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Afghanistan’s land mine nightmare
Janelle Brown
Mines killed 1,100 Afghans last year, and injured up to 100 more a week. Now American ground troops head to a battlefield littered with 10 million mines -- and the conflict could leave more behind.
Stop this benefit!
Jim DeRogatis
McCartney, Jagger, Bowie et al. turn out for a benefit show that was long on schlock and short on facts and truth.
Andrew Sullivan’s jihad
David Talbot
Since Sept. 11, the British journalist has declared himself the mullah of the media world, sitting in judgment of American writers' patriotism.
Love-bombing bin Laden
David Rieff
The peace-loving people of Berkeley believe that fighting evil makes one evil.
Bringing the war home
Damien Cave
Antiwar sentiment still runs deep in cities like Berkeley, Madison and Cambridge. But peace activists are being confronted by a strong wave of pro-war patriotism.
Journalist or bride?
Asra Q. Nomani
I get a marriage proposal, get compared to "Hanoi Jane" and plan a trip to Afghanistan on a prayer.
A would-be martyr
Asra Q. Nomani
Qaiser Nadeem, 20, longs for the day he is called to leave his video store and join the jihad -- fighting the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan.
Optional burqas and mandatory malnutrition
Janelle Brown
After spending 18 months studying Afghanistan, Dr. Lynn Amowitz reports that life under the Taliban is more brutal -- and more complicated -- than we suspected.
Letters: White powder and supervillains
Salon Staff
Readers respond to recent articles on anthrax alarms, Rumi translator Coleman Barks and the lighter side of Osama bin Laden.
Polled over
Arianna Huffington
President Bush's 92 percent public approval rating
has as much staying power as one of the snack packs dropped on Afghanistan. But the meaningless poll data has cowed the Democrats into silence.
The Arab baby boom
Eric Boehlert
Idle youth in the Middle East provide easy recruits for extremist groups -- and there are more every year.
A memo to American Muslims
M. A. Muqtedar Khan
It's time for us to search our souls. How can the message of Muhammad become a source of horror and fear? How can Islam inspire thousands of youth to dedicate their lives to killing others?
The crossroads
Flore de Preneuf
The murder of an Israeli extremist by Palestinian extremists pushes both Sharon and Arafat to the brink -- and threatens to doom the peace process.
When “Friends” screw
Salon Staff
I mean, are they still "Friends" then? Plus: Back to "Gilligan's Island"; "Crossing Jordan"; "Third Watch"; and more!
Who do we bomb next?
Robert Scheer
If the president were serious about fighting terrorism, we would soon be attacking Saudi Arabia.
The “traitor” fires back
David Talbot
Denounced as a fifth columnist by the right, Susan Sontag blasts America's cowlike media and scaremongering leaders -- and says she fears that another terror attack could turn the U.S. into a police state.
Bin Laden as Lex Luthor
Gale Holland
There's something hauntingly familiar about the world's latest personification of evil, something with deep resonance in U.S. mythology.
Salon recommends
Salon Staff
A New Yorker writer on militant Islam in Egypt, a sprawling literary science fiction novel and more
The black sheep
Gavin McNett
A critic of Islam and the Third World, cranky, controversial and politically incorrect V.S. Naipaul is the most daring choice for the Nobel Prize in literature in years.
Peshawar protests peacefully
Sean Kenny
Friday, the Muslim holy day, is also a day of testing for Pakistan's Musharraf.
“Jihad jive” in Jakarta — or the real thing?
Joseph Kirschke
As Islamic militants protest the American attacks, Indonesia's new president must decide how hard to crack down on the latest threat to her complex, fragile, far-flung nation.
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