Responding to the news of the London terror bombings, the magazine has added a link, on newyorker.com, to Lawrence Wright’s 2004 piece “The Terror Web.” (“Were the Madrid bombings part of a new, far-reaching jihad being plotted on the Internet?”)
FROM THE ARCHIVE
The Madrid Operation
This week’s bombings of London mass transit drew immediate comparisons to last year’s attacks on Madrid’s commuter rail. In this article from August, 2004, Lawrence Wright looks at what Madrid revealed about Al Qaeda’s global strategy.
In light of everything, be sure not to skip Jane Mayer’s story on the immoral interrogations and mistreatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, as well as Mayer’s online-only Q. & A. with Amy Davidson: “I was surprised by how much the Department of Defense let me see…”