Today we reviewed the Canada map. Then we started blog discussion. 9/11 terrorist hijacked 4 planes. there were more than one on each. Two panes hit the twin towers. One hit the pentagon and it did little damage. The forth flight fell in a field in Pennsylvania. The passenger overtook it on them. The first plane hit and started a fire. Then a little later, a second plane hit. Then the towers slowly burned and crumbled. About 3000 total people died.
Some people believe that it was religion that drove 9/11. Radical Islamic people may have been mad at America for freedom of religion and not teaching Islamic beliefs. Others think that it was because America was putting too much influence on them and we were "bullies" invading them, so they wanted to strike back. Even others think it is going for the major things in our country. As in Twin Towers (financial) Pentagon (military) and maybe white house (government).
9/11 was positive because it brought America together to go after Al Qaeda. The negatives are it lead us into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 3000 died in 9/11 and 6000 died in the wars. It increased the budget of many of military groups and started Homeland Security. We deported many people. We increased security in airports. Our economy dropped 600 points just in 2001.
Al Qaeda started in the 1980s. It started with the war between Afghanistan and Soviet Union. The US supported them. Their main belief was that they wanted to spread Islamic beliefs. They declared ghaid war on the us in 97. They bombed 2 US embassies and bombed a US ship by Yemen. Next the 9/11 attacked. The US went in and fought them and ended up killing Osama Bin Laden, their leader, and that weakened them. They are weaker, but they keep getting new leaders.
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