The truck goes in and secures the UN trucks. One guy on the truck yells “This is property of Mohammed Farrah Aidid, go back to your homes”. Unlike other presidents of Somalia, Aidid uses weapons and famine to control his country. A couple weeks later, after the Marines left, the militia led by Aidid regrouped and declared war with the UN relief effort. The next mission is to capture two of Aidid’s top advisers at their meeting in downtown Mogadishu.
On April 6, 1994, President Habyarimana’s plane was shot down while returning from a peace meeting with the Tutsi rebels. This horrific event was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide and gave the Hutu extremists justification to kill the Tutsis, something they had been planning to do; it is possible that Hutu extremists shot down the President’s plane in order to set their plan in motion. That night Hutus told all Rwandans to stay in their homes. Little did the Tutsis know this was so the Hutus could find them and kill them. Hutus marched throughout the country with machetes, guns, grenades, and clubs, brutally murdering both Tutsis and Hutu moderates.
Summary “SEALs are masters of strategy, professional marksmen with rifles, artists with machine guns, and, if necessary, pretty handy with knives.”(Marcus Luttrell) The Lone Survivor is an action packed adventurous tale of the tragedy of operation Redwing. In late June 2005 four Navy SEALs went into the mountains of a Pakistani border to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader. Within twenty four hours of the mission only one was still alive the others fell in battle against the Taliban fighting to the death. This is the story of Marcus Luttrell and his eyewitness account of the tragedy of Operation Redwing. Marcus begins his tale of how he became a Navy SEAL and what they go through to become one.
Because of his marriage, he is seen as a traitor. Paul’s neighbors and family look to him for leadership, and this causes him to have to deliver them from the cruel Hutu who are determined to kill out all the Tutsis. After he bribed a high-ranking officer for the safety of his friends and family, he then brings them to his hotel. More refugees come to the hotel because the United Nations’ refugee camp becomes too dangerous and too crowded to be safe. The hotel starts to become overcrowded, and Paul has to try to get the Hutu soldiers to go away, take care of the refugees, and take care of the hotel.
He meets the young Beast and the young Professor X, the latter suffering depression and has taken shots to enable him to walk and remove his telepathic abilities since his school has closed down because all of his students went to and died in the Vietnam War. After talking about the future and the assassination that Mystique will do, Wolverine convinces Beast and Professor X to free Magneto from Pentagon, after he was accused of killing President John F. Kennedy, with the help from the young Quicksilver. While freeing Magneto, Bolivar Trask fails to get his Sentinel Program approved by the Congress. Meanwhile in a military camp, Mystique frees a group of mutants from the young William Stryker, who intends to transfer them to a facility where they will be experimented on by Trask. She then
Law of War During war, the soldiers exposed to too much pressure. Most of them try to deal with the enemy according to the law of jungle “kill or you’ll be killed”. They try to dehumanize the enemy to give themselves the right to kill him without felling guilty. However, after the application of this rule, most of the soldiers feel compunction because they realize that they kill a human been. In the story “The Main I Killed”, the author Tim O`Brien illustrates to us the reaction of three American soldiers after killing a Vietnamese man during the Vietnam War.
He ordered his followers to administer lethal amounts of cianide to their children, their elders, and ultimately themselves. In 1993, the 100 followers of David Korsesh in Wasco, Texas barracaded themselves in their compound. When federal agents gave orders, which were defied, these members literally burned their compound to the ground. In 1997, followers of "Heaven's Gate," were conviced to committ a mass suicide. More recently in 2001, under the leader of Osama Bin Laden, AL-Queda followers hijacked airliners and flew them into the World Trade Centers (New York) and the Pentagon (Washington DC).
Black Hawk Down Black Hawk down started off with a Somalian man leading the U.S. marines to Aidad’s political advisor. When the word “Irene” was given, the marines moved out. The “skinny’s” burned rubber tires to signal to the rest of the militia to warn of the incoming U.S. troops. The Marines had successfully captured the target and were headed back to base when, a Black Hawk (helicopter) was hit in the tail wing with a RPG. When the Black Hawk went down the objective of the marines was not only to get the target back to base, but also save the men in the crashed Black Hawk.
The external conflict was that he was fighting in the middle of the war and the only way to survive was to kill all the opponents. His internal conflict was that he ended up killing his brother trying to survive. His motives during the war were to complete his mission while also trying to stay alive. One of the sniper’s conflicts are resolved when he kills his opponent and stays alive. However once one solution is solved the other one arises and is not resolved.
First, half of you have to go and attack the guards. Meanwhile, the second of half of you volunteers go inside the camp and destroy the missiles. Are we clear? This is a dangerous job, but you guys can do it. (All the volunteers walk across the border.