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Hate — and love — for the USA
Asra Q. Nomani
My evening in a roomful of impassioned Muslim men was full of surprises. They looked me directly in the eye, though I am a woman. And they spoke of America as their hell, but also their heaven.
The Taliban’s bravest opponents
Janelle Brown
An underground resistance of Afghan women risks torture and execution to alert the world to the regime's atrocities. One freedom fighter tells Salon her story.
A new world order?
Michael Klare
Even former enemies are responding to America's call for a united front against terrorism.
The Iran card?
Anthony York, Max Garrone
The complex nation whose leader once called America "the Great Satan" -- and whose people cheer our soccer teams -- may play an increasingly important role in American strategic planning.
News coverage worth the price
Salon Staff
Why America napped
Suzy Hansen
David Halberstam talks about the prosperity of the '90s, when America thought it could afford to ignore the world -- and what we'll do now that we've woken up.
No end in sight
Flore de Preneuf
On the anniversary of the new Palestinian intifada, a resolution between Palestinians and Israelis seems as far away as ever.
Return to Pakistan
Asra Q. Nomani
On Sept. 11, the region where I was born suddenly became the center of the world -- and I knew I had to go back.
Friends like these
Eric Boehlert
Why did so many of the Sept. 11 hijackers have ties to Saudi Arabia? Why can't the U.S. use Saudi bases to fight the war on terrorism? What Americans don't know about their best Muslim ally.
What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?
Jennifer Foote Sweeney
As we struggle to define courage under the threat of terrorism, we can't dismiss the power of nonviolence.
Where’s my Islamic e-book?
Andrew Leonard
The demand for good books about terrorism or Afghanistan has never been greater, but the best are hard to find. Why can't I just click, buy and download?
Creating “many, many Osamas”
Steve Kettmann
Novelist William Vollmann says if the U.S. convinces Afghans of bin Laden's guilt, they'll support the move against him. If not, only "genocide" will defeat them.
America the ignorant
Laura Miller
After Sept. 11, Americans have rushed to educate themselves about Islam, the Middle East and foreign affairs. But how did we get so benighted in the first place?
Falwell should have listened to the feminists
Robert Scheer
Instead of blaming them for the attacks on the U.S., right-wingers ought to thank women's groups for raising alarms about the Taliban early and often.
There is no alternative to war
David Rieff
Blame-the-U.S. pacifism misses the point. Bin Laden wants to eradicate Western modernity, not liberate Palestine, and the U.S. has no choice but to fight him.
Our scary new best friends
Ken Silverstein
Afghanistan's Northern Alliance may be the enemy of our enemy, but it has its own grim history of violence and abuse of power.
Bomb them with butter
Joe Conason
In addition to limited military action against bin Laden, the U.S. should blanket Afghanistan with food, clothing and medicine.
Salon’s war reader
Compiled by Anthony York
Don't know much about Central Asian history? Osama bin Laden? The Web provides a crash course in what's needed to understand "America's new war."
The Central Asian chess game
Steve Kettmann
If the United States goes to war in Afghanistan, it will need the cooperation of former Soviet republics.
Dispatches from Afghanistan
Douglas Cruickshank
Like Vietnam chronicler Michael Herr, Russian journalist Artyom Borovik captured the hallucinatory hell of war -- but these days it's Borovik's account of Afghanistan that seems the most relevant.
Terror’s first victims
Janelle Brown
When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer.
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