Today we went over the map and continued our blog disscussion.
1. History of Afghanistan to 1970's: Afghanistan got named because a person was Afghana so they made Afghanistan as translation of "the land of Afghana". August 19th, 1919 was the end of WWII and the day they gained their independance. The Soviet Union always wanted to control them because they are one of their bordering countries so that they didn't get invaded. Their capital is Cabul.
2. Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan: the Prime Minister of 1990 was trying to get rid of the muslim religion. The govener of Afghanistan basically asked the Soviet Union to invase them because they didn't think they would have enough control without their help. The majority of Afghanistan didn't want this to happen and actually thought they were being invaded so they faught back with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union and Afghanistan were like Vietnam and the united states: they know all the mountunious places and the jungles. Hochimen was the leader of Vietnam and was our biggest enemy at the time. He said that the bigger countries (The US and The Soviet Union) are like the elephants in the war and the smaller countries (Afganistan and Vietnam) are like the tigers meaning that the elephants are big and have a lot of force but the tigers were fast and eventually make the elephants bleed to death (mostly meaning being a costly war.) The Soviet Union withdrew from the war because they basically dimaloushed Afghanistan but they would never surrender. The mujahideen were the rebles in Afghanistan.
3. History of Taliban: The government of Afghanistan where they let Al-Qaeda train there which let to the 9-11 attacks. It started in 1974. The Soviet Union invaded them. They tried to get a tready in 2006 but it got broken. After they became a malishia they got a government and came into power in 1971. The Taliban didn't let the women go to school and they completely cover up their face.
4. History of Al-Qaeda: Osama bin Laded started it in 1988. It started by fighting the Soviets. They were part of the Muja-haideen. The definition of Al-Qaeda is "the base". They had nuerous terrorist attack on places like Balli and the USS Coal Bombing. They are also to believed to be responsable for the bombing of the base of the World Trade Center in 1993. They were not succesfull but did injure and kill some people but didn't do any damage to the building besides shaking it. Yosef. The Al-Qaeda thinks the Christians and the Jewish people are teaming up to ban the Muslum religion. They do not follow human laws and they have Shurea laws which is basically religious laws. Since their laws are religious, the women are more owned there and have nearly no rights. After the war in 1991 in Kuwait, we never left and Osama bin Laden tried to take over the Middle east (them) with Sadia Arabia and told the people that they needed to join together and join his group. It is a world-wide terrorist group. They think that it's okay to kill civilians because they say that if you're a muslim, you should want to die and be rewarded in the afterlife, but if you're a bad muslim,
5. History of Osama bin Laden: He was bor in 1957 in Sadia Arabia. He was the 7th son of the family. When he was 13, he lost his father. His dad was in construction. They were billionares in Sadia Arabia and inherited a lot of money when his father died in a hellicoptor accident. In the 1996, he declared the G-had on the United States. In 1997 he had his first interview and said bad things on the US. He married a relative. The goal for Osama bin Laden is to outlast us. He wanted to have the U.S. be bankrupt. On May 1st of 2011, he was at a compound in Afghanistan and killed him in a fire-fight. We then ID'd him and barried him at sea because we didn't want parade his body around and make people mad.
6. 9-11(what happened, why did it happen)
7. War in Afghanistan(Bush, Obama)
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