Today we talked about what happened on 9-11. 4 planes were hijacked. The first two, the most known of, hit the twin towers in New York. Another plane hit the the Pentagon and the last one was aimed for the White House, but landed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The plane flew off mark because some of the passangers supposedly figured out what was happening and attacked the cockpit. President Bush was reading to Elementary students at the time of the crashes and was told by a secret service member. All together nearly 3,000 people died in the crashes. We listened to the speech President Bush gave on the issue. He said that we are going to get those people who crashed the planes and they are going to "hear us".We talked about The Taliban. They call themselves a religious government.In the 1980s, we gave weapons to Afghanistan so they could help us in the Cold War, and some of the Taliban gained ownership over the weapons. They treated their woman badly, they had to dress completely covered, paint their windows black and could not go anywhere without a male figure. Members of the Taliban were not allowed to eat pork, watch VCRs, TV, Movies, men could not shave their beards, women couldnt play sports, they could not have dolls, Christmas cards, musical devices of any kind, and many more modern luxeries. They wanted to close off Afghanistan from the modern world. Now the Taliban are growing stronger and are adding children to their ranks to build their army.We also talked about Al Qaeda. They were a terrorist group with members stationed all around the world. They came to an agreement with the Taliban to act on 9-11. Al Qaeda's leader was Osama bin Laden.
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