Afghanistan

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  • Creating "many, many Osamas"

    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.
    By Steve Kettmann September 27, 2001

  • Falwell should have listened to the feminists

    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.
    By Robert Scheer September 26, 2001

  • Bomb them with butter

    In addition to limited military action against bin Laden, the U.S. should blanket Afghanistan with food, clothing and medicine.
    By Joe Conason September 25, 2001

  • Salon's war reader

    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."
    Compiled by Anthony York September 25, 2001

  • The Central Asian chess game

    If the United States goes to war in Afghanistan, it will need the cooperation of former Soviet republics.
    By Steve Kettmann September 25, 2001

  • Terror's first victims

    When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer.
    By Janelle Brown September 24, 2001

  • How the U.S. will fight

    A combination of special forces, lethal stealth, diplomacy and old-fashioned military power will be used to battle terrorists.
    By Damien Cave and Anthony York September 20, 2001

  • The "enemy" we barely know

    A writer who has traveled extensively in Afghanistan talks about how little we understand its people, how dangerous it is to underestimate them and why they have cause to resent the U.S.
    By Laura Miller September 19, 2001

  • 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.
    By Tom Carew September 19, 2001

  • 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.
    By Allen Barra September 19, 2001

  • 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.
    By Tamim Ansary September 14, 2001

  • 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.
    By Carina Chocano March 22, 2001

  • The invisible man

    As the African embassy bombing trial begins, Osama bin Laden casts a long shadow.
    By Ted Rose February 12, 2001

  • "Taliban" by Ahmed Rashid

    A veteran journalist relates the full horror -- brutality, oppression of women and genocide -- of the new Afghanistan.
    By Jonathan Groner April 6, 2000

  • 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.
    By David Horowitz June 7, 1999

  • 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.
    By Christopher Hitchens September 29, 1998

  • They bomb pharmacies, don't they?

    By Christopher Hitchens September 23, 1998

  • Days of rage (cont.)

    Filmmaker Stephen Talbot fires back at David Horowitz over his PBS documentary '1968.'
    By Stephen Talbot September 1, 1998

  • 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.
    By Loren Jenkins August 27, 1998

  • How to turn a criminal to a hero

    The U.S. attacks on Osama bin Laden have transformed him into a local hero.
    By Jonathan Broder August 26, 1998

  • Who's wagging which dog?

    In the capital, political reaction to the airstrikes was skepticism
    By David Corn August 21, 1998

  • 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.
    By Jeff Stein January 22, 1998

  • 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.
    By Michael Wood January 8, 1998

  • 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.
    By Jeff Stein November 21, 1997
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