A recent newsworthy event that has happened is recent bombing of a college campus in Kenya. Ruthlessly armed attackers stormed Garissa University early on April 2, killing two security guards then firing aimlessly on students. At least 147 people, mostly students, have been killed in an attack. “He militants singled out Christians and shot them”, witnesses said The attack was led by al-Shabab, an al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia. This is said to be the deadliest attack led by him. More than 500 students managed to escape with less than 80 people who were actually injured
For the United States, a lot has happened with terrorism. The Pearl Harbor attack and the 9/11
The first news event that was chosen for this assignment is the Flint “Serial Stabbings”, a string of 18 stabbing attacks in the spring and summer of 2010, which resulted in five deaths.
RWANDA- Yesterday, during the brutal massacres of the Tutsi people a young man courageously protected countless bystanders and civilians against the Hutu. The young man risked his life for the civilians, and managed to save a majority of the town.
Many lives were taken by the known group Isis 3. 90 people were injured in all of the attacks and 63 people had died
The terrorist responsible for this attack is Timothy McVeigh. Months before the bombing, McVeigh, along with his accomplice Terry Nichols, was believed to be involved in an “anti-government militia group” (Casey 3). McVeigh believed the government was devising a plan to deprive him and as well as the rest of his country of their rights as Americans to bear arms (Casey).
There were also Somali American’s that were killed in the bombing. Mohamoud Elmi, a Somali American from ohio was confirmed killed. The Second Somalia American was Ahmed Eyow, 50, who lived in Minnesota.
The exact reason of why the committed this crime to this day is unclear. The personal journals of the two perpetrators referenced that they wanted the event to compete with those of the Oklahoma City bombing and other deadly events that happened in the United States around the 1900s. The attack is known as the deadliest High School shooting in the history of the United States.
On Monday November 28, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio on the campus of Ohio State University, an attack took place. The attack was played out by a young man by the age of 18 and resulted in 11 people to be hospitalized. The attacker was known as Abdul Razak All Artan, who came from
The bad beginning or Orphans is a book about protecting properties and the genre of this novel is mystery, adventure, and family. The main character of this novel are three children whose name are Baudelaire Violet, Baudelaire Klaus, and Baudelaire Sunny. Violet is an older sister, she likes to skip rocks. Klaus is a middle child, he is extremely smart and he always goes to the library for reading books. Sunny is the youngest child, who likes to bite things. At the beginning, their parents die because of an unexpected fire. Therefore, they went to a man called Count Olaf’s house. Count Olaf is a stage actor, and a distant relatives of the children. Count Olaf is a horrible person, he always planned for their parent’s heritage. Few month later, Count Olaf planned to marry Violet to get their money. Before the wedding, Count Olaf catched Sunny so Violet should marry him.
attacks - the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1996 killing of 19 US soldiers in
The attackers were Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia and several other Arab nations. Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist organization were allegedly acting the U.S. in retaliation for their support of Israel, their involvement in the Persian Gulf War and their military presence in the Middle East. Some of the terrorists lived in the United States for more than a year and had taken flying lessons at American flight schools. The others had snuck into the country in the months before September 11th and were considered the “muscle” in the operation. They smuggled box-cutters and knives through the loose security at three East Coast airports and boarded four different airliners bound for California, they chose these flights because they were filled with jet fuel for the long flight across the country. After takeoff, they raided the cockpit of the planes and took control, doing this turned the normal passenger jets into huge missiles.
Purpose: To inform readers of the effects the recent terrorist attacks have on society today.
For example, terrorists attacks were made in Paris, France in 2015. On Friday November 13, 2015 at 3:20 p.m, guns went off, bombs exploded, and many people killed and wounded. Gunmen and suicide bombers all had hit a concert hall, a major stadium, and restaurants and bars almost all at the same time. It had left 130 people dead, and hundreds wounded, with more than 100 in critical condition. The President of France described this attack as an “act of war” against the Islamic State. Three teams were believed to be behind these attacks. Instantly after the attacks, French police carried out hundreds of raids across the country in search of the suspects. This tragedy hurt, and touched every single heart in the world. The U.S. sent troops over for support, and to help Paris out. Carried throughout all social media, were messages and prayers going towards Paris (Paris Attacks;BBC News, 2015).
They are nature's very own Death Star beams -- ultra-powerful jets of energy that shoot out from the vicinity of black holes like deadly rays from the Star Wars super-weapon.
Kenya has been the battlefield of tragic terrorist attacks on western interests twice since 1998 – once in 1998 when the US embassy was attacked and a second time in 2002 when a Israeli-owned Paradise hotel was bombed. In 1980, Jewish-owned Norfolk hotel was attacked by the PLO. Every single attack shared a common thread of irony: the majority of the lives lost were Kenyan, even though the ideology behind the attacks suggests that Kenyan and Kenyans were not involved in the political dynamic that precipitated the attacks.