September 11 Aftermath
Afghanistan: US forces carry out cold-blooded murder at Kandahar hospital
By Peter Symonds, February 1, 2002
In a one-sided battle in Kandahar on Monday, a US-led military force shot and killed six foreign Taliban supporters who had been barricaded into a ward of the Mirwais hospital since early December. Th...
Release Daniel Pearl!
By WSWS editorial board, January 31, 2002
The World Socialist Web Site urgently calls upon those who are holding Daniel Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, to release him unharmed.
International aid pledges fall far short of Afghanistan’s basic needs
By James Conachy, January 28, 2002
The International Conference on Reconstruction Aid for Afghanistan, held in Tokyo from January 21 to 22, ended with just $US4.5 billion in grants and loans being pledged toward rebuilding the war-rava...
Letters to the WSWS on the US war in Afghanistan
January 25, 2002
The following is a selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site .
Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack?
Part 4: The refusal to investigate
By Patrick Martin, January 24, 2002
This series has reviewed evidence that US intelligence agencies had ample advance information about the September 11 attacks, from specific details of the methods and the likely targets to the identit...
US flouts world opinion and Geneva Convention in treatment of Afghan war prisoners
By Shannon Jones and Patrick Martin, January 23, 2002
The brutal treatment by the United States of Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners in its custody, who are being held in open-air cages at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba, is provoking growing worldwide co...
Was the US government alerted to the September 11 attack?
Part 3: The United States and Mideast terrorism
By Patrick Martin, January 22, 2002
An essential aspect of the official version of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon—which maintains that these attacks came as a complete surprise to the US government and its inte...
Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack?
Part 2: Watching the hijackers
By Patrick Martin, January 18, 2002
The least likely and least credible explanation of the events of September 11, 2001 is that the vast US national security apparatus was entirely unaware of the activities of the hijackers until the ai...
British government defends conditions at Guantanamo
By Julie Hyland, January 18, 2002
The British government has publicly defended the conditions under which Afghan prisoners are being held at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, despite growing international criticism. Among tho...
Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack?
Part 1: Warnings in advance
By Patrick Martin, January 16, 2002
The least likely and least credible explanation of the events of September 11, 2001 is that the vast US national security apparatus was entirely unaware of the activities of the hijackers until the ai...
Letters on the war in Afghanistan
January 15, 2002
Dear Sir or Madam,
Afghan POWs at Guantanamo base: bound and gagged, drugged, caged like animals
By Patrick Martin, January 14, 2002
Hooded and shackled throughout a 27-hour flight from Afghanistan to the Caribbean, the first Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners arrived January 11 at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they w...
