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 Sky.com: Afghans To Hand Over Arab Fighters - http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1038754,00.html "Hamid Karzai, the man leading the interim Afghan government, has promised to hand over Arab guerrillas caught in his country to face international justice." UK. |
 Observer: Taliban troops switch sides as rebels advance - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/14/terrorism.afghanistan4 Chris Stephen in Dasti Kala and Kamal Ahmed. "Alliance commanders say there is now a real possibility that the entire northern half of Afghanistan will switch away from the Taliban, as defections trigger a domino effect." UK. |
 Observer: Nervous Tehran has a wider role to play - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/21/afghanistan.religion Fred Halliday. The impact on and by Iran. The author is professor of international relations at the London School of Economics and his new book is Two Hours that Shook the World: Causes and Consequences. |
 Kofi Annan: We must recognise our common enemies - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/sep/22/september11.usa1 "The United Nations - and the international community - must have the courage to recognise that just as there are common aims, there are common enemies." |
 Guardian: 'There isn't a target in Afghanistan worth a $1m missile' - http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2001/oct/10/features11.g2 Stephen Moss. Interview with Mohamed Heikal, political commentator and the former foreign minister of Egypt. "'The most important thing is to get religion out,' he says. "You are talking to me about a Muslim state, yet you are not discussing a Jewish state - a state built on religion. That cannot be. Religion can be no basis for a state.'" UK. |
 Guardian: 'If you hate the west, emigrate to a Muslim country' - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/08/religion.uk Interview with Hamza Yusuf, an Islamic scholar and US advisor, about the terrorist attacks, suicide, killing innocents, and the Muslim responses. |
 Guardian: They can't see why they are hated - http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/sep/13/september11.britainand911 Seumas Milne. "Americans cannot ignore what their government does abroad." UK. |
 Guardian: The pursuit of Bin Laden could soon be a sideshow - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4263035,00.html Peter Preston. "A wise west would care for Pakistan as more than a series of air bases set on the edge of the Hindu Kush. A wise west would wonder not just what Pakistan could do for it in the pursuit of prime suspects, but what it now, at a moment of test, could do for Pakistan." UK. |
 EuroNews - http://www.euronews.net/create_html.php?new_langue=en&page=accueil_info Stories and videos. |
 The Muslim News: British Muslims condemn the terrorist attacks - http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=1062 A statement from the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB). UK. |
 Independent: Are we trapped in another Vietnam? - http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1102-07.htm By Arthur Schlesinger: "Our leaders gambled that the unpopularity of the regime would enable bombing to bring about the Taliban's rapid collapse." |
 spiked: After the attack on America - http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000002D22F.htm Mick Hume. "As the dust clears over the scenes of carnage, it is worth asking what these events and the reaction to them can tell us about the world we live in now." UK. |
 Deutsche Welle: The Price of a New Afghanistan - http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,413077,00.html German Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul pledged $280 million for Germany at a conference in Tokyo. In addition to commitments from individual European states, the European Commission pledged $177 million in 2002, and over $880 million over the next five years. The US wants initially to provide $296 million. Germany. |
 BakuSun: Uzbekistan May Host U.S. Forces - http://www.bakusun.az:8101/cgi-bin/ayten/bakusun/show.cgi?code=1545 From Tashkent. "'Uzbekistan is ready to discuss any form of cooperation in the struggle against international terrorism in our region, including the deployment of U.S. forces,' Foreign Ministry spokesman Bakhodyr Umarov said...The comments by Kamilov and Umarov represented the only standing offer from a former Soviet republic to help the United States in launching military strikes against Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks." Azerbaijan. |