Sunday, February 25, 2007

Osama

Last week I mentioned that I wanted to learn about Osama Bin Laden and I did. I found information about him on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden that was very interesting so I decided to right my post about it.

I learned many things about Osama Bin Laden and I will like to share them with you in this post.

I learned that Osama Bin Laden was born on March 10, 1957 out of a wealthy and big family. He is a Saudi Arabian militant Islamist; he is also founder of al-Qaeda that is the way that the International Alliance of Militant Sunni is called. Osama Bin Laden is on the list of the ten most wanted people of the FBI or Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is strange that at the beginning he was a United States ally during the Russian and Afghanistan war.

Osama Bin Laden is famous because of a terrorist attack he made to the United States of America known as nine eleven because it was on September 11. He attacked the pentagon and destroyed the twin towers.

The method he used to do this attack was hacking the airplanes. Hacking is when people make terrorist attacks by controlling boats, plains, and buses from a computer. Most of the time hackers use the thing they are controlling as a weapon and this is what Osama Bin Laden did. He controlled United Airlines Flight 93, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 77, and he threw them to important places like the twin towers.

I think that Osama Bin laden ruined his life because he has to live hidden in very strange and uncomfortable places, always knowing that many people are very mad with him. For example in Colombia there is a song that talks about him and it says many bad things about him and makes fun of him. Another way he ruined his life is that, if United States of America find him, they will punish him and could even sentence him with death penalty. I don’t think he could ever live a normal live again, he would be unhappy forever.

Another thing is that Osama should have been careful enough to hide his terrorist actions. But due to religious factors he told the world he was the author of the attacks. So today everyone knows he is guilty and are doing efforts to bring him to justice.

Now that I have learned a lot about Osama Bin Laden, I will like to study other known terrorist such as: Pablo Escobar (A very known terrorist that is dead and was very bad for Colombia), Hitler, and many others that are important for many bad reasons. I will also like to study the effects of terrorism on people, and what places are most likely to be attacked by terrorist. It will also be interesting to analyze the main causes for people becoming terrorist and I also want to know what do people feel when the terrorism attack is happening or what do the people that are going to suicide for the attack feels.The last thing I want to learn is terrorism tactics because it will be help full in my proyect.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

How Do Terrorist Attack

This week I found one of the things I wanted to learn about terrorism. The thing I wanted to learn was; how terrorist usually attack and the article I found talks about Ways To Make Terrorist Attacks.

There are 7 ways to make terrorist attacks and they are:

1Anthrax= A gas and disease that is naturally occurring. Anthrax can kill many people.
2Bomb and 3car bomb= Bombs are used a lot by terrorists because they can be placed in a lot of places. One of the places where terrorist put bombs a lot are cars. When a terrorist puts a bomb on a car the car is called car bomb.
4 Letter bomb= Letter bomb is a bomb that is inside of a letter or envelope and when the envelope or the letter is opened the bomb explodes immediately.
5Mortar bomb= a mortar bomb is a kind of bomb that is thrown by a metal tube and after it flies a little it is detonated by a timer.
6Sucide bomb= A suicide bomb is very not intelligent to do because the terrorist or a helper of the terrorist needs to suicide. This is because the bomb is inside the clothe of the terrorist, the reason terrorist use this method is that t the person can walk close to the target.
7Hijacking= hacking is when people make terrorist attacks by controlling boats, plains, and buses from a computer. Most of the time hackers use the thing they are controlling as a weapon.

What I think about this article is that there is a very bad way of doing terrorism and is the suicide bomb because is not good to suicide doing some thing bad. Suicide bombs are good for many people an that people are the people that didn’t like that terrorist but those same people don’t like bombs because many innocent people die. An other thing I thing I think about this article is that terrorist have excellent inventions but instead of using it for good things they use it for bad things. For example: hackers could use their abilities for good things and there are many good things they can do with those abilities.

Right know I want to learn the same things I wanted to learn about terrorism the last week except of is how terrorist usually attack. The things are: 1. Important terrorists like Pablo Escobar (A terrorist that is dead and was very bad for Colombia), Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, and many others that are important for many reasons.2. The effects of terrorism on people, and the most affected people by terrorism3. The places that are most attacked by terrorist, like airports but I want to learn other places that are also attacked a lot by terrorist.4. Other 2 things that I want to learn is what is the main cause of people becoming terrorist s and I also want to know what do people feel when the terrorism attack is happening or what do the people that are going to suicide for the attack feels.

Friday, February 09, 2007

Terrorism

When I was looking for information about terrorism on Internet I found an article called Can we stop terrorism? On CBBC. I chose to make a post about this article because it is interesting and it is a very important for many things for the entire world.

The article showed information of how to stop terrorism in very difficult steps. There are 4 steps and they can take a long of time to be accomplished.

One of the steps was to kill or arrest all of the people that help the terrorists. After there are no more or not so many helpers of the terrorist the terrorist will be wicker, and it will be easier to prevent terrorist attacks.

There is also another step that is to capture the terrorist themselves. This step is not easy because the terrorist are used to hide and look as normal people. An example is Osama Bin Laden who has being hidden in Afghanistan for a long time. He might even be hiding in some other place such as Pakistan.

Another of the steps was to prevent terrorist attacks by putting together higher security standards on places like airports and other crowded places which in the past have being targets of terrorist groups. For example, if there has being better security on the airport where the airplane that hit the twin towers departed, this attack could be prevented.

The last step that is needed to stop terrorism is to maintain terrorist away from politics. If terrorists become involved in politics it will be like if they had won everyone. If a terrorist influences the politics of a country they have lots of power to do an attack.

I think that following these steps is a good way to stop terrorism, but it will take too much time. Since this is a long process, new terrorists will appear as old ones are captured. The step where police need to arrest all the people that help the terrorist will take more then ten years because probably there are a lot of people that help the terrorist. On the step of putting more security on places that can be easily attacked will take like 5 years, finding the terrorist will also take about 1 – 15 years depending of the terrorist.

Right know I want to learn more things about terrorism. I want to learn about important terrorists like Pablo Escobar (A terrorist that is dead and was very bad for Colombia), Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, and many others. Another thing I want to learn of is the effects of terrorism on people, and the most affected people by terrorism. I also want to learn more about the places that are most attacked by terrorist, I know that airports are one but I want to learn other ones. Other 2 things that I want to learn is what is the main cause of people becoming terrorist s and I also want to know what do people feel when the terrorism attack is happening or what do the people that are going to suicide for the attack feels. The last thing I want to learn is how terrorist usually attack.