Taliban insurgency

As the Ashes Fall Thousands of citizens ran away from the catastrophic scene of the suicidal plane deliberately crashing into the Twin Towers. Thomas Beller was able to read the stories by the number of witnesses that fled the horrid scene. In Thomas Beller’s narrative “The Ashen Guy: Lower Broadway, September 11, 2001”, Beller is able to create the tone of panic with his use of imagery, diction, and syntax. Mr. Beller is capable of catching the audience's attention. To help make each reader…

9/11 - Personal Perspective In 2001, I lived in Slovakia, my home country and did not even dream of living in the United States someday. I was slowly getting used to my new role of a wife and mother that year, quite happy living in a small country in the middle of Europe. I was visiting my parents on Sept. 11 for couple of days. My first child had just been born in August and it was her first visit in grandparents’ house. Our lives revolved around the baby. About 3 pm that day I was…

Terrorism is, by its very nature, disruptive in international peace and security through purposeful, political violence. On the morning of September 11th, 2001, the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon disrupted the not only the American economy, but also took a swing at the global economy. The attacks generated and progressed widespread fear, trepidation and economic disorder throughout the years with profound and lasting effects. One of these being the beefing up of the nations’…

Throughout recent history, Afghanistan has been a country in total turmoil. Famine, drought, civil war and Taliban have all had a drastic impact on the Afghan people. This has taken a very negative toll on all Afghan people, but none have been more negatively impacted than the women of Afghanistan. Child exploitation, Poverty, War and Low access to Health/Social services have been main contributions to their turmoil and what I will be discussing today. In Afghanistan Child exploitation is a…

Another conflict was how people was willing to give up all their work and to just let the Taliban win.Even though Malala was told to quit she continued in for her right to education.As it says in chapter 18 page two-hundred-and-twentyfour “Maybe we should just stop our campaigung(jani) and go into hibernation for a time,” said my father. “How…

an afternoon with some of my other friends. I had a life and a future. The Taliban changed everything. Once they took Kabul, we knew we had to leave just to live another day. The once bustling streets filled with markets were now desolate. Buildings that were brimming with people were now crumbled ruins. My family sold our possessions on the black market so we could escape. We jumped the border into Pakistan where the Taliban had not yet attacked. An opportunity came up for one of us to go to…

Three Cups of Tea is a book written by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Mortenson and Relin wrote Three Cups of Tea in 2006. Mortenson has co-written two books about his humanitarian efforts in northern Pakistan. Mortenson co-authored Three Cups of Tea because he wanted to gain publicity for his charity, the Central Asia Institute. Relin collaborated with Mortenson on the book because he had a passion for victims of poverty in Central Asia, and he had traveled to Vietnam in the past. Relin…

The fourth platform for the counterterrorism policy that could be taken by the United States under the new administration would be to formulate an agency dedicated to global terrorism. With ISIS, it has brought global terrorism to another level of concern, and has implemented the use of techniques, typically speaking, never before seen. In doing so, this terrorist organization has caused more than simple car bombing, but has set a standard when it comes to the use of terrorism in any country.…

(Question 1) On September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked and crashed into multiple locations. Two of the planes were crashed into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center. Another of the planes crashed into the Pentagon. This series of attacks caused over 3,000 deaths nationwide; however, the casualties could have increased drastically if not for the incredibly brave, selfless, and patriotic actions of the 45 passengers aboard flight 93, the fourth hijacked plane. While the…

was the founder of al-Qaeda, the organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a Saudi Arabian, a member of the wealthy bin Laden family, and an ethnic YemeniA major component of bin Laden's ideology was the concept that civilians from enemy countries, including women and children, were legitimate targets for jihadists to kill.[51][52] According to former…