Terrorism, Anti-Terrorism, Taliban
and Afghanistan Links 2001


plus Editorials on Overcoming Political and Religious Hatred

compiled by Tracy Marks   .


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Resources
Afghanistan
Taliban
Osama
Bin Laden

Terrorism and
Anti-Terrorism

Taliban etc.
Books

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News Sources
Newsgroups
and Forums

Commentaries:
Why Do
They Hate Us?
Focus on
Peace

Islam



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 AFGHANISTAN

Afghanistan

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.htm
http://www.11aa.com/afghannews.html
http://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.htm
http://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.shtml


Taliban 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.html



Online Videos on the Taliban
http://news.yahoo.com/h/a/sid/1695125.html
Who are the Taliban?
Osama Bin Laden interview
Bin Laden Recruitment videos


Women 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=nw

Bin 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 FORUMS

soc.culture.afghanistan
alt.security.terrorism
alt.security.terrorism.counter
soc.culture.pakistan
alt.religion.islam
alt.war
misc.activism.progressive
alt.current-events.wtc-explosion
alt.current-events.usa

New York Times Forums (top left)
Washington Post World News Talk
Washington Post Live Online Message Boards
Guardian Unlimited Talk
Journal of PsychoHistory Discussion List

MESSAGE 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.htm
http://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 Peace

Village 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.htm




FOCUS 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=11469

Peace 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 COMMENTARIES
New York Times Editorials
New York Times Reader's Opinions
Washington Post Editorials
Washington Post Reader's Opinions
Yahoo News Op/Ed Pages
Yahoo News Editorial Roundup
The Atlantic Online
The Nation
American Prospect
TomPaine.com/
War Is Not the Answer: Quaker Legislative Action
Commentary Links at Looksmart


Wanted
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    



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