Monthly Archive: December 2001

The German Die Welt ran a story that US intelligence first got wind of an al-Qaeda attack plan using hijacked airliners back in 1995, and again in 1997.

The theological/ideological links between Hamas and Al Qaeda.

This is a cool map of which warlords control which parts of Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s collapse.

So apparently Kissinger did OK the massacre of 200,000 East Timorese by Indonesian dictator Suharto, using US weaponry. Terrorism, wholesale.

The writer Patricia Cornwall also liked From Hell a lot.

Collecting junk goes back a long way: almost 3 million years ago an australopithecus (one of the first “cave man” ape-like humanoid) liked this pebble-with-a-skull-face so much that it carried it back to its...

Apparently, the current recession is caused by “animal spirits”, while “Help Wanted” ads are at their lowest level for nearly 40 years.

Hebron sounds like a crazy mess. Home to racists of both religions: Zionist colonists and Islamist Hamas. And all this because, according to some millenia-old legend, the Biblical figures Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are...

Robert Fisk, one of the most outspoken “dissident” war correspondents, was beaten and stoned by a Pashtun Afghan mob angry about the slaughter of prisoners in Mazar. This is a pity… this guy genuinely...

Here’s another article analyzing what the war in Afghanistan has accomplished so far. The author, Eric Margolis, does have an overwhelming anti-Communist slant though. Anyway, one good thing is that the Islam mystics are...