VANITY FAIR

December 2001

“The happy, ending, is own national belief." -MARY MCCARTHY

ALL-AMERICAN

HEARTTHROB

BRAD PITT BUCKS UP OUR SPIRITS BY MAKING TWO BIG FILMS, KEEPING JENNIFER HAPPY AND SHOWING US HIS ABS

BY PETER BISKIND PHOTOGRAPHS BY HERB RITTS

HEROISM AT 30,000 FEET A MINUTE-BY MINUTE ACCOUNT OF UNITED FLIGHT 93 BY BRYAN BURROUGH

SPECIAL REPORT:

INSIDE BIN LADEN'S TERROR OPERATION AN EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT FROM PETER BERGEN'S NEW BOOK, HOLY WAR, INC., INCLUDING A MEETING WITH THE WORLD'S MOST WANTED MAN

A WOMEN ON THE AFGHAN FRONT

BY JANINE DI GIOVANNI

GERM WARFARE GOES BEYOND ANTHRAX

BY LAURIE GARRETT

TO CATCH A TERRORIST HOW ISRAEL'S SECRET UNIT DOES IT

BY RICH COHEN

ALSO: JAMES WOLCOTT on SEPTEMBER II's CULTURAL CASUALTIES CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS on PATRIOTISM LAURA JACOBS on EMILY POST HAROLD BLOOM on SHAKESPEARE'S FACE and BRUCE WEBER Revisits VISCONTI'S ITALY