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Subject: Background Reader on Tuesday's Tragedy

> AlterNet's Continuing 9-11 Coverage: Background Reader

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> A compilation of important background information

> about Tuesday's terrorist attacks that the mainstream

> media has either ignored or glossed over.

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> DANGEROUS TIMES FOR U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

> Zunes, AlterNet

> Instead of focusing on further militarization, the U.S.

> should improve intelligence and reexamine its Middle

> East policy, which has been based upon alliances with

> repressive governments.

> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11508

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> WHY ANTI-AMERICANISM?

> Daoud Kuttab, AlterNet

> Those who have suffered from some distorted U.S.

> foreign policies have little appreciation for the

> values that America stands for.

> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11512

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> WAR ON WHOM?

> , AlterNet

> I am an American citizen, and my leaders have taken my

> money to fund mass murder. And now my friends have

> paid the price with their lives.

> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11507

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> SOLOMON: A UNANIMOUS TRIUMPH FOR MASTER OF WAR

> Norman , AlterNet

> On Friday, the Senate voted 98-0 for a war resolution.

> Written as a blank check, it is only payable with vast

> quantities of human corpses.

> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11511

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> SACRIFICING FREEDOMS IN THE NAME OF SAVING THEM

> Neil Skene, Creative Loafing Atlanta

> If history is any indicator, we can all expect our civil

> liberties to take a back seat to the war on terrorism.

> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11509

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> MAKE NO MISTAKE: PEACE TAKES MORE COURAGE

> Beatrice Motamedi, Pacific News Service

> The terrorist attack on America is a chance for the Bush

> administration to do the right thing. Instead of waging

> war it could broker a real peace to avert future terrorism.

> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11510

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> CORN: GOING TO EXTREMES

> Corn, AlterNet

> Extremism reigns in post-WTC America as calls for action

> emanate from television sets and op-ed pages denying all a full

> understanding of the event and what led to it.

> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11505

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> WHY I CANNOT HOLD A CANDLE

> Elijah Wald, AlterNet

> People running the country are long-time supporters of

> terrorism, and they are among those shouting loudest for a

> strong and united response to the current crisis.

> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11506

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