HELP RESOURCES
Emergency and Relief Information
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/
Red Cross Donations
http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-wtc1/http://s1.amazon.com/paypage/PKAXFNQH7EKCX/
How to Assist Terror Victims
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/wtc_howtohelp.html
TALIBAN and
AFGHANISTANAfghanistan
Afghanistan: A Nightmare Battlefield
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41121-2001Sep16.html
CIA World
Factbook Afghanistan
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html
Afghanistan
in Text
http://www.nutshellnotes.com/afghanistan_text.htm
Afghan Information Center
http://www.afghan-info.com/
The Enemy We Barely Know: Afghanistan
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/09/19/elliot/index.html
Country Profile: Afghanistan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/country_profiles/newsid_1162000/1162668.stm
Afghanistan's Deceptive Strengths
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/opinion/20THU3.html?ex=1002091610&ei=1&en=dd26dc9b62b15a98
Afghanistan Online
http://www.afghan-web.com/
Afghanistan Online Links
http://www.afghan-web.com/www.html
Afghan Resistance Site
http://www.afgha.com/
Afghan News
http://www.afghana.com/Education/News.htmhttp://www.11aa.com/afghannews.htmlhttp://afghan-info.com/afghnews.htm
Institute for Afghan Studies
http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/index.htm
Afghan Daily
http://www.afghandaily.com/
Afghan News group at Yahoogroups
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AfghanNews
Afghan Network
http://www.afghan-network.net/
Amnesty International on Afghanistan
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/countries/indx311.htm
Azadi Afghan Radio
http://www.afghanradio.com/main.shtml
Afghan Bookshop
http://www.afghan-network.net/Bookshop/bestsellers.html
Northern Alliance
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/northern_alliance.htmhttp://institute-for-afghan-studies.org/dev_xyz/na/brief_intro.htm
PBS Online Newshour: Afghanistan
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/afghanistan/index.html
Why We Oppose the War in Afghanistan (Socialist)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/oct2001/war-o09.shtmlTaliban and Afghanistan
Taliban
Online
http://www.ummah.net/dharb/
The Islamic Taliban Movement
http://www.islam.org.au/articles/18/taliban1.htm
Taliban
and Afghanistan Special Report
http://www.usip.org/oc/sr/sr_afghan.html
Afghanistan
and Taliban Links
http://www.haus-des-islam.de/land/afghan.html
CNN: Afghanistan under the Taliban
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/taliban/
Taliban
Regime in Afghanistan
http://www.afghan-info.com/TALIBAN.HTM
Taliban
in Afghanistan
http://www.borndigital.com/taliban.htm
Taliban
Terror Rules Afghanistan
http://eaglegraphics.net/decenttalk/articles/afghanistan.html
Afghanistan's
Taliban: Not Valid Islam
http://islamfortoday.com/taleban8.htm
Inside the Jihad: The Taliban
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-08-09.htm
The Taliban The Lawless Frontier
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/09/kaplan2.htm
The Education of a Holy Warrior
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000625mag-taliban.htmlOnline Videos on the Talibanhttp://news.yahoo.com/h/a/sid/1695125.htmlWho are the Taliban?Osama Bin Laden interviewBin Laden Recruitment videosWomen under the Taliban
Some restrictions imposed upon Women
http://www.rawa.org/rules.htm
Women and
Islam
http://www.wapha.org/islam.html
Afghan Women Speak
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11640
Buried
Alive, Afghan Women under the Taliban
http://www.echonyc.com/~onissues/su98goodwin.html
Womens
Alliance for Peace and Human rights
http://www.wapha.org/facts.html
RAWA
Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan
http://rawasongs.fancymarketing.net/index.html
Please help this important organization!
Women for Women Afghanistan group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/W4WAfghan
Women's Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afg
http://www.wapha.org/
Afghan Women's Mission
http://afghanwomensmission.org/index.shtml
TERRORISM and
ANTI-TERRORISM
Terrorism
Research Center
http://www.terrorism.com/index.html
Terrorism
Research Center Documents
http://www.terrorism.com/terrorism/documents.shtml
Toward
a National Strategy for Combating Terrorism
http://www.terrorism.com/documents/gilmore2.pdf
(192 page Adobe Acrobat report)
The Terrorism Research Center
http://www.terrorism.com/index.shtml
Erri Counter-Terrorism
Archive
http://www.emergency.com/cntrterr.htm
Patterns of
Global Terrorism
http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/gt_index.html
International
Terrorism
http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/main.htm
Afghanistan
and Terrorism Links
http://www.haus-des-islam.de/land/afghan.html
Anti-Terrorism.org
http://www.antiterrorism.org/main.html
ICT Terrorism
and Counter-Terrorism
http://www.ict.org.il/
Theory and Practice of Terrorism
http://denbeste.nu/essays/terrorism.shtml
While the US views Islamic Terrorism as an Immanent Threat
(Jerusalem Cloakroom, 8/08/01)
http://www.acpr.org.il/cloakrm/index.html
Equal Time for Hitler
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/opinion/20SAFI.html
Suicide Bombings
Suicide Terrorism
Development and Characteristics
http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=112
Suicide
Bombings
http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=373
OSAMA BIN
LADEN
PBS Frontline Hunting BinLaden
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/
Bin Laden
Interview Transcripts
http://www.terrorism.com/terrorism/BinLadinTranscript.shtml
Time Bin Laden Interview
http://www.time.com/time/asia/news/interview/0,9754,174550,00.html
The
Bin Laden Principle
http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=375
Bin Laden FAQs
http://www.msnbc.com/news/627355_asp.htm
How to Beat Bin Laden
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,174803,00.html
Understanding Bin Laden and the Islamic World
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11487
Who is Osama Bin Laden? BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_155000/155236.stm
Osama Bin Laden: Anti-Defamation League
http://www.adl.org/presrele/terrorismintl_93/bin_laden_93.asp
1998 Talk with Bin Laden: The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=archive&s=fisk_wtc_19980921
Bin Laden: A Master Impresario
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20783-2001Sep12.html
Yahoo Links to Osama Bin Laden
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Osama%20bin%20Laden&cs=nwBin Laden's Journey
Bin Laden's past words revisited
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010928/wl/bin_laden_s_words.html
TERRORISM and TALIBAN
BOOKS
Linked to Amazon.com
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central
Asia
by Ahmed Rashid
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban
Movement
by Michael Griffin
The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in
Afghanistan
by Peter Marsden
The
New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden
and the Future of Terrorism
by Simon Reeve
Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism
by John Cooleya
Bin Laden
by Yossef Bodansky
Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence
Mark Jeurgensmeyer
(Your web page creator is reading this one and highly recommends it!)
Triumph of Disorder: Islamic Fundamentalism, New Face of War
by Morgan Norval
Fighting Terrorism : How Democracies Can Defeat
Domestic and International Terrorists
by Binyamin Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu
Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies,
States of Mind
by Walter Reich (Editor), Walter Laqueur
The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan,
Iran, and Pakistan
by Myron Weiner (Editor), Ali Banuazizi (Editor)
Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban
by William Maley (Editor)
Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive
the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe
by Michael T. Osterholm, John Schwartz
War's Offensive on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge
in Bosnia, Kosova and Afghanistan
ISLAM / MUSLIMS
(this section just started; more to come -
see also Overcoming Hatred Links
below)
PBS Islam: Empire of Faith
http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/
Coming to Grips with Jihad
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/jihad.htm
Islam Means Peace Not Terrorism
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200109/15+islam091501_features.html+20010915
Islam Means Submission to God
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010920/wl/islam_explained_2.html
The True Peaceful Face of Islam
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101011001-175987,00.html
ABCNews on Islam
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/islam_special_report_011009_intro.fbk.html
Beliefnet on Islam
http://www.beliefnet.com/index/index_10004.html
Islam: Eternal Path to Peace
http://www.jannah.org/
Beauty in the Shadow of Violence: Islamic Art
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/arts/design/07COTT.html
New Trends in Islamic Extremism
http://www.csis.org/features/nyterror_hunter.htm
Extremism's Theological Roots
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/opinion/07LILL.html
Frontline: Islamic Terrorism
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/modern.html
The Triumph of Terrorism
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/jihad.htm
NEWSGROUPS and FORUMSsoc.culture.afghanistanalt.security.terrorism
alt.security.terrorism.countersoc.culture.pakistanalt.religion.islamalt.warmisc.activism.progressive alt.current-events.wtc-explosionalt.current-events.usaNew York Times Forums (top left)Washington Post World News TalkWashington Post Live Online Message BoardsGuardian Unlimited TalkJournal of PsychoHistory Discussion ListMESSAGE BOARDS
NEWS
see also Editorials/Commentaries
CNN News
http://www.cnn.com
ABC
News
http://abcnews.go.com/
Yahoo News
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/
News Hot Topics:
Terrorism Attacks
http://www.evergreen.edu/user/library/govdocs/hotopics/index.html
NY
Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/globe/
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/
World News Links
http://inkpot.com/news/
The Guardian (UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Middle East Newspapers
http://inkpot.com/news/mideast.html
Middle East
Times
http://metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/methaus.htmhttp://metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/front_index.htm
PakistanLink
http://www.pakistanlink.com/
Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/
Radio Free Europe
http://www.rferl.org
Al-Manar Television (Live Arabic News from Lebanon)
http://www.manartv.com/ See also the extensive News Listings
on my Internet Class Bookmarks Page
EDITORIALS and
COMMENTARIES: The Roots of Hatred, Overcoming Hatred,
Seeking PeaceVillage Voice: Why Do They Hate Us?
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0141/kamber.php
Newsweek: Politics of Rage - Why Do They Hate Us?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/639057.asp?0nw=n1d
Where Violence Comes From
http://www.tikkun.org/index.cfm/action/current/article/53.html
Why
Do They Hate Us?
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Global_Secrets_Lies/WhyHateUs_Herman.html
They Can't See Why They Are Hated
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,551036,00.html
The Political Roots of the Terror Attack (Socialist)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/sep2001/terr-s12.shtml
World Crisis Highlights Anti-American Sentiment
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/09/21092001115055.asp
A Hatred Rooted in Failings
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35106-2001Sep15.html
War on Terrorism Faces Weight of History
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010917/wl/attack_history_dc_1.html
Insight into Mideast Hatred of U.S.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wyff/20010913/lo/906152_1.html
Terrorists are Made, Not Born
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/12/blowback/
The Blame Game
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=785171
The High Price of Disengagement
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/13/MN103008.DTL
The Roots of Muslim Rage
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/90sep/rage.htm
The Sexual Rage Behind Islamic Terror
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/columnists/glazov/glazov10-04-01.htm
Brother If You Don't Mind
http://www.jannah.org/usman.html
Extremist Hatred of the US: Roots
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010919/3642954s.htm
Who Hates the U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/weekinreview/23SCIO.html
In Europe, Some Say the Attacks Stem
From American Failings
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/international/europe/22DEBA.html
Hamas Rules: Sources of Hatred
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/opinion/21FRIE.html
Media Fundamentalism
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/laweekly/20010921/lo/28336_1.html
The School for Violence
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/laweekly/20010928/lo/28621_1.html
Mind of a Fundamentalist
http://biz.yahoo.com/fo/010921/0921nukhaev_1.html
BLOWBACK, Sept 2001, Atlantic Monthly
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011015&c=1&s=johnson
BLOWBACK, May 1996 Atlantic Monthly
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96may/blowback.htmFOCUS ON
PEACE
Justice Not Terror Petition
http://www.moveon.org/justice/
Not Vengeance but Compassion (Howard Zinn)
http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2001/09/13/1.html
Loyal Opposition: When the Enemy is a Methodology
http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2001/09/21/3.html
Opposition to Bush's War
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=nichols20011021
Nobel Peace Winners Speak Out
http://www.thecommunity.com/crisis/
A Time for Peace Not Retaliation
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11469Peace Signs Amidst Call to War
War vs. Peace: Novelists and Essayists Speak
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/vvny/20011005/lo/28679_1.html
Letter from Ground Zero, October 2001
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011029&s=schell
MORE COMMENTARIESNew York Times EditorialsNew York Times Reader's OpinionsWashington Post EditorialsWashington Post Reader's OpinionsYahoo News Op/Ed PagesYahoo News Editorial RoundupThe Atlantic OnlineThe NationAmerican ProspectTomPaine.com/
War Is Not the Answer: Quaker Legislative ActionCommentary Links at LooksmartWanted
Links to articles with thoughtful and insightful commentaries
on the roots of this current tragedy (and the hatred of
the terrorists/some Islamic people for the U.S.) and how
we might understand and respond on a non-military level
(as well as a military level).
Please send links to
Tracy Marks
Disclaimer
I have not read all the articles on the above links
which I just hastily compiled. If there is any offensive
material in any of them, this is out of my control
but I'd be happy to remove any links above
which are not appropriate or contain information which
is hurtful to innocent people.
Tracy Marks