Afghanistan

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Welcome to the death zone
The U.S. can't win a ground war in Afghanistan, says a British special forces officer who helped train the mujahedin.
Teach the Afghans the pick and roll!
The corny sentiment and just plain vulgarity of Western sports would do wonders for the more stiff-necked elements of Islamic society.
An Afghan-American speaks
You can't bomb us back into the Stone Age. We're already there. But you can start a new world war, and that's exactly what Osama bin Laden wants.
Save the children, or the Buddhas get it Save the children, or the Buddhas get it
Afghanistan's roving ambassador tells a Southern California student association why he was ready to "blow a statue" himself.
The invisible man The invisible man
As the African embassy bombing trial begins, Osama bin Laden casts a long shadow.
"Taliban" by Ahmed Rashid
A veteran journalist relates the full horror -- brutality, oppression of women and genocide -- of the new Afghanistan.
Disloyalty of Democrats
It's hardly a surprise that China was able to steal our nuclear secrets, given the kind of people the Democrats have put in charge.
Rushdie: Free at last
Reason and decency have their occasional victories, too, and the lifting of the fatwah against the author of "The Satanic Verses" is on.
They bomb pharmacies, don't they?
Days of rage (cont.)
Filmmaker Stephen Talbot fires back at David Horowitz over his PBS documentary '1968.'
Is bin Laden a terrorist mastermind -- or a fall guy?
When you get past the vague claims of anonymous 'intelligence sources,' the Clinton administration is asking the public to accept on faith its claim that Osama bin Laden is an evil Islamic Dr. No.
How to turn a criminal to a hero
The U.S. attacks on Osama bin Laden have transformed him into a local hero.
Who's wagging which dog?
In the capital, political reaction to the airstrikes was skepticism
Newsreal: "I wanted to shoot the CIA director"
In letters to Salon's correspondent, Pakistani terrorist Mir Aimal Kasi -- who faces the death penalty for killing two CIA employees -- explains why he did it, recounts his life on the lam and says his only regret is that he didn't kill higher-ranking CIA officials.
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
The tale of journalist and filmmaker Michael Wood's journey via Landrover, camel, foot and boat in the path of Alexander the Great.
Newsreal: Lone gunmen
The most serious terrorist threat to America comes not from organized or state-sponsored groups of political militants but from loners with a grudge and a gun.
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