Posts Tagged ‘Al Qaeda’

The official end of the Iraq debacle

A bad idea, but it will incubate like a latent virus in right-wing circles and return one day

The French submarines/Pakistan attacks the US scandal

It all ties together, if any of it is true

Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh is back

As promised. That’s bad news. Now what happens?


Where were you on September 11th?

Mapping where I stood on that day, and where others stood around the world at the same moment

A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne

The best book about the 9/11 attacks and war in Iraq, though it is about France in 1950s Algeria

The people we are assassinating in Pakistan

Osama bin Laden’s death was big news but this site tracks the quiet killings


Liberal hawk Bill Keller changes his mind on the Iraq war

But the former New York Times executive editor still misses the main reason to have opposed the war

My journals on September 11th, 2001

I still can’t believe how slowly I grasped the scale of what was happening that day

Ten years gone

On the street, watching the World Trade Center fall and our nation misinterpret why it happened


Osama bin Laden killed after 3,519 days of freedom

Osama bin Laden is dead but it is the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions that are killing Al Qaeda

Osama bin Laden still free 3,514 days later

What is most astonishing is that there is no public pressure whatsoever to capture him