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"how do i philosophy"Bellorosso del Fiore wrote:you guys sound nuts to me right now.
I think the convo was interesting, but if you think this then feel free to propose your less nutty topic.
"how do i philosophy"Bellorosso del Fiore wrote:you guys sound nuts to me right now.
Blood Lord wrote:Because its going no where. You got most of the forum being atheists and agnostics, a few semi-religious people, ever fewer religious people, and a hardcore Mormon. not exactly a subject that everyone wants to jump on and tackle.
Mir@k wrote:I once met a man who was part of the Order of Knight Masons. what he told me about his religion made me feel so much pity for him, all the restrictions imposed upon them make me feel like they aren't even living.
Sentios wrote:Supposing we had the technology to replace your organic brain with a computer that could exactly duplicate the effects of it's functions (your thoughts, subconscious rhythms, it was capable of changing it's structure to accommodate learning/Neuroplasticity, etc) would you still be you?
Mir@k wrote:Religious people with brains will usually hide their religious status, while agnostics and atheists seem like they are waiting for someone to slightly mention the word for them to jump going MEMEMEMEME. Not all of ocurse, there are crazies in both sides, but in this forum at least i know there are various religious people who've maintained their religiousness to themselves.
What do you think of that? I personally think that's a good way of keeping your beliefs intact.
EagleMan wrote:Nope. The continuity of consciousness would be broken.
An exact twin might take my place, but we do not refer to identical twins as being one and the same person. Even identical twins differ in some respects you might say, but let's say they are both exactly the same. Are they the same person? Most people would probably say no. You could swap their brains. How would you decide who is who now? Would you track it by the body or the brain? The brain, I would say.
To imagine it another way to keep the premise the same, imagine you went in for an experiment and were put under anesthesia. When you wake up, an exact clone of you has been made - but how do you know who is who? Neither of you know who is the original. There are 2 of you now. Were you 2 people all along? No. Clearly not. The 2 yous get into a fight and the original dies. The original existed past when his copy was made - so clearly he was still "him", but now the clone can easily assume his place in life. But you're dead. The clone is alive. You are dead and your consciousness is gone. So clearly that other thing is not truly "you" in the meaningful sense - the sense being that your consciousness is continued.
This also has disturbing implications for the casual use of transport technology in Star Trek. Every time you use the beams, you are effectively destroyed and then recreated elsewhere. Every time they step into a transporter, that person dies, and they have a perfect copy replaced elsewhere. But no one really cares, because that perfect copy fulfills that old person's role in everyone's lives exactly the same. The TNG episode where it's revealed 2 Rikers were made in a transporter accident most eloquently addresses this issue.
Vegedus wrote:I don't think consciousness == being awake, in this case. It's more the sense of self, your identity that is stake. Whatever we call that we are so afraid of losing when we die. You can lose any part of yourself, a limb, your body, your intellect, but you're still you, right? Our consciousness is the thing that is us, perhaps hidden somewhere in the brain, or in our non-physical soul if you're religious. That thing presumably does not disappear when we sleep. One could argue that it does, but then, then sleep is just as terrible as death, the person that wakes won't be 'you'.
Sentios wrote:The problem with this argument is humans lose their higher level consciousness every time they go to sleep, effectively this means what you are saying could be taken to mean 'everyday you are a different person'. I don't have any real qualms with that statement but then changing to a new brain like I've described loses all of it's philosophical cons.
noxux wrote:Well that is true but is there evidence of what happens after death? Someone told me to separate the words in way of how people describe them, in this case: Is there life after death or Is there life at the end of life?
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College News Z-616 VOL. XXVI, No. 23 Peace Council Presents Talk, Movie on China Modern Advances Receive Impetus From Unifying Effect of War Goodhart, May IS.� Hundred Million, presented by the Peace Council, was a movie depict- ing the effects of the war on the Chinese people. A discussion fol- lowed conducted by Lucy Tou, a graduate student. Miss Tou said that there was a side to the war which was both hopeful and constructive. It is the unifying effect of the common dis- aster. For many decades, edu- cated men in China have realised that modern improvements and in- dustrial development were neces- sary for the existence and growth of their country, but a "push" was needed from the outside to rouse the Chinese people to action. They have found this impetus in war with Japan. The movie illustrated Miss Tou's discussion by presenting a picture of the constructive accomplish- ments of the Chiang Kai-shek gov- ernment as well as the ravages and pitiful scenes of the war. In addi- tion it gave a rapid and sympa- thetic resume of the history of China from the golden days of the kings and philosophers, through the "open-door" question and the awakening of democratic China, to the present undeclared war. Labor Administration Discussed by Fleming Common Room, May 3.�Colonel Philip Fleming, administrator of Wages and Hours, addressed the Industrial Group on the provis- ions and enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which sets a minimum number of hours that employees may work, and a mini- mum wage. The act became effective in Oct- ober, 1938, and set as the mini- mum wage, 25 cents per hour. This was in force until October, 1939, when the amount became 30 'cents an hour. In 1945, this sum is to be raised to 40 cents per hour. The first minimum for hours was 44 per week. In October, of 1939, this was reduced to 42 hours per week, to be effective until October Continued on Page Three BRYN^MAWR iiyj WAYNE, PA., WEDNESdA", MAY 15, 1940 Calendar Friday, May 17.� Last Day of Lectures. Sen- ior Speeches, 12.45 P. M. Monday, May 20.� First Day of Collegiate Examinations. Wednesday, May 29.� Science Club Picnic, 5.00 P. M. Friday, May 31.� Last Day of Collegiate Examinations. Saturday, June 1.� Junior Promenade, Gym, 9.00-2.00 A. M. Sunday, June 2.� baccalaureate Sermon by Reverend George Arthur Buttrick, Goodhart Hall, 8.00 P. M. Monday, June 3. ' '� Senior Bonfire, Lower Hockey Field, 9.00 P. M. Tuesday, June 4.� Garden Party, Wyndham, 4.00-7.00 P. M. Wednesday, June 5.� Close of 55th Academic Year. Commencement Ad- dress by Dr. Hu Shih, Goodhart Hall, 11.00 A. M. Albert McVitty Loans Etchings, Lithographs Exhibited by Art Club Common Room, May 12. � The original etchings and lithographs lent to the Art Club, by Albert E. McVitty, of Princeton, comprise the last, and perhaps the best Com- mon Room exhibition of the year. The exhibition was opened by an Art Club tea. Of the works displayed, Branu- emond's etching of Erasmus is probably the most famous, but there are typical examples of Dau- mier, Millet, Degas, Matisse and Meryon, as well. There is a lith- ograph of a bather, by Degas, and a reclining dancer, sprinkled with decorative flowers, by Matisse. The Daumiers are satires, the Millets are peasant scenes, and the two Meryon etchings, .studies of light, and shade on architecture. The largest etching is by Bes- uard, of a girl sitting in front of the fire, her face lit by the glow, and the rest of her body in dark- ness. Across the room from it, is a little Matisse face, done in only three or four light lines, amazing- ly impudent in comparison. Copyright, Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1940 PRICE 10 CENTS Bach Festival Offers Annual Religious Mass 1940 Marks Thirty-third Performance B Minors; Many Cantatas Listed The 1940 Bach Festival, given in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, will be held Friday and Saturday, May 17 and 18. The recitals will be given in the Parker Memorial Chapel, of Lehigh University. Since seating space in the Chapel is lim- ited, the music will be transmitted \ to the Auditorium of Packard Lab-j oratory, where seats may be ob-j tained. In addition, the grounds; around the^Chapel afford an oppor- tunity to enjoy the music in the open air. Preceding each session, the Moravian Trombone Choir will play chorales from the Chapel. The Bach Choir was founded in 1898 by Mr. Fred Wolle, who was inspired by Bach's religious music and who wished to encourage an appreciation of it in America. The Festival as performed in Bethle- hem is therefore of a purely reli- gious nature. The Mass in B Mi- nor was first given in 1900 after Dennis Group's Program Features Tcler and the Wolf,' fSynchore' Drydens Win Prize A prize of 300 dollars had been awarded to Mr. and Mrs. A. Lincoln Dryden by the Geological Society of America. The prize was awarded for the Drydens' joint research' on the Sedi- ment* of the Triassic and At- lantic Coastal Plain. Texts of Symposium Lecture Published In Monograph Series The successful symposium on art, which was presented last spring at Bryn Mawr, has recently been published under the,auspices of the college. Mr. Rhys Carpen- ter edited the volume, with the as- sistance of Mr. Milton C. Nahm. Art: A Symposium, Volume IX jof the Bryn Mawr Monograph Series, contains an introduction by Mr. Carpenter. The lectures pre- sent four different approaches to art. Mr. Richard Bernheimer spoke as an art-historian, Mr. Car- The fourteen months of rehearsal. The!�)enter as an archaeologist, great difficulties of instructing an! philosopher's point of view was amateur choir to sing such an elab-i represented by Mr. Nahm, and Mr. orate composition were overcome and this year marks the thirty- third performance of the Mass. The program is as follows: Friday, May 17th 4 P. M. Cantata ... Now Praised Be Thou Continued on Pace Three Secretary's Protest Causes Rift in I.S.S. Noisy Seniors Plant Weeping Cherry Tree; Brave Blonde Tears Off Brute's Disguise By Agnes Mason, '42 Although the Seniors planted a weeping cherry tree outside Rock last Wednesday night, this tradi- tional occasion 'was"ih-*n*b Way a teary one. Rather, it was filled with quip and jest, prank and wan- ton wile. The company followed route TRPMDRG and back to T, the only'disgruntling part of * the evening being that not enough ex- asperation at the terrible noise was shown by the hall residents. Three men accompanied the chaste maidens on this ceremony of beauty. One, an attachment of Jonnie Johnson's, was carefully garbed in cap and gown, but be- cause of a well-grown mustache, his disguise was inadequate. The brute was recognized and the cap torn from his telltale head by a brave blonde. Two men from the Gervin Hotel trailed along brazen- ly in tuxedos. The singing was commendable, particularly outside of Goodhart, when all the mutes restrained themselves. The calm of the eve- Lning jwas broken into pieces only *orice when a fierce Battle ensued between Rhoads and Pembroke seniors. Rhoads insisted on sing- ing Rah, rah, rah, Upper Darby has the hall, but Pembroke was adamant atid thought- May Day songs more fitting. Luckily, a com- promise was reached with Onward Christian Soldiers. As the troupe passed Rhoads, Marion Kirk was called to the telephone and the halls resounded with a beautiful solo, Sophias Phila Paromen. Repercussions of the celebration occurred at the Wynd- ham picnic next evening when Camilla Riggs, Janet Russell and Mary Newberry were accused of having crept out in the dead of night and dug up the pennies from around the weeping cherry. On May first, a rupture occurred in the International Student Serv- ice organization to which the Bryn Mawr Peace Council contributed. Kurt Koffka of Smith College dis- cussed psychology in art. Two lectures were delivered by Mr. Bernheimer, In Defense of Representation, and Concerning Symbols. Mr. Carpenter spoke on The Archaeological Approach, the Evolution of Modern Painting, and concluded with Further Comment. Problems in the Psycltology of Art is the title of Mr. Koffka's discus- sion. Form in Art and The Func- tion of Art were presented by Mr. Nahm. Advance copies of the book will be on sale on or about May 15 at the office of the Editor of Publica- Dancers Show Synthesis Of Ballet and Modern Dance Technique By Joan Gross, '42 Goodhart, May li.�Kstelle Den- nis and her group presented a vari- ed dance program including the programistic Peter and the Wolf, of Prnkofieff and Sifiicliorv, a sym- bolic dance, in which the conflict between nations was represented by two opposing dance techniques, Ballet and Modern. Siinchore was perhaps the most representative of Miss Dennis' dance s^yle. Her finaT synthesis of Modern and Ballet techniques re- sults in an unconfined movement, which retains more of the classical style, than the disciplined control and economy of movement empha- sized by the Modern school. Miss Dennis' choreography in Synehoro, was effective, although conventional. As Arbito to the became professor of philosophy at Peking National University in 1917 and later dean of the depart- Contlnued on Pa*e Two �,tion and at the College Bookshop. Dr. Cyde Eagleton, Chairman of,gtudents may ,eave further orders Un.ted States Committee ofito be fi,M durin>? the summer. that organization requested the' resignation of Harper W. Poulson,; its secretary. Dr. Eagleton charged that Poulson had "humanitarian relief I. S. S., and was using the plight of Spanish student refugees in i France as a political weapon. The] United States Committee backed! the decision of Dr. Eagleton. Poulson, as well as two other staff members, Catherine The price is two dollars and a half. Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese Ambassador, To Speak On Commencement Day Dr. Hu Shih, the Chinese am- bassador to America, will be the Commencement speaker this year. Dr. Hu is an eminent philosopher, scholar and poet. His ideas of a radical reform in Chinese litera- ture effected the "Literary Revo- lution" in China, and as a poet he was responsible for the growth of a school of Chinese "Vulgate Poets" who write exclusively in the spoken language. In 1910 Dr. Hu was sent to Cor- nell University by the Chinese government, and after graduation spent three years doing graduate work there and at Columbia. He Continued on Pave Six "sabotaged" the Critic Accuses 'The Lantern' of Overrating Variation When Confronted With Shortage Specially contributed by Mrs. Woodrow This issue of The Lantern is un- even. It contains three short sto- eeny';iies and two poems which deserve and.A"n _Shr�y?r' re:'lg.ne.d. from! serious consideration, a brief and enliv- e other Science Ciub Picnic The annual Science Club picnic will $e held Wednes^ day, May 29, for all Science Club members. Only faculty and undergraduates are be- ing invited, as last year's pic- nic was too large. The us- ual faculty-student baseball game will be� played in the afternoon before supper. All club members who would like to go should see Ingebocg Hinck, in Pembroke East, Judy Bregman in Wyndham, or Kathleen Kirk in Pem- broke West. three contributions, however, have far less value and are interesting chiefly for the editorial proble n they raise. They were undoubtedly fun to write, but I question the wisdom of printing them. The three stories are interesting to compare: they seem to represent three stages of development. Miss the I. S. S. on May 4, 1940, pro- sensjh]e editoriali and it is testing that "the I. S. S., nation- ene(J by tW() drawinfrs. Th, ally and internationally, is no long- er interested in furthering strictly non-partisan, non-political relief, but has rather become an adult at- tempt to frustrate the expressed desire of American students to keep the United States out of the European war." They said that in January, the I. S. S. had initiated the European Student Service,. opinion, convincing. She has tried to tell her story too briefly. Nei- ther the narrator's character nor her relations with Joe are clearly enough established before the cli- max. Consequently her quiet ac- count of the murder, as if the shooting were done (with amazing accuracy!) by someone else, is less effective than it should be. What mi'ght be the logical ou*eome of a longer story is merely surprising here and hard to believe. The subject of Dianumd Street Cafe- is more plausible, and inter- esting, and Miss Tucker has han- dled it well. On the whole the dia- logue is good, the Cafe really ex- ists, the flow of events is convinc- ing, and the story has form and significance. Occasionally the ex- position is mechanical (Ginger Lee's explanatory thoughts in her dressing room seem awkward), and I think Miss Tucker has not made the most of the Vassar girl and her two young men�amusing as they are. We may feel that more can be done with the situation, hut Miss Tucker convinces us that she has expressed the essentials. The Finish, by Miss Strong, is the longest of the three stories and the most complete. A few details confuse me (the somewhat myste- rious behavior of Mr. Judd, for------ instance) but the story's main ele- horses, his predicament, and the excitement of the race, are all de- veloped vigorously and naturally. Miss Kent's- poem, To Choose of Bondage, seems- less successful than her others have been this year. The language is not specific, and as a result both the occasion and the emotion have a generalized quality. The images, related though they are, appear disconnected: '� they fail to illuminate one another, or the subject. The effect, there- fore, is of something being said in pieces, too slowly. Miss Pope's poem, De Re-olu- tionibus, is interesting and skillful. Her rhythm and phrasing are more derivative, less her own, than Miss Continued on race Six .-*"*- ��
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The Ultimate AfPak Reading List
A guide to the most critical readings on Afghanistan, Pakistan, al-Qaeda, and U.S. counterterrorism.
- By Peter Bergen<p> Peter Bergen, a frequent visitor to Afghanistan since 1993, is author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad. </p>
What follows is the Ultimate AfPak Reading List — an amalgamation of syllabi from classes I've taught at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. I've included a variety of reading, from books I've found particularly insightful to significant reporting on everything from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to al Qaeda's media strategy.
Links are included whenever possible, but be forewarned that a few of the journal articles are subscription only. In some cases I've included my general comments about the work and specific page numbers. And where relevant, we have included links to the AfPak Channel's reviews of the latest, greatest books on Afghanistan, Pakistan, al-Qaeda, and U.S. counterterrorism policy.
Categories are organized thusly:
- Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion, 1979-1989 & the Rise of the Taliban, 1994-2001
- Afghanistan: Under the Taliban 1994-2001 & the Rise of the Religious Warriors and Their Al Qaeda Allies
- Afghanistan: The Resurgence of the Taliban and al Qaeda from the Battle of Tora Bora in the Winter of 2001 to Today
- Pakistan: General Interest
- Pakistan: The Jihadists Post-9/11
- Al Qaeda: General Interest
- Al Qaeda: From Its Formation in 1988 to 9/11
- Al Qaeda: The Organization and the Ideological Movement Since the 9/11 Attacks
- Al Qaeda: Media Strategy from 1988 to the Present
- The Underlying Causes of the 9/11 Attacks
- Islamist Terrorism and Its Intellectual Influences
- Counterterrorism
- New America Foundation Papers
If you think there's something that should be on here and isn't, email us at firstname.lastname@example.com. This is very much a work in progress.
Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion, 1979-1989 & the Rise of the Taliban, 1994-2001
- Barfield, Thomas. Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010). AfPak Channel review by Gerard Russell: "a comprehensive but readable short history of Afghanistan, with a heavy focus on the last nine years."
- Bradsher, Henry. Afghan Communism and Soviet Intervention. (London: Oxford University Press, 1999).
- Braithwaite, Rodric. Afghantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989 (New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2011)
- Crile, George. Charlie Wilson's War, The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History. (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003).
- Feifer, Gregory. The Great Gamble: the Soviet War in Afghanistan (New York: Harper Collins, 2009).
- Kalinovsky, Artemy. A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011)
- Urban, Mark. War in Afghanistan. (London: Macmillan Press, 1988).
- Yousaf, Mohammad and Mark Adkin. Afghanistan — The Bear: The Defeat of a Superpower. (London: Leo Cooper, 1992).
Afghanistan: Under the Taliban 1994-2001 & the Rise of the Religious Warriors and Their Al Qaeda Allies
- Dorronsoro, Gilles. Revolution Unending: Afghanistan, 1979 to Present. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005). Dense, authoritative study.
- Gutman, Roy. How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan (Washington, DC: USIP Press, 2008).
- Maley, William, ed. Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban. (New York: New York University Press, 1998).
- Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. (Paperback Edition)
- Zaeef, Abdul Salam. My Life with the Taliban. Edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn. (NewYork: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2010)
- Cullison, Alan and Andrew Higgins. "Inside al Qaeda's Afghan Turmoil." Wall Street Journal, August 2, 2002.
- Pyes, Craig and William Rempel. "Slowly Stalking an Afghan 'Lion.'" Los Angeles Times, June 12, 2002. This is the best account of the plan to assassinate Ahmad Shah Massoud, which was a prelude to the 9/11 attacks.
- Sirrs, Julie. "The Taliban's International Ambitions." Middle East Quarterly 8.3, Summer 2001. Academic Search Premier.
- George Washington University's National Security Archive has a useful collection of declassified U.S. State Department documents about the Taliban.
Afghanistan: The Resurgence of the Taliban and al Qaeda from the Battle of Tora Bora in the Winter of 2001 to Today
Four books about the U.S. war against the Taliban in Afghanistan detail how that war was initially prosecuted:
- Bernsten, Gary. Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. (New York: Crown, 2005). CIA officer recounts the fall of Taliban and the battle of Tora Bora.
- Naylor, Sean. Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda. (New York: Berkeley Publishing Group, 2005). Army Times reporter gives a deeply reported account of Operation Anaconda.
- Schroen, Gary. First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan. (New York: Ballantine, 2005).
- Fury, Dalton. Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008).
Other Key Books
- Anderson, Ben. No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan (Oxford: OneWorld Publications, 2013).
- Barker, Kim. The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (New York: Doubleday, 2011) FP review by Joshua Foust — "Barker, a former Chicago Tribune correspondent now with ProPublica, recounts nearly a decade of soul-wrenching zaniness, perpetrated in equal parts by the Afghans, Pakistanis, and the white people moving amongst them both, with a good sense of humor."
- Chandrasekaran, Rajiv. Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan (New York: Knopf, 2012). AfPak Channel review by Gerard Russell: "Little America is a well-researched, clearly-written exposé of the debates, disputes and political skullduggery between those involved in the Afghanistan "surge" in 2009."
- Chayes, Sarah. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban. (New York: Penguin, 2006). A journalist-turned-aid worker based in Kandahar for four years after the fall of the Taliban provides an interesting and important account of mistakes made by all the players in the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
- Cowper-Coles, Sherard. Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign. (New York: Harper Collins, 2011). AfPak Channel review by Gerard Russell — "the equivalent of a guided tour around the inner workings of the international community in Afghanistan. It is a warts-and-all tour, with institutional failings laid bare."
- Dalrymple, William. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42. (New York: Random House, 2013). AfPak Channel review by Gerard Russell: "It is a history of the first war fought by Westerners in Afghanistan in modern times, and is clearly designed to cast a light on our present conflict there. But it is also a beautiful and moving account of a tragedy complete with imperial hubris, foolishness and great human suffering."
- Dobbins, James. After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan (Dulles, VA: Potomac Press, 2008).
- Giustozzi, Antonio. Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007)
- Green, Daniel R. The Valley's Edge: A Year with the Pashtuns in the Heartland of the Taliban (Dulles: Potomac Books Inc., 2011). AfPak Channel review by Michael Waltz: "The book is a detailed, first-hand account of how a team of U.S. soldiers and civilians, focused on improving governance and development, operated in the midst of a worsening insurgency in one of the most remote provinces in Afghanistan."
- Johnson, Chris and Leslie, Jolyon. Afghanistan: The Mirage of Peace. (London: Zed Books, 2004). Two long time aid workers paint a bleak picture of Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban.
- Jones, Ann. Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan. (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006). Jones writes evocatively to illuminate a little-known world, that of poor, marginalized women in Kabul and issues a devastating critique of American aid to Afghanistan, which is consumed all too often by foreigners, evident in the fleets of Land Rovers and Toyota Land Cruisers that choke Kabul's smog-filled streets.
- Jones, Seth. In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan. (New York: Norton, 2009).
- Kilcullen, David. The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
- Maley, William. Rescuing Afghanistan. (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2007). A concise book that examines the problems and possible solutions in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban government.
- Malkasian, Carter. War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
- Rashid, Ahmed. Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. (New York: Penguin, 2008).
- Rhode, David and Kristen Mulhivill. A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides. (New York: Penguin Group, 2010).
- Semple, Michael. Reconciliation in Afghanistan. (Washington, DC: USIP Press, 2009).
- West, Bing. The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan. (New York: Random House, 2011). AfPak Channel review by Gerard Russell – "It has genuine Afghan voices, which is all too rare in Western books about Afghanistan. Speaking from the perspective of the infantryman, it reminds us of the powerful virtues of the military, and I recommend it without hesitation."
- Woodward, Bob. Obama's Wars. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010). Peter Bergen's review here.
- Zakheim, Dov S. 2011. A Vulcan's Tale: How the Bush Administration Mismanaged the Reconstruction of Afghanistan. Brookings Institution Press.
- Anderson, John Lee. "The Taliban's Opium War." New Yorker, July 9, 2006.
- Barno, David. "Fighting 'the other war': Counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, 2003-2005." Military Review. September/October 2007.
- Bergen, Peter. "Winning the Good War," Washington Monthly, July 2009.
- Bergen, Peter. Testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, February 15, 2007.
- Broschk, Florian. 2011. "Inciting the Believers to Fight: A closer look at the rhetoric of the Afghan jihad," Afghanistan Analysts Network.
- Byman, Daniel. "Talking with Insurgents," The Washington Quarterly, April 2009.
- Clark, Kate. 2011. "The Layha: Calling the Taleban to Account," Afghanistan Analysts Network.
- Dobbins, James. "Ending's Afghanistan's Civil War." Testimony presented before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 8, 2007.
- Dorronsoro, Gilles. "The Taliban's Winning Strategy in Afghanistan," Carnegie Endowment, June 2009.
- Fair, C. Christine. "Under the Shrinking U.S. Security Umbrella: India's End Game in Afghanistan?" The Washington Quarterly. Spring 2011.
- Giustozzi, Antonio. Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field. (New York: Columbia/Hurst, 2009).
- Glasser, Susan B. "The Battle of Tora Bora: Secrets, Money, Mistrust." Washington Post. February 10, 2002.
- Hastert, Paul. "Operation Anaconda: Perception Meets Reality in the Hills of Afghanistan." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. 28: 1, January/February 2005, 11-20 is useful.
- International Crisis Group. "Afghanistan: Exit vs Engagement." November 2010.
- International Crisis Group. "The Insurgency in Afghanistan's Heartland." June 2011.
- Johnson, Thomas and Mason, M. Chris. "All counterinsurgency is local," The Atlantic, October 2008.
- Johnson, Thomas and Mason, M. Chris. "No Sign until the Burst of Fire: Understanding the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier," International Security 32:4, spring 2008.
- Johnson, Thomas and Mason, M. Chris. "On the edge of the big muddy: the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan," China and Eurasia Form Quarterly, 5:2, 2007.
- Mufti, Shahan. "Spoils of War: Excavating the underground trade in Buddhist antiquities." Harper's. April 2011.
- Neumann, Ronald. "Borderline insanity: thinking big about Afghanistan." The American Interest 3 (2), November/December 2007.
- O'Hanlon, Michael. 2010. "Staying Power: The U.S. Mission in Afghanistan Beyond 2011," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 89, No. 5.
- O'Hanlon, Michael and Bruce Riedel. 2010. "Plan A-Minus for Afghanistan," The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 1.
- Rashid, Ahmed. "Afghanistan: On the Brink." New York Review of Books. June 22, 2006.
- Rohde, David and David Sanger. "How the 'Good War' in Afghanistan went bad." New York Times. August 12, 2007.
- Rubin, Elizabeth. "In the land of the Taliban." New York Times. October 22, 2006.
- Rubin, Elizabeth. "Karzai in his Labyrinth," New York Times Magazine, August 4, 2009.
- Rubin, Barnett. "Saving Afghanistan." Foreign Affairs. 86.1, January/February 2007.
- United States Assistance Mission to Afghanistan. "Suicide attacks in Afghanistan." September 1, 2007.
- Van Bijlert, Martine. 2010. "Who Controls the Vote? Afghanistan's Evolving Elections," Afghanistan Analysts Network.
- Van Ham, Peter and Jorrit Kamminga. "Poppies for peace: reforming Afghanistan's opium industry." Washington Quarterly, 30 (1): 69-81, winter 2006-2007.
- Yousafzai, Sami and Ron Moreau. "How the Taliban Lost its Swagger." Newsweek. February 27, 2011.
Pakistan: General Interest
- Abbas, Hassan. Pakistan's Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America's War on Terror. (London: M.E. Sharpe, 2005). 89-177.
- Abou Zahab, Mariam and Roy, Olivier. Islamist Networks, The Afghan-Pakistan Connection. (London: Hurst, 2004).
- Bennett-Jones, Owen. Pakistan: Eye of the Storm. (New Haven, CO: Yale, 2002).
- Cohen, Stephen. The Idea of Pakistan. (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2005). Well written general history. 61-200.
- Constable, Pamela. Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself. (New York: Random House, 2011)
- Haqqani, Husain. Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military. (Washington, DC: Carnegie 2005).
- Inskeep, Steve. Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi (New York: Penguin, 2011). AfPak Channel review by Madiha Afzal: "His reliance on extensive story telling in addition to analysis and an overview that is not as wide-ranging as it could be sets it apart from other recent books written by foreign visitors about this part of the world"
- Lieven, Anatol. Pakistan: A Hard Country. (New York: Public Affairs, 2011). AfPak Channel review by Huma Yusuf – "This insightful, comprehensive portrait of Pakistan is the perfect antidote to stereotypical descriptions of the country as the most dangerous place in the world."
- Lodhi, Maleeha (ed.) Pakistan: Beyond the 'Crisis State.' (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011)
- Riedel, Bruce O. Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of Global Jihad. (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2011)
- Schmidt, John R. The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)
- Bergen, Peter and Katherine Tiedemann. "Washington's Phantom War: The Effects of the U.S. Drone Program in Pakistan." Foreign Affairs. July/August 2011.
- Fair, C. Christine. "Militant Recruitment in Pakistan." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. 27.6, November/December 2004.
- Lieven, Anatol. "All Kayani's Men." The National Interest. May/June 2011.
- McKelvey, Tara. "Inside the Killing Machine" Newsweek. February 13, 2011.
- Mishra, Pankaj. "Death in Kashmir." New York Review of Books. September 21, 2000.
- Mishra, Pankaj. "Kashmir: Unending War." New York Review of Books, October 19, 2000.
- "Pakistan: A Great Deal of Ruin in a Nation." The Economist. March 31, 2011.
- Sheikh, Omar. "My Big Adventure." Harpers Magazine. January 2002.
- Stern, Jessica. "Pakistan's Jihad Culture." Foreign Affairs, November/December 2000.
- Yusuf, Moeed W. "The U.S.-Pakistan Relationship and Finding an End State in Afghanistan." CTC Sentinel, 3.9 (2010)
Pakistan: The Jihadists Post-9/11
- Abbas, Hassan. Pakistan's Drift into Extremism. Allah the Army and America's War on Terror. (London: M.E. Sharpe, 2005). 201-236.
- Bergen, Peter (ed.) and Tiedemann, Katherine (ed.) Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
- Brown, Vahid and Don Rassler. Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012 (London: C. Hurst and Co., 2013). AfPak Channel review by Stephen Tankel: " the most complete portrait of the Haqqani network to date."
- Corera, Gordon. Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
- Frantz, Douglas and Collins, Catherine. The Man from Pakistan: the True Story of the World's Most Dangerous Nuclear Smuggler (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2007).
- Gul, Imtiaz. The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier. (New York: Viking Adult, 2010)
- Hussain, Zahid. Frontline Pakistan: the Struggle Within Militant Islam. (New York: Columbia, 2007).
- Jamestown Foundation, Pakistan's Troubled Frontier: the Future of the FATA and the NWFP (Washington, DC, 2009).
- Musharraf, Pervez. In the Line of Fire. (New York, Free Press: 2008). 197-281.
- Nawaz, Shuja. Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army, and the Wars Within (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
- Pearl, Marianne. A Mighty Heart. New York: Scribner, 2003. 113-189.
- Schmidle, Nicholas. To Live or Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan (New York: Henry Holt, 2009).
- Rana, Muhammad Amir and Saba Ansari (Trans). A to Z of Jehadi Organizations in Pakistan. (Mashal, 2004). Unpromisingly titled, but full of new information about South Asian Islamist groups, many of which have drawn closer to al-Qaeda.
- Tankel, Stephen. Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba. (London: C. Hurst & Co., 2011). AfPak Channel excerpt here.
- Anson, Robert Sam. "The Journalist and the Terrorist." Vanity Fair, August 1, 2002.
- Bergen, Peter and Paul Cruickshank. "Kashmir on the Thames." The New Republic. September 4, 2006.
- Cohen, Stephen Philip. "The Jihadist Threat to Pakistan." The Washington Quarterly. 26.3, Summer 2003.
- Cohen, Craig and Derek Chollet. "When $10 billion is not enough: rethinking U.S. strategy toward Pakistan." The Washington Quarterly. Spring 2007.
- Fair, C. Christine. "Militant Recruitment in Pakistan." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. 27.6, November/December 2004.
- Haqqani, Husain. "The Role of Islam in Pakistan's Future." The Washington Quarterly. 28.1, Winter 2004-05.
- Hersh, Seymour. "The Getaway." The New Yorker. January 28, 2002.
- International Crisis Group, "Taliban Propaganda: Winning the War of Words?" July 2008.
- International Crisis Group, "Pakistan: the Militant Jihadi Challenge," March 2009.
- International Crisis Group. "Pakistan's Tribal Areas: Appeasing the Militants," December 2006.
- Nawaz, Shuja. "FATA: A Most Dangerous Place," CSIS 2008.
- Rashid, Ahmed. "Pakistan on the Edge." New York Review of Books, October 10, 2002.
- Rassler, Don and Vahid Brown. "The Haqqani Nexus and the Evolution of al-Qa'ida." The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. July 2011.
- "Things Fall Apart." The Economist. March 3, 2011
- Warrick, Joby. "U.S. and Pakistan: A Frayed Alliance." Washington Post. October 31, 2007.
- White, Joshua T. "Pakistan's Islamist Frontier," Center on Faith and International Affairs 2008.
- The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl. Produced and directed by Ahmed A. Jamal and Ramesh Sharma. Narrated by Christiane Amanpour. HBO, 2006.
Al Qaeda: General Interest
- 9/11 Commission Report. (New York: Norton, 2004). An authoritative account and actually a good read, surprisingly so for a government report.
- Atwan, Abdel-Bari. The Secret History of al-Qa'ida. (California: University of California Press, 2006). A concise primer.
- Anonymous/Scheuer, Michael. Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam and the Future of America. (Washington, DC: Brasseys, 2002). (Paperback edition). Written by the former head of the bin Laden unit at CIA. Well researched, analytically sharp.
- Bergen, Peter. The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader. (New York: Free Press, 2006). A collection of interviews with those who have known bin Laden and key documents such as the founding minutes of al Qaeda.
- Bergen, Peter. Holy War, Inc: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden. (New York: Touchstone, 2002). Reporting on the ground about al Qaeda around the world. Easy read (I think.)
- Bergen, Peter. The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and al-Qaeda. (New York: Free Press, 2011). FP Book Club discussion here.
- Burke, Jason. Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror. (New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003). A really sharp combination of on the ground reporting and analysis.
- Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. (New York: Penguin Press, 2004). (Paperback edition) Deeply reported. Won the Pulitzer for best non-fiction book of 2004.
- Coll, Steve. The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (New York: Penguin Press, 2008). An absorbing read about a family caught between the 7th and 21st centuries. Finalist for a Pulitzer in 2008.
- Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. The Osama bin Laden Files: Letters and Documents Discovered by SEAL Team Six During Their Raid on bin Laden's Compound (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2012).
- Hegghammer, Thomas. Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism Since 1979. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
- Johnsen, Gregory D. The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2013).
- Lia, Brynjar. Architect of Global Jihad: the Life of Al Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab al-Suri (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008).
- Moghadam, Assaf. The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)
- Nasiri, Omar. Inside the Jihad: My Life with the Taliban. (Philadelphia: Basic Books, 2008). A gripping account of one man's embrace of militant jihadism and his training in the camps in Afghanistan.
- Sageman, Marc. Understanding Terror Networks. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). Sageman's groundbreaking sociological analysis of who joins al Qaeda and affiliated groups.
- Scheuer, Michael. Osama bin Laden. (New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2012)
- Tawil, Camille. Brothers in Arms: The Story of Al Qa'ida and the Arab Jihadists. (London: Saqi Books, 2010)
- Wright, Laurence. The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. (New York: Knopf, 2006). A gripping narrative of the jihadist movement from its birth in Egypt in the mid-20th century up until 9/11. Won the Pulitzer Prize for best non-fiction book of 2006.
Al Qaeda: From Its Formation in 1988 to 9/11
- Fandy, Mamoun. Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999).
- Fouda, Yosri and Nick Fielding. Masterminds of Terror. (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2003).
- Kippenberg, Hans and Tilman Seidensticker, eds. The 9/11 Handbook. (London: Equinox Publishing, 2006).
- McDermott, Terry. Perfect Soldiers: The Hijackers-Who They Were, Why They Did It. (New York: HarperCollins, 2005). An excellent narrative.
- Summers, Anthony and Robbyn Swan. The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden. (New York: Ballantine Books, 2011).
- al Zawahiri, Ayman. Knights under the Banner of the Prophet (2001). This document is Zawahiri's autobiography, and it also outlines his political philosophy. It runs about 75 pages and is essential reading to understand him.
Articles and documents
- Ali Mohamed's plea agreement, reprinted as "Excerpts from Guilty Plea in Terrorism Case." New York Times. October 21, 2000.
- Al Qaeda Training manual
- Brown, Vahid. "Cracks in the Foundation-Leadership Schisms in Al Qaeda from 1989-2006," Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. New York: Combating Terrorism at West Point, 2007. 1-26.
- Court transcript of USA v. Usama bin Laden (the embassy bombings trial) provides a wealth of material. Entire transcript of the trial available here.
- The most important testimony is from the following days: Testimony of L'Hossaine Kherchtou, February 21 and February 26; Testimony of Essam al-Ridi, February 14, 2001; Testimony of Jamal al-Fadl, February 6, 2001.; Testimony of FBI Agent John Anticev, February 27, 2001; Summation of Ken Karas, May 1, 2001.
- Cullison, Alan. "Inside Al Qaeda's Hard Drive." The Atlantic Online. September 2004.
- Cullison, Alan and Andrew Higgins. "Computer in Kabul Holds Chilling Memos." Wall Street Journal. December 31, 2001.
- Cullison, Alan and Higgins, Andrew. "Saga of Dr. Zawahiri Sheds Light on al Qaeda Terror." Wall Street Journal. July 2, 2002.
- Lewis, Bernard. "License to Kill: Usama bin Ladin's Declaration of Jihad." Foreign Affairs, November/December 1998.
- Mneimneh, Hassan and Makiya, Kanan. "Manual for a Raid." The New York Review of Books. January 17, 2002 (Essential).
- Rohde, David and Chivers, C. J. "The Jihad Files." New York Times. March 17, 2002 and March 18, 2002.
- Wright, Lawrence. "The Man Behind Laden: How an Egyptian doctor became a master of terror." The New Yorker. September 16, 2002. (Note, this is more than 20,000 words in length and is subsumed in Wright's 2006 book The Looming Tower.)
Al Qaeda: The Organization and the Ideological Movement Since the 9/11 Attacks
- Atwan, Abdel Bari. After Bin Laden – Al Qaeda the Next Generation (New York: The New Press, 2013). AfPak Channel review by Mitchell D. Silber: "Mr. Atwan makes a compelling case that while the death of Osama bin Laden and the decimation of al Qaeda Core's top leadership has hurt the central organization that was based in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the movement and ideology, with its worldwide presence via regional associated movements, is as much of a menace to the West as ever and undiminished in its goal of a global caliphate."
- Burke, Jason. The 9/11 Wars. (New York: Penguin, 2011). AfPak Channel review by Daniel Byman – Burke brings the reader from villages in Afghanistan and Iraq to slums in London and France, offering individual portraits of combatants and those overrun by war while also weaving in government policies and scholarly research to portray the broader context.
- Clarke, Richard, ed. Terrorism: what the next president will face, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, July 2008.
- Farah, Douglas. Blood from Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror. (New York: Broadway, 2004).
- Greenberg, Karen, ed. Al Qaeda Now: Understanding Today's Terrorists. (New York: Cambridge, 2005). A stimulating collection of essays.
- Riedel, Bruce. The Search for al-Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future. (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2010).
- Atran, Scott. "Mishandling Suicide Terrorism." The Washington Quarterly. 27.3, summer 2004.
- Bergen, Peter. "War of Error." The New Republic, October 22, 2007.
- Burke, Jason. "Al Qaeda: Think Again." Foreign Policy. Issue 142, May/June 2004.
- Cruickshank, Paul and Ali, Mohannad Hage Ali. "Abu Musab al Suri: Architect of the New al Qaeda." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 30:1, 2007.
- Cullison, Alan and Higgins, Andrew. "Al Qaeda Acolyte, One of Many, Vows to Die for the Cause." Wall Street Journal. December 30, 2002.
- Elegant, Simon. "The Jihadis' Tale." TIME. January 27, 2002.
- Hegghammer, Thomas. "Terrorist Recruitment and Radicalization in Saudi Arabia." Middle East Policy, 13.4: winter 2006.
- Hoffman, Bruce. "Al Qaeda, Trends in Terrorism, and Future Potentialities: An Assessment." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 26.6, November-December 2003.
- Hoffman, Bruce. "The Changing Face of al Qaeda." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 27.6, November/December 2004.
- Hoffman, Bruce. "Is al Qaeda on the run or on the march?" Middle East Policy 14:2, 2007.
- Hoffman, Bruce. "Rethinking Terrorism and Counterterrorism Since 9/11." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. 25.25, September 2002. 303-316.
- International Crisis Group Reports about JI here.
- Kessler, Glenn. "Saudis Tie al Qaeda to Attacks." Washington Post. May 14, 2003.
- Petrou, Michael. "Lebanon's new terrorist threat." Macleans.ca, July 9, 2007.
- Singapore. Ministry of Home Affairs. White Paper: The Jemaah Islamiyah Arrests and the Threat of Terrorism. This is an enormously through investigation of JI in Singapore, which will be of particular interest for anyone researching JI.
- Stern, Jessica. "The Protean Enemy." Foreign Affairs. 82.4, July/August 2003. 27-40
- Whitlock, Craig. "The New al Qaeda Central." Washington Post. September 9, 2007.
- Wright, Larry. "The Master Plan." The New Yorker September 11, 2006.
Al Qaeda: Media Strategy from 1988 to the Present
- Miles, Hugh. Al-Jazeera. (London: Abacus, 2005).
- Weimann, Gabriel. Terror on the Internet. (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2006). The most authoritative account of terrorists' use of the Internet.
- Coll, Steve and Glasser, Susan. "Terrorists Turn to the Web as a Base of Operations." Washington Post. August 7, 2005.
- Coll. Steve and Glasser, Susan. "The Web as Weapon." Washington Post. August 9, 2005.
- Jones, David Martin. "Out of Bali: Cybercaliphate Rising." The National Interest. Spring 2003.
- Kimmage, Daniel and Ridolfo, Kathleen. "Iraqi Insurgent Media: The War of Images and Ideas." Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 2007.
- Lia, Brynjar. "Al-Qaeda Online: Understanding Jihadist Internet Infrastructure." Jane's Intelligence Review. January 1, 2006.
- Lynch, Marc. "Al Qaeda's Media Strategies." The National Interest, summer 2006.
- Wallace-Wells, Benjamin. "Private Jihad." New Yorker. May 29, 2006.
- International Crisis Group. "In Their Own Words: Reading the Iraqi Insurgency." Middle East Report N°50. February 15, 2006.
- Khatchadourian, Raffi. "Azzam the American: The Making of an Al Qaeda Homegrown." The New Yorker. January 22, 2007.
- Rogan, Hannah. "Abu Reuter and the E-Jihad." Georgetown Journal of International Affairs summer/fall 2007.
- Rumsfeld, Donald. "New Realities in the Media Age." Speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, February 16, 2006.
- Torres, Manuel R., Jordán, Javier and Horsburgh, Nicola. "Analysis and Evolution of the Global Jihadist Movement Propaganda." Terrorism and Political Violence 18.3.
- Weimann, Gabriel. "Virtual disputes: the use of the internet for terrorist databases." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 29:7, 2006.
The Underlying Causes of the 9/11 Attacks
- Berman, Paul. Terror and Liberalism. New York: Norton, 2003. Argues that the jihadist threat is similar to the fascist or communist threat in terms of both its ideology and goals.
- Hudson, Rex. The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why. (Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 1999).
- Krueger, Alan. What Makes a Terrorist. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
- Pape, Robert. Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. New York: Random House, 2005. Argues that campaigns of suicide terrorism are more motivated by nationalism than religion.
- Richardson, Louise. What Terrorists Want. New York: Random House, 2007. 38-103.
- "How the Arabs Compare: Arab Human Development Report 2002." Middle East Quarterly. 9.4, Fall 2002. Academic Search Premier.
- Atran, Scott. "The Moral Logic and Growth of Suicide Terrorism." The Washington Quarterly 29.2, Spring 2006.
- Bergen, Peter and Swati Pandey. "The Madrassa Scapegoat." The Washington Quarterly 29.2, spring 2006. 117-125.
- Bergen, Peter. "What were the causes of 9/11?" Prospect Magazine (U.K) Issue 126, September 2006.
- Bergen, Peter and Michael Lind. "A Matter of Pride." Democracy. Winter 2007.
- Czwarno, Monica. "Misjudging Islamic terrorism: the academic community's failure to predict 9/11." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 29:7, 2006.
- Doran, Michael Scott. "Somebody Else's Civil War." In How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War. Eds. James F. Hoge Jr. and Gideon Rose. New York: Public Affairs, 2001.
- Gabriel, Richard A. "The Warrior Prophet." Quarterly Journal of Military History. Summer 2007.
- Moghadam, Assaf. "Suicide Terrorism, Occupation, and the Globalization of Martyrdom: A Critique of 'Dying to Win.'" Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 29.8: December 2006. 707-729. (A critique of Pape, see his book above
- Nacos, Brigitte. "The Terrorist Calculus Behind 9-11: A Model for Future Terrorism?" Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 26.1: January-February 2003. 1-16.
- Ruthven, Malise. "How to Understand Islam." New York Review of Books. November 8, 2007.
- Wiktoroqicz, Quintan and Kaltner, John. "Killing in the name of Islam: Al-Qaeda's justification for September 11." Middle East Policy, 10:2, summer 2003.
Islamist Terrorism and Its Intellectual Influences
- Ballen, Ken. Terrorists in Love: True Life Stories of Islamic Radicals (New York: Free Press, 2011).
- Benjamin, Daniel and Simon, Steven. The Age of Sacred Terror. (New York: Random House, 2002).
- Cook, David. Understanding Jihad. (Los Angeles: University of California, 2005). An erudite explanation of the history of jihadist thought.
- Firestone, Reuven. Jihad, the Origin of Holy War in Islam. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
- Hoffman, Bruce. Inside Terrorism. (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1998).
- Gerges, Fawaz. The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global. (New York: Cambridge, 2005). Well researched account of how the global jihadist movement is driven by internecine ideological disputes and petty feuds.
- Kepel, Gilles. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. (Cambridge: Belknap Press, Harvard 2002).
- Kepel, Gilles. Muslim Extremism in Egypt, the Prophet and Pharaoh. (California: University of California Press, 1986 (1st ed.)).
- Lacey, Jim. A Terrorist's Call to Global Jihad: Deciphering Abu Musab al-Suri's Islamic Jihad Manifesto (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008).
- Lewis, Bernard. The Political Language of Islam. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).
- Qutb, Sayyid. Milestones. American Trust Publications, 1991.
- Ruthven, Malise. A Fury for God. The Islamist Attack on America. (New York: Granta Books, 2002).
- Berman, Paul. "The Philosopher of Islamic Terror." New York Times Magazine. March 23, 2003.
- Gertz, Clifford. "Which Way to Mecca?" New York Review of Books. June 12, 2003.
- Paz, Reuven. "Islamists and Anti-Americanism." Middle East Review of International Affairs. 7.4, December 2003.
- Takeyh, Rey and Nikolas Gvosdev. "Radical Islam: Death of an Ideology." Middle East Policy, 9.4, Winter 2004. 86-95.
- Bamford, James. The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America. (New York: Anchor Books, 2008).
- Bergen, Peter. Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden-from 9/11 to Abottabad. (New York: Crown Publishing, 2012). Read reviews from the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Economist, and the New York Times.
- Bobbitt, Phillip. Terror and Consent : The Wars for the Twenty-First Century. (New York: Anchor Books, 2009).
- Carle, Glenn. The Interrogator: An Education. (New York: Nation Books, 2011).
- Clarke, Richard A. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror. (New York: Free Press, 2004). Vital for understanding how the Bush administration came to conflate the invasion of Iraq with the war on terrorism.
- Crumpton, Henry A. The Art of Intelligence: Lessons From a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service (New York: Penguin Books, 2013).
- Graff, Garrett. The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror. (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011).
- Jones, Seth G. Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of al Qa'ida since 9/11 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012). AfPak Channel review by Raffaello Pantucci: "Identifying three key prongs to an effective counterterrorism strategy – a light military footprint, helping local regimes and authorities in their counterterrorism efforts, and exploiting al Qaeda's tendency to massacre civilians – Jones draws upon events in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan, and Yemen, as well as al-Qaeda plots in America, Spain and the United Kingdom."
- Kaplan, Fred. The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013)
- Mackey, Chris and Greg Miller. The Interrogators: Inside Task Force 500 and America's Secret War Against Al Qaeda. (New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2004).
- Mayer, Jane. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. (New York: Anchor Books, 2009).
- Mazzetti, Mark. The Way of the Knife: The CIA, A Secret Army, And a War at the Ends of the Earth (New York: Penguin, 2013). AfPak Channel review by Shane Harris: "In Mazzetti's account, the responses of the CIA and the military seem biological, a set of almost organic responses to a changing environment."
- McDermott, Terry and Josh Meyer, The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012).
- Mudd, Phil. Takedown – Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). AfPak Channel review by Mitchell D. Silber: "Mr. Mudd provides unique insights as to what it was like on a day-to-day basis working in the CIA Counterterrorism Center and FBI National Security Branch and how those entities functioned, faults and all."
- Owen, Mark. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden. (New York: Penguin, 2012).
- Priest, Dana and William Arkin. Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State. (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011).
- Scahill, Jeremy. Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield (New York: Nation Books, 2013). AfPak Channel review by Shane Harris: "In Scahill's story, which is generally more concerned with the military's side of the tale, the transformation of special operations into a global "assassination machine" seems largely engineered by the government's most powerful men, particularly Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, who used the crisis of terrorism to create private, "unaccountable" armies."
- Schmitt, Eric and Thom Shanker. Counterstrike: the Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against al-Qaeda. (New York: Times Books, 2011). AfPak Channel review by Michael Waltz – "The authors personalize the often mundane bureaucratic policy initiatives such as Presidential findings, resources, and authorities needed to gradually shift our approach to terrorism through the stories of key individuals working on these issues over the last ten years."
- Sewell, Sarah, John A. Naql, David H. Petraeus and James F. Amos. The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
- Silber, Mitchell D. The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). AfPak Channel review by Raffaello Pantucci: "Silber argues that there is a distinction to be drawn between those plots he characterizes as 'al-Qaeda command and control,' 'al-Qaeda suggested/endorsed,' and 'al Qaeda inspired.'"
- Soufan, Ali (with Daniel Freedman). The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011).
- Warrick, Joby. The Triple Agent. (New York: DoubleDay, 2011). AfPak Channel review by Art Keller - The Triple Agent provides a riveting look at the disastrous attempt by the CIA and their partners in the Jordanian General Intelligence Department (GID) to maneuver the Jordanian doctor-cum-cyber-jihadist, Humam al-Balawi, into penetrating the leadership of al-Qaeda.
- Woodward, Bob. Bush at War. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002). Vital for understanding how the Bush administration came to conflate the invasion of Iraq with the war on terrorism.
New America Papers
- Barfi, Barak. "Yemen on the Brink? The Resurgence of al-Qaeda in Yemen." January 25, 2010.
- Bergen, Peter and Katherine Tiedemann. "Guantanamo: Who Really 'Returned to the Battlefield'? (2009)." July 20, 2009.
- Fishman, Brian. "Redefining the Islamic State: the Fall and Rise of al-Qaeda in Iraq" August 18, 2011.
- Kimmage, Daniel. "Al-Qaeda Central and the Internet." March 16, 2010.
- Lynch III, Thomas F. "The 80 Percent Solution: The Strategic Defeat of bin Laden's al-Qaeda and Implications for South Asian Security," February 2012
- Stenersen, Anne. "Al-Qaeda's Allies: Explaining the Relationship between al-Qaeda and Various Factions of the Taliban after 2001." April 19, 2010.
- Sude, Barbara. "Al-Qaeda Central: An Assessment of the Threat Posed by the Terrorist Group Headquartered on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border." February 25, 2010.
- Zelin, Aaron Y. "The State of Global Jihad Online," January 2013
- Abbas, Hassan. "Inside Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province: The Political Landscape of the Insurgency." April 19, 2010.
- Barker, Alec. "Improvised Explosive Devices in Southern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan, 2002-2009." April 5, 2010.
- Bergen, Peter. "How Not to Lose Afghanistan (and Pakistan)." October 10, 2008.
- Bew, John; Evans, Ryan; Frampton, Martyn; Neumann, Peter; Porges, Marisa. "Talking to the Taliban: Hope Over History?" June 2013
- Collins, Catherine and Ashraf Ali. "Financing the Taliban: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Pakistan." April 19, 2010.
- Cruickshank, Paul. "The Militant Pipeline: Between the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Region and the West." July 6, 2011. [update of his February 2010 Policy Paper]
- Dennys, Christian and the Peace Training and Research Organization. "Moving Toward Transition: A Survey of Opinion Leaders in Southern Afghanistan as the United States Begins Its Drawdown," October 2011
- Fishman, Brian. "Russian Roulette: Corruption, Revenue, and the post-Soviet Precedent for State Failure in Afghanistan," May 2012
- Gopal, Anand. "The Battle for Afghanistan: Militancy and Conflict in Kandahar." November 9, 2010.
- Kian, Bijan R. and Wayne Porter. "A New Deal: A Plan for Sustainable Afghan Stability." December 6, 2010.
- MacKenzie, Jean. "The Battle for Afghanistan: Militancy and Conflict in Helmand." September 14, 2010.
- Mahsud, Mansur Khan. April 2010. "The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in South Waziristan."
- Ruttig, Thomas. "The Battle for Afghanistan: Negotiations with the Taliban." May 23, 2011.
- Van Bijlert, Martine. "The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Zabur and Uruzgan." September 14, 2010.
- Ahmad, Munir. September 2011. "The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Balochistan"
- Ali, Manzoor. "The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Dir." September 14, 2010.
- Ali, Saleem H. "Ecological Cooperation in South Asia: The Way Forward," January 2013
- Bergen, Peter and Katherine Tiedemann. "Revenge of the Drones: An Analysis of Drone Strikes in Pakistan." October 19, 2009.
- Bergen, Peter, Patrick C Doherty and Ken Ballen. "Public Opinion in Pakistan's Tribal Regions." September 28, 2010.
- Bergen, Peter and Mike Mazzar. "Pakistan and the United States: At a Strategic Crossroads." "Pakistan and the United States: At a Strategic Crossroads." New America Foundation/National War College. September 1, 2011
- Bergen, Peter and Katherine Tiedemann. "The Year of the Drone: An Analysis of U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan, 2004-2010." February 24, 2010.
- Fishman, Brian. "The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict Across the FATA and NWFP." April 19, 2010.
- Gopal, Anand. "The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in North Waziristan." April 19, 2010.
- Khan, Raheel. "The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Orakzai." September 14, 2010.
- Khan, Raheel. "The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Khyber." April 19, 2010.
- Khan, Raza. "The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Mohmand." April 19, 2010.
- Khattak, Daud Khan. "The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in the Swat Valley." April 19, 2010.
- Khan, Mohsin. "India-Pakistan Trade Relations: A New Beginning," January 2013
- Kheshgi, Khalid Khan. "The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in The Frontier Regions." September 14, 2010.
- Lalwani, Sameer. "Pakistani Capabilities for a Counterinsurgency Campaign: A Net Assessment." September 2009.
- Lalwani, Sameer. "Pakistan's COIN Flip: The Recent History of Pakistani Military Counterinsurgency Operations in the NWFP and FATA." April 19, 2010.
- Lewis, Jeffrey. "Managing the Danger from Pakistan's Nuclear Stockpile." November 2010.
- Mahsud, Mansur Khan. "The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Kurram." April 19, 2010.
- Rahmanullah. "The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Bajaur." April 19, 2010.
- Taneja, Nisha. "Enhancing India-Pakistan Trade," January 2013
- Tankel, Stephen. "Lashkar-e-Taiba in Perspective: An Evolving Threat." February 25, 2010.
- Tankel, Stephen. "Lashkar-e-Taiba: Past Operations and Future Prospects." April 27, 2011.
- Banks, William C. "The Legal Landscape for Emergency Management in the United States." February 25, 2011.
- Fishman, Brian and Andrew Lebovich. "Countering Domestic Radicalization: Lessons for Intelligence Collection and Community Outreach." June 23, 2011.
- Ollivant, Douglas. "Countering the New Orthodoxy: Reinterpreting counterinsurgency in Iraq." June 28, 2011.


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TOPEKA -- Gun rights advocates are pushing Kansas state lawmakers to counter potential moves by the federal government to restrict access to firearms.
Dozens of people packed one of the Statehouse's largest meeting rooms Tuesday to show their support for gun rights as the House Federal and State Affairs Committee heard testimony in favor of a measure declaring the federal government has no power to regulate firearms, ammunition or gun accessories manufactured and sold only in Kansas.
The same bill would make it a felony for an agent of the federal government to attempt to enforce a federal law, regulation or treaty restricting access to firearms, ammunition or accessories manufactured, sold and kept within Kansas. Also, the measure would limit the circumstances in which doctors could quiz their patients on whether they have guns in their homes.
The bill is among several measures lawmakers are considering amid discussions in Washington about how to lessen gun violence in the wake of December's mass fatal shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school. The Kansas hearing came only a day after the Colorado House approved new gun-control measures for that state.
Gun rights advocates in Kansas said they're most concerned about proposals for a federal ban on some military and law enforcement-style weapons, an idea President Barack Obama supports.
They said such a ban is likely to cover weapons owned by millions of Americans and could lead to attempts to confiscate them, despite protections for gun rights under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
"Anyone that knows history should understand that a centralized power that wants to have complete control of the people always comes after the guns," said Robert Wood, a Pittsburg resident who provides gun safety training and is a regional leader of the tea party-aligned Kansas Sovereignty Coalition. "We're once again at the crossroads of liberty in this nation."
The House committee also is reviewing a bill to allow people with state concealed carry permits to bring their weapons into more public buildings and another measure to prevent cities and counties from placing restrictions on people who are allowed by law to carry a firearm. A concealed carry bill also is before the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee.
Gun rights advocates have high hopes for such proposals after the election last year of a class of new conservative Republicans to the GOP-dominated Legislature. Also, in the state's November 2010 election, 88 percent of voters approved an amendment to the Kansas Constitution clarifying its guarantee of people's right to bear arms "for their defense and security" protects individuals' gun ownership.
The proposed "Second Amendment Protection Act" heard Tuesday by the House committee has drawn little opposition so far, and 12 of the panel's 23 members are among its 49 sponsors. The advocacy group Kansas Action for Children opposes the provision limiting the circumstances in which doctors can collect information about patients' gun ownership, arguing it would prevent them from providing safety advice.
Backers of the bill include Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a former University of Missouri-Kansas City constitutional law professor. He helped draft the measure and said it's written carefully enough the state wouldn't be stepping on the federal government's power under the U.S. constitution to regulate interstate commerce. He acknowledged the law, if enacted, could face a court challenge.
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Patricia Stoneking, president of the Kansas State Rifle Association, questioned whether Kansas would have wanted to join the Union in 1861 if residents had thought gun rights might come under attack. She said the bill is merely "taking back the rights" enjoyed by Kansans.
"But may I suggest that if they actually come to confiscate guns, it'll be a lot more than (a) court battle," Stoneking told reporters after the hearing. "The citizens of this state are not going to give up their guns."


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Gov. Sam Brownback signed an executive order Wednesday offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Kevin R. Welsh, 35, of Toronto, Kan. Authorities have been seeking Welsh since the Oct. 2 shooting deaths of of Keith and Sheila Kriesel, both of Eureka. A third person was also wounded in the shootings about 60 miles east of Wichita.
"I encourage anyone with knowledge of this crime or the suspect to immediately contact the Greenwood County Sheriff's office or the KBI," Brownback said in a release.
Attorney General Derek Schmidt has said he'll prosecute the case. Schmidt spokesman, Clint Blaes said Thursday that Welsh hasn't been charged.
"The investigation is still pending, and no charges have been filed," Blaes said.
Schmidt said Welsh is considered armed and dangerous.
Welsh was out on $50,000 bond on charges in Greenwood County that included kidnapping and aggravated assault when the recent shootings occurred, according to online court records. He was scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Oct. 29.
His defense attorney in that case did not immediately return a call seeking comment.


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Eric Fisher, OT, Central MichiganNext
Fisher is quickly rising on draft boards based on his standout performance in Senior Bowl practices. If he lasts this long, the Chargers should jump on him.Learn more
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Cordarrelle Patterson, WR, TennesseeNext
It's no secret the Dolphins need playmakers to help second-year quarterback Ryan Tannehill. Patterson has the size at 6-3, 205 pounds and speed to emerge as the top receiver.Learn more
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Xavier Rhodes, CB, Florida StateNext
The Buccaneers can look up to Tallahassee to address their cornerback mess. Rhodes is battling Mississippi State's Johnthan Banks and Washington's Desmond Trufant to be the second best in this class.Learn more
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Sheldon Richardson, DT, MissouriNext
Last year, the Panthers found their thumping, rangy playmaker in first-round linebacker Luke Kuechly. Now it's time to shore up the middle in front of him.Learn more
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Dion Jordan, DE, OregonNext
The Saints plan to change to a 3-4 defense after firing Steve Spagnuolo. They will need an edge pass rusher better suited for that style, and Jordan qualifies.Learn more
— Saints team page
Jonathan Cooper, G, North CarolinaNext
The Rams must bolster their offensive line in several places to help Sam Bradford and the running game. They'll go inside here and outside with their second first-round pick, No. 22.Learn more
— Rams team page
Johnathan Hankins, NT, Ohio StateNext
The Steelers must punch in a nose tackle to replace Casey Hampton. Hankins is a perfect fit to thrive in Dick LeBeau's version of the 3-4.Learn more
— Steelers team page
Matt Elam, S, FloridaNext
Now that Monte Kiffin has taken over as defensive coordinator and is installing a 4-3, he needs a big hitter for his cover-2 scheme. Elam will look good helping Morris Claiborne.Learn more
— Cowboys team page
Alec Ogletree, ILB, GeorgiaNext
Ogletree isn't that far behind former Bulldogs teammate Jarvis Jones as an impact player and would fill a need. He is a better inside prospect than Manti Te'o.Learn more
— Giants team page
Tyler Eifert, TE, Notre DameNext
The Bears made a mistake trading Greg Olsen a couple years ago. To usher in the Marc Trestman era, they need a game-changing receiver and blocker to help Jay Cutler and Matt Forte.Learn more
— Bears team page
Sam Montgomery, DE, LSUNext
They plan to re-sign Michael Johnson, their best edge pass rusher, but it wouldn't hurt to add wealth to one of the league's premier 4-3 pressure groups.Learn more
— Bengals team page
Lane Johnson, OT, OklahomaNext
After taking guard Jonathan Cooper earlier, the Rams pick up the athletic Johnson — a most pleasing 1-2 punch for Jeff Fisher.Learn more
— Rams team page
Terrance Williams, WR, BaylorNext
The Vikings can't afford to come away from the offseason without significantly upgrading their wide receiver unit. Williams continues to rise on draft boards.Learn more
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Jesse Williams, NT, AlabamaNext
The Colts must operate a better 3-4 under Chuck Pagano, and their run defense is a big concern. Williams is a nice linchpin to aid linebackers in pursuit.Learn more
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Keenan Allen, WR, CaliforniaNext
Pete Carroll dips back into the Pac-12 pool to give Russell Wilson another receiver. Sidney Rice and Golden Tate aren't bad, but Allen could give the Seahawks a needed boost.Learn more
— Seahawks team page
D.J. Fluker, OT, AlabamaNext
The Packers should think a little bit about Fluker's teammate, Eddie Lacy, but they must solidify the right tackle position.Learn more
— Packers team page
Manti Te'o, ILB, Notre DameNext
The Texans could use a solid player next to Brian Cushing, who will be coming off a torn ACL. Inside Wade Phillips' 3-4, the tackling pressure will be eased. Te'o's drop from the last mock draft (No. 15, Saints) is more tied to on-field performance than off-field controversy.Learn more
— Texans team page | Manti Te'o news archive
Eddie Lacy, RB, AlabamaNext
Knowing John Fox's history as a coach, he loves to have a deep, versatile running back unit. Willis McGahee and Knowshon Moreno did the job, but Lacy could give add power and fresh, healthy legs.Learn more
— Broncos team page
Ezekiel Ansah, DE, BYUNext
The Patriots would be ecstatic if the athletically gifted but raw Ansah falls to them. Bill Belichick could coach up Ansah and Chandler Jones to be quite a duo.Learn more
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Zach Ertz, TE, StanfordNext
There's a good chance Tony Gonzalez will retire after a Hall of Fame career. Why not replace an former Cal great with a strong all-around Cardinal prospect?Learn more
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Kevin Minter, ILB, LSUNext
The Ravens know Ray Lewis will retire after the Super Bowl, and they must replace him in their 3-4. Minter is the best choice for the scheme.Learn more
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* The loser of the Super Bowl will pick 31st, the winner 32nd.
Kenny Vaccaro, S, Texas
Dashon Goldson becomes a free agent after the Super Bowl. Vaccaro is a playmaner and would be nice to pair with the run-stopping Donte Whitner, a free agent in 2014.Learn more
— 49ers team page
* The loser of the Super Bowl will pick 31st, the winner 32nd.