The Afghan Phase of the "War on Terrorism"

Mostly Background and History: How our country became involved.

• FBI and US Spy Agents Say Bush Spiked Bin Laden Probes Before 11 September
• Al Qaeda Says It's Behind Synagogue Attack, Vows More
• Fact Sheets on Afghanistan
• National Security Archive
• Country Watch
• Taliban Offer to Detain bin Laden
• Osama and the CIA
• Afghanistan: A Forgotten Chapter
• AFGHANISTAN 1979-1992 America's Jihad(long)
• Unintended Consequences

Religious Leaders Speak Out

• A statement from AME Bishops
• Alternatives to the "War Against Terror" (Friends)
• War and justice don't mix, Catholic leaders say
• A Catholic Community Responds to the War
• War is not blessed by God

The Consequences For Afghan Civilians

• Return to Afghanistan: Americans begin to suffer grim and bloody backlash
• The Return to Afghanistan: Collateral Damage
• Counting the dead 
• US raids 'killed 800 Afghan civilians'
• Flaws in U.S. Air War Left Hundreds of Civilians Dead
• Accountability Ignored in Kakrak Errant Bombing
• Mass grave discovered in Afghanistan
• Expecting Taliban, but Finding Only Horror
• Documentary of US 'war crimes' shocks Europe
• A fight to feed hungry Afghanistan
• Villagers, U.S. At Odds Over Lethal Bombing
• U.S. Raid Kills 100 Afghans; British Troops Arrive
• A child's death illustrates misery engulfingAfghans
• How to get Afghan civilian casualties in the U.S. press
• The Others: What If We Could See the Afghan Dead as We've Seen the September 11 Victims?
• Bring Out Your Dead
• US Jittery at Symbolic Meetings of Grieving Families
• Bombing the Red Cross
• U.S. bombs leave wasteland
• Who Counts? New Estimates of Afghanistan's Civilian Dead
• Racing Against Time
• Collateral Damage Made Real
• 3,500 Civilians Killed in Afghanistan by U.S. Bombs
• Pentagon Denials and Civilian Death in Afghanistan

Military Casualties

• “Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death”