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The air industry's worst nightmare
Just days ago, national security executives met secretly with airline CEOs to warn them that al-Qaida may be planning to fire shoulder-launched missiles at commercial jets in the U.S. There's virtually no defense.
The Salon Interview: Steve Earle
The radical country rocker and composer of "John Walker's Blues" blasts the war on Iraq, denounces the death penalty and explains why ex-druggies believe in God.
It's the war, stupid
Yes, the Democrats have serious problems. But without 9/11, they still would have trounced Bush and the Republicans.
On a secret Taliban trail into Afghanistan
Walking the narrow goat trails of Kunar Province, Taliban and al-Qaida fighters can travel with their weapons to and from Pakistan. But which way are they headed?
U.S. airstrike near Asadabad
In an Afghan province known for its hostility to the West, the U.S. is hunting for a fierce Islamic military leader.
A legal war without victory
After months of bold posturing and fierce infighting, both sides in the case of American Taliban John Walker Lindh decided to cut their risks.
Al-Qaida monitored U.S. negotiations with Taliban over oil pipeline
A memo by military chief Mohammed Atef raises new questions about whether failed U.S. efforts to reform Afghanistan's radical regime -- and build the pipeline -- set the stage for Sept. 11.
Parents for a Taliban-free youth
How to tell if your child is a future John Walker Lindh.
Love, Jalalabad style
Since the Taliban fell, weddings are a time to sing and drink and party. But some things haven't changed: Nadar didn't meet his bride until their wedding day.
Gen. Rashid Dostum
The Uzbek warlord, and Afghanistan's new interim deputy defense minister, sounds enlightened, but can he walk it like he talks it?
I studied in Yemen with John Walker
He was fresh from Marin, more Catholic than the pope and the other students derisively nicknamed him Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens).
John Walker's brothers and sisters
None of the San Francisco Bay Area's many other Muslim converts followed his same ill-fated path. But is there something about their religious experience that estranges them from their own country?
Panic at the Bangi Bridge
A trip to the front in Afghanistan turns into a nightmare after a Taliban ambush sets off a panic.
Al-Qaida's last stand
After I dodged a mortar shell on the front lines and met with mujahedin fighters who weren't so lucky, the Eastern Alliance declared victory -- again.
Leaping to conclusions
Well-meaning observers are making dangerous assumptions about Afghan women and their goals for the future.
An Afghan aristocrat fights for equality
Leila Enayat-Seraj rolls up her couture sleeves to rescue Afghan art and restore civil rights for women.
Ready for her close-up
A doctor, educator, human rights activist and mother, Habiba Sarabi longs for a chance to work -- legally -- back home in Afghanistan.
America's handy new Insta-Traitor: Just add hot-tub water and stir!
Conservatives who say that America-hating California relativism produced John Walker don't know what they're talking about -- literally.
The women behind the women of Afghanistan
Hena Efat was smuggled into the Afghan Women's Summit; her plan is to go home and fight some more.
Any day now
Afghan women hope to use the momentum of international recognition to secure civil rights and a role in government.
Out of Afghanistan
After witnessing the fall of Kunduz and seeing the dead body of one of his colleagues, our Afghanistan correspondent tries to get out of the country.
Kunduz finally falls
But peace may be elusive, as Northern Alliance commanders begin battling one another as soon as the Taliban is defeated.
The Taliban's deadly "refugees"
Taliban guerrillas are moving into refugee camps inside Afghanistan -- safe havens where they can regroup, skim food provided by aid agencies, and recruit new troops.
"Beneath the Veil" redux
Documentary filmmaker Saira Shah returns to Afghanistan to find hopeful soldiers and starving children. Her film of the journey is called "Unholy War."
Guess what, the bombing worked like a charm
The antiwar hand-wringers kept warning us of its perils. But as the Taliban despots flee Afghan cities, and their citizens cheer, the air war's stunning efficacy is clear for all to see
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