First we went over the Africa map, then we finished our blog discussion.
1. History of Afghanistan to 1970's<-I did this one
2. Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan
Communist government of Afghanistan asked the USSR to invade Afghanistan to stop the rebels. This was not taken well by the mainly muslim Afghan people; they started a military group, called mujahadeen to fight the soviets. The Afghans used guerilla warfare. The Afghans eventually caused the fall of the Soviet Union. The USSR bombed Afghanistan into the stone age, but the Afghans never surrendered and the USSR left Afghanistan. The Taliban came to power in Afghanistan after this war and a civil war.
3. History of Taliban
Started after the soviets invaded Afghanistan, and Pakistan gave them weapons and help them start. After they became a militia they came into political power in 1994. The government of Afghanistan let the Taliban do whatever they want for about a decade, the US then went in and removed the government from power.
4. History of al-Qaeda
They commited terroristic attacks on many different places (one of them 9/11). Osama Bin Laden was killed in 2011, causing the decline of their orginization. The people in Al-qaeda believe that jewish and christian people are trying to team up and destroy the Muslims.
5. History of Osama bin Laden
He was born in Saudi Arabia with 7 siblings, he married at 17 to "prevent corruption." He came from a very wealthy family, when his father died he inherited $80million. In 1996 he declared a holy war on the US, because, he said, we were trying to take over and suppress the Muslim religion. We killed him in a firefight then took him back to Afghanistan to confirm his death; we buried him at see (as in muslim tradition).
6. 9-11(what happened, why did it happen)
7. War in Afghanistan(Bush, Obama)
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