From: CNN.com In-Depth Specials

Quotes from What Happens Next? by Jesse Walker

“1. The Gandhi Option: Wouldn’t it make more sense just to stop these clumsy interventions into other people’s battles? Why make ourselves a target for every tin-pot maniac in the Third World?"

“2. The Kojak Option: A terrible crime has been committed. … So it’s time for some expert policework, to track down and capture the people who did this."

i’m not sure if this is funny or frightening: “I’m not gonna fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.”
http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/bush.htm

this link has been passed around the weblogging community quite a bit, but i thought it valuable if you haven’t already see in:

“A collection of links to pages discussing the various rumors to come out of the September 11 terrorist attack on the United States of America.” http://www.snopes2.com/info/rumors.htm

from computer user: “The founder of a group called the Pakistan Hackerz Club defaced the Web site of World Trade Services, a California-based firm that facilitates international e-commerce."

“In a message left at the defaced site, an individual calling himself “Doctor Nuker” suggested the U.S. government may have orchestrated the terrorist attacks on America to justify widening its manhunt for Osama bin Laden."

“Israel’s military intelligence service, Aman, suspects that Iraq is the state that sponsored the suicide attacks on the New York Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington.”

From: Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view

The following was found on craigslist and written by Tamim Ansary who is an Afghani-American writer. It’s a very powerful letter in response to the events of the past week. Here are some quotes:

“The Taliban are a cult of ignorant psychotics who took over Afghanistan in 1997. Bin Laden is a political criminal with a plan. When you think Taliban, think Nazis. When you think Bin Laden, think Hitler. And when you think ’the people of Afghanistan’ think ’the Jews in the concentration camps.’ It’s not only that the Afghan people had nothing to do with this atrocity. They were the first victims of the perpetrators. They would exult if someone would come in there, take out the Taliban and clear out the rats nest of international thugs holed up in their country.”

SharedVoice.org was launched on September 17 to promote that the people want justice, but an end to more violence …

“We want to live in a world where we can live in harmony with other nations, and to feel safe from a sense of escalation that we as individuals feel little control over.”

“What is missing from the landscape of images and words is an expression of agreement among people who feel that as leaders in the world, the United States ought to uphold the values we so strongly affirm – freedom and justice. Is justice served in the taking of innocent lives, anywhere?”

From Time Magazine … collection of photographs by photojournalist James Nachtwey

My sister’s friend and colleague Osman Altan was interviewed by the Princeton Packet about his experience fleeing from 73rd floor of the north tower Tuesday morning … I think Osman’s words become even more vivid and disturbing if you view these pictures after you read the article.