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At home with the Taliban
Asra Q. Nomani
While U.S. bombs dropped on his country, a Taliban official and his two wives welcomed me into their living room and talked of marriage, music and his memories of dining in the World Trade Center's starry restaurant.
Couples in crisis
Cole Kazdin
With their last breath people wanted to reach out and say, "I love you."
Behind Musharraf’s military shuffle
Nadeem Iqbal
When Pakistan's leader shoved aside some longtime allies, it signaled a tough new approach to the Taliban and Islamic militants at home.
A double standard on terror?
Robert Scheer
While chasing bin Laden, the U.S. is ignoring Pakistan's nukes, Saudi Arabia's Muslim extremism and its own attacks on civilians in Iraq.
Bush scolds Congress
Jake Tapper
The president limits access to classified information in an attempt to plug leaks on Capitol Hill.
Suspicious minds
Eric Boehlert
Many Arab rulers would like to support the Western war on Osama bin Laden. But their subjects disagree, and have a laundry list of reasons why.
Movies of the Middle East
Janelle Brown
Middle Eastern cinema provides a rich and complex look at a region that has suddenly moved to center stage.
The first casualties
Sean Kenny
A 16-year-old Afghan food vendor whose foot was blown off by a U.S. bomb lies in a decrepit hospital in Pakistan.
“Now, jihad has begun”
Asra Q. Nomani
From the living room of a close friend and advisor to Osama bin Laden, Sunday's attack seems like just the beginning of a much greater battle.
Watching the explosions from “Afghan Town”
David Talbot
Afghan-American intellectuals and journalists hope the U.S. is a rescuer, not a destroyer.
What cost air safety?
Jake Tapper
Flight attendants demand that flying be made safer, through measures like screening all bags -- but the airlines are resisting.
Taking to the streets
Sean Kenny
Protests in the capital of Islamabad are child's play, but it's markedly more violent near the Afghanistan border.
War and peace
Gary Kamiya
Our fight against terrorism gives the U.S. a historic opportunity to become a kinder, gentler force in the world
Palestinian rioters hail bin Laden
Flore de Preneuf
Yasser Arafat's security forces used tear gas, batons and bullets, but they couldn't stop students from welcoming the Saudi terrorist's support.
Refuting Chomsky
David Horowitz
His defenders say I didn't come up with proof that Noam Chomsky distorts the truth. Here it is.
All quiet in Islamabad, for now
Sean Kenny
As the bombs fall, even protesters in Rawalpindi are outnumbered by riot police, but the crowds will grow as the day goes on.
The unwanted
Sean Kenny
Hundreds of thousands of Afghans already live in squalid Pakistani refugee camps, where freshly made coffins lie outside carpenters' workshops. Can the world handle a million more?
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to recent articles on EMDR therapy, emotional damage in New York, alternatives to violence, women under the Taliban and the non-death of irony.
Preparing for the worst
Anthony York
As war looms over Afghanistan, relief agencies are racing to stave off mass starvation -- inside and outside the ravaged country.
The return of Colin Powell?
Ben Barber
Ridiculed as the Bush administration's "odd man out" on the eve of the terror attacks, he has neutralized the hawks -- for now.
Terrorism is unhealthy for children and other living things
Joan Walsh
"The West Wing" preaches the obvious in its "bold" special episode.
President George W. Gore goes to war
David Talbot
Suddenly, the once-macho Bush White House is feeling everybody's pain.
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