Spice Girls: Exactly the Reason Why Bin Laden Hates the West
from IslamOnline: “Having a Spice Girl and her bikini-babe dancers prance around in the deserts of Oman like so many trampy tarts, isn’t showing respect."
Anthrax worries find answer in e-mail
An obvious solution … “Congress is asking constituents to communicate with their senators or representatives through electronic means.”
Flight Transcripts
an article published by the NYTimes details the “transcripts of the communications between pilots and controllers capture the dawning awareness of the terror in cockpits and control centers."
Television Archive
The Television Archive has just launched. Its first collection — concerning the events of 11 September 2001 — contains television news from around the world. You can watch the broadcasts, read critical commentary, and see differing perspectives in coverage from television stations worldwide.
NBC Says New York Employee Tests Positive for Anthrax
“An employee of NBC in New York has tested positive for anthrax, the network said Friday. The FBI and C.D.C. are investigating … The anthrax is not the same respiratory anthrax that killed a Florida man, NBC News said in a statement.”
Chatting Doodz
disturbing (found via blogdex)
http://perceptions.diaryland.com/010927_61.html
What should be the response to violence?
Quotes from a rather long, but interesting article titled, The theory of power shows that weapons indicate weakness, not strength, by Michael Jennings:
“Showing a lack of understanding of history, President Bush, in a speech to the nation on Sunday, September 16, 2001, used the term “crusade” to refer to what he wants for the United States. During the Crusades [rhodes.edu], from 1095 to 1291 A.D., Europeans traveled to Arab countries to kill Arabs.”