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Independent: Are we trapped in another Vietnam? - http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1102-07.htm
By Arthur Schlesinger: "Our leaders gambled that the unpopularity of the regime would enable bombing to bring about the Taliban's rapid collapse." |
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Observer: Taliban troops switch sides as rebels advance - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/14/terrorism.afghanistan4
Chris Stephen in Dasti Kala and Kamal Ahmed. "Alliance commanders say there is now a real possibility that the entire northern half of Afghanistan will switch away from the Taliban, as defections trigger a domino effect." UK. |
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Guardian: 'There isn't a target in Afghanistan worth a $1m missile' - http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2001/oct/10/features11.g2
Stephen Moss. Interview with Mohamed Heikal, political commentator and the former foreign minister of Egypt. "'The most important thing is to get religion out,' he says. "You are talking to me about a Muslim state, yet you are not discussing a Jewish state - a state built on religion. That cannot be. Religion can be no basis for a state.'" UK. |
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spiked: After the attack on America - http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000002D22F.htm
Mick Hume. "As the dust clears over the scenes of carnage, it is worth asking what these events and the reaction to them can tell us about the world we live in now." UK. |
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Guardian: The pursuit of Bin Laden could soon be a sideshow - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4263035,00.html
Peter Preston. "A wise west would care for Pakistan as more than a series of air bases set on the edge of the Hindu Kush. A wise west would wonder not just what Pakistan could do for it in the pursuit of prime suspects, but what it now, at a moment of test, could do for Pakistan." UK. |