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    Terrorism and Kidnapping

 

    DOCUMENTARY:

 

 

    Message:Our messaage of this blog is that terrorism is very bad and it is killing and  affecting inocent lifes daily  by bombs, kidnappings,  hijackings, and other  catastrofers.

 

     What will  we do to present our message:  My partner and I are thinking of a way  to  present a  message by images  of  hijackings like the ones of 9/11. We will also show images of kidnapping like the one of Feranando Araujo. In each picture we would also like to  include sub topics and put some opinions and toughts of what people think aboutt our message, and topic.  We would like to put some songs in too that are related to our topic that make people more interested in  our  project.  Our  documentry will be divided into several parts.  On  the first  part we will use only information that would help you to understand what we are doing for the project and in the second  part of our presentation we will put in only information of differnet  Terrorism attacks and kidnappings.  on the Third and last part we would put our conclusion! But this is only the first outline of our plans becuase we may have to do something with 5 parts or even 6 if we have enough information.

 

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    United 93 (http://sebasspace.blogspot.com/ )

 

    The Story Begins...

    5 days ago I saw a very good movie related to my topic called United 93. This movie is about the 4th airplane kidnapped in September 11, 2001. Here is my summary of the movie...

One regular morning 4 terrorists went to an airport in New Jersey to get on a plane heading for San Francisco. The terrorists went through all the police and the other airport officials without difficulties and went inside the airplane with the destination of San Francisco.

 

    All of the hijackers were sitting on first class and were very nervous and because of that the terrorist acted in a very strange way. The flight was going to last about 5 hours and by the time that the passengers were eating lunch the hijackers took control of the air plains with knives. They killed a first class passenger and made a flight attendent open the door of the pilots when the pilots opened the door of the cabin the hijackers appeared and killed both the pilot and the sub-pilot. 2 of the hijackers were pilots so they were the ones who drove the plane. All of the hijackers were praying all the time because the kidnapping of the airplane was because of religion. When there was 20 minutes left for the airplane to hit their target the White House. The passengers decided to retake control of the airplane because either way they were going to die.

 

    Before they retook control of the plane everyone talked with the persons they loved and after that they took anything in which they could kill the hijackers and went to battle them they started after the 2 hijackers that were outside the cabin. When they killed the 2 hijackers they took a wheel car in which they carried the food and start hitting the cabin door. When the door finally gave up and broke. The passengers got inside the pilot cabin and start fighting with the 2 hijackers that were left. Finally the airplane crashed into and open field near Washington D.C and nobody that was inside the airplane survived.

This is the page where I made my research of what really happened on one of the hijacked airplanes of September/11/06 . Here is the first paragraph from this page:

 

    "United Airlines Flight 93 was a regular flight from Newark International Airport (now known as Newark Liberty International Airport) in Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco International Airport, then continuing on to Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan, on a different aircraft. On September 11, 2001, the United Airlines Boeing 757-222, registered N591UA, was one of four planes hijacked as part of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It was the only one of the four planes that did not reach its intended target, instead crashing in an empty field just outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, about 150 miles (240 km) northwest of Washington, D.C. The 9/11 Commission (through testimony, tapes of passengers' phone calls, and the flight data recorders recovered from the crash) determined that crew and passengers, alerted through phone calls to loved ones, had attempted to overtake the hijackers. The Commission concluded that the hijackers crashed the plane to keep the crew and passengers from gaining control. The Commission's official report states that passengers and crew members fought back against the hijackers."

 

    As you can read this is the introduction of the web-page for the fourth  kidnapped airplane. Now I am going to tell you the summary from the whole page.

 

    The United Airlines flight 93 was a normal flight. It was a Boeing 757-222 with 37 persons inside the plane (counting the hijackers) going from New Jersey to San Francisco. But when they were at the middle of the Flight it was hijacked by four men from Al-qaeda named Ziad Jarrah (Lebanese), pilot; Ahmed al-Haznawi (Saudi Arabian), Ahmed al-Nami (Saudi Arabian), Saeed al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabian). All of the terrorists were seated on first class and 2 of them with knife, as in the movie United 93.

    After time passed the hijackers took controll of the airplane, and then the passangers realizing that they were going to dies they took a very good decision which was to retake control from the terrorists. But before every person made phone calls to their families and best friends in which thy talked about the hijackers and said that they loved them. When everyone finished making the phone calls the start to retake control of the airplane. They ended up killing two of the hijackers and crashing the airplane to an open field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

 

    In conclusion comparing the movie United 93 from what really happened the movie had many true facts about the airplane, the hijackers, and the rebel of the passengers. If you have the opportunnity to see the movie United 93 see it I promise you wont be disapointed and you will understand better this post.

 

    On my next post I will like to write about Sadam Husein. And this is the end of my post I hope you enjoy reading it!

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    Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda (Sebastian B.)

 

 

 

    Today I was researching for Osama Bin Laden and Alqua-eda when I found 2 very good    posts about this topic at this site along with this site site. this is a very good web-page because it has lots of facts and very good information about the topic that I am interested in The Teen Life Project.

Here is my conclusion from what I read. Alquaeda is the name given to an international alliance of militant Islamist organizations established in 1988 by Osama Bin Laden which is the founder of this organization.

Osama Bin Laden or Usama bin Laden was born at March, 10, 1957 in Saudi Arabia. Ossama's parents divorced very soon when he was born. Osama stayed with her mom, after some time Osama Bin Laden's mom maried again and Osama ended up living whith 3 step brothers and one stepsister. Right now Osama has maried many times and has from 12 to 24 children. Osama Bin Laden is tall and thin, being 193 cm to 195 cm tall and weighing about 75 kg usually wearing a white turban. He is The FBI Teen most wanted fugitive and is responsible for terrorism attacks like the ones of the 9/11. and more attacks to other countries.

    Attacks of 9/11:

    Like in this web-page said at the Morning of September, 11 , 2001 4 air plains were controlled by 19 terrorists from Al-Quaeda (Ziad Jarrah,Ahmed al-Nami, Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Haznawi, Hani Hanjour,Khalid al-Mihdhar,Majed Moqed, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Salem al-Hazmi, Marwan al-Shehhi, Fayez Banihammad, Mohand al-Shehri, Hamza al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Ghamdi, Mohammed Atta, Satam al-Suqami, Waleed al-Shehri, Wail al-Shehri, and Abdulaziz al-Omari ). All of them exept one crashed to one part of The United States of America. One of them To the South Tween Tower in New York, Unite States, the second one to the North Tower which later resulted by making collapse both Tween Towers (North and South). The 3rd air plain crashed to the Pentagon in Arlington Country. The 4th airplane was going to crash the White House but fortunately the passengers of the airplane attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers which later ended up crashing into a field. All of these happened in only one day 9/11 and killing almost 3,000 people. The USA named Bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda organization as the prime suspects. They putted a reguard of $25 million plus $2 million of the airlines.

 

 

 

    Others attacks of Alqua-eda include:

    - Singapore embassies attack plot

    -Istanbul Bombings

    -Kenyan Hotel bombing in Mombassa

    -Rizal day bombings in Philippines

    -Limburg tanker bombings

    -Foiled attacks on Western warships in the Strait of Gibraltar.

    -Kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

    In Conclusion Osama Bin Laden had been counted as dead many times. One time at April 2005 and another time at August 2006. But al of them are false statements. Unite States has a campaign, known as the War on Terrorism, with the goal of dismantling Al-Qaeda and killing or capturing its operatives. And these is the end of my 2 post of my Teen Life Proyect. I'll keep working on terrorism, kidnapping and it various effect on people next week with Juan David. I hope you have liked it. Please leave comments!

 

 

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    Kidnapping at Colombia. (Sebastian B.)

 

    Hi, this time I am going to talk about Kidnapping at Colombia. When I decided my topic which is Kidnaping at Colombia I started researching at the internet and I found a very good article about Colombia 10 years ago. This article was called "COLOMBIA: THE WORLD LEADER IN KIDNAPPINGS" here are some sentences from this webpage:
"No country is as plagued more by kidnapping as Colombia, where an estimated one

in three of the world's abductions occur. Leftist Guerrillas, who control large

swaths of countryside, have made it a lucrative business. Ransom kidnapping by

guerrillas, blamed for half of Colombia's 10,000 reported cases since 1990, has

crippled some of the country's industries, forced highway projects to be

canceled in midconstruction, and has impoverished entire regions."

    This is what Steve Macko said on the first parragraph of his article.

First of all kidnapping is the practice of stealing children for use as servants or laborers in the American colonies. Almost ten years ago Colombia was one of the Leaders of the most kidnappings in the whole world (which is very bad) but recently it is having a better reputation because each year the amount of kidnapping has decreased. Alvaro Uribe our current president has contributed for this great step forward. He has militarized the roads for preventing kidnapping and he had also putted a rule that on holydays people need to travel at groups so that they can take care of each other and make harder to the kidnappers to kidnap people.
Normally in Colombia the kidnappings occur when people has many money or are involucrate on the government, or politics. Kidnapers also like to kidnap for doing exchanges with the government. What I mean by exchanging is that the kidnappers release one captured person and the governments realize one captured kidnapper. The persons who kidnap are mostly guerrillas which are divided into two main groups the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN). Other groups or persons who kidnap are para- militaries, common criminals, corrupt policemen, drug traffickers, and political rivals.

 

    One example of political kidnapping is the one of Fernando Araugo. Presently he was found after 6 years of kidnapping. The 31 of December of 2006 some militaries troops went to the place were it was thought they had Fernando Araugo. When they confirmed his was there, they started shooting the place. Fernando Araugo, getting advantage of the shooting escaped from the kidnappers site and got into the jungle. At the jungle he stayed 5 days lost until the sixth day in which he found the way to a town in which he talked with some militaries. The militaries talked him to Cartagena (were he lived) to encounter again with his family. Now he is free!

In conclusion Colombia isn't as bad as you had seen in the movies and in the news. That if you cross the street they will kill you. The dangerous places are far away from the cities. Just be careful and travel if you can on airplanes and dont go to places were there are allot of guerrillas which are normally at small villages.

 

 

 

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    Terrorism in Colombia  (Juan David A.)

 

    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.

 

 

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    Iraq...life as hell  (Juan David A.)

    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.

 

 

 

9/11 the terrorist attacks (Juan David A.)

    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.

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I did some research on the Istanbul bombing, I got the information form BBC. Hope this will help.

 

Bomb attacks on the British consulate and the HSBC bank headquarters in Istanbul have left at least 27 dead and up to 400 injured. .

The attacks ere carried out by suicide bombers, reportedly linked to al-Qaeda.

The explosions follow suicide bomb attacks against two synagogues in Istanbul that killed 25 people.

The bomb at the consulate was so big, buildings hundreds of metres away had their windows blown out..

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan vowed to track down those responsible for the bombings.

The 15-storey headquarters of the London-based bank towers over a busy shopping area, which correspondents say would have been crowded when the explosion occurred at 11:10 Turkish time.

The consulate bomb occurred two minutes later. The main building had been undergoing refurbishment and many staff were working in outbuildings in the complex.

Trading on the Istanbul stock exchange was suspended after the explosions and the Turkish lira dived on foreign exchange markets.

A group claiming to be linked to al-Qaeda also claimed responsibility for the synagogue attacks that Saturday.

It warned that new attacks against the US and its allies were being planned.

Sixteen members of London's anti-terrorist police branch are to join the investigation into the latest attacks in Istanbul.

The United States warned that more terrorist attacks were possible in Istanbul, closed its consulate and warned its citizens to stay away from the area where the bombings took place.

 

About what you planed on doing to present a message, I was thinking that Farouk and me(Daniel) could write ether a poem for each type of terrorism(kidnapping, bombing etc…) or we could make a none traditional haiku about each picture.

 

Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, Druglord, Terrorist and kidnapper (Juan David A.)

 

 

On the t.v. news, about 3 years ago the only thing they mentioned was the capture of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela after being accused of exporting by ship 150 kilograms of cocaine to the U.S.A in the year of 1990. I didn't take care of it much but my grandfather was really focused on that case eand he wanted for Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela to be captured and extorcionated to the U.S.A.

 

 

Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela was a 65 years old “narco” or drug lord who manifested his base on Cali, Colombia and from there he did his exportation of cocaine and other drugs. Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela was called in Spanish term "El Ajedrecista" and in English term "The Chess Man" or "The Chess Player". On the TV news, about 3 years ago the only thing they mentioned was the capture of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela after being accused of exporting by ship 150 kilograms of cocaine to the U.S.A in the year of 1990. I didn't take care of it much but my grandfather was really focused on that case and he wanted for Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela to be captured and extortionated to the U.S.A.

 

 

Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela “The Chess Player" rise after the fall of another “narco” or drug lord that is worldwide known that was named Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria who was in the five most richest persons in the world. The post of Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria is doing it my friend Sebastian. Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela and his brother Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela where together selling drugs. Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela was the founder of the Cali Cartel with his brother Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela and José Santacruz Londoño. Their Cartel was know to be very dangerous and violent for the kidnapping and menaces they did as a plan to play with the authorities and tried t hide themselves using the people kidnapped as a distraction. I know this part of information by the news.

 

 

Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela was called the chess man because of his ability to be a step ahead of his rivals and the police. After all the bad things this brother made, they were captured and the freed and then captured again because the continued doing the same "Business".

 

What I learned from this story is that the path of being a drug lord, kidnapper, and terrorist (not so much but yes), will give you huge amounts of money but you wont ever again have a peaceful life because in your mind there will always be the memories of the people you killed not by only traficating drugs to delinquents but killing police and all that. Also is better to have an honest not violent job that may never give motives to other people to kill you or chase you.

 

What I think is that the people who take this path will never have a peaceful life because even though they take conscience and pull back, they will now forever that they had already done many bad things and that it was too late to pull back.

 

We hope you like this posts please leave comments!

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I apologize for not being in contact for so long. My computer wireless has been on the fritz for a while so my only time on the internet is in my study hall. That when i do my english poetry.

 

 

i got my poem here You can check and see if you like it

 

It's a poem that you have to read both it shows this moral of terroisim and the people comparision

group 16 poems

 

hey, this is daniel, im sorry for not posting my poem, i have no valide excuse so here it is, the terrorists are the leapards and gess who the prey is, you gessed it, us!

 

A leopard hiding in the dead grass

Searching for a prey

Like a mine waiting to unleash its anger

A deer shows up

The leopard jumped

The deer ran in terror

But the killer catches up

-His claws rip the flesh

Shredding everything

He grabs his prey

He jumps

He bits

Rips

Shreds

Torns

The deer falls in terror

The leopard grabs his neck

And in a killing blow

Ends his pain

All this violence

Just to ease ones greed

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