From U.S., the ABC's of Jihad (washingtonpost.com) Violent Soviet-era textbooks complicate Afghan education efforts.

School year opens in Afghanistan Girls in bright red dresses and transparent green headscarves took center stage at a ceremony Saturday marking the first day of the school year in Afghanistan, where thousands of girls returned to the classroom for the first time in years.

Report ties Sept. 11 hijacker to anthrax A Florida doctor who treated one of the alleged Sept. 11 hijackers last June for a dark lesion on his leg said after reviewing his notes weeks after the attack that the lesion was consistent with anthrax, The New York Times reported Saturday.

CNN.com - Half brother says bin Laden is alive and well - March 19, 2002 A half brother of Osama bin Laden says the terrorist's family has its own information that bin Laden is alive and that he does not have kidney disease requiring dialysis.

From Afghanistan 1 [Scott Carrier] Sights, sounds and stories; a photo-audio-essay, with excerpts from Carrier's Harper's article and ambient recordings of the streets, songs and prayers of the Afghan people.