RRE links relating to the September 11th attacks, roughly in reverse chronologicalwriting

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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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/073/metro/Judge\_s\_ruling\_challenges\_terrorism\_roadblocks+.shtml

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/063/nation/MIT\_team\_tied\_to\_questionable\_missile\_studies+.shtml

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/064/nation/Doubts\_are\_cast\_on\_the\_viability\_of\_Saudi\_monarchy\_for\_long\_termP.shtml

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/062/nation/Why\_bin\_Laden\_plot\_relied\_on\_Saudi\_hijackersP.shtml

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

* http://www.govsecinfo.com/

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

* http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=&u=/ap/20020211/ap\_on\_re\_as/afghan\_counting\_the\_dead\_2

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

* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/02/09/wreid09.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/02/09/ixworld.html

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")

* http://www.cpgov.com/

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/023/nation/For\_the\_Sufis\_Taliban\_s\_fall\_means\_a\_revival+.shtml

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)

* http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=119287&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/014/business/All\_50\_states\_agree\_to\_upgrade\_driver\_s\_licenses+.shtml

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)

* http://www.aamva.org/

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

* http://fe.pennnet.com/Articles/Article\_Display.cfm?Section=OnlineArticles&SubSection=Display&PUBLICATION\_ID=25&ARTICLE\_ID=130026

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

* http://www.nti.org/

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)

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/361/oped/The\_selective\_blame\_game\_played\_by\_conservatives+.shtml

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

* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/oneworld/20011224/wl/rights\_activists\_worry\_over\_u\_s\_-indonesia\_military\_ties\_1.html

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/360/nation/Campaign\_to\_alter\_Muslims\_image\_of\_US\_falls\_short+.shtml

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

* http://www.y.net.ye/

Yemen Times Online

* http://www.yementimes.com/

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

* http://www.banadir.com/

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

* http://www.hambastegi.org/

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

* http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLCE/7AE35E3BD46E47B6C1256AEE002FFD06?OpenDocument&StartKey=Afghanistan&ExpandView

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/343/business/Innocent\_are\_caught\_in\_cross\_hairs\_of\_the\_hunt\_for\_suspected\_terrorists+.shtml

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

* http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/

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

* http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html\_standard.xsl?/base/news/100755703615349436.xml

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

* http://www.cacianalyst.org/

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

* http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nypost/20011202/cm/ntsb\_birdbrains\_sticking\_heads\_in\_rockaway\_sand\_1.html

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

* http://www.indypress.org/

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/327/nation/Probe\_reconstructs\_horror\_calculated\_attacks\_on\_planes+.shtml

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)

* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/16/wvid16.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/11/16/ixhome.html

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

* http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/viewbo.cfm?uc\_fn=1&uc\_full\_date=20011122&uc\_daction=X&uc\_comic=bo

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")

* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=006576086753008&rtmo=lzoPFokt&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/97/12/14/wtal14.html

news coverage portal for Afghan news, music, etc

* http://www.afghania.com/

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)

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/317/science/Pro\_anti\_US\_hacktivists\_battle\_in\_cyberspace+.shtml

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/315/nation/Lifting\_the\_veil\_on\_how\_Israelis\_got\_the\_A\_bomb+.shtml

civil liberties Provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act That Relate to Online Activities

* http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism\_militias/20011031\_eff\_usa\_patriot\_analysis.html

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

* http://www.ourfuture.org/

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

* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/02/wfor02.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/11/02/ixhome.html

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/301/nation/Hate\_groups\_applaud\_terror\_attacks\_watch\_reaction\_warily+.shtml

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/301/nation/From\_New\_Jersey\_to\_Capitol\_Hill\_a\_deadly\_trail+.shtml

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/301/nation/Partners\_in\_jihad\_bin\_Laden\_ties\_to\_Taliban+.shtml

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

* http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html\_standard.xsl?/base/front\_page/100401095828508196.xml

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

* http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article\_display.jsp?vnu\_content\_id=1089598

"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

* http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/076182006X/qid=1004495492/sr=1-1/ref=sr\_1\_0\_1/104-2871332-2279963

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"

* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/26/war226.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/10/26/ixhome.html

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/298/business/Amid\_fears\_junk\_mail\_is\_dropping\_its\_disguises+.shtml

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

* http://www.cmcu.net/

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/294/nation/In\_anthrax\_puzzle\_some\_see\_evidence\_pointing\_within\_US+.shtml

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

* http://web.star-telegram.com/content/fortworth/2001/10/21/columnist/1956532671.htm?template=articleTemplateID.htm

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

* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news//2001/10/18/wanth218.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/10/18/ixhome.html

"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)

* http://www.atcc.org/

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

* http://www.bt.cdc.gov/

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

* http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3797GXUSC&live=true&tagid=ZZZOMSJK30C&subheading=US

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

* http://www.narcoterror.org/

"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?)

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/291/nation/Pat\_Robertson\_draws\_criticism\_for\_remarks\_on\_Islam+.shtml

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

* http://www.meionline.com/

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

* http://www.pflp-pal.org/

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/286/nation/Lax\_security\_eases\_access\_to\_lethal\_strains+.shtml

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/288/nation/Probers\_say\_bin\_Laden\_group\_had\_cell\_in\_Hub+.shtml

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

* http://www.arabic.hour.org/

Trans-Arab Research Institute

* http://www.tari.org/

Fiqh Council of North America

* http://www.fiqhcouncil.org/

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

* http://www.nilc.org/

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/285/nation/Memo\_warns\_against\_use\_of\_profiling\_as\_defense+.shtml

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

* http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/autonomy\_samples/autonomysuggest/autosuggest.jsp?docid=9083&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aviationnow.com%2Fcontent%2Fpublication%2Fawst%2F20011008%2Favi\_view.htm

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/284/west/Salesman\_who\_encountered\_lax\_Logan\_security\_is\_disappointed+.shtml

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

* http://www.jmcc.org/

The Indian Experience in a Connected World

* http://www.sulekha.com/

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)

* http://www.cair-net.org/

"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

* http://www.hinduunity.org/

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)

* http://www.meforum.org/

"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

* http://www.inin.net/

"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

* http://foi.missouri.edu/

National Freedom of Information Coalition

* http://www.nfoic.org/

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

* http://www.msf.org/

International Rescue Committee

* http://www.intrescom.org/

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

* http://www.ifrc.org/

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

* http://www.copvcia.com/

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

* http://www.oneworld.net/

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

* http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html\_standard.xsl?/base/news/10024542053020316.xml

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"

* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/07/wbin07.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/10/07/ixhome.html

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

* http://www.nima.mil/

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

* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/04/wanth04.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/10/04/ixhome.html

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)

* http://newyorker.com/FACT/

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

* http://zawaj.com/

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/272/nation/Bin\_Laden\_follower\_details\_training\_in\_poisons+.shtml

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)

* http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/washfile/latest&f=01092601.clt&t=/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/269/nation/FAA\_finds\_Logan\_security\_among\_worst\_in\_USP.shtml

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

* http://www.epn.org/

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

* http://www.theonion.com/

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

* http://www.arabfilm.com/

Saudi Arabia's First English Language Daily

* http://www.arabnews.com/

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"

* http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=006123924001800&rtmo=k77AAq7p&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/01/9/26/do01.html

Hawks Gang Up Against Powell (hey guys: get bin Laden, but indiscriminate violence only recruits terrorists)

* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/26/whawk26.xml

Pentagon Board Wants Hit on Iraq After Afghanistan

* http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010923/nysu001a\_1.html

The Assassins and Drug Dealers Now Helping US (um...)

* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/26/wdrug26.xml

UNHCR bulletin number 6, dated September 24th

* http://www.unhcr.ch/news/media/afghan/latest.htm

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

* http://newyorker.com/FACT/

Debate Over Federal Screeners Delaying Airport-Security Bill

* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19514-2001Sep24.html

Remote Control From Ground Leaves Pilots Unimpressed

* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/24/MN24120.DTL

Computer Security in Aviation: Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Risks (January 1997)

* http://www.csl.sri.com/neumann/air.html

Amid Terrorism Crisis, Echoes of 1970s Chancellor's Style

* http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?rub={B1311FCC-FBFB-11D2-B228-00105A9CAF88}&doc={55E4E51C-A2C2-4BA7-8402-F54BC3C7CF70}

French security policy instituted during the terror campaign of 1995

* http://www.fecl.org/circular/3906.htm

Our Vulnerable Telecom System

* http://www.smartmoney.com/techmarket/index.cfm?Story=20010921

Practical Architectures for Survivable Systems and Networks (June 2000)

* http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/survivability.html

US Targets Banks in War Against Terrorism

* http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330016-2001332343,00.html

editorial calling for stronger banking laws to prevent terrorism

* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/opinion/24MON2.html

The 2001 National Money Laundering Strategy

* http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/docs/ml2001.pdf

Past Efforts to Stop Money Flow Ineffective

* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19514-2001Sep24.html

Critical Infrastructures: Background and Implementation of PDD-63 (June 2001)

* http://www.fpc.gov/CRS\_REPS/pdd63.pdf

National Emergency Powers

* http://www.fpc.gov/CRS\_REPS/powers.pdf

British American Security Information Council

* http://www.basicint.org/

Jeb Bush declares a state of emergency in Florida

* http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog\_new/eog/orders/2001/september/eo2001-262-09-11-01.html

Poisoning a City Is Harder Than in Our Nightmares

* http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000076592sep24.story

Q&A: The Threat from Bio-Terrorism

* http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid\_1561000/1561360.stm

Getting Ahead of Bioterror

* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000076588sep24.story

A New View of High-Rise Firefighting

* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076521sep24.story

argues that the war won't work and favors security and addressing root causes

* http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14636

Muslim scholars' discussion of suicide bombings, jihad, and related topics

* http://www.fatwa-online.com/

Italian language sources on the attack

* http://www.sherwood.it/sherwoodcomunicazione/approfondimenti/disobbedireedisertare.htm

Statement of Benjamin Netanyahu Before the Government Reform Committee

* http://www.house.gov/reform/statement\_of\_netanyahu.htm

Walls of "Fortress America" Rising

* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0924/p1s1-usju.html

How Can the US Bomb This Tragic People?

* http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=95487

Fidel Castro's speech on the attack and war

* http://www.radiohc.org/Distributions/Radio\_Havana\_English/Fidel\_Castro\_on\_\_Infinite\_Justice\_\_22\_Sept\_2001

it was working people who got killed, and public servants who become heroes

* http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/09/faux-j-09-20.html

NY Times Magazine issue on the attack

* http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/

Fear Over Makeup of US Coalition

* http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=5114

How to Protect the Homeland

* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/opinion/25NYE.html

Bomb Them With Butter (the Afghan people are not our enemies, nor the Pakistanis, Uzbeks, etc)

* http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2001/09/25/humanitarian\_aid/

"why aren't we making anthrax and other vaccines available to the public?"

* http://slate.msn.com/pol/01-09-24/pol.asp

Why the Taliban Isn't So Tough

* http://www.tnr.com/100101/rubin100101.html

Kevin Kelly's comments on relations between bin Laden and the Taliban

* http://interesting-people.org/200109/0247.html

A Clear Role for Canada as Bush Gets It Just Right (from a source that I'm told rarely has anything good to say about the US)

* http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article\_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1001066903438

How to Devastate the World in One Easy Lesson

* http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=95386

criticism of airline bailouts

* http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/09/24/2.html * http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/09/21/opinion/DUBOFF21.htm * http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000076591sep24.story

September 11: Opinions from College Newspapers

* http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0925/p12s1-leca.html

why are we hearing more of "God Bless America" than the national anthem?

* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000076584sep24.story

blood-curdling call for a militia culture

* http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-barnett091801.shtml

worst enemy of "liberal media bias" suddenly discovers liberal media criticism (and finds it to be anti-American)

* http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/bb20010921.shtml

Great Leaders Are Forged in War (a nasty reactionary discourse on the evils of democracy and glories of war)

* http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001201

Afghan Americans Straddling Two Cultures Share Hopes, Fears

* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000076562sep24.story

Racial Profiling Gains Support as Search Tactic (but discrimination by the government only trashes our reputation in the world)

* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000076510sep24.story

Attack on Indian Student at U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Leads to Brawl

* http://chronicle.com/free/2001/09/2001092401n.htm

Arab Students Leaving US Colleges

* http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-attacks-arab-students0924sep24.story

School Worker Challenges Kufi Ban

* http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep01/hat24092301a.asp

Sikhs Getting the Heat for "Attack on America"

* http://www.sikh.net/AOA/sikh911.htm

Targeting of Sikhs and Other Americans in the Wake of the New York Tragedy

* http://65.42.195.102/sikhs/

Sikhs Fear Turbans May Be Targets

* http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000076553sep24.story

Visitors Flock to Local Mosque to Learn More, Show Support

* http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/monday/metro\_state\_1.html

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

* http://www.nssg.gov/

Preparing for the 21st Century: An Appraisal of U.S. Intelligence (1996)

* http://www.access.gpo.gov/int/report.html

IC21: Intelligence Community in the 21st Century

* http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/house/intel/ic21/index.html

Defense Trade: Information on US Weapons Deliveries to the Middle East

* http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-01-1078

Interactive Central Asia Resource Project

* http://www.icarp.org/

Israeli-Palestinian Human Rights and Peace Groups

* http://www.ariga.com/humanrights/index.asp

Terrorism, 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

* http://www.crimesofwar.org/

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/266/nation/Passengers\_say\_banned\_items\_have\_eluded\_airport\_monitors+.shtml

Barriers Rising to National Airport's Return (bummer)

* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14034-2001Sep23.html

Experts Say "Office of Homeland Security" Looks Good on Paper, but...

* http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0109220176sep22.story

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

* http://www.afghan-web.com/

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

* http://al-islam.org/

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)

* http://www.azzam.com/

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

* http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT37PMCDWRC&live=true&useoverridetemplate=ZZZ99ZVV70C&tagid=FTDO9DHMZJC

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

* http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/22/wmarc22.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/09/22/ixhomer.html

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

* http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/3b7ca3f7d1ecb088c1256acb0046305c?OpenDocument

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

* http://www.bof.nl/

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

* http://www.congress.org/

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)

* http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B41E636A4%2D68BA%2D43DC%2D9F2E%2D3BF141550CE3%7D&siteid=mktw

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

* http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article\_Type1&c=Article&cid=1000850489976&call\_page=TS\_News\_Columnists&call\_pageid=970599109774&call\_pagepath=News/Columnists

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

* http://www.merip.org/

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/261/nation/Business\_jets\_pose\_a\_little\_regulated\_attack\_opportunity+.shtml

Design Goal: Keeping Jets From Misuse as Missiles

* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/nyregion/19JET.html

Massport Urged Airlines to Speed Up Lines at Security Points

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/261/nation/Massport\_urged\_airlines\_to\_speed\_up\_lines\_at\_security\_points+.shtml

New Security Clogs US Borders

* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/business/20BORD.html?pagewanted=print

Bogus Firetruck Warning Puts Crews on Guard

* http://www.sptimes.com/News/091901/TampaBay/Firetruck\_warning\_put.shtml

America West Airline Pilot's Association Security Bulletin 2001-02 (you'll certainly want to read guideline number 5)

* http://www.awalpa.org/secbulletin.htm

Tolerance in Islam

* http://users.erols.com/gmqm/toleran1.html

Every Time We Choose to "Explain", We Become Implicated

* http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2001/September/Wrong/

Society of Afghan Professionals (US organization, mostly centered in the Bay Area)

* http://www.sapweb.org/

compassionate conservative response to an arson attack on an Afghan restaurant

* http://chowhound.com/california/boards/losangeles/messages/10530.html

John Cooksey (R-LA) endorses profiling of anyone "wearing a diaper on his head"

* http://www.theadvocate.com/news/story.asp?StoryID=24605

Suspect Called Himself a "Patriot" After Killing Immigrant, Authorities Say

* http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/breaking/0917attacks-arizonashooting-ON.html

praise for media coverage of the attack

* http://villagevoice.com/alertrd.php3?article=28255

Forgetting Foreign Affairs: American Media Cut Overseas Reporting

* http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/09/17/1.html

PDF images of 300 newspaper front pages from the day after

* http://63.208.24.134/Terrorism/gallery/wedgallery.htm

Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt) (semi-official but fairly intellectual)

* http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/

Turkish Daily News

* http://www.turkishdailynews.com/

official Uzbekistan government news agency

* http://jahon.tiv.uz/Ukaz/2001/news.htm

Uzbekistan Contacts

* http://www.tashkent.org/uzland/

Tashkent Home Page (unofficial page on the capital city of Uzbekistan)

* http://www.tashkent.org/

more world newspaper gateways

* http://www.thepaperboy.com/ * http://ajr.newslink.org/news.html

CIA World Factbook

* http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

jargon watch: defending oneself by comparison to the opposite extreme (study the Fox News spokesman's multiple distortions of the issue)

* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/business/media/20FLAG.html?pagewanted=print

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

* http://www.ict.org.il/

schematic of a "suitcase" nuclear weapon

* http://www.fas.org/nuke/hew/Library/Brown/Bcbomb.gif

well-reviewed history of European imperialism in Central Asia, 19C - early 20C

* http://www.tournamentofshadows.com/

Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies (liberal research and advocacy group in Cairo, now being repressed)

* http://www.ibnkhaldun.org/ * http://www.ibnkhaldun.org/trial/press/170601.html * http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/17/magazine/17EGYPT.html?pagewanted=all

Terrorism and the Military's Role in Domestic Crisis Management (April 2001)

* http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL30928.pdf

Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis, Peace Talks, Terrorism, and US Policy (June 2001)

* http://www.fas.org/man/crs/IB98043.pdf

The Shadowy World of Special Operations

* http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/20/special\_operations/print.html

Greetings America. My Name Is Bin Laden. Now That I Have Your Attention...

* http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2001/010913\_mfe\_binladen\_1.html

Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York City's World Trade Center

* http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465017274/netsurferdigest

"other acts of terrorism were planned"

* http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=94841

Three Are Held in Detroit After Airport Diagram Is Found

* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/national/20INQU.html

Atta, Now Seen as Conductor of the Attacks, Wore Many Masks

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/262/nation/Atta\_now\_seen\_as\_conductor\_of\_the\_attacks\_wore\_many\_masks+.shtml

Roadblocks Cited in Efforts to Trace bin Laden's Money

* http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/business/20MONE.html?pagewanted=print

New Task Forces Target Terrorist Funding

* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59609-2001Sep19.html

British Chancellor Gordon Brown Calls for Money Laundering Crackdown

* http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,554405,00.html

Inside the Mind of Osama bin Laden

* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59262-2001Sep19.html

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

* http://www.afsc.org/

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

* http://news.sify.com/cgi-bin/sifynews/news/content/news\_fullstory.jsp?article\_oid=7521356&category\_oid=-20609&page\_no=1

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)

* http://www.iwpr.net/

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

* http://www.sudanglobe.com/

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")

* http://www.airportnet.org/

US Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General

* http://www.oig.dot.gov/

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

* http://www.afghanradio.com/

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

* http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=005997313807439&rtmo=QexLmQwR&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/01/9/12/do02.html

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

* http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22bush+dyslexicon%22&start=40&hl=en&rnum=43&selm=f5dd2807.0109161606.73b23f9e%40posting.google.com

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

* http://www.pmw.org.il/

extensive discussion of the press coverage

* http://www.poynter.org/

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

* http://www.nyc.gov/

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)

* http://gooya.com/

"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

* http://www.elpais.es/articulo.html?d\_date=20010912&xref=20010912elpepiopi\_5&type=Tes&anchor=elpepiopi

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

* http://www.ncptsd.org/

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

* http://www.faz.de/IN/INtemplates/faznet/default.asp?tpl=faz/content.asp&doc={CF860253-DF78-4A53-A9F4-1C7FA0B8DFC3}#

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

* http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/

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

* http://www.nap.edu/terror/

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)

* http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/useftp.cgi?IPaddress=162.140.64.21&filename=rc99053.pdf&directory=/diskb/wais/data/gao

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

* http://www.adc.org/

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)

* http://www.littlewhitedog.com/forum/topic.asp?whichpage=1&Forum\_Title=General+Conversations&Topic\_Title=Perrito%27s+Story&CAT\_ID=5&FORUM\_ID=15&TOPIC\_ID=2929

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

* http://www.myafghan.com/

Lemar-Aaftab Afghan Magazine

* http://www.afghanmagazine.com/

Afghan Info Center

* http://www.afghan-info.com/

Arabic News

* http://www.arabicnews.com/

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

* http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/258/oped/We\_need\_the\_rule\_of\_law\_not\_the\_rule\_of\_warP.shtml

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

* http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/010915/world/afp/New\_Yorkers\_at\_dovish\_rally\_are\_torn\_over\_war\_and\_peace.html

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

* http://www.childtrauma.org/

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)

* http://www.times.kg/

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)

* http://www.terrorism.com/

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

* http://www.avweb.com/

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

* http://www.iaff.org/

Federal Emergency Management Agency

* http://www.fema.gov/

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

* http://AviationNow.com/

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

* http://msanews.mynet.net/

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"

* http://www.antiwar.com/

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

* http://asbnyc.cjb.net/

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

* http://cas.faa.gov/foia/

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

* http://www.firehouse.com/

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

* http://www.thenation.com/

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)

* http://cas.faa.gov/ig5.pdf

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

* http://www.tv5.org/nyc/

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

* http://www.law.com/

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

* http://www.pprune.org/

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

* http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/top\_story.html?in\_review\_id=456127∈\_review\_text\_id=407451

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

* http://www.nyu.edu/

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

* http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:aTcFnFRQL-E:www.redcross.org/services/biomed/blood/learn/eligibl.html+redcross+donation+blood+guidelines&hl=en

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

* http://robots.cnn.com/

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

* http://www.janes.com/

photos from Brooklyn of the buildings collapsing

* http://www.indigo23.com/

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

Stratfor

* http://www.stratfor.com/