9/11 the terrorist attacks

On September 11,2001 it was a normal day in America till about 9:00am an airplane United Airlines flight 175, a Boeing 767-222 crashed to the World Trade Center known as the twin tower south tower after a American Airline flight 11, a Boeing 767 Crashed on the north tower at 8:46. This event happened after Islam hijackers took control of these airplanes who where part of the famous terrorist group that was attacking the Liban named the Al Qaeda. Osama Bin Laden the most searched terrorist in the world, had send threats to the United states of America about a terrorists attack and on 9/11 he made this threat become true. New York was not the only state or city attacked, also Washington D.C. received an attack of an airplane whose target was direct hit to the Pentagon. In total there where four airplanes hijacked but this last airplane, with a unknown target and believed to be targeted to the White House, was crashed during flight due to the courage of the tribulation who apply for on the attackers and forced the airplane to crash before reaching it's target. This airplane was the famous United 93 who recently was based its story to a drama and action movie name Flight 93 or United 93. It's believed that the United 93 had crashed in a local time of 10:03 in Pennsylvania.

There are rumors that after the crash of the airplane of the North tower and all the fire maked the tower collapse minutes later, people from the southern tower tried to evacuate but the police officers that where protecting the building said that the attack was only in the northern tower and that that the southern tower was saved; so the people returned to work and few time later the second impact happened. Today the area where the twin towers or World Trade Center is located is called the Zero Zone.

On the Zero Zone there was few years ago a huge hole and there you could see the subway train route crossing through that area all destroyed. In front of that place there is a huge memorial plaque with all the names and descriptions of the victims in the terrorist attack.

On the Memorial Day each year on the day 11 of September, president from the United States George Washington Bush, visits the place where the United 93 felled down and after, he visits the World Trade Center Zero zone. He visits that place where the United 93 felled down first because he wants to bring honor to the courage of the people who protected the United States from another impact scarifying their lives.

I can remember that on the 9 of September of 2001 it was a normal day at our school (George Washing School), and suddenly we had to leave the school early because of the terrorist attacks. Once I arrived home I saw the news and I didn’t care about it much because I was about 7 years old and I didn't really know what was going on.

Iraq...life as hell

Iraq few years ago was invaded by the U.S. in search of the president Saddam Hussein. The capital Baghdad was bombed and about half of its population was killed. After a time Saddam Hussein was captured, the killing of people in Iraq slowed down. Last year, in the 2006 Saddam Hussein was executed.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, visited Iraq and its prime minister and she admitted that she was impressed with the security plan that they had made and its awesome results. She stated that the morgue was receiving 40 to 50 bodies per day before and now the morgue is receiving about 20 in the surrounding 48 hours.

The secretary Condoleezza Rice also said that the U.S. is trying to help Iraq and the surrounding countries to improve he refugees system by creating more for the displaced families. After her meeting with the prime minister she went to Israel to talk about the peace treatment.

I really think this is important because this helps into make an agreement of peace from the U.S. to the countries in the Middle East because the less the people die, the more changes the nations will see. Compared to times before, this crisis has really improved due to the countdown of dead people have improved and also that the country could have a stable security system without no problems and letting the nation fully develop. I inference that this means that the "war" must get over in some near time and that Osama Bin Laden and the Al Qaeda group will stop doing all does bad things and surrender to justice.

I've learned a lot of this by articles in magazines, internet, and any other communication network, and also a lot of what I’ve seen on the T.V. of news and al that kind of stuff. I am really happy that this event of security programs and planning is working and I will always find it memorable because is really amazing that from a short time to now, the death count of the war countries have improved extremely.

Well this article that I read really makes me think on the Middle East and focus on it and try to combine it with the topic that I am doing. I guess this combination that I want to do will be interesting and that will really help in the TLP and all the post that I will futurely be doing. My friend Sebastian and I will try to expand our topic of terrorism and kidnapping to everything related to the Al Qaeda and the Middle East new of the countries in war with the U.S. that is an ally with our country Colombia. Maybe we will involve some politics as the threat of Venezuela to the U.S. and their agreement of helping Cuba with the Russian Communism. I hope the U.S. and its relationship with the middle countries improve because after that happens, I'm sure that the U.S. will help us in Colombia to vanish the terrorism and to fumigate all the cocaine farmlands and bring peace to our little beautiful country.

Terrorism in Colombia

In Colombia, there is a big political discussion going on. The topic is how to stop the many terrorist groups there are affecting civil and government establishments. The war between the Colombian government and the many groups between themselves could be called a civil war. Because Colombia has a great diversity in plants and huge forestry zones, most of the terrorism groups hide there because inside the dark forest, no military forces could find them and they spend a long time learning the routes to get in and not get lost. On front of the entrance of the forest, the terrorist groups place some destruction mines and they make a plan so the government’s military forces fall on it and themselves don't.

The main groups are FARC (Colombian Armed Revolutionary Forces), ELN (National Liberation Army) and the Guerrilla. The similarities between FARC and ELN is that both are representing the poor unwealthy farmers and poor people attacking the wealthy rich people; even though they both basically have the same plan, they are enemy and the FARC is constantly threatening the ELN.

The FARC and the ELN are militarized groups as I have already said but the biggest difference between them and the Guerrilla is that the Guerrilla are hidden between us because they look like normal civil and the ELN and the FARC are most of the times with military uniforms. The ELN and FARC have incautivated many millions of pesos due to the kidnapping they do and the reward that is pay to them to let free the kidnapped person.

Because the FARC and the ELN are in the forest, they send different people on big cars to search for food and personal needs items to the city. The Colombian army realized that and they put security patrol police that are on the highways so when a car passes with a lot of food on it they realize that it may be from the terrorist groups so the officers stop the car and ask for license and the owners personal documents plus they make a quick checking to see if the have some drugs on the car.

These groups hide the food underground in certain places so only when they really need it they search for it and hide it all over again. The FARC counts on about 12,000 to 18,000 military servants from a child to a old man. The FARC has children, women, old veterans, and obviously young men. The FARC and the ELN use the Colombian rivers as a mayor trading route of weapons and Cocaine and any other type of illegal drugs.

On the movies people talk of Colombian as the biggest producer of drugs even though it's true due to terrorism, Colombia is a wonderful country and the government is doing everything to stop this terrorist groups and bring peace to our country. In conclusion terrorism in Colombia is really big, someday those people will recognize that what they are doing is bad and that we could all work together to make peace.