-2001Sep14.html
Senator Leahy's speech defending civil liberties
* http://www.senate.gov/~leahy/press/200109/091201.html
Sacrificing Freedoms in the Name of Saving Them
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11509
China Censors Anti-US Reaction
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34491-2001Sep14.html
Some Foresee a Sea Change in Attitudes on Freedoms (including discussion of face recognition systems)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/15/national/15CIVI.html
"we shouldn't automatically give up our constitutional rights"
* http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2001/09/14/rights/
Society's Freedoms May Be Curtailed
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk\_news/story/0,3604,552322,00.html
"how far should ethnic profiling go in the quest to nab the terrorists?"
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/14/profiling/
letter from Tamim Ansary, an Afgani-American writer
* http://www.caterina.net/2001\_09\_01\_archive.html#5694830 * http://www.monospace.com/ansary.html
An Afghan-American Speaks
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/14/afghanistan/
A New Legal Landscape (introduction to several attack-related articles from National Law Journal)
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZGDOIPMRC
In Times of Crisis, Law Speaks, but Often With a Forked Tongue
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZGWFRGMRC
The Day the US Supreme Court Shut Down
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZYURPZKRC
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are Christians like the bombers are Muslims (i.e., not)
* http://www.nandotimes.com/opinions/story/79337p-1109025c.html
Violence Doesn't Work
* http://www.globalexchange.org/september11/zinn091401.html
What Does Retaliation Mean in a Media War?
* http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2001/09/12/1.html
A Time for Peace, Not Retaliation
* http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2001/09/11/
International Crime, Not War
* http://www.fpif.org/commentary/0109terror-crime.html
Beware Unintended Results
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/15/opinion/15LEWI.html
comment from Pakistan
* http://www.dawn.com/2001/09/15/op.htm#3 * http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/PrintPage.asp?id=1&date1=9/15/2001&news2=editorials
The Real Challenge Is How to Eradicate the Sources of Terrorism (Turkey, of course, has its own unpublicized war going with the Kurds)
* http://www.TurkishDailyNews.com/FrTDN/latest/comment.htm
Linkage to Islam Rejected
* http://www.TurkishDailyNews.com/FrTDN/latest/dom.htm#d2
criticism of US alliances with repressive Middle Eastern governments
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11508
"many of the people running this country are long-time supporters of terrorism"
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11506
We'll Go Forward From This Moment
* http://www.miami.com/herald/special/news/worldtrade/digdocs/008039.htm
socialist comment
* http://www.internationalsocialist.org/Statement.pdf
criticism of US media coverage
* http://www.zmag.org/schechcalam.htm
the history of extremism over here, as well as over there
* http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11505
Actually, They Do Dare Call It Treason (review of conservative Web sites' condemnation of dissent)
* http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2001/treason.html
jargon watch: a half-dozen devices for stigmatizing dissent in wartime (and if our guys do wrong, match it with a supposedly equal wrong of theirs)
* http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001143
The Strategic Implications of Terrorism
* http://www.st-and.ac.uk/academic/intrel/research/cstpv/publications1d.htm
The Advent of Netwar
* http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR789/
South Asia Is Like the Middle East, Except Everyone Has Nuclear Weapons
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/13/pakistan/
BBC Monitoring Country Profiles
* http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk/countryprof1.shtml
bin Laden profile
* http://www.newyorker.com/FROM\_THE\_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010917fr\_archive07
The Treasury Coddles Tax Cheats (August 2001) (oh, and it's easy for terrorists to move money around)
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/082701/giridharadas082701.html
US Announces Afghan Aid Package (May 2001)
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1336000/1336958.stm
Noam Chomsky's Lecture "The Current Crises in the Middle East" (December 2000)
* http://www.media.mit.edu/~nitin/mideast/chomsky.html
Clinton speech on terrorism at the UN, September 1998
* http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/New/html/19980921-29469.html
Ronald Reagan's proclamations on Afghanistan Day in 1982 and 1983
* http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1982/31082c.htm * http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1983/32183d.htm * http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1983/32183e.htm
on the building of the World Trade Center
* http://www.newyorker.com/FROM\_THE\_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010917fr\_archive06
The Advantages of Defeat (September 1861)
* http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/1861sep/defeat.htm
comment on Pearl Harbor, published in 1941
* http://www.newyorker.com/FROM\_THE\_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010917fr\_archive08
Middle East Times (Cairo)
* http://www.metimes.com/ * http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/opin/opin\_index.htm
The Frontier Post from Peshawar, Pakistan
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/ * http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/afghan.asp
The Times of Central Asia (extensive coverage from Kyrgyzstan)
Syria Times
* http://www.teshreen.com/syriatimes/ * http://www.teshreen.com/syriatimes/s-sa/apolitic-s.htm * http://www.teshreen.com/syriatimes/s-sa/opinion-s.htm
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Khaleej Times Home Page
* http://www.khaleejtimes.com/ * http://www.khaleejtimes.com/editor.htm
European news links
* http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/eurb/cgint.exe?1&1000=1&tmpl=index
C-SPAN daily schedule, almost all of which is about the war
* http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dfullschedule
coverage and resources from US News and World Report
* http://www.usnews.com/usnews/briefings/terror0901.htm
Newspapers US and Worldwide
* http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html
article about the terrorists' lives in Florida
* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=93961
UAE Probes National's Links to Attacks on US
* http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=26531
Anonymous Tip Web Link to Report Information to US Authorities
* http://www.Anonymizer.com/news/tip\_site.html
Iridium's Phones Suddenly in Demand
* http://www.azrepublic.com/news/articles/breaking/0913iridium13.html
State Department's most recent list (or so I'm told) of terrorist groups
* http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/fto\_info\_1999.html
Talking with Terror's Banker (older interview with bin Laden)
* http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/dailynews/terror\_980609.html
FBI's Most Wanted Poster for Bin Laden
* http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/binladen1.shtml
What Does Osama Bin Laden Want? Nothing We Have
* http://slate.msn.com/Assessment/01-09-13/Assessment.asp
Bin Laden's Family Condemn US Attacks
* http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/09/15/FFXL7FVAMRC.html
Osama Denies Involvement
* http://www.rediff.com/us/2001/sep/12ny15.htm
National Emergency Proclamation
* http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=243528&topic=national+emergencies+act
Retaliation Is Trickier Than Afghan Terrain
* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0914/p1s2-wogi.html
Computer Recovery Companies Go to Work
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7141809.html
They Can Run and They Can Hide: Suicide Bombers Are Here to Stay
* http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=93798
US-Canadian border wait times
* http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/customs/general/times/menu-e.html
FAQ in Response to the Resumption of Commercial Air Service
* http://www.faa.gov/apa/faq/pr\_faq.htm
photos from around the world
* http://www.industrial.mu/world/index.shtml
Bin Laden Poster Raised at Rally in Gaza
* http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/09/15/FFX2NWOAMRC.html
Young Tehranis Pay Homage to Terror Victims in US
* http://www.iranmania.com/news/currentaffairs/sep01/140901a.asp
Humane Groups Strive to Aid Abandoned Pets
* http://www.bergen.com/news/scenepets200109147.htm * http://www.aspca.org/weekly.asp?section=about
Medecins Sans Frontieres Decreases Current Activities in Afghanistan
* http://www.msf.org/countries/page.cfm?articleid=6B6FB489-3517-4673-960EBD055C60A750
resources from peace researchers
* http://www.evergreen.edu/user/copred/SEP11.html
Respond to Violence: Teach Peace, Not War
* http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2001/000085.html
ALPA Irate Over Court Stay of Pilot Fatigue Rule (issued just before the bombing -- background on ongoing safety conflicts)
* http://www.alpa.org/internet/news/2001news/nr01093.htm
Source: Dump Tenet Movement Underway (good idea, but it's Fox so who knows)
* http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34293,00.html
Dealing with the Death of an Employee
* http://www.hr.com/hrcom/clickthru/clickthru.cfm?linkid=1021851003
communications intelligence is hard in a world saturated with communications
* http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46817,00.html
Examining the President's Powers to Fight Terrorism
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20010914.html
Spying on Terrorists Gains New Urgency
* http://www.sunone.com/articles/2001-09-14jj.shtml
Senate OKs Expanding Wiretap Law
* http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/9-14-2001/20010914030125750.html
Anti-Arab Sentiment Festers Online
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20010914/tc/anti-arab\_sentiment\_festers\_online\_1.html
Protecting Muslims While Rooting Out Islamists
* http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?pg=/01/9/14/do02.html
Recent Threats Lead Police to Guard City's Mosques, Muslim Community Centers
* http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134341231\_hatecrime14m.html
Afghan Civilians to Face Increased Vulnerability
* http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/UNID/CA4BF841ECF11921C1256AC7004ABA34?OpenDocument
Muslims Fear Backlash
* http://islam.about.com/library/weekly/aa091201a.htm?PM=59\_0103\_T
Intelligence Gathering Asymmetric Threats
* http://www.janes.com/security/international\_security/news/usscole/jir001012\_1\_n.shtml
Masood's Regional Allies
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1537000/1537244.stm
Afghan Opposition Commander "Serious"
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_1544000/1544672.stm
Saudis Cancel US Talks (shortly before the attack)
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle\_east/newsid\_1535000/1535774.stm
good satellite image of the Pentagon
* http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20010912/amdf51679.html
Cockpit Voice Recorder Transripts
* http://www.aviation-safety.net/cvr/transcripts.htm
Reports, Statements, and Press Releases
* http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/documents.html
New York's World Trade Center: A Living Archive (not a response to the bombing, but a recent project)
* http://ericdarton.net/index.html
The Lesson of History: Afghanistan Always Beats Its Invaders
* http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=93985
Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 Speech to Congress
* http://www.usssaltlakecity.org/rholl-10.htm
Tonkin Gulf Lie Launched Vietnam War (1994)
* http://www.fair.org/media-beat/940727.html
The World Trade Center Bomb (1995)
* http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iraq/956-tni.htm
Terrorism Research Center (lots of "terrorism research" has agendas, but I haven't evaluated this site)
Letter from the Dalai Lama to George W.
* http://www.tibet.com/NewsRoom/hhdl-letter.htm
Congress Must Not Abdicate to Bush
* http://monkeyfist.com/articles/779
The Barbarians Will Learn What America's All About
* http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/134340317\_pitts12.html
comment from Pakistan
* http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/editorials.asp?id=1&date1=9/14/2001 * http://www.dawn.com/2001/09/14/op.htm#1 * http://www.dawn.com/2001/09/14/ed.htm
Across America Tonight
* http://www.michaelmoore.com/2001\_0914.html
Please Don't Make Us Out to Be Angels
* http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular\_columnists/yasmin\_alibhai\_brown/story.jsp?story=89554
This Fireball of Fear and Loathing
* http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular\_columnists/yasmin\_alibhai\_brown/story.jsp?story=93916
opposition to limits on civil liberties from the extreme right
* http://www.lewrockwell.com/dieteman/dieteman89.html
Don't Sacrifice Freedom
* http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34300,00.html
content-free but sort of interesting rant against Chomsky, Moore, Falwell, etc (but this business of calling dissenters "anti-American" has to stop)
* http://www.nationalreview.com/ponnuru/ponnuru091401.shtml
call to recreate Lord Roberts's 1878 march "from Kabul to Kandahar"
* http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?pg=/01/9/14/do01.html
Jerry Pournelle demanding that various cities be razed to the ground
* http://www.jerrypournelle.com/war/whattodo.html
"Ann Coulter takes the prize for the most hateful reaction to appear in print"
* http://www.inside.com/product/product.asp?pf\_ID=2FF92284-5641-473D-B13E-13D8B634487F
Jerry Falwell's non-apology for his appalling attack on gays and the ACLU
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/14/Falwell.apology/
lunatic op-ed column that advocates using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan
* http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20010914-87723680.htm
stupid conspiracy theory about George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden (multiply by 1000, have Senators quote it, and you get the anti-Clintonites)
* http://www.geocities.com/burningbush2000/3.html
Pat Robertson blames Americans for the terrorist attacks
* http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Robertson.html
The Internet's Aviation Magazine and News Service
The Press Under Scrutiny: Accepted vs. Critical Commentary
* http://www.topica.com/lists/holtuncensored/read/message.html?mid=1604692983&sort=d&start=35
weblog of resources from the Guardian
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/special/0,10627,550687,00.html
Handling the Loads (detailed account of dealing with extraordinary website demand)
* http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/13/154222.shtml
Niche Site to News Portal (article on Slashdot)
* http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=641
how online media has treated Arab Americans
* http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=640
Live TV Stations on the Internet
* http://www.webradios.com/inttv.html
Hijacking Clues May Be Red Herrings
* http://www.stratfor.com/home/0109132130.htm
WTC Wreckage Guards Buried Treasure of COMEX Gold
* http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010913/n13111180\_1.html
more first-person accounts
* http://dks.thing.net/WTCSurvivalStories.html
a claim about ignored evidence (in German so I can't read it)
* http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=16349305
Secret Service Was Told: "Air Force One Is Next" (I find this whole story about moles dubious, but here's the report)
* http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=93993
"stand with us against terrorism or face certain death and destruction"
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/international/14ASSE.html
New York's Firefighters Grieve for Lost Brothers
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28109-2001Sep13.html
As Witnesses to Tragedy, Students Confront Fears
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/13/nyregion/13SCHO.html
How to Talk to Your Kids About the Terrorist Attacks
* http://www.parentcenter.com/refcap/34754
Seeking New Space, Companies Search Far From Wall Street
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/nyregion/14EXOD.html
Internet Performs Global Role, Supplementing TV
* http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=637
International Association of Fire Fighters
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Airlines Seek Restrictions on Lawsuits Over Attacks (excuse me, but the airlines were in charge of security and weakened it)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/business/14INSU.html
New Safety Rules Praised, Panned
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000074176sep14.story
Autopilot Could Land Hijacked Planes
* http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991280
Journalist's Toolbox
* http://www.geocities.com/mike\_reilley\_2000/newswriting/onlineindex.html
Coming to Terms With a Dangerous New Reality
* http://msnbc.com/news/627174.asp?cp1=1
US Must Realize There Are No Quick Fixes
* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/256/oped/US\_must\_realize\_there\_are\_no\_quick\_fixes+.shtml
A World Out of Touch With Itself: Where the Violence Comes From
* http://www.tikkun.org/index.cfm/action/current/article/52.html
Groups Urge Tempered Response to Attacks
* http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2001/2001L-09-13-08.html
Don't Inflate the Size of the Enemy to Fit the Crime
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,551529,00.html
Terror and the Sense of Justice (March 1978)
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=archive&s=neier\_wtc\_19780325
Pax Americana by Patricia Williams
* http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011001&s=williams
Struggling Against Fanaticism
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/opinion/14OZ.html
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson blame the ACLU for the terrorist attacks (the ACLU's secularism, we are told, is responsible for religious fanatics)
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/national/14FALW.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28620-2001Sep14.html
Atrocities May Be Designed to Provoke America into Costly Military Adventure
* http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/palestine/news2001/chiefSuspect091201.html
Mr. Trigger-Happy (Egyption Gazette)
* http://64.124.221.202/algomhuria2/gazette/3/2.htm
Ann Coulter's extremist column mysteriously yanked from Jewish World Review (but it's still on National Review)
* http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulter091301.shtml
satiric response to Eric Raymond's wacky urging of guns on airplanes (warning against people smuggling in narrow agendas under cover of the crisis)
* http://adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/9/12/102423/271
Crowd in Illinois Demonstrates at Mosque
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010913/us/attacks\_arabs\_and\_muslims\_13.html
Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism (1998)
* http://www.nap.edu/issues/15.1/eland.htm
Experts Say Digital Privacy May Suffer Amid Attacks
* http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-attack-tech-privacy.html
Terrorism Bills Revive Civil Liberties Debate
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28636-2001Sep14.html
Suicide Terrorism: A Global Threat
* http://www.janes.com/security/regional\_security/news/usscole/jir001020\_1\_n.shtml
Countering the New Terrorism
* http://www.rand.org/paf/highlights/terrorism.html
Bin Laden's attempts to acquire nuclear materials (I haven't read these carefully, so I'm trusting readers' summaries of them)
* http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/binladen.htm * http://www.google.com/search?q=laden+nuclear * http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/isreport/septoct99/binladen.html
CIA's Covert War on Bin Laden
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28094-2001Sep13.html
Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S. Helped Midwife a Terrorist
* http://www.public-i.org/excerpts\_01\_091301.htm
Middle East Developing Biological, Chemical Weapons
* http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2001/2001L-09-13-02.html
The Coming Anarchy (February 1994)
* http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/anarchy.htm
variety of aviation-related updated news links maintained here
How Black Boxes Work
* http://www.howstuffworks.com/black-box.htm
Flight 93 Flight-Data Recorder Found In Somerset
* http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/pit/news/stories/news-95909320010913-100904.html * http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Investigation.html
Capitol Evacuated, 3 Detained at JFK Airport (with many other details)
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/13/america.attack/
FBI Cannot Rule Out Shootdown of Pennsylvania Plane (this has been rumored, and is not implausible from the timeline, but no proof)
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010913/ts/attack\_pennsylvania\_dc\_4.html
AA pilots had their uniforms, papers and badges stolen in April (at least according to the reader who translated this Dutch article for me)
* http://nl.news.yahoo.com/010913/1/79g.html
smoke and debris plume (light blue haze) from Manhattan Island
* http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Fires/US\_MidAtl/FSMusNY254\_N4L.jpg * http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Fires/US\_MidAtl/FSMusNY254\_N4.jpg
I'm told that PBS is rerunning its "Hunting bin Laden" special tonight
* http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/
Radio: Taliban Could Hand Over Bin Laden
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010913/ts/attack\_afghan\_radio\_dc\_1.html
Rumsfeld's Scolding Directed at Hatch
* http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/whisphome.htm
the face of Satan was visible in the smoke from the World Trade Center
* http://dailynews.philly.com/content/daily%5Fnews/2001/09/13/local/DEVI13C.htm
US Biological Weapons Lab Locked Down, 50 Miles from Pentagon
* http://www.public-i.org/story\_01\_091301.htm
New York Red Cross Needs Tech
* http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/showtell/story/0,23008,3347294,00.html
Philanthropy's Response to a Day of Terror
* http://philanthropy.com/free/update/update.htm
WB11 and Newsday Disaster Relief Fund
* http://www.wpix.com/news/wtcwb11disasterfund.html
National Airport to Be Closed Indefinitely
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24033-2001Sep13.html
sites for locating survivors
* http://kgate.virtual.net/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?action=Browse&id=OKandLocates
Business Week's coverage
* http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/01\_39/B3750terror\_america.htm
articles about media coverage of the attacks
* http://www.mediachannel.org/
how newspapers around the country and the world covered the attacks (but they're only the current day's papers, unfortunately, not Wednesday's)
* http://www.newseum.org/headlines.htm
100 Questions and Answers about Arab Americans
* http://www.freep.com/jobspage/arabs/index.htm
information about attacks on Muslims from Muslim Student Association News
testimony from a US Muslim
* http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0109&L=anthro-l&F=&S=&P=18310
GAO: Critical Infrastructure Protection (9/12/01)
* http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d011132t.pdf
How Missile Defense Would Help Terrorists
* http://slate.msn.com/Earthling/01-09-13/Earthling.asp
more on the history of blowback
* http://www.zmag.org/sommerscalam.htm
Omaid Weekly -- Afghan Newspaper -- English Section main page
* http://www.omaid.com/eng\_section.htm
China Strengthens Ties With Taleban by Signing Economic Deal
* http://www.iht.com/articles/32342.html
"antiwar news, viewpoints, and activities"
comment on war plans by the Times of London
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001310020-2001315879,00.html
How Islamic World Learnt to Hate the US
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001310020-2001315717,00.html
jargon watch: "X is not the answer" -- duh, nothing by itself is the answer (Eric Raymond is great on software economics, but guns in airplanes is wacky)
* http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/11/2048256
chat site about war preparation (there's been some anti-Arab hate but I don't know of it's representative)
* http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/wewillwinthiswar
Hijacker Had Logan "Ramp Pass"
* http://www.telegram.com/news/page\_one/ramppass.html
Hijacker's Body Found in Wreckage (I don't have any other verification of this)
* http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in\_review\_id=457082∈\_review\_text\_id=408403
On Doomed Flight, Passengers Vowed to Perish Fighting
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/13/national/13NEWA.html
Five Firefighters Found Alive in the Rubble ("another survivor ... was using a wireless organizer to send e-mails")
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/13/nyregion/13CND-RESCUE.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24033-2001Sep13.html
statements on impacts to energy and communications infrastructure in NYC
* http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg07756.html * http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg07722.html * http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg07699.html
Danger of Asbestos Fallout
Anti-Islamic Violence Breaks Out Around World
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,551257,00.html
Arab Americans Stress Loyalty in Face of Backlash
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,551094,00.html
CNN Using 1991 Footage of Celebrating Palestinians (I don't have any other verification of this)
* http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/display.php3?article\_id=6946
index of online hoaxes related to the attacks
* http://purportal.com/special/9-11/
"Pakistan turned down a US request for deployment of US special forces"
* http://203.199.93.7/articleshow.asp?art\_id=1107686149
we're in danger of triggering a war between India and Pakistan
* http://203.199.93.7/articleshow.asp?art\_id=1935101147
attack-related news from Russia
* http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2001/09/130901.html
photos in Kabul from the Times of India
* http://203.199.93.7/today/kabul0.htm
info sources, phone numbers, places to volunteer, Red Cross needs tech help
* http://kgate.virtual.net/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?action=Browse&id=SeptemberDisaster
Catholic Charities Agencies Mobilize to Help Victims of Terrorist Attacks
* http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/media/releases/2001/091201b.html
Scam Artists Capitalize on Tragedy
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/628230.asp * http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170058.html * http://www.cauce.org/pressreleases/20010912.shtml
commentary by cryptographer Matt Blaze
* http://www.interesting-people.org/200109/0111.html
Americans Can't See Why They Are Hated
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,551036,00.html
It Happened Here
* http://www.thenewrepublic.com/092401/editorial092401.html
comment from The Economist
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story\_id=780265
Our President Shows That He's No Giuliani
* http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/ny-nyhen132363704sep13.column
media were too busy with sensational stories to focus on the well-known dangers
* http://www.salon.com/news/col/huff/2001/09/13/media/
When Extremists Test the Constitutional Order
* http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20010913.html
jargon watch: They think in terms of Us and Them, so it's up to Us to kill Them (the Us-n-Them's on both sides are, in a sense, partners)
* http://www.nationalreview.com/01oct01/war\_pryce-jones100101.shtml
"we should invade them, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity" (Barbara Olson was a professional liar but I'd never have wished this on her)
* http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter1.asp
the DOT inspector general was scheduled to begin an audit this week
* http://www.oig.dot.gov/show\_txt.php?id=553
FAA security documents
* http://www.oig.dot.gov/docs\_by\_area.php?area=8
US Pulls the Plug on Muslim Websites (this article comes from Monday, before the attack)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,549590,00.html
USA: Justice, Not Revenge, Must Prevail
* http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/news.nsf/weball/180A97244A72921780256AC6004D1340
about the cell phone calls from the airlines (which we eerily take for granted, though some were from phones in the seats)
* http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,46595,00.html
Why Wasn't the Bush Administration Warned?
* http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2521/madsen2521.html
FAA Civil Aviation Security FOIA Page
travel related news (may not work under Netscape)
* http://www.johnnyjet.com/folder/archive/letter09\_12\_01.html
Afghanistan: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 2000
* http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/sa/index.cfm?docid=721
Rational Fanatics
* http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue\_SeptOct\_2001/sprinzak.html
interesting chat transcript showing what was reported when
* http://www.verelst.net/coverage.html
online community for fire fighters
animation of the construction and collapse of the buildings
* http://www.elpais.es/multimedia/internacional/estruc.html
Investigators Identify 50 Terrorists Tied to Plot
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000073865sep13.story
Passengers Voted to Attack Hijackers
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/plane.phone.call/ * http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000073861sep13.story
Fire Department Learns Cruel Toll: 350 Comrades
* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/13/nyregion/13FIRE.html?pagewanted=all
satellite photos (I haven't checked closely to see if these have the same pictures or different)
* http://www.space.com/news/ikonos\_wtc\_010912.html * http://www.globexplorer.com/disasterimages/ * http://www.nasa.gov/newsinfo/WTCplume.html * http://www.spaceimaging.com/carterra/images/default.htm * http://www.spaceimaging.com/newsroom/attack\_gallery.htm
a better animation of the flight paths
* http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/news/gra/gflightpath2/frame.htm
Terrorist Search Leads to ISPs
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7141812.html
Relatives of 500 Gujaratis Hang Between Hope, Despair
* http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010913/us8.html
another anti-terrorism report that got ignored
* http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/01013102.htm * http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/12/bush/print.html
Bin Laden Comes Home to Roost
* http://www.msnbc.com/news/190144.asp
Analysis: Who Are the Taleban?
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south\_asia/newsid\_144000/144382.stm
serious problems at the CIA
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/12/spies/print.html
relevant archival articles from The Nation
Military Officers Seek Swift, Deadly Response
* http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-200191241929.htm
US May Wage War on Islamic Militants
* http://www.stratfor.com/home/0109122345.htm
Attacks on US: Redefining the Response
* http://www.stratfor.com/home/0109121930.htm
The Problem With Retaliation
* http://slate.msn.com/Earthling/01-09-12/Earthling.asp
"the wickedness and awesome cruelty of a crushed and humiliated people"
* http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=93623
Todd Gitlin's comment on the media coverage and language
* http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document\_details.asp?CatID=18&DocID=626&DebateID=109
who's leading and who isn't
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21582-2001Sep12.html
Commentators Are Quick to Beat Their Pens Into Swords
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20908-2001Sep12.html
Hunter Thompson's comment
* http://espn.go.com/page2/s/thompson/index.html?qt=thompson
opinion from India emphasizes the complicity of Pakistan
* http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010913/ed1.html * http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010913/ed4.html
For the Arrogance of Power America Now Pays a Terrible Price
* http://www.transnational.org/forum/power/2001/09.02\_USpaysPrice.html
Arab Leaders May Be the Ultimate Victims of This Terrorist Assault
* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001310020-2001315245,00.html
Making Liberty a Victim of Terror; Fighting Against Our Worst Fears
* http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZQH6BIJRC
commonsensical suggestions on aircraft design
* http://www.interesting-people.org/200109/0109.html
Airport Security Technology Under Scrutiny
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7141717.html
an example of the "tradeoff between privacy and security" discourse
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21207-2001Sep12.html
Civil Rights the Next Casualty?
* http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46784,00.html
Will Attack Hurt Net Privacy?
* http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,61744,00.asp
Tolerance Put to Test in Bay Area
* http://www.sfgate.com/today/0912\_chron\_muslims.shtml
Diplomats Leave Kabul, Aid Workers Still Detained
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010913/wl/afghan\_diplomats\_dc\_1.html
UN Workers Leave Afghanistan
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010913/us/attacks\_afghanistan\_1.html
status of the investigation
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16714-2001Sep12.html
Flight 93 Passenger Said He Planned Action
* http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/pit/news/stories/news-95780920010912-110907.html
Controllers' Tale of Flight 11
* http://www.csmonitor.com/earlyed/earlyUSA4.html
FBI Agents Search Hotels; Arrests Made
* http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/957448/detail.html
animation of the routes of flights 11, 193, and 175
* http://pull.xmr3.com/p/29594-9681/22024263/aal11.html * http://pull.xmr3.com/p/29594-9681/22024277/ual193final.html * http://pull.xmr3.com/p/29594-9681/22024274/ual175\_aal11.html
Somerset Crash Scene Searched; "Hero" May Have Aborted Terror Mission
* http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20010912somersetp3.asp
Cell Calls From Planes Reveal Horror
* http://msnbc.com/news/627214.asp
How the World Trade Center Fell
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid\_1540000/1540044.stm
Net Offers Lifeline Amid Tragedy
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7132246.html
World Trade Center Staff Sent E-Mails After Planes Struck
* http://www.itn.co.uk/news/20010912/business/12cantor.shtml
Help Sites Spring Up in Aftermath of WTC Assaults
* http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art\_id=2113
Terrorism and Children
* http://www.ces.purdue.edu/terrorism/children/ * http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Sept01/Garbarino.kids.bombing.lgk.html
Chronic Underfunding of US HUMINT Plays Role in Intelligence Failures
* http://www.janes.com/security/international\_security/news/jdw/jdw010911\_1\_n.shtml
Michael Moore's commentary
* http://www.michaelmoore.com/2001\_0912.html
On the Bombings, by Noam Chomsky
* http://www.lbbs.org/chomnote.htm
The Best and Worst From Our Leaders During Crises
* http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11909
Terrorists Are Made, Not Born
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/12/blowback/
The Rhetoric of War (with examples from editorial pages)
* http://www.marginalia.org/war.html
an example of that rhetoric
* http://www.nationalreview.com/kudlow/kudlow091101.shtml
background on the Mt. Weather bunker where the politicians were probably taken
* http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/mt\_weather.htm
outline of relevant anti-terrorism etc laws
* http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/laws.html
Airport Access Control (one of the security reports that was never properly acted on)
Arab newspapers
* http://www.the-saudi.net/arab-world/media/newspapers-links.htm * http://www.amin.org/jourmag/
French language news sources on the attack
Nous Sommes Tous Americains
* http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3222--221600-,00.html
worldwide news in English
* http://www.kidon.com/media-link/english.shtml
Thousands of Newspapers on the Net
* http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
Wall Street Journal coverage (appears to be available without a subscription)
* http://interactive.wsj.com/pages/terattack.htm
Yahoo links to news stories etc
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Terrorism/
eyewitness accounts
* http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking\_point/newsid\_1537000/1537530.stm
online mechanisms for donating to the Red Cross
* http://www.amazon.com/paypage/PKAXFNQH7EKCX * http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/relief-outside
legal coverage
mailing list to connect people who can volunteer or provide resources
* http://207.22.68.76/911volunteers.html
aircraft flight tracks
* http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/spSec/wtcst.jsp
front pages of 50 newspapers' coverage of the attack
* http://www.poynter.org/terrorism/pdf1.htm
Current Awareness via Streaming Audio/Video
* http://gwu.edu/~gprice/audio.htm
Speech/Transcripts/Statements from US and Foreign Leaders
* http://gwu.edu/~gprice/speech.htm
Anonymous Remailer Operators Start to Take Remailers Offline
* http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/current/msg00272.html
Middle East Newswire
* http://www.middleeastwire.com/newswire/
Two Planes Hit Twin Towers at Exactly the Worst Spot
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000073606sep12.story
Security Experts Knew a Major Attack Was Possible
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14031-2001Sep11.html
Insurance Cost for Terrorist Attack to Near $1 Billion
* http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/depth/insure091201.htm
Reports: Boston Investigators Find Evidence in Attacks
* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010912/ts/attack\_suspects\_dc\_2.html
civil engineering aspects of the building collapse
* http://www.civil.usyd.edu.au/wtc.htm
online discussion site for pilots
Rescuers Struggle at Pentagon
* http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid\_1539000/1539839.stm
Why the Killers Threaten World Prosperity
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid\_1538000/1538958.stm
In Shock, Teachers Downplay Tragedy
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000073649sep12.story
EBay Cancels Auctions of Attack-Related Items (some idiots were actually gathering rubble in order to sell it on eBay)
* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000073609sep12.story
How You Can Help
* http://clubs.lycos.com/live/events/september11.asp
live video feed from WABC Channel 7 in New York
* http://playlist.broadcast.com/makeplaylist.asp?id=66704
a video site from the London Evening Standard that's working well
extensive coverage from the Guardian and the BBC
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/0,1300,550197,00.html * http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in\_depth/americas/2001/america\_attacked/ * http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid\_1538000/1538397.stm
technical coverage from CNET
* http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-7129531-0.html
extensive directory of photos
* http://www.excite.com/photo/topic/news?show=all
NWS Doppler Radar - Long Range Base Reflectivity - Upton, NY
* http://weather.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p20-r/si.kokx.shtml
Passenger Phoned Husband Moments Before Pentagon Crash
* http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm\_396209.html * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12395-2001Sep11.html
Air Traffic Controllers Spotted Unidentified Aircraft
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12507-2001Sep11.html
updated situation reports from stratfor
* http://www.stratfor.com/home/sitreps.htm
good resources from Poynter Institute, Lexis-Nexis, and AZ Reporter
* http://www.poynter.org/Terrorism/ * http://www.lexisnexis.com/resources/ * http://www.azreporter.com/dailybuzz/links/
a blog with more resources
* http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/special/attack/blog.html
List of World Trade Center Tenants
* http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/051991.htm
Statement of Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta
* http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot9301.htm
City Terrorist Attack Update: Wednesday Classes Cancelled
The Counterterrorist Myth
* http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/07/gerecht.htm
"Blowback" (from July)
* http://www.janes.com/security/international\_security/news/jir/jir010726\_1\_n.shtml
cached Red Cross blood donation eligibility guidelines
maps and diagrams from the NY Times
* http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/index\_IMPACT.html
cached copies of overloaded media sites
* http://www.google.com/currentevents/
Salon reports from New York and Washington
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/11/reports/print.html
America Under Attack
* http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story\_id=779127
Why the Towers Collapsed
* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/11/collapse\_background/
resources from a respected research site
* http://www.researchbuzz.com/
Blasts Deal Blow to Northeast Phone Services
* http://www.nyt.com/2001/09/11/national/11CND-COMM.html * http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-7131392.html
Companies Warned About Possible Cyberattacks
* http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47\_STO63724,00.html
Defense Department Command and Control Nets Unaffected by Terrorist Attack
* http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47\_STO63712,00.html
Internet Slows After Terror Attacks
* http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2001/09/11/internet\_slow/
a backup site that generally works when cnn.com does not
video of the second plane in New York high bandwidth:
* http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/091101plane1-large.html
low bandwidth:
* http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/091101plane1-small.html
people's stories
* http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAVZWE2IRC.html
Hotline from the National Journal can be accessed today for free
* http://hotlinescoop.com/web/content/hotline.htm * http://nationaljournal.com/pubs/hotline/extra/lastcall/
this site will register people who are safe
* http://do.millennium.berkeley.edu/
you can query this site to search for people
* http://do.millennium.berkeley.edu/find.php
military analysis
photos from Brooklyn of the buildings collapsing
an architect discussing how the buildings collapsed
* http://home.actlab.utexas.edu/pipermail/discuss/2001-September/000226.html
Engineers Shocked By Towers Collapse
* http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-010911kamin-towers.story
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