Sunday, September 30, 2001
Silicon Alley Stocks: The Under $1 ClubWaiving the rule gives companies a break from the brutal downturn in technology investment and time to determine the effect of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
9/30/2001 10:32:21 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNEWS - U.S. Under Attack: Cuba's Castro calls for "peaceful solution""One wonders: Why this obstinate course of starting a complicated and open ended war? Why are the American leaders showing such arrogance when their enormous power gives them the privilege of showing some moderation?" Castro said.
9/30/2001 09:50:26 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNEWS - U.S. Under Attack: Activists angered by Campbell's terrorism talk"He's a guy who just cut the RCMP's budget and he's talking about securing the perimeter"
9/30/2001 09:49:34 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CTVNews.com - Front Page - Bin Laden toilet paper aims to wipe out terrorismJanitorial products manufacturer Impact Products has been inundated with orders from around the country and said it will donate half of the profits to the Red Cross. Two thousand rolls have already been made, with many more in the works.
9/30/2001 09:47:27 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Taliban Says They Have bin Laden, but U.S. Is Skeptical"Bush has stepped away from negotiations and directly gone to a war situation... He expects us to follow as if he is our amir (leader) but he is not our amir''
9/30/2001 04:20:37 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
ITBusiness.ca:Former spy offers glimpse into electronic espionageEchelon and CSE are interested in more than documenting domestic life through baby monitors.
9/30/2001 03:01:46 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Mideast ceasefire shaky as Palestinians killedIsraeli Army officials say the people were shot because they refused to stop at the checkpoint, and that they are investigating the incident.
9/30/2001 01:26:48 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Silicon ~ silicon.com - Board loses £17bn through IT neglectFurthermore, a staggering 80 per cent were unaware of the cost savings attributable to the company's information systems.
9/30/2001 10:55:14 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Chrétien, opposition leaders tour ground zero"There are a lot of families that are suddenly single parent families now," observed Joe Clark. "Some of the kids are young enough that they think their father is just away. Some who were a little older are actually at the beginning of a trauma that could last a lifetime to them."
9/30/2001 10:27:46 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Daily Record: ON SEPTEMBER 11, I WAS TO HAVE A BBQ WITH THE PRESIDENT AT THE WHITE HOUSE..."We'd all have been there - the President, all those politicians and me my girlfriend, Luciana."
9/30/2001 10:22:20 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
IHT: Special Forces in Afghanistan Seek Out TargetsIf major suspects are located, the Delta Force could send in "snatch teams" trained to kidnap or kill individuals in high-speed operations using Blackhawk helicopters, special weaponry and sophisticated communications.
9/30/2001 10:18:09 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Blair has solid proof on bin Laden; Post-Taliban talks in Rome"It's not a matter of eliminating bin Laden. It's a matter of (eliminating) the whole terrorist network in Afghanistan. And the foundation of that network is the Taliban."
9/30/2001 10:16:50 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Saturday, September 29, 2001
news.telegraph.co.uk - I was one of the Taliban's torturers: I crucified people"It is the first time in Afghanistan's history that the lower classes are governing and by force. There are no educated people in this administration - they are all totally backward and illiterate.
"They have no idea of the history of the country and although they call themselves mullahs they have no idea of Islam. Nowhere does it say men must have beards or women cannot be educated; in fact, the Koran says people must seek education."
9/29/2001 10:36:01 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
news.telegraph.co.uk - Saddam has germ warfare arsenal, says defecting physicist"I created death in Iraq. I had to get out"
9/29/2001 10:33:15 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ananova - Daughter of British journalist makes emotional plea for mother's release"She's a very kind person and she wouldn't do anything wrong. When I spoke to her on the phone she told me she was working very hard, but it was very hot."
9/29/2001 10:29:29 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
New Gun Fires 'Laser of Lead'...perhaps most remarkable of all, the unique ballistics of firing projectiles close together means that the bullets farther back of the pack actually push those in front of them, thereby increasing bullet velocity.
9/29/2001 06:36:10 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Draft Anti-Terrorism Act of 20019/29/2001 06:29:29 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBS News | Dole, Clinton Team Up | Sat, 29 Sep 2001 15:05:05 EDT9/29/2001 06:19:47 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - U.S. to aid Taliban opponents - September 29, 2001"The Taliban do not represent the Afghan people, who never elected or chose the Taliban faction," a memorandum summarizing the Bush administration policy states. "We do not want to choose who rules Afghanistan, but we will assist those who seek a peaceful, economically developing Afghanistan, free of terrorism."
9/29/2001 06:18:34 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Viewers: Let's get back on schedule"People embrace television. It's something that we share and that makes us feel like the whole world has not crashed down around us."
9/29/2001 06:14:55 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Willamette Week Online | News OPINION | AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PEACE MOVEMENT...I don't believe anything can be done to make terrorists surrender, and because I believe, in their world view, dying for their cause is a holy act, which means they are willing to take others out with them, as we have seen.
9/29/2001 05:39:22 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Toronto Sun Columnist: Peter Worthington: War: Winning is everythingThat said, Taliban jokes are surfacing: Bin Laden phones President Bush and boasts he had a dream -- New York is a smoking rubble heap and a banner across the skyline reads "Welcome Osama bin Laden."
"Interesting," Bush replies. "I also had a dream."
"And what was that?" bin Laden asks.
"I dreamed Kabul was a city of skyscrapers, bright lights and big buildings, and there was a banner across the skyline."
"What did the banner say?" bin Laden asks.
"I don't know," Bush says. "I don't read Hebrew."
9/29/2001 02:19:43 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Pakistan Mission to Afghans Ends on Note of Uncertainty...the "delegations had met and discussed the situation" but gave no further details.
9/29/2001 02:16:43 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
India defends re-fuelling of US military transport planeOpposition Marxists were, however, not mollified.
9/29/2001 02:00:43 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Militant Islamic group ordered to shut officesTwo key leaders of the group, Maulana Fazalur Rehman Khalil and Farooq Kashmiri, went into hiding soon after the Sept. 11 attacks. Both of them fought with Afghan resistance forces against the Soviets in the 1980s.
9/29/2001 01:56:32 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Museum flip-flops on Arab art exhibitAt a news conference Friday, museum director Victor Rabinovitch said the exhibit, which took five years to plan, will open as originally scheduled Oct. 19. But he said the show would be more complete if organizers had extra time to work on "context" in light of the recent terrorist attacks.
9/29/2001 01:52:20 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Prophet and the Profits: Islamic financeDeregulation and technological change [in the early 1990s] had produced a major readjustment in international finance. And the Islamic world had been transformed by new political, economic and demographic circumstances (the impact of the Iranian revolution, the Gulf war, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the emergence of new Islamic states, a changing oil market, the rise of Asian tigers, a growing Islamic presence in the West, the emergence of new Islamic middle classes).
9/29/2001 01:44:32 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Goldberg File on war on National Review Online: Civilization EnvyIndeed, protestors often prefer attacking McDonald's to attacking the local American Embassy.
9/29/2001 01:39:40 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Odigo Clarifies WTC MessageThe company's vice president of sales and marketing acknowledged that messages warning of attacks were received but would not comment on the contents of the messages.
9/29/2001 11:14:10 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Al-Jazeera TV stands by story that "US special forces" captured"We're not going to get into the habit of commenting on every story that comes out of that region. It's a slippery slope once we start getting into that habit," a US Defense Department spokesman said.
9/29/2001 11:09:48 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Friday, September 28, 2001
CBC News: Anti-U.S. threat sends Air Canada jet back to L.A.The incident began when a man was caught smoking in the washroom of the 767, said Nicole Couture-Simard, a spokesperson for Air Canada. He then became verbally abusive and "uttered an anti-American threat."
That'll be funny until someone gets hurt. And even then, maybe still.
9/28/2001 10:14:00 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Man accused of training hijackersHe faces charges of giving false information when he applied for his pilot's licence but Sambir says he could soon be charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
9/28/2001 10:12:33 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
SatireWire | Memorial to Be Built on bin LadenPowell blamed the Taliban government of Afghanistan, which he said has already refused a new request to relinquish the site so it could be tested for its load-bearing capacity.
9/28/2001 10:07:36 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | AMERICAS | Special forces deploy in AfghanistanThe commandos are carrying out scouting and reconnaissance missions, but are not actively hunting for the prime suspect Osama bin Laden, the official said.
9/28/2001 09:05:50 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Report: Russian Mafia Aids Al-QaidaThe Foreign Ministry called the report an attempt to undermine relations between the U.S. and Russia at a time of increased cooperation.
9/28/2001 09:04:56 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Excerpts from letter left by hijackers"Check all of your items ... your bag, your clothes, knives, your will, your IDs, your passport, all your papers ... Make sure that nobody is following you ... This is the custom of the good predecessors. Allah blessed them, for they tightened their clothes before battle. Also tighten your shoes well and wear tight stocks so they will not come out of the shoes. Perform the morning prayer in a group."
9/28/2001 09:04:04 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Breaking News: British warn of new terror"...you can't negotiate with these people. The best historical parallel is those at the top of the Nazi regime. It wasn't possible to negotiate with Hitler."
9/28/2001 10:05:45 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Pakistan sends clerics to persuade Taliban9/28/2001 10:04:36 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thestar.com/Canadians feel closer to U.S. since attacks: Poll"Antipathy toward America, long a cornerstone of being Canadian, seems to have evaporated rather rapidly," says Frank Graves, president of EKOS Research
9/28/2001 09:47:35 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
White House nixes national ID notion"We are not even considering the idea," said a Bush spokesman today.
9/28/2001 09:46:07 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Clinton is target on terror video...There is an Osama bin Laden training film that uses my husband as the target...
9/28/2001 09:45:19 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Jesse Jackson Says He Might Go to Taliban to Seek TurnaroundIn the interview, Mr. Jackson read from a transcript of the statements he said Mr. Shaheen had made to him. "We would like to see the situation resolved in a way that preserves the dignity and the integrity of all sides," Mr. Jackson said, reading from the transcript.
9/28/2001 09:43:55 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Infoculture in the Summer: Arafat Shuts Down Suicide Bombing Exhibit9/28/2001 08:48:34 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thursday, September 27, 2001
After the AttacksFollowing is a brief analysis of the industries that have been, or stand to be, most impacted by the terrorist attacks. Included is the total amount in individual, PAC, and soft money contributions for those industries. (Note: All figures are based on data released electronically by the Federal Election Commission on Sept. 1, 2001.)
9/27/2001 08:12:04 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
'Mommy Liberty' Packs a Gun"The most dangerous place in the world is between a mother and her children," the caption reads.
9/27/2001 10:14:20 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
No clapping, dancing, music, TV ... five years of Taliban bansHomosexuals were crushed under heavy mud walls. Conspiritors were hanged, and murderers were killed by the relatives of their victims, in game show-style events where the decision to forgive or seek revenge was left to the very last minute.
9/27/2001 09:29:36 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Los Angeles Times: Hate-Filled Words Behind a POW's Gentle Voice"When I go for a terrorist action and there is no other way than for me to die, I'll do it."
9/27/2001 08:49:04 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
10 Things You Can Do to Prevent WarDisagreeing with our government's proposed strategies isn't treason -- it's the highest form of citizenship in a participatory democracy.
9/27/2001 08:47:57 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
washingtonpost.com: It's Time to Do Some Painful ThinkingFor years, the Federal Aviation Administration's Red Team conducted secret tests of airport security and found a failure rate approaching 90 percent. For years, it filed its reports with the bureaucrats we pay to see to security in the skies. And for years, the reports were stamped ("action" or "secret") and locked away.
9/27/2001 08:43:16 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Art worth $100M lies under the rubbleGone too are the huge sculptures in the plazas and the Joan Miro tapestry -- all commissioned or purchased by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which set aside 1% of the cost of building the World Trade Center for public art.
9/27/2001 08:32:10 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Media Research Center CyberAlert - 09/24/2001 - Americans 1st, Journalists 2nd; Bush Scolded for Invoking God; Bin Laden: "Hope for Suffering People"; Bill Maher on the Defense9/27/2001 08:13:11 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Electronic Media Online -- War coverage rules to be released soon9/27/2001 08:09:54 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Critics see through new airport X-raysTransport Canada will deploy hi-tech security equipment in airports despite privacy and health concerns and doubts about whether the systems even work.
9/27/2001 07:57:05 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
TERROR LINK HUNT IN T.O.Some of the crucial planning for the World Trade Center terrorist attack may have been done in Toronto, police now say.
Not, of course, that Canada has anything to do with it.
9/27/2001 07:55:30 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Swiss Parliament Speaker Says 14 Die in Zug AttackSwiss radio said a man, apparently disguised as a policeman, opened fire during a session of the canton of Zug's local assembly.
9/27/2001 07:51:03 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Oh, also, once when flying out of Toronto to South Bend, Indiana, I used a bus pass picture as photo ID.
9/26/2001 09:13:23 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
U.S. Vows To Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With"For example, we know that the mastermind has the approximate personality of a terrorist," Gramm said. "Also, he is senseless. New data is emerging all the time."
9/26/2001 09:08:23 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Five Israeli tanks enter Gaza Strip: Palestinians9/26/2001 08:26:24 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CFRA Local News - No Arab Art, PM Not PleasedThe museum said it felt the delay was needed to give it time to add historical context on the Arab world to the exhibit, in light of terrorist attacks on the United States.
"I've been informed they want to do the exhibition in the month of March. If it is good for March 2002, it is good for October 2001," Chretien said.
9/26/2001 08:25:18 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NYPOST.COM World News: BIN LADEN KIN SEEK JEWISH P.R. HELP By JOHN LEHMANN"I felt like I was being asked to be the house Jew - it made my skin crawl."
9/26/2001 08:23:00 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CTVNews.com - Front Page - Border security forces Canadian PM on defensive9/26/2001 08:22:09 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
ireland.com - The Irish Times - OPINION - Two people leaping to their doom...appeared to be holding hands.
9/26/2001 06:56:47 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NYPOST.COM World News: JET PLOT By AL GUART"Someone connected to Osama bin Laden was looking to buy a retired aircraft sometime in March. He was also trying to recruit Americans to buy it for him, to act as a front."
9/26/2001 06:24:25 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
China says to help fight financing of terrorismZhu did not give details, but Chinese and U.S. counter-terrorism experts were due to meet in Washington on Tuesday following Beijing's agreement to exchange intelligence during a visit by Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan last week.
9/26/2001 06:16:25 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
MiG-21 crashes into houses in northern India9/26/2001 06:15:20 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Journalists warned not to speculate on military action..."whether by their own journalists or by retired military people, and if even greater care could be exercised in considering information which could be of use to the terrorists and their supporters."
9/26/2001 06:14:27 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Neil Seeman on Canada & terrorism on National Review Online: The Canadian Connection: Whose brother are we anyway?Even in this time of war, anti-Americanism is a national sport up here; so too, it seems, is Canada's breezy indifference to fighting terrorism.
I'm surprised it took Mr Seeman so long to notice.
9/26/2001 06:11:43 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Salon.com News | The view from BeirutWar blurs the distinction between a government's foreign policy and its citizens, a distinction that was obviously and tragically not appreciated by the WTC and Pentagon murderers.
I'm not certain it's appropriate to distinguish between a democratic government's foreign policy and its citizens, given that the citizens are supposed to be the ones selecting the officials that make the policy -- as opposed to a dictatorship, monarchy or oligarchy, where the citizens have no such input.
9/26/2001 06:08:02 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - Bush to propose aviation security measures September 26, 2001The FAA has already ordered new measures designed to improve the screening of airline and airport workers who have access to planes, tarmacs, runways, cargo and baggage areas, and congressional aides said legislative steps in this area were likely as well, such as mandatory criminal background checks.
9/26/2001 05:53:50 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Government told to find money to fight terrorism9/26/2001 01:57:14 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ottawa Sun: PM's loose lips pannedOpposition MPs seized on Chretien's decision to spill the beans at a $600-a-plate party fundraiser Monday in Toronto, rather than coming to Parliament to tell Canadians and MPs what went on.
9/26/2001 11:23:42 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Register - MS shows toppling towers in ZDNet advert9/26/2001 09:14:13 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
To Attacks' Toll Add a Programmer's Grief (washingtonpost.com)"The intellectual side of me is satisfied with the decision, but the pain that we all feel because of all the deaths mixes with this," [Phil Zimmerman, inventor of PGP] said. "It has been a horrific few days."
9/26/2001 09:13:17 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
SatireWire | SMALL INVESTORS URGED TO REMAIN CALM,LEAVE PANIC TO THE PROFESSIONALS
Seasoned Experts Much Better at Guiding Hysterical Sell-Off
9/26/2001 09:08:14 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Death Certificate InformationWhere employment records are unavailable or a missing individual was visiting in the World Trade Center, family members or others with personal knowledge of the individual's whereabouts, will be asked to file an affidavit attesting to the fact that the missing loved one was in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, and has not appeared since.
9/26/2001 09:01:24 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
TOMPAINE.com: TomPaine.commentaryAIRLINE PACKAGE HARKS BACK TO CHRYSLER BAILOUT
"The most common form of stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish," wrote Frederick Nietzsche. Our goals in responding to the airline crisis must be to ensure efficient and secure air travel capacity; to avoid needless job losses; to minimize adjustment costs; and to uphold norms of economic fairness. A bailout that simply shores up corporate balance sheets is unlikely to be the best way -- perhaps not necessary; certainly not sufficient -- to accomplish these tasks.
9/26/2001 09:00:14 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Village Voice: Nation: Mondo Washington: The Accidental Operative by Camelia Fard & James RidgewayThe Taliban, says the author Ahmed Rashid, "is the hip-hop generation of Islamic militants. They know nothing about nothing. Their aim is the destruction of the status quo, but they offer nothing to replace it with."
9/26/2001 08:28:15 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Terrorists, spies prefer Canadian passports"The Canadian passport has lots of security features . . . Our passport is a great travel document that's impossible to alter or to forge ? it needs incredibly acute, complex and state-of-the-art technology and knowledge to do so."
But that doesn't stop individuals from getting genuine passports using fake ID.
9/26/2001 08:24:10 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Interesting People (200109): IP: Re: Ellison's Identity Cards via BushwackerPlace yourself for a moment in the position of the card issuer. Do you imagine that a committed terrorist would hesitate to put a gun to your child's head, demand that you issue the card, and then kill both of you to keep you quiet? If you resist, do you suppose that the next card issuer will also resist? How long do you suppose it will take for your body to be discovered? Certainly hours, perhaps days. The terrorist only needs one or two hours.
9/26/2001 08:22:46 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | EUROPE | Nato 'to hear attack evidence'The Brussels meeting, also attended by Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov, is likely to reaffirm support for American action against Bin Laden, blamed by the US for the devastating attacks.
9/26/2001 08:17:36 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Kashmir rebel group threatens suicide attacks if India wages "war"9/26/2001 08:15:08 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Iran's Khatami denounces Bush's arrogance"A powerful human being can become so arrogant, that he thinks he can distinguish between good or bad on his own."
9/26/2001 08:08:01 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Besieged Taliban backers torch US embassy in Kabul9/26/2001 08:07:20 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bush Says Fight Is With Taliban, Not Afghan People9/26/2001 01:35:18 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Japan Today Japan News - News - Bush gives "High Noon" poster to KoizumiThat Dubya is just plain weird.
9/25/2001 11:04:31 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
whitehouse.gov: Canadian PM: "We Will Be There"9/25/2001 11:03:20 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Taliban leader says attacks were to avenge US 'cruelty'9/25/2001 11:00:18 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Experts see huge task attacking terrorist funds"[bin Laden] does not have a bank account that you can go and freeze. I mean, if he had, we would have done that a long time ago."
9/25/2001 10:59:07 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bin Laden a monster: Saudi envoy9/25/2001 10:58:02 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Yahoo - Starbucks Apologizes for Charging NYC Rescue Workers for Water9/25/2001 10:55:10 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
ID Cards Are de Rigueur Worldwide...in many countries that have adopted a national ID system, people who fail to produce their cards on demand are regarded with suspicion, according to a report by the organization. In Greece and Argentina, for example, being caught cardless in public could land you at the local precinct, where the police will attempt to establish your identity using other methods...
I frequently leave the house with no ID at all, or leave my ID in the car.
9/25/2001 04:15:08 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
LinkVoyager: Terrorism9/25/2001 11:17:51 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Independent Argument: Barbara Lee: I will not put more innocent lives at risk9/25/2001 11:11:12 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The morning of September 11, I was editing an article on digital cameras that I intended to turn in that weekend, well ahead of the end-of-September deadline. Just getting back to it now. See exactly where I stopped -- disconcerting.
9/25/2001 10:25:54 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Intelligence deficitWe need to built bridges not walls right now
9/25/2001 10:17:40 AM shad muegge bookmark
Bin Laden Has Good Survival Skills - Arab Sources"What are the Americans going to do, look behind every tree and under every rock in Chechnya?'' said one source.
9/25/2001 10:11:43 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Go gently into that good argumentEvery decent person in this country and in the world is grieving, even the ones whose politics make you shudder.
9/25/2001 09:56:59 AM shad muegge bookmark
TIME.com: TIME Magazine -- The Plot Comes Into Focus"When you look at the people and networks involved, you quickly realize that the apparent lack of structure and seemingly random intersection of operatives is very much intentional," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. "They don't want police to be able to follow one person to another and follow the trail back up to someone calling the shots. In reality, it's a hell of a lot more amorphous than that."
9/25/2001 09:53:23 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Taliban Corralling Military-Age Men, Afghanistan Refugees Say9/25/2001 09:44:04 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
MediaGuardian.co.uk | Special reports | Journalists form anti-war group"We need to monitor the issues as they are reported in the mainstream media, which - with some exceptions - are not giving an accurate picture of the situation in South Asia," he said.
9/25/2001 09:41:15 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Peter Jennings, in the News for What He Didn't Say (washingtonpost.com)9/25/2001 09:18:52 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Monday, September 24, 2001
An End, or an Extension, to Irony"Look, we are all changed. You are changed and so am I. Nobody will ever see things in the same way."
9/24/2001 08:35:16 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Taleban seize Afghan food aid9/24/2001 08:34:00 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
SecurityFocus - Hackers face life imprisonment under 'Anti-Terrorism' Act9/24/2001 08:31:28 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - News agency receives purported bin Laden message - September 24, 20019/24/2001 08:28:29 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
news.telegraph.co.uk - German general fears a bloodbathThe Brig Gen insisted that troops with a "western philosophy" and a will not to die would have "little chance against men who are willing to give their lives in a fight".
9/24/2001 06:39:20 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Travel Agent Fired for Booking 'Osama Bin Laden'9/24/2001 06:38:28 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: 'We're family' Bush tells ChrétienU.S. President George W. Bush calls it "an amazing thing" that some Canadians were offended by his speech to Congress when he failed to include Canada as he thanked allies for their support in the campaign against terrorism.
So, hey, Uncle Dubya, can I borrow the car?
9/24/2001 01:26:49 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Sunday Times: TerrorismWe have heard Harold Pinter and friends pleading with the West to stop a war we didn't start. A few of us have read a New Statesman editorial coming perilously close to suggesting that bond dealers in the World Trade Center had it coming.
9/24/2001 01:06:55 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Jacob Sullum -- Reason magazine -- License to Kill"I think that we shouldn’t be in the business of assassinating foreign heads of state," says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. "On the other hand, I think that we should be in the business of preemptively eliminating people who we have profound reason to believe are threatening to kill Americans."
And if those people happen to be heads of state? It’s hard to understand this solicitude for thugs who are so thuggish that they’ve managed to dominate an entire country. If Osama bin Laden somehow took control of Afghanistan, would he suddenly be off-limits?
9/24/2001 12:55:37 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Journalists Worry About Limits on Information, Access (washingtonpost.com)"This is the most information-intensive war you can imagine. . . . We're going to lie about things," said a military officer involved in the planning. "If it is an information war, certainly the bad guys will lie."
[...]
One e-mail message to a Washington Post reporter said: "Criticism of the administration at this critical time is more than unpatriotic -- to the extent it undermines our national confidence and political will to proceed, it gives comfort to the enemy."
9/24/2001 12:47:20 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Terror Experts Use Lenses of Their SpecialtiesThe job of sorting out what is known from what is believed or wished, and then trying to make sense of events to an often- bewildered audience falls to a small cadre of journalists who make terrorism their beat. Right now, they are at the core of what may be the most important story of their careers. They can illuminate why it happened, who the country will fight and what Americans need fear.
9/24/2001 12:43:04 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Draconian curbs may include ID cardsMr Blunkett admitted that some of the measures, including wider powers for the police to detain terrorist suspects, will directly clash with civil rights legislation but claimed the new powers were needed to prevent Britain becoming a police state.
9/24/2001 12:38:46 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ukraine offers airspace to United States9/24/2001 12:37:34 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Taliban up the ante as war clouds gather over AfghanistanAs his defence minister promised that 300,000 men would be ready to oppose US intervention, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar threw his lot in with suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, Washington's enemy number one.
9/24/2001 12:37:06 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Iran press aghast over "bad smell" of British FM's historic visit"If London really wants to distance itself from the terroristic policies of the US president and join the international campaign against terrorism, it definitely should not participate in the massacre of a Muslim nation," it said.
9/24/2001 12:35:28 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NY mayor Giuliani reportedly seeking third term9/24/2001 12:33:17 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bourque HotNewsA call has gone out for a Canadian cabinet-level position similar to the new Bush appointee responsible for homeland defence.
But Canada had such a cabinet position, created by trivia Prime Minister Kim Campbell and opposed and eliminated by Jean Chretien in and after the 1993 election. Doug Lewis was Canada's first (and last) Minister of Public Security.
In a 1993 speech, Lewis said "safety and security does not only concern prisons, police and domestic crime. It also concerns terrorism, illegal immigration and international crime. And it is in these areas that the new Department of Public Security will be focussing its efforts. In addition to the previous Solicitor General responsibility for federal police, security, corrections and parole, my new portfolio now also includes those parts of the immigration program relating to operations abroad, applications processing and enforcement. Eventually it will also include Customs responsibilities relating to border protection and control."
9/24/2001 10:12:37 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Speech by Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, Havana, September 22, 2001Cuba, the country that has suffered the most and the longest from terrorist actions, the one whose people are not afraid of anything because there is no threat or power in the world that can intimidate it, with a high morality Cuba claims that it is opposed to terrorism and opposed to war. Although the possibilities are now remote, Cuba reaffirms the need to avert a war of unpredictable consequences whose very authors have admitted not to have the least idea of how the events will unfold. Likewise, Cuba reiterates its willingness to cooperate with every country in the total eradication of terrorism.
An objective and calm friend should advise the United States government against throwing the young American soldiers into an uncertain war in remote, isolated and inaccessible places, like a fight against ghosts, not knowing where they are or even if they exist or not, or whether the people they kill are or not responsible for the death of their innocent fellow countrymen killed in the United States.
9/24/2001 07:53:25 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Sunday, September 23, 2001
News - Vancouver - canada.com network - Algerian in Vancouver jail linked to bin Laden9/23/2001 09:10:54 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNEWS - U.S. Under Attack: Defence cupboard emptyHenry doubts the Canadian Forces can offer a significant number of ground troops because budget cuts have eliminated some important group training.
And uniforms... and weapons... However -- and this is counting bureaucrats and civil servants and other minor personnel like soldiers or airmen in all branches of the Canadian military, what we do have is one general per six hundred capitas. That's a lot of generals to keep around while mothballing a quarter of our destroyers for lack of crew.
9/23/2001 09:08:02 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
New Yorkers take first step in replacing Mayor GiulianiGovernor Pataki, a Republican, suggested on Friday that electors write Giuliani's name on their ballot papers, in recognition of the mayor's role.
But Green protested, perhaps concerned that voter apathy could skew Tuesday's poll: "Don't waste your vote with a write-in that is really frivolous. Democracy is too important to be a game," he said.
9/23/2001 05:15:25 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Apartments reopen near 'Ground Zero'"It's a relief to come back," said one woman, with her two poodles in tow. "I was worried. I thought it was going to be months before I could move back home. I'm a little nervous about the air, asbestos, I don't know for sure what safe levels really are."
9/23/2001 01:24:36 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Israel Feared Bin Laden Big Attack but didn't know on what.In Washington, the CIA also denied it had received advance warning from the Mossad. "That is utter nonsense," said CIA spokesman Bill Harlow.
9/23/2001 12:43:18 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Afghanistan on the brink as Bin Laden disappears9/23/2001 12:35:32 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Attacks Force Canadians to Face Their Own Threat (washingtonpost.com)"As Canadians, we don't remotely get it," said David Harris, a former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada's spy agency. "Look at the terms of the debate. We've got those people still off in never-never land," saying Canada won't be affected by terrorism.
9/23/2001 12:33:48 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
ABC News - Clinton approved assassination plot against bin Laden9/23/2001 12:30:45 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Lufthansa sure had peculiar taste in ads for this week's Time Magazine.
9/23/2001 12:28:13 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Saturday, September 22, 2001
UPI News Article: London goes on terror alertThe BNP published a leaflet proclaiming "Islam is all about love and respect" next to a picture of the devastated World Trade Center. The leaflet says that Islam "creates ferocious hatred, spawning psychotic mass murderers abroad, and vicious rioters in our own towns."
So does Christianity!
9/22/2001 09:04:27 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
TIME.com: Nation -- TIME Exclusive: Cropduster Manual Discovered in Suspected Terrorist Hideout9/22/2001 09:02:29 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Talks with Osama bin Laden (1)From the September 21, 1998 issue of The Nation.
9/22/2001 04:25:22 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited | Let's not get too liberalIndiscriminate murder is not a judgment, even obliquely, on the victims or their way of life, or ours. Any observant follower of the prophet Mohammed could have been on one of those planes, or in one of those buildings - yes, even in the Pentagon.
9/22/2001 02:00:18 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
freedomforum.org: Journalists report government interference with newsgatheringIf the United States takes military action in response to the terror attacks, Dalglish said she expects more clashes between the news media and the government.
9/22/2001 01:47:33 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Unmanned spy plane shot over Afghanistan: Taliban9/22/2001 01:34:26 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
WHY: Art about the attack on the World Trade Center & Pentagon9/22/2001 12:43:01 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
MS Denies Wingding Thing, Again...when users type the capital letters NYC into a font on Word called Wingdings.
The resultant collection of images -- which includes symbols for a skull and crossbones, a Star of David and a thumbs-up sign -- has led some to conjecture that the program contains a deliberate anti-Semitic message.
9/22/2001 12:38:49 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Tape Reveals Wild Struggle on Flight 93...while it did not provide a clear or complete picture, it seemed certain that there was a chaotic confrontation that apparently led to the crash of the jet.
9/22/2001 11:24:33 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NYPOST.COM National News: BUSH PUTS $25M BOUNTY ON TERROR BOSSES' HEADS By DEBORAH ORIN9/22/2001 10:41:12 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ottawa Sun: Knives out at Air CanadaJohn Watt, 54, said he was "stunned" when passengers were given seven-inch serrated knives with their omelette on an Ottawa-Toronto flight yesterday.
9/22/2001 07:49:27 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Chicago Tribune | Irony should not be numbered among the casualtiesWe can highlight the irony, or at least incongruity, of CNN's "America's New War" coverage label -- making potential cataclysm sound like the latest Procter & Gamble product.
9/22/2001 07:47:30 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Friday, September 21, 2001
| KEN . LAYNE . DOT . CON |Hmm ... now I'm starting to see the possibilities of this stupid attempt to turn tragedy into Hollywood marketing.
"Hi, this is the Celebrity War Tournament, and I'm Cindy Crawford."
"Hey there, Cindy baby. What are you wearing?"
"Huh?"
"You want my money, then I want phone sex. Is that dingbat Mariah Carey around?"
"I think so ... why?"
"Because I want hot celebrity girl-on-girl action. Want my credit card number?"
9/21/2001 08:53:27 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
A Caution To EverybodyConsider the auk: Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk. Consider man, who may well become extinct Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.
Ogden Nash
9/21/2001 08:44:34 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
When blogging came of age - Tech News - CNET.comIf you spent as much time surfing through Web logs, you'd also run across angry ruminations, ranging from the pretentious to the ninth moon of Jupiter. Still, for my money, some of the best stuff was being served up in this most unlikely venue.
9/21/2001 08:33:42 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Idol-makers cast replicas of bin Laden as demon king Mahishasur for Hindu festivalThe four-day Durga puja festival, to be celebrated this year from October 23 by largely Bengali-speaking people in eastern India, celebrates the legendary battle between Hindu goddess Durga and demon-king Mahishasur. Durga's victory symbolises good overcoming evil.
9/21/2001 07:37:39 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | UK | UK arrests over US terror attacksAll four were arrested by anti-terrorism officers and are being questioned under the Terrorism Act 2000 at central London police stations, said the spokesman.
9/21/2001 07:35:09 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
thomas.loc.gov: LEGISLATION RELATED TO THE ATTACK OF SEPTEMBER 11, 20019/21/2001 06:43:40 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
FBI Obtains Terrorist E-Mails9/21/2001 06:33:50 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
E! Online News - Maher Causes "Cowardly" Flap"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away," he said. "That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."
On Tuesday night, ABC and Maher defended the show as one that "celebrates freedom of speech." But by Wednesday, after both FedEx and Sears pulled their ads, Maher apologized and sought to clarify.
It's really unfortunate that the one show that overtly 'celebrates freedom of speech' is hosted by such a mediocre boob.
9/21/2001 06:31:55 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Web Shorts: Attacks push 'sex' out of top searchesThis is the first time in the admittedly short history of the internet that sex has not been among the top-10 items sought online.
9/21/2001 06:26:21 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
ITBusiness.ca:Terrorist attacks planned with U.S. IT infrastructure: expertWith hackers, "they share information, there’s nothing top secret about it," he said. "Not so in the corporate community and law enforcement. That’s a problem. We need each other to fight this."
9/21/2001 06:23:57 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Chrétien says Bush didn't snub CanadaMany radio reports and some newspapers carried reports interpreting Bush's omission of Canada as a insult. One Toronto daily carried the front-page headline, "Bush Snubs Us."
I hate to agree with Prime Minister Poutine, but hell, don't we have anything better to do?
9/21/2001 06:18:28 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Some Flawed Information Occasionally Creeps In...the very qualities that allow television to keep its audience connected also leave it vulnerable to conveying undeveloped, sometimes erroneous reports in the fury of a fast but meandering investigation.
9/21/2001 06:01:51 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thestar.com/Are terror suspects fleeing to Canada?9/21/2001 06:00:52 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - Fluttering flags create conflict for TV reporters - September 21, 2001"We're talking about a news director banning a display anywhere a viewer can see it of an American flag on an American news channel by American personnel," Hume said. "Does this news director believe he is representing Switzerland?"
9/21/2001 05:59:30 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
ZDNet: Story: How video games influenced the attack on America...one of the flight school teachers who actually worked with the terrorists. He said he considered it strange his pupils only wanted to practice making turns. Most students concentrate on take-offs and landings...
9/21/2001 05:58:29 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Coalition to Congress: Slow DownAt the time, senators complained they weren't given time to review the Carnivore legislation before voting.
"Maybe the Senate wants to just go ahead and adopt new abilities to wiretap our citizens," Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) said. "Maybe they want to adopt new abilities to go into people's computers. Maybe that will make us feel safer. Maybe. And maybe what the terrorists have done made us a little bit less safe. Maybe they have increased Big Brother in this country."
But Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona), one of the co-sponsors, said the measure would hand police the vital powers they needed: "Experts in terrorism have been telling us for a long time and the director of the FBI has been telling us (to make) a few changes in the law that make it easier for our law enforcement people to do their job."
9/21/2001 01:21:37 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Terrorists Leave Paperless TrailOne of the first signs that the hijackers were tech-savvy came from an FBI document, obtained by the German magazine Der Spiegel, which disclosed how the hijackers purchased their airline tickets. Several used a pay-per-use public Internet terminal at a Kinko's store in Hollywood, Florida, to access online ticket sites. Some of them chose paperless electronic tickets, and -- for reasons hard to grasp -- entered in their frequent-flier numbers.
9/21/2001 01:20:12 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Heaping insult onto injuryIt's Blame America First -- even for violence committed by others against us -- versus Love America First. One side is so politically correct that it only sees global warming and the U.S.- boycotted U.N. conference on racism; then there are those whose criticisms of U.S. policies don't impede their love of country and their fellows.
9/21/2001 12:41:16 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Frontier Post From Peshawar PakistanAfter the Shoora decision, which concluded on Thursday afternoon , Osama Bin Ladin has reportedly reached Wakhan Corridor near Chinese border.
9/21/2001 12:28:55 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | What the Pakistan papers say9/21/2001 12:28:17 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Fortune.com: How Business Journalism Has Changed. Overnight.Since I'm here and not there in New York, I figure the most useful thing I can do is look at the world in ways that must be very hard to do from New York right now. Which explains why, before getting back to something closer to business coverage, I'm going to at least try to deal with one of the biggest questions of all right now: Why do people hate America so much?
9/21/2001 12:24:11 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Handelsblatt.com: Germany believed home to 100 Islamic terrorists9/21/2001 12:18:25 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Stop spreading the news...Any song whose lyrics referred to flying, fire, explosions, death or New York was removed - and that's a lot of songs.
9/21/2001 10:12:03 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | AMERICAS | Fighting a 'dirty war'"If the president so directed, the US could attack Osama Bin Laden and his headquarters, not to kill him but to use force. And if in the course of that he were to be killed, no-one would shed many tears."
9/21/2001 10:10:58 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
12 killed, 180 injured in French chemical plant blast9/21/2001 10:09:19 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Looting Is Reported in Center's Tomblike MallThe looters picked through a Tourneau boutique watch store, raided cases of designer sunglasses in another shop, tried to pry open at least one cash register and penetrated the service room behind a row of Chase automated teller machines, where steel safes appear to have dissuaded them from making off with stacks of cash.
9/21/2001 08:58:47 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Words can be such dangerous thingsSubjected to a lengthy -- perhaps lifelong -- barrage of assertions from both political and religious leaders that the United States is "The Great Satan," "The Head of the Snake," and the cause of all the world's problems, they would come to see their desperate, suicidal acts as heroic. If you think that words are harmless, that they have no impact, you need look no further.
9/21/2001 08:49:41 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Woody Allen 'shocked', not surprised by attacks in US9/21/2001 08:42:11 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Pro-Bin Laden Pakistani Hacker Defaces World Trade Site 09-19-01"Who achieved the maximum benefit out of this mess, Bin Laden? No!!, just USA and CIA ... For America, WTC could be a little cost for a big target," wrote the site attacker.
9/21/2001 08:38:08 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
VeriSign Calls Domain De-Listing 'The Right Thing To Do'Site users were offering to sell Twintowers09112001.com, Newyorkcarnage.com and several other names related to the disaster, Regan said.
9/21/2001 08:37:01 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Inside the Beltway: Signs in Cyberspace?worldtradecenterbombs.com
9/21/2001 08:04:20 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Air Canada may need court protectionAir Canada was expected to become a strong and healthy carrier through its acquisition of Canadian Airlines two years ago. But it has been unable to turn a profit since then because of merger challenges, a slowing economy, high fuel prices and, now, fears of terrorism.
9/21/2001 07:46:40 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited | Secret Memo reveals US plan to overthrow Taliban regimeWashington is routinely sceptical of the UN and OSCE, but the key role was seen as an attempt to build as broad a coalition as possible behind the imminent campaign.
9/21/2001 07:43:27 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thursday, September 20, 2001
CBC News: Ex-Toronto man arrested for terror questioning9/20/2001 12:51:09 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Moon Farmer standard edition September has a lot of war-related info; so much that Moon Farmer split into two editions to better focus on the war without banalizing everything else.
9/20/2001 12:47:26 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Afghan Clerics Urge bin Laden to Leave; White House Says Unacceptable9/20/2001 12:46:48 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Aboard Flight 564 -- The Washington Times"I want to thank you brave folks for coming out today. We don't have any new instructions from the federal government, so from now on we're on our own."
9/20/2001 10:12:59 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Novelists Reassess Their Subject Matter...the work of the poet is to slow us down and get us to look at things in a different pace.
9/20/2001 10:04:16 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The New York Times on the Web: The Phantom Towers9/20/2001 09:04:29 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Michael Moore, 9/15/2001No matter what the media tells you or shows you, I am convinced there is a majority of Americans who, though they want justice and want to be protected from further attacks, do not want George W. Bush to start sounding like Dr. Strangelove.
9/20/2001 08:52:34 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Knives on Pearson jetWorkers found box cutters in bin
TORONTO -- A Washington-based counter-terrorism specialist says "knives or box cutters" were found in recent days aboard a commercial jetliner about to take off at Pearson International Airport.
9/20/2001 08:45:26 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Clearly news stories are surfacing and drowning right now; the best way to give them a lifeline is to record and reflect on them later -- not too much later, though. As a Canadian I have personal interest in knowing what the monstrous flabbiness of my government has allowed to grow in my soil. Obviously terrorists used Canada as a base; the only question is how much. That's my focus.
9/20/2001 08:22:18 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark