8 September, 2010 — Information Clearing House

The American Occupation of Afghanistan
The Birth of a National Liberation Movement
By Prof. Marc W. Herold
The Taliban inherited a devastated country, torn apart during six years of warlord in-fighting. Few state structures or institutions existed. Moreover, the background of the Taliban hardly prepared them for national governance.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26320.htm

Sept. 11: A Day Without War
By Amy Goodman
The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States should serve as a moment to reflect on tolerance. It should be a day of peace. Yet the rising anti-Muslim fervor here, together with the continuing U.S. military occupation of Iraq and the escalating war in Afghanistan (and Pakistan), all fuel the belief that the U.S. really is at war with Islam.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26326.htm

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