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Taliban

Weekly Review

by Paul Ford,

Visiting Scotland for the G8 summit, President George W. Bush fell off his bicycle after running into a policeman. Bush was hurt, but not badly. The policeman hurt his ankle.…

Eighteen people died when a U.S. helicopter crashed in Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed they shot down the helicopter; the United States blamed bad weather.BBC NewsChicago TribuneIraq’s parliament elected Jalal…

The lost buddhas of Bamiyan

by Matthew Power,

Picking up the pieces in Afghanistan

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Two government reports, one civilian and one military, were issued on the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. The Army reported that military intelligence officers and civilian contractors were deeply involved in…

Weekly Review

by Margaret Cordi,

The wire master and his puppets, 1875. In a furtive ceremony held two days ahead of schedule in order to pre-empt violence, the United States transferred “sovereignty” to Iraq. About…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

The British government declined to prosecute Katharine Gun, the linguist who leaked a United States National Security Agency memo asking British intelligence to spy on United Nations diplomats before the…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

More than 60 prominent scientists, including 20 Nobel prize winners and 19 winners of the National Medal of Science, denounced the Bush Administration for its systematic distortion of scientific facts…

Readings

by Thomas Dworzak,

Where the Taliban roam

by Eliza Griswold,

Dodging the jihad in Pakistan's tribal lands

Should John Walker Lindh Go Free?

by Edwin Dobb,

On the rights of the detained

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Art by Philip Burke,

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The lost buddhas of Bamiyan

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Readings

Where the Taliban roam

Should John Walker Lindh Go Free?

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May 2002

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