Depressing but nonetheless important story told by John Walker Lindh's father. Powerful stuff.

"Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Afghanistan meets a growing community of part-time expat jihadists."

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange is none too happy with the way the New York Times handled the Afghanistan War documents.

The Pentagon is considering methods of "compelling" WikiLeaks into turning over the yet to be released documents.

"In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it. But Wikileaks is able to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the logic of the Internet permits it. This is new."

Background from The Guardian about the Afghanistan war logs.

The story of an Afghan refugee that made it into space.