US Navy – The USNS Comfort docked at Pier 92 in New York City Friday, and will serve as a lodging facility for disaster recovery personnel. The ship will provide housing, laundry, food, medical and other services to volunteers and rescue personnel.

• Virginian Pilot: Navy hospital ship sails into N.Y. with a new mission
• US Navy: Navy, Marine Corps respond to terrorism
  with heroic acts
  

US Navy – Possible military options are beginning to emerge, including cruise missile attacks followed by saturation bombing followed by special operations raids.

• Daily Telegraph: SAS to join American special forces
• The Sunday Times: War plan: the West’s military options

Background – The Taliban – Dealing with Pakistan, the Taliban, and Bin Laden will be extremely complex; all three are deeply intertwingled as shown in these excellent lengthy essays. Required reading for understanding the complexity of the challenges the US faces.

This New Yorker essay is an excellent biography of Bin Laden.

• The New Yorker: The Real bin Laden

This Atlantic essay, from Robert Kaplan, gives tremendous insight into the ungovernable state of Pakistan today.

• The Atlantic: The Lawless Frontier

A Pakistani journalist who has covered the Taliban for years gives his insight into them.

• The Atlantic: Inside the Jihad

An essay from Janes’ on how this all came to be???

• Janes’: Why? An attempt to explain the unexplainable

An essay from a senior BBC correspondent on how the Taliban may act.

• BBC: What now for the Taleban?