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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.
The fatwa against Bill Maher
Arianna Huffington
Politically correct TV executives and advertisers are rushing to censor the talk show host for exercising his right to free speech.
Solidarity forever?
Steve Kettmann
At an emergency meeting, European leaders back a "targeted" campaign against terrorism and applaud Bush's new internationalism.
Blasts from the past
Ken Silverstein
The weaponry the Taliban could turn on us may be our own, the relics of a $7 billion Cold War campaign.
How big a war?
Anthony York
Hawk Paul Wolfowitz wants the U.S. to attack Iraq. Colin Powell doesn't -- and nobody knows who has Bush's ear.
It isn’t just “freedom” they hate
Sara Pursley
Those who rained terror upon the U.S. may have had real grievances -- and we shouldn't feel guilty about discussing them.
Anger in the bazaars of Peshawar
Sean Kenny
The Taliban has strong support in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. If there is civil war, it will start here.
Networks of terror
John Leonard
As television hypes the coming war, the nation watches passively. Stunned by grief, we've shut ourselves up.
Will the war on terrorism be a recession buster?
Katharine Mieszkowski
Some economists are predicting that an upcoming flood of government spending will kick-start a flagging economy.
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