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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_stan
dard.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.ht
ml
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/07/wdeal
07.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/wbin2
07.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/wbin0
7.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/nlab0
4.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+.shtm
l

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=pri
nt

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/

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