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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.
By Paul J. Caffera Nov 22, 2002
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.
By Andrew O'Hehir Nov 13, 2002
It's the war, stupid
Yes, the Democrats have serious problems. But without 9/11, they still would have trounced Bush and the Republicans.
By Gary Kamiya Nov 7, 2002
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?
By Phillip Robertson Sep 19, 2002
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.
By Phillip Robertson Sep 6, 2002
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.
By Dave Lindorff Jul 16, 2002
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.
By Jean-Charles Brisard Jun 5, 2002
Parents for a Taliban-free youth
How to tell if your child is a future John Walker Lindh.
By Tom McNichol Feb 4, 2002
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.
By Phillip Robertson Jan 23, 2002
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?
By Asla Aydintasbas Jan 8, 2002
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).
By Joshua Mortensen Jan 4, 2002
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?
By Anthony York Dec 21, 2001
Panic at the Bangi Bridge
A trip to the front in Afghanistan turns into a nightmare after a Taliban ambush sets off a panic.
By Phillip Robertson Dec 21, 2001
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.
By Mark Kukis Dec 17, 2001
Leaping to conclusions
Well-meaning observers are making dangerous assumptions about Afghan women and their goals for the future.
By Tamim Ansary Dec 17, 2001
An Afghan aristocrat fights for equality
Leila Enayat-Seraj rolls up her couture sleeves to rescue Afghan art and restore civil rights for women.
By Janelle Brown Dec 13, 2001
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.
By Janelle Brown Dec 12, 2001
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.
By Scott Rosenberg Dec 11, 2001
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.
By Janelle Brown Dec 11, 2001
Any day now
Afghan women hope to use the momentum of international recognition to secure civil rights and a role in government.
By Janelle Brown Dec 3, 2001
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.
By Phillip Robertson Dec 3, 2001
Kunduz finally falls
But peace may be elusive, as Northern Alliance commanders begin battling one another as soon as the Taliban is defeated.
By Phillip Robertson Nov 26, 2001
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.
By Ben Barber Nov 22, 2001
"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."
By Janelle Brown Nov 16, 2001
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
By Christopher Hitchens Nov 14, 2001
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