Burkly 1 Tom buckly Professor Janet wesler English 360 2 February 2012 In the year 2003 United States invades Iraq starting a global war(operation Iraqi freedom).The book “American Sniper” an autobiography of a navy seal ,Chris Kyle, he explains to us how he became the most lethal sniper in the United States. After the United States was attacked by terrorists on 9/11. Chris Kyle was motivated to join the front lines of the war on terrorists. Chris Kyle explains to us how the war was in his own words and thoughts and how it felt to be in a snipers position during the war. Born in Odessa, Texas a small town with a population of 100,000 Chris raised out in the country side learned how to hunt and shoot at a young age and excelled at it
Driven by thirst, shot in the leg and with three cracked vertabrae,he traversed 7 miles over the remainder of the day. He remained unnoticed until, falling from a ledge, he was discovered by an Afghan shepherd named Gulab , who summoned his companions to help carry the wounded Luttrell to the village of Sabray-Minah. The villagers took care of Luttrell, providing food and medical attention, and protecting him from the Taliban that came to the village demanding that he be turned over to
Kandahar, Afghanistan 7 February 2011, a group of America’s best and brightest soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines are ambushed by Taliban forces 9 thousand feet into the Hindu Kush Mountains. They’ve been fighting for 6 months; they’re exhausted physically and mentally. A squad leader calls out for a medic to tend to 3 of his wounded. Stern and solemn grizzled faces pull security while three men linger on the edge of death. The medic screams to the radio operator to call for medevac helicopters.
Here is a story of an asylum seeker…… AKBAR'S STORY (2003) Ahmad Ali is a 42 year old Afghan goat herder. The Taliban arrived in his village of Sarcasma to take revenge on the Hazara people who had resisted the Taliban in past civil disputes. The Taliban rounded up 118 men, women and children and immediately shot 60 of them. Ahmad states that “I knew then I had to get my oldest son Akbar out of Afghanistan. It was my duty to save him”.
Lone Survivor Book Review ` Lone Survivor is a true story about Seal Team 10 and Operation Redwing.Marcus Luttrell, the author,is a part of a four man team in Afghanistan that goes out to do a reconnaissance mission.They were moving to find a high ranking Al Qaeda leader that had been seen in their area of operations. They were moving towards their objective through the mountains when they came to stop and take some cover for the day. While waiting for the cover of night again a few goat herders happened upon their position and saw them. The team captured them and talked about what to do with the goat herders since they had compromised theteam’smission.After some deliberation the team could not decide on a solution. The team leader
American troops had been investigating a compound in Eastern Afghanistan, two of them were shot at point blank and killed instantly and the battle began. The US called in air support and rained down everything they had from machine gun fire to four, five hundred pound bombs, they demolished the compound. When the dust cleared the troops searched the ruins, there was one lone shooter firing at them and a single grenade was thrown at the Americans, killing a medic. That man was Omar Khadr, he was shot twice but his life
Death of Osama bin Laden: Effect on Al-Qaeda by Student’s name Code+ course name Professor’s name University name City, State Date Death of Osama bin Laden: Effect on Al-Qaeda INTRODUCTION After the U.S. commandos hunted down and killed Osama bin Laden, they still had to search for any vital document that had information relating to the future attacks and generally the entire plan of the al-Qaida group. For roughly 20 minutes, the Navy SEAL Team Six ransacked bin Laden's compound in Pakistan's city of Abbottabad, collecting what came to be described as a library of great intelligence on the inner dealings of the outlawed al-Qaida terror group. It was that effort that recognized bin Laden as the arch-terrorist, who
Most known for his acts on September 11, 2001: most devastating blow to the United States, Al-Qaeda jihadists hijacked four commercial planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center (NYC), The Pentagon (DC) and a field in Pennsylvania, killed nearly 3,000 civilians In 2011, President Obama announced Bin Laden had been finally killed, “his demise should be welcomed by all those who believe in piece and dignity” *Bin Laden was willing to kill innocent Americans due to his devotion to Islam and Al-Qaeda Tiger Woods professional golf player: won the US masters in 1997 at age 21, the youngest man/African American to earn the title in 2009, Woods took a hiatus from golf to deal with his personal life drama, his personal life took a turn for the worse, so did his golf game Awards won: PGA Titles, 3 US Masters Voted PGA Tour Player of the Year 7 Times In 2009, suspicions arose when a fight between Tiger and his wife Elin grew violent, Tiger would not admit any troubles but did not attend any other tournaments in 2009 Reports of Woods and his many mistresses were rampant, Woods offered an apology to his fans and families Woods finally admitted infidelity, lost endorsement deals from several companies Gandhi Pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian Independence
This contagious virus infects the whole human race of New York City and turns them into flesh and blood thirsty mutant zombies. Robert’s family was killed in a tragic helicopter crash and he struggles to deal with the loss which is shown through his nightmares and flash backs. Robert continues to live his life with his much loved German Shepherd “Sam”. Together Robert and Sam have a very long adventure until one day Sam gets bitten by a mutant dog. Robert did everything he could to try and save poor Sam, but his efforts failed.
It was January 23, 1870 and 200 U.S. cavalrymen lay spread around the Marias River in Montana near by the large campsite of the Piegan leader Heavy Runner. The camp was surrounded by the cavalries and the Indians were defenseless since their warriors and strong man were away hunting. A scout, Joe Cobell, fired the first shot, dropping Heavy Runner. “This was the beginning of the greatest slaughter of Indians ever made by U.S. troops” (Weiser NP). About 200 Piegans, most of them either elderly or women and children, were killed by the harsh Army's Springfield rifles.