Roots of the Conflict: Historical Context


Afghanistan, Asia, and the Middle East

NEW Afghani history, from prehistory to the present

NEW History of Afghanistan (contemporary)
by By Jim Lobe & Abid Aslam

NEW Women and Islam
A large selection of readings about women in the Islamic world

Islam and Jihad Often surprising background articles on Jihad from a Muslim website: (the site)"apprises the world to differentiate between terrorism and Jihad. In terrorism indiscriminate killing is justified, Jihad bans it."

Afghan refugees

Limbs of no body - the world's indifference to the Afghan tragedy

Middle East Policy--Online Archives
A source of Mideast commentary

Tajikistan Update

Afghan Network   |   Institute for Afghan Studies
Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Osama Bin Laden

NEW On Osama bin Laden

Bin Laden: the former CIA 'client' obsessed with training pilots
The recent trial of members of Osama Bin Laden's troop for U.S. embassy bombings

Recognizing the Opposition -Understanding Osama Bin Laden, Fundamentalist Islam, and the Islamic Jihad

Relevant Global Impacts and Context

NEW The Lawless Frontier by Robert D. Kaplan
The tribal lands of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border reveal the future of conflict in the Subcontinent, along with the dark side of globalization

Why Middle Eastern Terrorists Hate the United States

NEW Islamic Republics : The future of the "Stans" - "Oil, Islamic fundamentalism, kidnap and ransom... are just the surface issues..."

NEW The Mess in East Africa and Afghanistan is Partly the fault of the U.S. Government

The New Gold Mines of Central Asia by Dr. Walid Majid, Institute for Afghan Studies

Inside Al-Qaeda: a window into the world of militant Islam and the Afghani alumni

AlterNet -- America's Terrorist Roots

Bush's Faustian Deal with the Taliban

They can't see why they are hated
Americans cannot ignore what their government does abroad, says Seumas Milne

The secret CIA history of the Iran coup, 1953
National Security Archive Briefing Book No. 28

NEW SECTION
Terrorism and counterterrorism

NEW The September 11th Source Books:Volume 1: Terrorism and U.S. Policy
National Security Archive experts select these resources as the most important available primary sources on U.S. terrorism policy.

NEW Terrorism in the Name of Religion -by Dr. Magnus Ranstorp

NEW Inside Al-Qaeda: a window into the world of militant Islam and the Afghani alumni

Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence

US Department of State - Counterterrorism

NEW Track II : Security and Terrorism in the 21st Century, January 13
The Changing International Terrorist Threat, by Paul Wilkinson

Terrorism Research Center, Inc.

NEW Response to Terrorism - Office of International Information

FEMA: FACT SHEET: TERRORISM

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