Fwd: Mideast Muslim Media Listings

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Folks,

Here in webland, interconnectedness can sometimes be a good thing. I 
thought I would pass this list of media urls along for your perusal.

Ciao,
Rex

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>Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:35:53 -0700
>From: Phil Agre <pagre@alpha.oac.ucla.edu>
>To: Red Rock Eater News Service <rre@lists.gseis.ucla.edu>
>Subject: [RRE]attack
>
>Here are some more URL's, with the main emphasis on Muslim countries'
>reaction and diplomatic activity.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
>
>Can I ask people to hunt down URL's for government and think tank
>reports on anti-terrorism, aviation and other infrastructure security,
>network and infrastructural warfare, and that sort of thing?  There
>are lots of reports out there that are looking prophetic right now.
>That does *not* mean that we should treat those reports and their
>authors as prophets, because some of them (not all) are motivated by
>deeper political agendas.  But we should certainly get their language
>out in the open, because we can be certain that their language is
>getting a major hearing in the corridors right now.  I'd rather get
>specific reports that you've at least half-read and found contentful
>rather than big directories of stuff that may or may not be valuable.
>
>A small correction.  I described Jerry Pournelle's article as
>"demanding that various cities be razed to the ground".  Reading
>further along, one discovers that this is a "thought experiment",
>and while it's not clear that he'd argue against it, nor is it
>clear that he's arguing for it.  In fact it's not clear what he's
>saying at all.  I'll confess that I stopped reading where I did
>because demanding that various cities be razed to the ground was
>pretty much what I expected him to do.  I'm happy to be at least
>somewhat wrong.
>
>
>investigation
>
>very impressive story of escaping the World Trade Center
>(may not work in Netscape)
>http://www.littlewhitedog.com/forum/topic.asp?whichpage=1&Forum_Title=General+Conversations&Topic_Title=Perrito%27s+Story&CAT_ID=5&FORUM_ID=15&TOPIC_ID=2929
>
>story about a Congressional Research Service report on the bin Laden network
>http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010914.atc.15.ram
>
>Business Offices and Governmental Offices in the World Trade Center
>(this is much updated from the list whose URL I sent out before)
>http://tbtf.com/unblinking/arc/2001-09a.htm
>
>
>Muslim countries -- reaction
>
>denunciations of the attack from Muslim political leaders (from Wednesday)
>http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20010912.me.11.ram
>
>What the Papers Say in the Middle East
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,551050,00.html
>
>Ally Egypt Says Cooperating with US, Urges Caution
>(no surprise; they're in mortal danger from their own Islamist opposition)
>http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-attack-egypt-maher.html
>
>Mubarak Opposes Anti-Terrorist Coalition Outside UN Auspices: Report
>http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010915/1/1gk39.html
>
>reaction from North Africa
>http://allafrica.com/stories/200109120327.html
>http://allafrica.com/northafrica/
>
>United Arab Emirates Reviews Taliban Ties, Vows to Help Fight Terror
>http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-attack-uae.html
>
>liberal Pakistani opinion
>http://www.thefridaytimes.com/
>
>comment from Iran
>http://80.75.0.12/Description.asp?Da=9/15/2001&Cat=14&Num=1
>
>Saddam Hussein Warns US, West Not to Launch "New crusade"
>http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/79482p-1111449c.html
>
>Saddam Hussein Urges Restraint, Healing
>http://web.realcities.com/content/rc/news/attack/tallahassee/1956265121.htm
>
>Saddam Hussein Issues Open Letter
>http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_399309.html
>
>Hackers Call for Attacks Against Arab and Islamic Sites
>http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2001-09/15/article7.shtml
>
>
>Muslim countries -- information sources
>
>Afghan News Network
>http://www.myafghan.com/
>
>Lemar-Aaftab Afghan Magazine
>http://www.afghanmagazine.com/
>
>Afghan Info Center
>http://www.afghan-info.com/
>
>Arabic News
>http://www.arabicnews.com/
>
>Middle East Network Information Center
>http://link.lanic.utexas.edu/menic/
>
>Information Resources for Islamic, Middle Eastern and Near Eastern Studies
>http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/neareast.html
>
>
>Muslim countries -- background
>
>anthropological take on fundamentalism
>http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/publications/FUNDMNTALISM.htm
>
>Taleban Grants Access to Strike Target (September 1998)
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_165000/165083.stm
>
>Osama Bin Laden to Lead Taliban Military Operations
>(you may have seen this; I mention it to say that it's almost certainly wrong)
>http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/2001/08/01/11487.html
>
>Der Bergbunker von Osama bin Laden
>http://www.bild.de/service/archiv/2001/sep/15/news/bunker/bunker.html
>
>
>US reaction
>
>the guy who screwed up Logan security was a Republican patronage appointment
>("not his fault he wasn't extraordinary in a culture that accepted 
>mediocrity")
>http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/258/metro/Logan_security_director_sought_free_rein+.shtml
>
>Senate Use of Force Resolution
>http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/WTC_dc010914.html#sidebar
>
>
>US comment
>
>We Need the Rule of Law, Not the Rule of War
>http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/258/oped/We_need_the_rule_of_law_not_the_rule_of_warP.shtml
>
>much informed commentary here
>http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/strands_home.asp
>
>wacky far-right rant full of false and irrelevant accusations
>http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=9218
>
>Total Barbarism Demands Total War
>(but he's a moderate: he's not demanding that we plow salt into their fields)
>http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-09-14/News_and_Views/Opinion/a-125208.asp?last
>
>jargon watch: conservative Muslim says that "victims" can't be real Americans
>(to be a real American, you have to pretend that discrimination doesn't exist)
>http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001128
>
>
>other reaction
>
>Israel Launches Seven Attacks Against Palestinians
>http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010915/1/1gk5n.html
>
>China Denies Reports of Links to Taliban
>http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-attack-china.html
>
>
>civil liberties
>
>revised version of my article about infrastructural warfare
>(please link to it here rather than posting it on other Web sites)
>http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/war.html
>
>Information Security: A New Priority
>http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,28987,00.html
>
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