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Washington Post: CIA Told to Do 'Whatever Necessary' to Kill Bin Laden |
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9:04 am EDT, Oct 21, 2001 |
Bob Woodward's latest report appears "above the fold" in the Sunday edition of the Washington Post: "President Bush last month signed an intelligence order directing the CIA to undertake its most sweeping and lethal covert action since the founding of the agency in 1947, explicitly calling for the destruction of Osama bin Laden and his worldwide al Qaeda network, according to senior government officials." Washington Post: CIA Told to Do 'Whatever Necessary' to Kill Bin Laden |
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Edge 91: What Now?, part 2 |
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4:38 pm EDT, Oct 17, 2001 |
"A Continuation of AN EDGE QUESTION: 'WHAT NOW?' Most recent responses: Margaret Wertheim, Kevin Kelly, Paul W. Ewald, Roger Schank, Steven Strogatz, J. Doyne Farmer, Esther Dyson, David Berreby, Sylvia Paull, Julian Brown, Jordan Pollack, Cliff Barney, Jay Ogilvy, Timothy Taylor." Edge 91: What Now?, part 2 |
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Analyze the News with Story Data |
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3:20 pm EDT, Oct 15, 2001 |
"Storydata.com is a data analysis portal. In many cases, the news of the day is based on one or two statistics gleaned from a complex institutional database. Just as hypertext allows anyone with Internet access to link to source documents that shape current events, Storydata.com allows anyone with Internet access not just to link to, but get more insight out of the data that affects our world." Note that this site is a working advert for software firm Databeacon. However, the data are well presented and definitely worth a look. Requires a Java-capable browser. Analyze the News with Story Data |
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The Counterterrorist Myth, by Reuel Marc Gerecht |
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| Topic: Current Events |
9:18 am EDT, Oct 14, 2001 |
Published in The Atlantic, July/August 2001 "A former CIA operative explains why the terrorist Usama bin Ladin has little to fear from American intelligence" The Counterterrorist Myth, by Reuel Marc Gerecht |
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2:34 pm EDT, Oct 13, 2001 |
"[...] the Edge community can mount a serious conversation about the catastrophic events of the past week that might do some good. Within the community is invaluable expertise in many pertinent areas, not to mention the intelligence that the "Edgies" can bring to the subjects. So how about a new Edge question: WHAT NOW?" Respondents include Kevin Kelly, Esther Dyson, Freeman Dyson, Richard Dawkins, David Farber, Jaron Lanier, Douglas Rushkoff, Bruce Sterling, and many others. Edge 90: What Now? |
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Special Briefing from _Foreign Affairs_ |
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2:43 pm EDT, Oct 12, 2001 |
"This special briefing from _Foreign Affairs_ collects the full text of ten previously published articles and thirteen book reviews that "contribute to an understanding of the tragic attacks on New York and Washington." The articles range from David Fromkin's 1975 "The Strategy of Terrorism," which gives the history of terrorism and some governmental strategies for combatting it, to Richard K. Betts' prescient 1998 "The New Threat of Mass Destruction," discussing the dangers of terrorist attacks on the US. Other writers include Ahmed Rashid, Walter Laqueur, and Ashton Carter." Special Briefing from _Foreign Affairs_ |
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