9/11

On the Internet one of the biggest news seen this century was the 9/11. The 9/11 was the greatest terrorist attack in this century. What happened is that two hijacked airplanes crashes into the World Trade Center, another airplane hit the pentagon at the same day, 11Th of September 2001. That day nineteen Al-Qaeda terrorist hijacked 4 commercial passenger jet airliners that where in flight. As I said two airplanes crashes the World Trade Center in New York City, the other at the Pentagon in Virginia, the fourth plane crashes by the intent of control of the airplane by the passengers.

There were 2,992 deaths, including the nineteen hijackers; two hundred and forty six on the four planes, no one aboard of any of the hijacked aircraft survived, 2,602 in near and in the four towers, and finally a hundred and twenty five at the Pentagon. Four hundred and three people died trying to save civilians, including three hundred and forty three New York Fire Department firefighters , twenty three from the New York City Police Department officers, and thirty seven Port Authority Police Department officers, and other twenty four people remain missing.

Nineteen men got on the four planes, five on American Airlines Flight 11, five on United Airlines Flight 175, five on American Airlines Flight 77, and four on United Airlines Flight 93. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt, and the other from Lebanon.

I think that the nineteen men that hijacked the planes did it because of crazy or following there religion, maybe just because they want to hurt people. I didn't knew what was happening the day when the school was dismissed, until I arrived home and I saw the news. I think it's been the worst day of the lives of many people that had there families in the World Trade Center. When I saw the news I thought of when I was in the World Trade Center one month ago, I was petrified because we went there almost a month ago. I remember that the 11Th of September of 2006 a little private plane from a baseball player of the Yankees crashed a building in New York City, when I saw the news I thought it was a terrorist act, but it was only problems on the plane. I remember that the day after all the newspapers in the country talked about it, some people say the saw the devils face in the smoke that got out of the two towers. On the Internet you could find lots of videos of the crash of the airplanes and the collapse of the two towers.

In this project I want to learn and write next about other terrorist attacks all around the world, especially in Europe and Southwest Asia. To know more about the most famous and dangerous terrorist in history, and what acts did they commit. I want to know the tactics that the terrorist use and what the world is doing to prevent all these events.

Great Article

Can Car Bombs Stop in Baghdad? That is the article I found. I was looking for articles, and this one seems very important and traumatic.

This article was made because the amount of car bombs in Baghdad a day, if it can be stopped or suspended. Baghdad is one of the cities with more car bombs per day in the world. So many people can be killed. In Baghdad its said that "Two Car Bombs Kill Over 100 in Baghdad," so many innocent people are killed each day. So the question is why, whay in Baghdad? and if it can be stopped?
The answer is yes. But it will take a quitely different military approach to help Baghdad fight against terrorism. You can find more about this article in the link on top of this post.

Just Like Terrorism...

I found a very interesting article in the Internet about acts similar to terrorism.

A 18-year-old Muslim called Sulejmen Talovic, shot nine people, armed with a pair of low-tech firearms, a pump-action shotgun and a .38-caliber revolver. On six minutes, at Salt Lake City, Utah. Five of the nine people shot died and the other four where wounded, it occurred at a crowded downtown shopping mall called Trolley Square Mall, Monday night before he died after a hail of police bullets, six minutes after he got to the mall.

The FBI Special Agent Patrick Kiernan, a supervisor in the FBI's of Salt Lake City, has repeatedly said since Monday that Talovic's wild shooting rampage at the mall was not connected to terrorism.

"There is nothing that is throwing up red flags," Kiernan said "It's
just unexplainable. He was just walking around and shooting everybody he saw, it
was crazy."

The conclusion is that this attack was not related to any terrorist attacks,
it is a very similar situation to many others on the past, that weren't
related
with terrorism.

The Problem in Sri Lanka

I found a very interesting article about the problems in Sri Lanka and India's help.

The article says that the country is extremely threatened by more suicide bombers as all Middle East Asia.

"Hardly a day passes without a time bomb, or a claymore mine or a hand
grenade being thrown at military personnel or citizens by the LTTE and its
supporters," said Palitha Kohona. "The government will deal with terrorism
firmly and decisively. All over the world, no country deals with terrorists with
kid gloves."

More than 67,000 people have been killed in Sri Lanka after conflict between the Tamil Tigers and the government started in 1983. Nearly 4,000 people have been killed since last year.

India's coast guard affirms it stopped a boat that is owned by the Tiger rebels, with weapons, bomb-making chemicals and a suicide belt. The officers say that five men including a top leader were on the boat captured on the south coast of India. Early this week the Indian Navy caught a boat loaded with materials for making landmines and other explosives. The government of Sri Lanka has vowed to destroy the entire Tiger rebels military machinery. The Tigers concluded their independence problem last December, the re-igniting fight, which is the intensest and prolonged fight since a 2002 ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and Tiger rebels. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam announced a new move to run their own independent state in 2006, ending the island's peace procedure.

Terrorism

I found an article on the Internet that tells what is occurring in U.K. and the terrorist attacks. In the Internet there are many articles. All over the world a seriously problem is developing very quickly, terrorism, there is terrorism all around the world, including in the safer countries, for example, in U.K, the last few weeks there were various attacks of card bomb, especially in Birmingham, England. Terrorism is a word used to describe violence and/or other painful acts made or threatened against civilians by terrorist groups or persons with political or social goals. Terrorist attacks are often made for maximize fear and publicity among the entire world.

There are twelve types of terrorism in the world.Agro-terrorism is the use of plants or animals to disperse a disease through a certain region. Anarchist is the normal use of small bombs in trains or buildings. Bioterrorism is the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents. Cyber-terrorism is attacks with the use and/or help of the Internet and computers. Eco-terrorism consists of threats and/or acts of violence to people or properties. Narcoterrorism is terrorist-type attacks against a nations anti-narcotics police or forces. Nationalist is when a group of people rebel against the government or any company. Nuclear terrorism can be two types of attacks, with nuclear or radiological weapons or and attack to a nuclear plant. Political is made to influence on peoples thoughts and statements. Racist is violence influences by ethnic or cultural issues. Religious is violence influenced by religious beliefs issues. State refers to violence against civilians by the government or nation. State-sponsored is a political term used to refer to bounties, equipment and intelligence material given across boundaries to terrorist organizations and the families of deceased militants for the purpose of conducting or rewarding attacks on civilians.

The five main tactics made by the terrorist are hijacking of public vehicles ( air crafts), or important people for money. Assassination is a very common method seen almost every day in the world, normally of important or/and famous people. Car bombing is now very seen in the countries in Southwest Asia, for example Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon. Suicide attack is not so common, but its used when there is a person that wants to kill someone and he is disposed to give his life for his decision or for religion. Kidnapping is very seen in large cities with a large number of crime rate.

The mayor terrorist attack in the 21Th century occurred in 11Th of September of 2001. Two airplanes crashes into the World Trade Center in New York,City, United States of America. There were 2,973 deaths in total: 246 on the four planes, no one aboard any of the hijacked airplane survived the crash, 2,602 people died in New York at the towers and on the ground surrounding them, and 125 people at the Pentagon.

The day of September 11 of 2001, the school had an early dismissal, when we got out of school, I went to my grandmothers house and me and my family saw the video on the TV. The two towers were totally collapsed, the land surrounding the towers was a complete disaster.

How is Our School

Do you have a big school or do you have a small school? How many kids go to your school?

This question was asked by Amber in Ms. Baber's class, from Virginia, in the Teen Life Wiki in the section of School Environment. In this post I am going to respond that question. From Cartagena, Colombia, from Mr. Hide's class.

Our school is not so big, but its enough size for me. In the school there are about 500 kids, we have 12 grades, in every grade there are approximately 40 kids. In the school we have a soccer field, a basketball court and one that sometimes is used as soccer, kickball, volleyball, or other sports. In the school there is a building of 4 floors, in the first one there are the offices, the nursery, the library, and more offices. In the second floor is the high school class rooms, the computer room for high school and middle school, the principle's office and secretary's office. In the third floor there is middle school class rooms and a computer room for elementary, and in the last floor there are the elementary class rooms.

There is another part of the school were there is 1st and 2nd grade class rooms, another two high school classes, the drama class and the art class. There is a playground for elementary near the 1st and 2nd grade class rooms. Beside the building there is the cafeteria and the lab is in the other side of the building. Seriously the school bought a bigger place and they are starting to built the new school that is planned to be ready in two years, or so... The new school will be twice as big as this one, its going to have soccer fields, baseball field, basketball courts, etc... It is going to be very cool, but its a little far from every ones houses.