Links and Resources

• www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/afghanistan.html

• www.afghana.com/Map/Maps.htm

• www.terrorism.com

• www.tricity.wsu.edu/terrorincontext/US Government

• www.aryahelps.org

• www.afghanistanproject.org

• www.afghanmagazine.com

• www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/afghanistan.html

• www.afghan-web.com

• www.omaid.com/

• users.erols.com/arbs/

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Web Sites of Interest

The Office of Homeland Security http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/ The White House’s official site.

American Bar Association Task Force on Terrorism and the Law - Report and Recommendations on Military Commissions  http://www.abanet.org/leadership/military.pdf Free paper copies are available for this Office for Victims of Crime’s eleven page document

Handbook for Coping After Terrorism, A Guide to Healing and Recovery  http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/infores/cat_hndbk/welcome.html

Order information is on page eleven.

Responding to terrorism victims: Oklahoma City and beyond 

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/pdftxt/NCJ183949.pdf

A fifty-five page report by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime.

GAO Reports http://www.gao.gov/

GAO has set up special collections for subjects “Terrorism” and “Airport Security.”

U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century  http://www.nssg.gov/

The purpose of the Commission is to provide the most comprehensive government-sponsored review of U.S. national security in more than 50 years.

Homeland Defense   http://stinet.dtic.mil/dticrev/vol5-number4.html

The Defense Technical Information Center has made available in pdf format this Special Interest Issue of DTIC Review (v.15:no.4) on Homeland Defense. Go to DTIC’s Subject Catagory Coverage page or Advanced Fielded Search page for more reports.

Hart-Rudman Commission and the Homeland Defense 

http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usassi/ssipubs/pubs2001/hartrud/hartrud.pdf

Published by the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, this report is dated September 2001.

The American Psychological Association’s Help with Trauma page is an online resource for parents, teachers and others. http://www.apa.org/psychnet/coverage.html

Health and Wellness Resource Center  http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HWRC?locID=america

contains relevant information about bioterrorism, anthrax, ciprofloxacin, post-traumatic stress disorder, small pox, plague, radiation injuries and more.

Alternative Resources on the U.S. “War Against Terrorism”  http://www.pitt.edu/~ttwiss/irtf/Alternative.html

This page is on the web site of the International Responsibilities Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of ALA (American Library Association.) It includes links to news & analysis and also to petitions related to the war.

Attack on America in Context LexisNexis http://www.lexis-nexis.com/resources

InfoPro is offering this as a free resource from its deep archive of news, legal, legislative, and business information.

September 11: U.S. Response  http://www.c-span.org/attacks/

C-SPAN offers a comprehensive list of links to related resources including a lengthy list of C-SPAN’s video archives in chronological order.

Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/

has created a response page dedicated to the September 11th Crisis titled Justice Not Revenge.

BCR’s Michael Sauer’s “Attack On America - Tuesday 11 September 2001”  http://www.bcr.org/~msauers/wtc.html

This very comprehensive page is offered through BCR Online. Topics include: graphics & interactive media, architecture & engineering, suspects, hoaxes, and much more.

Afghanistan - A Country Study  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/aftoc.html

From the Library of Congress’ County Studies series sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Army, this site provides updated research completed in 1997 only. For the complete text of the 1986 paper version go to Illinois Institute of Technology’s Afghanistan page. http://www.gl.iit.edu/govdocs/afghanistan/index.html

For other countries, go to Library of Congress’ Country Studies main page. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/

Afghanistan-Background Notes  http://www.state.gov/r/pa/bgn/index.cfm?docid=5380

Revised October 2001, this is a 12 page thumbnail sketch of Afghanistan’s people, history, government, political conditions, economy, foreign relations and business information from the Department of State. To view information for other countries and regions go to Background Notes.

War on Terrorism: News and Related Issues  http://www.richmond.edu/is/library/govdocs/Terrorism.html

University of Richmond’s page recently updated (12/14/01), includes a section on “Removal of Government Information from the Web” Security concerns have led a number of government agencies to remove “sensitive” information from their web sites.

Attack on America: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and Terrorism  http://www.lib.ecu.edu/govdoc/terrorism.html

East Carolina University’s site contains many links to various information sources about Afghanistan, the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and al Qa’ida.

Government Publications on Terrorism  http://www.lib.umd.edu/GOV/terrorism.html

University of Maryland Libraries site contains items available on the Internet. Items also available in paper list the call number.

Government Information on World Terrorism  http://www.gl.iit.edu/govdocs/terrorism.htm

This is a compilation by the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Terrorism and Attacks on the United States   http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/terrorism.html

This site from Vanderbilt University includes government information and reports, indexes, educational sites, coping and helping resources, as well as news sources.

Evergreen State College Government Documents & Maps  http://www.evergreen.edu/user/library/govdocs/hotopics/index.html

This site contains a photo gallery and direct links to international news (BBC) and political organizations (NATO & UN) as well as federal and state resources.

Terrorism: A Select Guide to Information  http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/lml/govdocsubj/terrorism.html

University at Buffalo’s site provides selected sources of current news about the incidents. It offers background information about international and domestic terrorism in the U.S. and describes selected sources of information about disaster assistance.

Muslim Matrimonials and More!   ZAWAJ.COM

Online Islamic marriage and family magazine, with articles, advice, wedding photos, regional Muslim wedding customs, recipes and Islamic knowledge resources. Plus thousands of Muslim matrimonial ads from all over the world with photos and confidential mailboxes.

IslamiCity.com

http://www.islamicity.com/default.shtml

Al-Islam

http://www.al-islam.org/

Islam Online

http://www.islam-online.net/english/index.shtml

Islam Q & A

http://63.175.194.25/

Afghana.com

http://www.afghana.com/

Institute for Afghan Studies

http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/

Afghan Renascent Youth Association

http://www.aryahelps.org/

Afghan magazine

http://www.afghanmagazine.com/

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/afghanistan.html

Afghanistan Online

http://www.afghan-web.com/

Omaid Weekly Afghan newspaper

http://www.omaid.com/

Asian Rare Books

http://users.erols.com/arbs/

Media

Voice of Afghanistan

Medium: Live radio
Language: Dari-Persian
Location: Toronto, Canada

Radio Voice of Afghanistan
Medium: Radio
Language: Dari-Persian
Location: California, USA

Payam-e-Mujahid (Message of the Mujahid)
Medium: Newspaper
Language: Dari-Persian and Pahsto
Location: Parwan, Afghanistan

Sada-ye-Mujahid (Voice of the Mujahid)
Medium: Radio
Language: Dari-Persian and Pashto
Location: Parwan, Afghanistan

The Tajikistan Update
Medium: Internet-based
Language: English
Location: USA

Afgha.com
Medium: Internet-based
Language: French and English
Location: France

Voice of America in Dari
Medium: Radio
Language: Dari-Persian
Location: Washington, DC, USA

BBC - Persian Service
Medium: Radio
Language: Farsi-Persian
Location: England

Organizations

USA

France

Negar Association
Supporting the women and children of Afghanistan

Collectif Liberté Afghanistan
Collective of various Afghanistan-related Human Rights organizations

Women on the road for Afghanistan
Women's rights organization

Government

Islamic State of Afghanistan
Official Web Site of the Government of Afghanistan

Consulate of the Islamic State of Afghanistan in Canberra - Australia

Embassy of the Islamic State of Afghanistan in Paris - France

Embassy of the Islamic State of Afghanistan in Warsaw - Poland new!

General Interest

Community

Afghanistan Peace Organization
A cyber-community

Afghan Teens Network
A cyber-community for Afghan youth

Culture

Contemporary Afghan Farsi Poetry
Dari-Persian poetry contemporary poets of Afghanistan

Abdul Qudus Wasiq
Dedicated to one of Afghanistan's notable contemporary calligraphers

General interest

Silk Route
General Afghanistan interest site

Photography

    A.Raffaele Ciriello
Photojournalist extraordinaire, dramatic pictures from Afghanistan

Special interest

Massoud of Afghanistan
A personal Web site dedicated to Ahmad Shah Masood

Sports

Afghan Taekwondo

Buzkashi, Whitney Aoy

General

Afghanistan On-line: http://www.afghan-web.com has sections on culture, economics, geography, language, history and religion as well as a full set of links and updated daily news. Compiled by supporters of Jamiat-i-Islami, which was part of the United Front, this site is a good first stop for basic information.

Eurasia Net: http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/afghanistan/index.shtml is a resource page put together by Eurasia Net, a division of the Open Society Institute. This is a very useful and easy to use site containing basic information, up-to-date news, human rights reports and analysis of current events.

Watan Afghanistan: http://www.afghanan.net contains a bunch of links to sites and information about history, languages and tribes, biographies of prominent people, Islam, weather, photographs, news and lots more.

Sabawoon: http://www.sabawoon.com is a compilation of the latest news and editorials compiled from magazines, newspapers and NGO publications, an online journal, art gallery and an encyclopedia about Afghanistan containing historical, economic and cultural information.

Politics and Diplomacy

Political Resources on the Web: http://www.politicalresources.net/afghanistan.htm contains information and links on elections, political parties and law. Hopefully this site will be updated with information about the new government. Political organizations of note included in the site are:

Hezb-E-Islami: http://www.hezb-e-islami.org is the official website of the Islamic Party describing its political framework, including legislative reforms, foreign policy, economy and history.

Afghanistan’s Liberation Organization: http://www.a-l-o.org is the website of Afghanistan’s communist party and contains policy statements and historical information.

Royal House of Afghanistan: http://www.ifrance.com/zaher-shah//index.html contains limited information about the monarchy and loya jirga (the “grand assembly" or traditional Afghan crisis resolution method).

United Nations: For information on the Bonn talks on the Afghan provisional government, see http://www.uno.de/frieden/afghanistan/talks.htm or for information on United Nations projects and reconstruction efforts for Afghanistan in general, see the United Nations website at:

 http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel1.asp?infocusID=16&Body=Afghanistan.

NYU’s Center for International Cooperation: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/cic/projects has links (found on the bottom under the heading Reconstruction of Afghanistan) to several websites and articles affiliated with and or written by Barnett Rubin, director of studies at the center and an expert on Afghanistan.

Institute for Afghan Studies: http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org contains a comprehensive compilation of historical information, analysis and bibliographies. Built by a non-profit, non-political and independent organization, founded and run by young Afghan scholars from around the globe, this site is well-designed and easy to use.

Center for Afghanistan Studies: http://www.unomaha.edu/~world/cas/cas.html is the “only institutional base in the United States exclusively concerned with Afghanistan affairs” and its website contains country data (economics, history, stats) and limited analysis.

Afghanistan Research Group: http://afghanistan-rg.de.vu is a site compiled by Central European scholars and contains overviews and analysis in English and German.

Media

Afghanistan News: http://afghanistannews.net has updated headlines and news from a variety of print media and wire sources in English as well as links to other news sources and archives. Also try, the Afghan News Network: http://www.myafghan.com.

Afgha Press Agency: http://www.afgha.com also has updated news and analysis from around the world. This site was originally dedicated entirely to Ahmad Shah Massoud of the United Front.

Central Asian Mirror: http://www.saeedi.4t.com places Afghanistan in the context of Central Asia and contains updated news and analysis about Afghanistan and its Central Asian neighbors.

Culture

Lemar-Aftab: http://www.afghanmagazine.com is a very pretty e-zine emphasizing Afghani politics, film, music, art literature and the life of the Afghani people.

Afghan Network: http://www.afghan-network.net contains extensive information about Afghani literature, people and culture as well as links to the NGOs operating in Afghanistan.

NGOs

Relief Web: Compiled by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, this site contains up-to-date information on humanitarian assistance programs in Afghanistan, including financial tracking, UN documents, NGO reports and news articles from the international press. http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLCE/Afghanistan?OpenDocument&StartKey=Afghanistan&Expandview

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan: http://rawa.fancymarketing.net is the website for an organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan

Women’s Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan: http://www.wapha.org contains some decent resources about the treatment of women in Afghanistan as well as poems and art.

Religious and Ethnic Communities

Hazara community: http://www.hazara.net contains news, links and information about the Hazaras in Afghanistan.

Hindu community: http://afghanhindu.freeservers.com with historical and religious information about the Hindus in Afghanistan.

More Links

INCORE: http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/afghan.html is a guide to internet sources on the conflict in Afghanistan compiled by a joint United Nations-University of Ulster project dedicated to the resolution of conflict. This site contains a vast collection of documents, articles and analysis.

Afghanistan Studies: http://www.academicinfo.net/afghan.html contains a decent list of sites from NGOs and media organizations to political parties as well as information on the Taliban, bin Laden and al-Qaeda.