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):
9/11 was a series of 4 suicide terrorist attacks. That morning, 19 terrorists from the Al-Qaeda group hijacked 4 passenger planes. The terrorists that hijacked the planes had had flying lessons in Florida so they were able to acurately fly the planes. The American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175 were 2 of the planes hijacked and they were intentionally crashed into the twin towers in New York City, New York. Both towers collapsed within two hours. At first, most of the people tought the planes crashing into the World Trade Center was just an accident, but once the second one hit, they knew it couldn't just be a coincidence. The terrorists also hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 but intentionally crashed it into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
United Airlines Flight 93 is probably the most remember jet name because this jet was also hijacked but was headed for Washington D.C. but instead of hitting the target, the plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. When the people on this plane could get in contact with the people below them, they soon realized what the terrorists’ intentions were. They then gained up on the terrorists and tried taking over the plane and successfully guided it away from the target. There were unfortunately little to no survivors of the flight. Over 3,000 people died in these attacks.
The leader of the terrorist group, al-Qaeda, denied their involvement up until the year 2004. In 2004 Osama bin Laden confessed to leading the attacks on 9/11. In May of 2011, Osama bin Laden was found and finally killed.
The destruction of the twin towers caused lower Manhattan to have huge economical problems. It also had a significant impact on global markets. The cleanup of the World Trade Center site was completed in May of 2002. The Pentagon was repaired within a year. There have been numerous memorials made including the Flight 93 National Memorial, the Pentagon Memorial, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The 1,776-foot-tall, One World Trade Center is expected to be built by 2013. 9/11 is still known to be one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the history of the world.
7. War in Afghanistan(Bush, Obama): We invaded Afghanistan because we believed Al-Qaeda was responsable for 9-11 and knew that they had the largest amounts of the Al-Queda terrorists in Afghanistan. Bush had a policy that said if you weren't a terrorist, if you let them be there, you are just as guilty as them.
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