Deutsche Welle: The Price of a New Afghanistan - http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,413077,00.html
German Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul pledged $280 million for Germany at a conference in Tokyo. In addition to commitments from individual European states, the European Commission pledged $177 million in 2002, and over $880 million over the next five years. The US wants initially to provide $296 million. Germany. |
Guardian: 'If you hate the west, emigrate to a Muslim country' - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/08/religion.uk
Interview with Hamza Yusuf, an Islamic scholar and US advisor, about the terrorist attacks, suicide, killing innocents, and the Muslim responses. |
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. |
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. |
Guardian: They can't see why they are hated - http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/sep/13/september11.britainand911
Seumas Milne. "Americans cannot ignore what their government does abroad." UK. |
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." |
Kofi Annan: We must recognise our common enemies - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/sep/22/september11.usa1
"The United Nations - and the international community - must have the courage to recognise that just as there are common aims, there are common enemies." |
Observer: Nervous Tehran has a wider role to play - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/21/afghanistan.religion
Fred Halliday. The impact on and by Iran. The author is professor of international relations at the London School of Economics and his new book is Two Hours that Shook the World: Causes and Consequences. |
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. |
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. |