September 11

compiled by CSE Senior Fellow William Arkin

News Aggregators

• Spotlight on Military News and Military Affairs - Daily international news coverage from the Canadian Forces College.
• Defense Headlines - Compiled by Military.com
• Common Dreams News Center - Progressive news homepage, excellently presented, stressing leftist press, including Common Dreams NewsWire .
• Yahoo! Full Coverage Afghanistan/Taliban and Terrorism Events of September 11 and Osama Bin Laden - Consistently high quality and timely compilation of the latest news and links.
• Yahoo Full Coverage U.S. Military
• BBC Full Coverage of September 11 and Aftermath - and BBC South Asia

Overviews

• FindLaw Legal News: Special Coverage America Attacked - News, documents, and links.
• FirstGov - U.S. government official response to September 11 website, including a  search engine for government websites.
• JURIST Terrorism Law and Policy - From the Legal Education Network at the University of Pittsburgh.
• State Department Public diplomacy calendar of ongoing and upcoming international meetings.
• State Department Public Diplomacy Query Search Engine - Search the last two years or nine years of U.S. government statements.
• Speeches and Transcripts - From Gary Price at George Washington University.
• Washington File Statements of the past 48 hours by U.S. government officials.

Breaking News

Headlines and stories sorted by various search engines

• Headlines and Top Stories - AFP World Summary (from Yahoo!) - AP News on the Hour (via Washington Post) - Yahoo! - Moreover.com
• U.S. Military - Northern Light - Yahoo! -  Excite
• Defense/Aerospace - Yahoo!
• Afghanistan -  Northern Light - Yahoo! -  Excite - ReliefWeb
• Osama Bin Laden - Northern Light -  Yahoo! -  Excite

Wire Services

• Afghanistan News Channel (from Afghan Network)
• AFP Defense (from defense-aerospace.com)
• AP International Wire (via Newsday)
• ITAR/TASS latest news
• Middle East Newswire
• Reuters News (via Yahoo!)
• UPI (via Virtual New York News)
• Voice of America News - latest from the Middle East and South Asia .

Real Audio Live News

• BBC Live News
• Radio Pakistan Live (in English)
• VOA Live News

Afghanistan, South Asia and the Region

• Afghanistan Weather Forecast
• BBC Country Profiles
• CIA World Factbook
• CIA Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
• Department of State Human Rights Reports
• Human Rights Watch World Report 2000
• Online Maps (University of Texas)
• ReliefWeb Map Center

Terrorism

• Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (St. Andrew's University, Scotland)
• The Counter-Terrorism Page
• FAS Terrorism Page
• International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals
• International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (Israel) - History, ideology, strategy, terrorist activity, documents, links, and updates.
• Overseas Security Advisory Council
• Special Operations.Com
• Taliban Resources and Links - from Academic Info.
• Terrorism - FBI Online Library
• Terrorist and Insurgent Organizations - Air University Library July 200 bibliography.
• Terrorism and Security Collection - National Academy of Sciences, full-text, searchable archive.
• Terrorism Links of the U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO)
• Terrorism Research Center
• Terrorist Group Profiles - From the U.S. Naval Post Graduate School, including reports and chronology.
• USIP Taliban and Afghanistan Weblinks

Reports and Studies

• Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism (National Commission on Terrorism, 2000), also avalable from FAS
• Department of Defense Report to Congress on Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction
• FindLaw Documents Library on Terrorism
• National Security Archive September 11, 2001 Source Books - Declassified and background documents.
• Patterns of Global Terrorism: 2000 - Department of State annual reportincludes chronology of terrorist events in US and world, released April 2001. Former reports index
• PDD 39: U.S. Policy on Combating Terrorism - unclassified abstract.
• PDD 62: Combatting Terrorism - unclassified fact sheet.

Government Institutions

U.S. Government

• White House - and special attack response website.
• CIA
• Department of Defense - Today in the Defense Department, as well as news and transcripts    Releases and transcripts can be received via Email.
  • Air Force Response to Tragedy
  • Army America Attacked
  • Navy News Special
• Department of Justice and FBI
  • Department of Justice Office for State and Local Domestic Preparedness Support (OSLDPS)
• Department of State - Response to Terrorism page and statements by Secretary of State Colin Powell.
  • South Asian Affairs Bureau
  • Counterterrorism Office
• FEMA - prepares the Federal Response Plan
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Preparedness and Response Program
• EPA: EPA's Role in Counter-Terrorism
• Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Emergency Preparedness
• Public Health Service - Noble Training Center

International Organizations

• ASEAN
• Commonwealth
• Council of Europe
• EU
• G8 Online
• Group of 77 (now 133)
• International Committee of the Red Cross
• IMF
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)- Including  latest news
• Nordic Council
• OAS
• OAU
• OECD
• OPEC
• OSCE News
• United Nations - UN News
• WEU
• WTO
• World Bank

Non-Governmental Institutions

General

• Amnesty International Online
• ANSER Virtual Library on Homeland Security - including Journal of Homeland Security
• Brookings Institution Project on Terrorism
• Center for Defense Information
• Center for Strategic and International Studies - Including Homeland Defense
• Global Beat - New York University maintained site with news and analysis.
• Human Rights Watch
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting
• RAND reports on terrorism - including Countering the New Terrorism, RAND report , available in full text .  Rand hosts the National Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism (Toward a National Strategy for Combating Terrorism) (the Gilmore Commission)

Middle East Studies

• ArabNet
• Middle East Network Information Center (MENIC) (University of Texas)
• WWW Virtual Library Middle East Studies (Columbia University)

South Asian Studies

• The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia
• SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet (Columbia University) (WWW Virtual Library South Asia)
• Center for South Asian Studies at University of California at Berkeley
• International Institute Gateway for Asian Studies (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
• University of Michigan Graduate Library: South Asia Division
• UC Berkely Library - South Asia Resources
• WWW Virtual Library Asian Studies

Central Asian Studies

• Center for Afghanistan Studies (University of Nebraska)
• Central Asian Studies World Wide (Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies)
• Interactive Central Asia Research Project (WWW Virtual Library Central Asia)
• International Security Network: Central Asia
• WWW Virtual Library Caucasus

Links compiled by William M. Arkin for the Center for Strategic Education of The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Version 1 (26 September 2001).  Additions, comments, dead links to William M. Arkin

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