What is 'Terrorism'?
Terrorism is the use of intimidation and violence to achieve a certain goal, mostly used in politics. This special edition is focused on terrorism because terrorism is all over the world. Almost every country has their own kind of terrorist group, whether it is a domestic or international terrorist group. Terrorism relates to 9/11 because in the events that happened there was a lot of violence . Also Osama Bin Laden and his people set and achieved their goal of taking down the twin towers and the pentagon. “The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand miles from here. But the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an attack on the heart of America...” said Sen. Tom Harkin. The Norway attack is also related to terrorism because a person used violent acts against people, killing almost 100 people in total. But there were lucky ones who had survived. “I think I’m alive because I pretended to be dead; I had a woman lying over my body and I [hid] under her until the police came to the main building and [got] us to the hospital,” said one survivor. Terrorism not only frightens families of the victims, but the entire nation, terrorism can not be predicted or stopped, but can only be made aware to the public.
Links: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/23/norway-attacks
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/world/europe/24oslo.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.veteransunited.com/network/10-most-powerful-quotes-about-911/
http://www.today.com/id/43878285/ns/today-today_news/t/norway-shooting-victim-played-dead-survive/#.UXmOxo7-IRo
Links: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/23/norway-attacks
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/world/europe/24oslo.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.veteransunited.com/network/10-most-powerful-quotes-about-911/
http://www.today.com/id/43878285/ns/today-today_news/t/norway-shooting-victim-played-dead-survive/#.UXmOxo7-IRo