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Fact of the Week

Our Picks for Links of the Week: 4 November 2001

Our favorite resources on the 11 September attacks and their aftermath

• The Guardian (London)
• The Independent (London) especially for articles by Robert Fisk
• Federation of American Scientists (Washington)
• National Security Archive (Washington)
• The Newspaper Guild (Washington)

This Week's Links:

• Conflict Resolutions: The Afghan war is a new kind of conflict, far different from those that shaped the American and British armed forces (Mary Kaldor, Red Pepper).
• Encyclopedia of Terror: Western intelligence agencies have found extensive terrorist training manuals. Ironically, these manuals are based on their own handbooks (Nick Fielding, London Times).
• Secret CIA Site in New York Was Destroyed on Sept. 11: The CIA had a front operation at 7 World Trade Center (James Risen, New York Times). The Times does not speculate about which federal office was the front, but according to CNN, three federal government agencies were tenants: the IRS, the Secret Service, and the SEC.
• What if Cipro Stopped Working?: Bayer sells a drug similar to Cipro for use in poultry; this use could endanger public health (Ellen Silbergeld and Polly Walker, New York Times).
• Racial Profiling Goes Primetime: To accept profiling is to reify racial power. (Patrick Sullivan, TheSpleen.com).
• CNN Chief Orders "Balance" in War News: Walter Isaacson claims that it is perverse to show much suffering in Afghanistan (Howard Kurtz, Washington Post).
• This War is a Farce: The terrorists run free and the Afghan people suffer (John Pilger, The Mirror, requires Javascript).
• The New War Against Terror: Five questions about our new war (Noam Chomsky, MIT Technology and Culture Forum, via Z Magazine and a Q and A session via the Monkeyfist Collective).

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