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Stories from 2003-02-12

'Total Information Awareness' Stalled by Congress

Adam Clymer | New York Times | February 12, 2003

"House and Senate negotiators have agreed that a Pentagon project intended to detect terrorists by monitoring Internet e-mail and commercial databases for health, financial and travel information cannot be used against Americans." [more]

Chilly Response to 'Patriot II'

Ryan Singel | Wired News | February 12, 2003

"The legislation would broadly expand the government's surveillance and detention powers. Among other measures, it calls for the creation of a terrorist DNA database and allows the attorney general to revoke citizenship of those who provide 'material support' to terrorist groups." [more]

Federal Bastion Raises a Peace Flag

David Lamb | Los Angeles Times | February 12, 2003

"In an overflowing school auditorium Monday night, at a forum with their congressman, a two-star Marine general and an assistant secretary of Defense, the citizens of Alexandria spoke of overwhelming concerns about war with Iraq, and particularly its aftermath. Their antiwar sentiments sounded like those heard in France and Germany." [more]

How the US Watches Suspects of Terrorism

Toni Locy and Kevin Johnson | USA Today | February 12, 2003

"Desperate to prevent attacks, the FBI is stopping promising investigations and making quick arrests at even a hint of potential violence. ... Since Sept. 11, 2001, there have been 112 terror-related convictions in the United States; none has involved an active plot by a terror cell." [more]

Osama Rallies Muslims, Condemns Hussein

William Rivers Pitt | Truthout | February 12, 2003

"In very clear words, Osama bin Laden told the people of Iraq to rise up against both American aggression and against 'socialist' Saddam Hussein. So much, it seems, for Powell's case that Hussein and bin Laden are working together." [more]

Why I Say No to War

Pope John Paul II | Times of London | February 12, 2003

"War is not always inevitable. It is always a defeat for humanity." [more]

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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.