Drones or Die On August 6‚ 1945‚ the United States military used a massive‚ atomic weapon against Hiroshima‚ Japan. This atomic bomb‚ the equivalent of 20‚000 tons of dynamite‚ flattened the city‚ killing tens of thousands of civilians. While Japan was still trying to get a grasp of this devastation‚ three days later‚ the United States struck again‚ this time‚ on Nagasaki. Within the first two to four months of the bombings‚ the immediate effects killed 90‚000–166‚000 people in Hiroshima and 60
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government of Iraq restore its stability. This helped Barack Obama establish many good relationships with foreign governments.This helped the United States because we became allies with Iraq when we had to fight off Al Qaeda. Also‚ President Barack Obama is credited for the killing of the Al Qaeda leader‚ Osama bin Laden. The team of US Navy SEALS attacked Osama bin Laden on May 1‚ 2011. Agencies concluded that bin Laden was hiding in a residential near Abbottabad‚ Pakistan‚ so Obama ordered a military
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Why Do Suicide Bombers Exist? Suicide bombing is believed to be one of the ultimate acts of terrorism. It is horrific in its results‚ and the act of bombing itself does not choose who it kills. It kills all‚ adults‚ man and woman‚ children‚ and the saddest thing is that it kills the innocent. The propagation of suicide bombing nowadays has been increasing‚ especially in the Arab world where it seems that peace will not reign there for years or so. That area of the world has been a battleground
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Day” was written in 2011 4. Early in the morning on September 11‚ 2001 the Twin Towers in New York City were deliberately attacked by plane hijackers. The attacks were coordinated by the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. Following these attacks the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to dismantle Al-Qaeda and remove the Taliban from power. The U.S. was aided by the UK who helped up through the entire war. President George W. Bush demanded that the Taliban hand over Bin Laden but they would not unless we could
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Page 1‚ Kim September 11 is a tragic event and an unforgettable day to Americans. Nineteen terrorists seized four commercial U.S jets and crashed them into American symbols of the military and capitalism‚ and shook the entire nation. The attack did change Americans‚ mostly for a short while‚ but it did make huge impacts in America. The Mindset of Americans Americans
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That would reduce older terrorist leaders from being arrested. The central Intelligence Agency had did some observation some time ago on the Al Qaeda. They believed that they was seeking recruits around the western youths against their own kind. Because they had knowledge of the language they spoke and the culture and they wouldn’t stand out as much. Al- Qaeda has called the youth (children) "new generation". They began to use this strategy when they was doing suicide attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan
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very diverse. Many of whom came from all over the region to fight the Soviets along with the muslim brothers . One of the fighters who came all the way from Saudi Arabia to fight with the Mujahedeen was Osama bin laden‚ who would be the founder of al-Qaeda in the early 1990’s ‚ the terrorist organization responsible for the September 11 attack. Bin laden saw the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as an attack on his Muslim brothers. Bin Laden was a fighter himself but used his connections to win financial
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largest reported ground action in the Afghan war. This 17-day battle led to eight U.S. casualties and over 50 wounded. Operation Anaconda is viewed as a success due to coalition forces being able to kill and root out several hundred Taliban and al Qaeda fighters‚ which left U.S. and coalition forces in control of the Shah-i-Khot Valley. Originally intended to be a three-day battle with light resistance‚ a seven-day battle ensued with intense fighting and was finally stopped on 18 March after 17
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violent storm blowing its destructive winds from the shores of Syria to the shores of Europe. A storm that begun its path of fury 36 years ago with the Soviet invasion to Afghanistan. It is 1979 and the soviets have just ordered an operation code named "Storm-333". An operation that in which Soviet Special Forces toppled the Afghan government in just 43 minutes‚ but has started a war that will last a decade. Within this trajectory‚ the Soviet invasion of‚ and subsequent war with Afghanistan (1979-1989)
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and NATO invaded and the Taliban government was toppled in eight weeks with the help of the Northern Alliance. The U.S. continued to punish and pursue Al Qaeda into the mountains and surround them. Our military was within weeks of crushing Al Qaeda when the Bush Administration shifted focus to Iraq. This created a vacuum that led to an Al Qaeda resurgence. The U.S. loosing focus on Afghanistan angered our Pakistani ally. A decade later we our no closer to winning the war in Afghanistan than we
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