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As Al Qaeda and the Taliban Head to Guantanamo, Cuba, a Look Back at What They'll Be Facingin Detention Camps From the Experience of Haitian Refugees

As the search for Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar intensifies in Afghanistan, so have US efforts to capture andquestion suspected Taliban and al Qaeda fighters. Over the last two days alone, at least 30 new prisoners have beenbrought to detention centers in Afghanistan, where they are being probed for information on the whereabouts of themissing leaders. These additions bring the total number of prisoners held by the United States up to 180, with...
Jan 02, 2002 | Story
Scholar and Activist Noam Chomsky Speaks On the War Against Afghanistan and the Shape of The world Since September 11

In the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan yesterday the surviving remnants of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qa’eda fled across frozen mountain tops in a bloody rout by U.S. backed forces that left hundreds of Al Qa’eda dead.
Dec 17, 2001 | Story
After the Bush Administration Tells the Networks Not to Air Unedited Videotapes of Osama Bin Laden, the Administration Releases a New Tape, Translated By the Pentagon

The Pentagon released a translated videotape of Osama bin Laden yesterday. US intelligence officers claim they found the tape in a residence in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan.
Dec 14, 2001 | Story
A Professor Is Criticized for Saying the U.S. Should Bring Bin Laden Before An International Tribunal Instead of Bombing Afghanistan: A Debate On the Role of the University in Wartime

Last week Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury Secretary turned President of Harvard University, said that Harvard, and the rest of the academic world, need to get in line with mainstream America. Summers has given several speeches recently calling for academics to support the war effort and embrace traditional American values of patriotism and respect for military service, even calling for the return of ROTC to Harvard.
Nov 26, 2001 | Story
Shooting the Messenger: U.S. Missiles Destroy the Kabul Office of Al Jazeera, the "CNN of the Arab World" &shy After the Northern Alliance Began to Take the City

The Kabul office of the Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera, the Arab satellite station that has broadcast two videotapes of Osama bin Laden denouncing America, was obliterated in US bombing early yesterday morning.
Nov 14, 2001 | Story
Washington Says It Can't Find Osama, But It Is Communicating with Him: The U.S. Will Attend the WTO Meeting in Qatar After Receiving Assurance From Bin Laden That It's Safe

The Bush Administration continues to pound Afghanistan with B-52’s, cluster bombs, and fuel-air explosives in itsefforts get Osama bin Laden, while civilian deaths and world outrage continue to rise.
Nov 07, 2001 | Story
Saudi Oil, U.S. Troops, and the Murky Relationship Between the Saudi Royal Family, the Bin Laden Family, and the Bush Family

As the U.S. military continues to bomb Afghanistan, U.S. officials announced last week that fifteen of the 19 men who hijacked the four airplanes involved in the September 11 terror attacks hailed from Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Laden,who President Bush has named as the prime suspect in the September 11 attacks, is Saudi Arabian. The Saudi government has allowed Saudi-based Muslim charitable organizations to funnel money to Al Qaeda. Since Sept....
Nov 02, 2001 | Story
How the US Baited the Soviet Union Into Invading Afghanistan; Or, "What Is More Important?... Some Agitated Muslims, Or... The End of the Cold War?"

It is well known that the U.S. funded the mujahadeen, a loosely-knit group of rebel groups in Afghanistan which included the present-day Taliban and Osama bin Laden, in the 1980s.
Oct 22, 2001 | Story
Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh: Bush Administration Ignores Instability of Saudi Royal Family at Its Peril; "What Went Wrong? The CIA and the Failure of American Intelligence"

Saudi Arabian officials this week told reporters they are unhappy about the bombing of Afghanistan, sending the clearest signal yet that its relations with Washington are being tested by the so-called war on terrorism. Interior Minister Prince Naif broke Saudi silence on the bombing late on Sunday, telling reporters the kingdom opposed terrorism but did not approve of the U.S. response. The Saudi government has also refused to freeze the financial...
Oct 17, 2001 | Story
The Major TV Networks Crack Down -- On Themselves -- to Restrict Their News Coverage of Osama Bin Laden and Afghanistan

The five major television news organizations reached a joint agreement yesterday to follow the suggestion of theWhite House and abridge any future videotaped statements from Osama bin Laden or his followers to remove language thegovernment considers inflammatory. The decision is the first time in memory that the networks had agreed to a jointarrangement to limit their prospective news coverage. It was described by one network executive as a "patriotic"decision...
Oct 11, 2001 | Story

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As Al Qaeda and the Taliban Head to Guantanamo, Cuba, a Look Back at What They'll Be Facingin Detention Camps From the Experience of Haitian Refugees

Scholar and Activist Noam Chomsky Speaks On the War Against Afghanistan and the Shape of The world Since September 11

After the Bush Administration Tells the Networks Not to Air Unedited Videotapes of Osama Bin Laden, the Administration Releases a New Tape, Translated By the Pentagon

A Professor Is Criticized for Saying the U.S. Should Bring Bin Laden Before An International Tribunal Instead of Bombing Afghanistan: A Debate On the Role of the University in Wartime

Shooting the Messenger: U.S. Missiles Destroy the Kabul Office of Al Jazeera, the "CNN of the Arab World" &shy After the Northern Alliance Began to Take the City

Washington Says It Can't Find Osama, But It Is Communicating with Him: The U.S. Will Attend the WTO Meeting in Qatar After Receiving Assurance From Bin Laden That It's Safe

Saudi Oil, U.S. Troops, and the Murky Relationship Between the Saudi Royal Family, the Bin Laden Family, and the Bush Family

How the US Baited the Soviet Union Into Invading Afghanistan; Or, "What Is More Important?... Some Agitated Muslims, Or... The End of the Cold War?"

Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh: Bush Administration Ignores Instability of Saudi Royal Family at Its Peril; "What Went Wrong? The CIA and the Failure of American Intelligence"

The Major TV Networks Crack Down -- On Themselves -- to Restrict Their News Coverage of Osama Bin Laden and Afghanistan

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