Afghanistan

[Samuel Moyer]

Well, I pulled down all my old Harper's and I don't the Vollman Article.  I
did find an article though in Mother Jones - Sept/Oct 2000.  The Phantom
Menace.  "Could terrorists attack the United States with weapons of mass
destruction?  Highly unlikely, say defense experts.  So why is the Clinton
Administration spending billions to foil a most improbable beast?"

I will have to read that (and report if worthwhile).

I was going to pull down a stack of New Yorkers and look.... but Jasper was
kind enough to provide it for us.

Sam


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jasper Fidget" <fakename at tokyo.com>
To: "Dan Jizzenberry" <pantychrist at hotmail.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: Afghanistan


> Here's a New Yorker article by Vollman on the Taliban:
> http://home1.gte.net/csweet/taliban.htm
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Jizzenberry" <pantychrist at hotmail.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 5:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Afghanistan
>
>
> > William Vollmann wrote a piece in Harper's last year about the Afghani
> > situation. It's quite good. Plenty of info on U.S. involvement without
> being
> > blatantly anti-American, lots on the Taliban regime itself, although I
> can't
> > remember whether Osama bin Laden was mentioned or not. Unfortunately, if
> you
> > don't have the actual copy of Harper's (June or July 2000, I think)
you'll
> > have to pay $9.00 for the article at the Harper's website (this
according
> to
> > a friend of mine). One of Vollmann's earliest works, "An Afghanistan
> Picture
> > Show...Or How I Saved The World" could be quite revealing as well. He
> speaks
> > well of both the Afghani and Pakistani people. Might humanize the
> situation
> > somewhat.
> >
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