Sites in the News

Web sites provide a vast resource of background and historical information on topics related to the terrorist attacks in New York and at the Pentagon.

Osama bin Laden

Frontline: The public television series, which is updating its highly praised 1999 documentary on Bin Laden, has a page with links to government documents and informational sites. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/etc/links.html

FBI: Bin Laden’s listing on the “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list. https://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/fugitives/laden.htm

BBC: Summary of information on Bin Laden and a link to a video documentary. https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_155000/155236.stm

Family: Site for the Saudi Binladin Group, the highly successful construction company started by Bin Laden’s father. https://www.saudi-binladin-group.com

Afghanistan

CIA: Fact book listing with extensive information about the country’s geography, government, population, ethnic groups, religions and history. https://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html

Maps: Country, regional and historical maps. https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/afghanistan.html

ICARP: The Interactive Central Asia Resource Project was created in 1993 at the University of Hawaii to catalog materials on Central Asia. It has an extensive links page on Afghanistan. https://www.icarp.org/afghan.html

Pakistan

Official site: The Pakistani government’s own site, in English, has been issuing position statements, news updates and the text of speeches. https://www.pak.gov.pk

CIA: The government agency releases a public, yearly fact book on countries around the world. https://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/pk.html

Maps: The University of Texas at Austin has one of the largest map sites on the Web. Some were produced by the Defense Department. https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/pakistan.html

Virtual library: The University of Florida and Columbia University maintain the South Asia WWW Virtual Library informational sites. https://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/pak

--Compiled by DAVID COLKER