Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 275)
Afghan girls — not so liberated after all
Katharine Mieszkowski
It's not just Iraqi women whose rights are in danger.
The tale of “Red Scorpion”
James Verini
The strange Hollywood interlude of the most scandal-ridden man in Washington.
Kissinger’s revisionist history lesson
Aaron Kinney
Former Sec. of State Henry Kissinger says we can learn a lot about Iraq by looking at Vietnam -- as long as we agree that the Vietnam War was an American success story.
Pentagon: Muslims will riot if they see what we did at Abu Ghraib
T.g.
The Bush administration says the release of more photos will lead to violence in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And we’re fighting in Iraq because?
T.g.
Newsweek reports that a man the U.S. says is linked to bin Laden is now working for the new Iraqi government.
Sticker shock over shell shock
Mark Benjamin
The U.S. government is reviewing 72,000 cases in which veterans have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming that misdiagnosis and fraud have inflated the numbers. Outraged vets say the plan is a callous attempt to cut the costs of an increasingly expensive war.
Sapphic soldiers
Christine Smallwood
Tereska Torres -- author of 1950s lesbian pulp novel "Women's Barracks" -- talks about the ladies of the Free French Forces, shocking American audiences, and being mistaken for a "lesbian writer."
The White House terror prevention plan: Trust us
Tim Grieve
The military is making plans to respond to terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. What is the White House doing to prevent such attacks? And why won't it tell the former 9/11 commissioners?
Where’s Osama?
T.g.
The president's protestations notwithstanding, a former CIA field commander says the United States could have captured bin Laden at Tora Bora.
What Michael Moore (and the neocons) don’t know about Saudi Arabia
Juan Cole
The left and the right have both crudely demonized the desert kingdom. But the ascension of King Abdullah gives the U.S. a chance to solidify relations with this flawed but key ally.
Letters
Salon Staff
Is Wal-Mart the symptom or the disease? Plus: Debating the connection between the London bombings and Iraq.
“The spirit of Osama”
Volkhard Windfuhr
A former army officer, once a close associate of bin Laden's, talks about the resort bombing in Egypt, the mutation of al-Qaida, and the world's "most powerful" terrorist network -- now operating in Iraq.
Catch one for us, Mr. President
Tim Grieve
George W. Bush makes his 49th trip to Crawford, where four years ago this week he was warned that Osama bin Laden was determined to attack the United States.
Letters
Salon Staff
Do suicide bombers just need a decent job, a girlfriend and a hug from Mom? Should the ACLU defend Kevin Trudeau? Readers weigh in on Laura Miller's "Killer Instincts" and Christopher Dreher's review of Trudeau's "Natural Cures."
The CIA and the death of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Tim Grieve
The U.S. military said an Iraqi general in its custody died of natural causes. That wasn't exactly true.
Look in the mirror, Mr. President
Doug Bandow
A Reaganite Republican says Bush should apologize for his grievous failures on Iraq.
On Bush’s bench?
David Cole
Supporters argue John Roberts will be committed to judicial restraint. But in his Guantanamo ruling, he gave Bush virtually unlimited powers in the war on terror. This is restraint?
Selling the war
Sidney Blumenthal
When your mission is failing, is it enough simply to rename it? Not if you care about credibility.
The Pakistan powder keg
Matthias Gebauer, Charles Hawley
Ahmed Rashid, an expert on militant Islam, says unless the West turns up the heat on Musharraf, al-Qaida will continue to flourish there.
Tunnel vision
Sidney Blumenthal
For Bush, it's always either the day after 9/11 or the day before the Iraq invasion. He needs to rethink his war on terror.
Letters
Salon Staff
Can we find a happy medium between ConAgra and Auntie Em? Readers respond to Ira Boudway's "Big Agriculture's Big Lie."
The enemy is closer than we think
Mark Follman
A top counterterrorism expert says the London suicide bombers may not have acted alone -- and America may be next.
Radical Islam’s rising war on Europe
Cordula Meyer, Holger Stark, Andreas Ulrich, Dominik Cziesche
EU investigators say that terrorists operate in small, flexible groups, making it almost impossible to catch them -- and that the Iraq war has made their task infinitely harder.
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