Information Sources on Afghanistan and International Terrorism

General Information on Afghanistan

• Afghanistan (Portals to the World, Library of Congress(
• International Affairs Resources (WWW Virtual Library)
• Mershon Network of International History (Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University>
• Afghanistan Studies (Academic Info)
• Selected Internet Resources: Afghanistan (Portals to the World, Library of Congress)
• [Afghanistan] History (Afghanistan Online)
• Afghanistan (BUBL Link Catalogue of Internet Resources)
• Institute for Afghan Studies
• AfghanPedia (Sabawoon.com)
• Languages of Afghanistan (Ethnologue.com)
• Afghanistan Maps (Perry-Castañeda Map Collection, University of Texas, Austin)

The Contemporary Situation in Afghanistan

• Aileena: World-wide Media Index
• What the World Thinks in 2002: How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The World, America, December 2002 (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
• America at a Crossroads (PBS)
• Books for Understanding Current Topics (American Association of University Presses)
• Afghanistan (World Wide Web Virtual Library)
• Afghanistan: Land in Crisis (National Geographic.com)
• Afgha: Press Agency Afghanistan
• Afghanmagazine.com
• Afghanistan Online
• Afghan News Network
• afghannews.net
• Azadi Afghan Radio
• Afghanistan (Clandestine Radio.com)
• Pariah Nation: A Journey Through Afghanistan (MSNBC News)
• Afghanistan (Annual Report 2000, Amnesty International)
• Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
• Gendercide Watch
• Refugee Studies Center (University of Oxford, U.K.)
• Reconstructing Afghanistan (CARE)
• War Report: Iraq War and Afghanistan Aftermath (Project on Defense Alternatives)
• Robert D. Kaplan, "Imperial Grunts: With the Army Special Forces in the Philippines and Afghanistan—laboratories of counterinsurgency," Atlantic Monthly, October 2005
• Center for Oral History, U.S. Millitary Academcy, West Point, NY
• America at a Crossroads (PBS)
• War in the 21st Century: The Human Security Report 2005 (The Human Security Centre)

Afghanistan and the September 11, 2001 Attacks on the United States

• America's War Against Terrorism: World Trade Center/Pentagon Terrorism and the Aftermath (Documents Center, University of Michigan)
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [9-11 Commission] official site
• Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11 (Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University and American RadioWorks)
• 911: Memory--Remembrance--Museum (H-Museum)
• H-Net and Sept. 11: Addressing Tragedy in the Classroom
• Teaching 9-11-01 (Clarke Center, Dickinson College)
• Terrorism Studies -- September 11 (Academic Info)
• September 11 and Beyond (Librarians' Index to the Internet)
• Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990 (Digital National Security Archive)
• The September 11th Sourcebooks: National Security Archive Online Readers on Terrorism, Intelligence and the Next War
• Afghanistan Resources (Professor F.W. Kagan, History Department, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY)
• Terror and Tehran: Does America's War on Terror hold democracy hostage in Iran? (Frontline, PBS)
• Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993
• "The View From Inside," Interview with Robert D. Kaplan, author of Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan (1990,2001), The Atlantic Monthly, November 2001.
• Robert D. Kaplan, "The Lawless Frontier," The Atlantic Monthly, September 2000.
• J. Miller, "Greetings America. My Name is Osama bin Laden," Esquire, February 1999
• Richard H. Kohn, "A War Like no Other," OAH Newsletter, November 2001
• Hunting Bin Laden (Frontline, PBS)
• Osama bin Laden-al Qaeda Network Government Files (Paperless Archives)
• Transcript of Usama Bin Laden Video Tape, December 13, 2001 (DefenseLink) (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format)
• Target America (Frontline, PBS)
• Looking for Answers (Frontline, PBS)
• Saudi Time Bomb? (Frontline, PBS)
• America Responds (PBS)
• Frontline documentary series (PBS)
• The Invasion of Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
• Comprehensive Report the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), September 30, 2004
• The Choice 2004 (Frontline, PBS)
• Television and the War on Terrorism: The War at Home and Abroad
  (Museum of Television & Radio)
• September 11 [,2001]--Journalists' Resources
• Professor Sir Michael Howard, "Mistake to Declare This a War," Royal United Services Institute Journal 146 (December 2001).
• David Talbot, "The Making of a Hawk," Salon.com, January 3, 2002.
• Victor Davis Hanson, "Why the Muslims Misjudged Us,"Opinion Journal (WSM.com), February 25, 2002.
• After September 11: Essays...Perspectives from the Social Sciences (Social Science Research Council)
• Documenting the [World Trade Center] Tragedy [September 11, 2001]
  (New York State Historical Records Advisory Board)
• September 11 Digital Archive (American Social History Project/Center for History and New Media)
• September11.archive.org
• Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [9-11 Commission] official site
• International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World
• Corinne Blake, "Teaching Islamic Civilization with Information Technology," Journal of Multimedia History 1 (1998)
• 100 Questions About Arab Americans: A Journalist's Guide (Detroit Free Press)
• America Attacks (New York Times)
• Privacy vs. Security: Terrorist threat shifts priorities in online rights debate (News.com, C-Net)
• News International Pakistan
• Reconstructing Afghanistan (CARE)
• Donor Assistance Database Afghanistan (United Nations Development Programme)
• Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrosist Attacks of September 11, 2001. Report of the Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
  (Senate Report No. 107-351 and House Report No. 107-792, 107th Cong. 2nd Sess. (released July 24, 2003)
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [9-11 Commission] official site
• 9/11 Public Discourse Project [ten-member 9/11 Commission followup group after rlease of final report]
• Center for Oral History, U.S. Millitary Academcy, West Point, NY
• Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (National Endowment for the Arts)
• Afghan War Lessons and Future U.S. Policy (Global-Defence.com)
• Professional Military Reading Lists (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
• Michael Ignatieff, "The Burden," The New York Times Magazine, January 5, 2003
• What the World Thinks in 2002: How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The World, America, December 2002 (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
• America at a Crossroads (PBS)
• War in the 21st Century: The Human Security Report 2005 (The Human Security Centre)

International Terrorism

• Teaching Terror
• Terrorism: Questions & Answers (Council on Foreign Relations)
• Terrorism Knowledge Bank (National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism)
• Terrorism news coverage (Yahoo News)
• Terrorism Studies -- September 11 (Academic Info)
• America's War Against Terrorism: World Trade Center/Pentagon Terrorism and the Aftermath (Documents Center, University of Michigan)
• 911: Memory--Remembrance--Museum (H-Museum)
• Books for Understanding: A Resource to help understand the events of September 11, 2001
  (American Association of University Presses)
• History of Terrorism (History News Network)
• START (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism)
  (U.S. Department of Homeland Security and University of Maryland)
• Combating Terrorism Center at [U.S. Military Academy,] West Point
• The Terrorism Index by Foreign Policy magaine & The Center For American Progress, June 2006
• Terrorism Project (Center for Defense Information, Washington, D.C.)
• Terrorism Research Center
• Centre for the Study of Terorrism and Political Violence (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
• Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000 (Counterterrorism Office, U.S. Department of State)
• Terrorist Threat Integration Center (official U.S. government site)
• Undermining Terrorism (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
• Ivan Eland, "Does U.S. Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism?" [December 17, 1998] (Cato Foreign Policy Briefing No. 50, Cato Institute)
• Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism, August 2000 report
  (U.S. National Commission on Terrorism)
• Bioterror: The Invisible Enemy (The Discovery Channel)
• Chemical and Biological Weapons Resource Page
  Monterey Institute of International Studies
• War on Terrorism web sites
• Robert D. Kaplan, "Looking the World in the Eye [Samuel P. Huntington]," The Atlantic Monthly, December 2001
• Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993.
• Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?," Foreign Affairs (Summer 1993)
• Samuel P. Huntington, "If Not Civilizations, What? Samuel Huntington Responds to His Critics," Foreign Affairs, November/December 1993.
• Joel Achenbach, "The Clash," [Samuel P. Huntington and Francis Fukuyama] Washington Post, Sunday, December 16, 2001, p. W17.
• Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, "American Primacy in Perspective," Foreign Affairs July/August 2002
• "The Hard Questions": The first war of the twenty-first century demands unsentimental thinking about many subjects. Here are five. The Atlantic Monthly, December 2001.
• Michael Ignatieff, "The Burden," The New York Times Magazine, January 5, 2003
• Joseph S. Nye, "Limits of American Power," Political Science Quarterly 117 (Winter 2002-2003): 545-559.
• Bernard Lewis, "What Went Wrong?" The Atlantic Monthly, January 2002
• "The War on Terror," a collection of articles from The Atlantic Monthly
• "11 September: A Symposium," The Journal of the Historical Society 2 (Spring 2002)
• Defend America: U.S. Department of Defense News About the War on Terrorism
• Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs, October 2002 (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency report)
• The War Behind Closed Doors: The People, the Clashes, and--Ultimately the 'Grand Strategy'--Behind George W. Bush's Determination to Go to War with Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
• The Invasion of Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
• Carl Kaysen, Steven E. Miller, Martin B. Malin, William d. Nordhaus, John D. Steinbruner, "War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives"
  (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
• Iraq: The Human Cost (Center for International Studies, MIT)
• C. C. Crane and W. A. Terrill, "Reconstructing Iraq: Insights, Challenges, and Missions for Military Forces in a Post-Conflict Scenario," February 2003
  (Strategic Studies Institute, U. S. Army War College)
• Bounding the Global War on Terrorism, Dr. Jeffrey Record (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College)
• Crisis with Iraq (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
• North Korea and Nuclear Weapons (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
• A Nation at War (New York Times
• War in Iraq (Washington Post)
• Opening the Doors: Intellectual Life and Academic Conditions in Post-War Baghdad, A report of the Iraqi Observatory
  (K. Watenpaugh, E. Metenier, J. Hanssen, Halla Fatah)
• The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict
  Project on Defense Alternatives Research Monograph # 8, C. Conetta, 20 October 2003
• Comprehensive Report the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), September 30, 2004
• Frontline: The Choice 2004 (PBS)
• Bibliography on War in Iraq, Bush Administration, and Election of 2004 (Patrick D. Reagan, Ph.D.)
• Report to the President, March 31, 2005, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
• The Leaked Iraq War Documents [The Sunday Times, London, U.K.]
• Reports from The Future of Iraq Project (U.S. Department of State)
• World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul, Turkey, 23-27 June 2005
• Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans (Project on Defense Alternatives)
• America at a Crossroads (PBS)
• Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion (Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan)
• Robert D. Kaplan, "Imperial Grunts: With the Army Special Forces in the Philippines and Afghanistan—laboratories of counterinsurgency," Atlantic Monthly, October 2005
• Center for Oral History, U.S. Millitary Academcy, West Point, NY
• Walter Laqueur, "The Terrorism to Come," Policy Review, August 2004
• The Terrorism Index by Foreign Policy magaine & The Center For American Progress, June 2006
• War in the 21st Century: The Human Security Report 2005 (The Human Security Centre)
• Military History
• Professional Military Reading Lists (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
• Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (National Endowment for the Arts)
• Facing History and Ourselves: Examining History and Human Behavior