Posted by 5Shelbie on September 25, 2009 at 11:00am
Today was a discussion day in class. Today our main topic was 9/11. 19 members of the Al-Qaeda high jacked commercial plans. Two hit the twin towers and one hit the pentagon. Another plan intended to hit the US Capital but, crashed in Pennsylvania. After the 2001 attack racial profiling started up a lot in the US. People who have the Arabiac look are discriminated against. Only 2,000 people died from the collapse of the twin towers. Over 200 different fire fighter squads went to the twin towers. A lot of the deaths were fire fighters. After the 9/11 attacks and after we sent troops over for the first time in history we stopped flights.There were a lot of conspiracy theories about 9/11. One was that President Bush let this happen because there was a lot of unfinished business with suddam hussien. He supposedly let this happen so he could go to war. While all the attacks were happening Bush was in Florida reading to students. When someone came and told him what happened he left and ended up flying around in the US. 125 people died at the Pentagon. And about 37 people died on flight 93.We also talked about the Taliban. The Taliban were basically just an Islamic group of refugees, or homeless people who eventually took over the government. The Taliban were very strict against women. They couldn't wear makeup, go to school, or have jobs. They had to wear clothes from their head to toe. On Oct. 7, 2001 we invaded Afghanistan.
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