The war in Afghan cannot be won : British Commander
In an interview with the Sunday Times,Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, UK’s most senior commander in Afghan said it was unrealistic to think there would be a decisive military victory. He added that there was likely to be ‘low but steady’ levels of rural insurgency once international troops eventually leave Afghanistan. Since the start of operations in 2001, 120 UK military personnel have been killed in Afghanistan. The War in Afghanistan, was began on October 7, 2001 as the U.S. military operation Operation Enduring Freedom, was launched by the United States with the United Kingdom in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
9/11 moment by moment
On September 11, 2001,terrorists crashed two airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the building, causing both buildings to collapse within two hours. As the world marks the seventh anniversary of the attack on the twin towers we look back at the key moments of that day .
- 7:59 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 a Boeing 767-223ER with a maximum capacity of 181 passengers and 23,980 gallons of fuel, lifts off from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, bound for Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.
- 8:01 a.m: United Airlines Flight 93 a Boeing 757-222 with a maximum capacity of 200 passengers and 11,489 gallons of fuel, rolls from the gate in Newark International Airport, Newark, New Jersey with 44 people aboard bound for San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California.
- 8:13:31 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 last transmission from Boston Air Traffic Control.
- 8:14 to 8:20 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 goes off course and is hijacked.
- 8:20 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 transponder signal stops transmitting Identification, Friend or Foe (IFF) beacon signal.
- 8:21 a.m: Betty Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, calls Vanessa Minter at American Airlines reservations from the seatback phone.
- 8:22 a.m: Amy Sweeney another flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, calls American Airlines ground manager Michael Woodward and speaks calmly to him until the plane crashes.
- 8:26 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 is heading westnorthwest, its location is between Albany and Lake George, New York, when it suddenly makes a 100 degree turn to the south and starts heading directly toward New York City.
- 8:32 a.m: Bush�s motorcade leaves The Colony Beach and Tennis Resort on Longboat Key, Florida for Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota.
- 8:40 a.m: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) notifies NORAD that American Airlines Flight 11 has been hijacked.
- 8:41:32 a.m: United Airlines Flight 175 last communication with the New York air traffic control.
- 8:46:26 a.m: American Airlines Flight 11 impacts the north side of the North Tower (1 World Trade Center) of the WTC between the 94th and 98th floors.
- 8:49 a.m: United Airlines Flight 175 now deviates from its assigned flight path.
- 8:51 a.m: Bush arrives at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida for a photo op with 16 second graders.
- 9:02:54 a.m: United Airlines Flight 175 impacts the south side of the South Tower of the WTC between the 78th and 84th floors at a speed of over 500 MPH. Parts of the plane including an engine leave the building from its north side, to be found on the ground up to six blocks away.
- 9:08 a.m: FAA orders all aircraft to leave New York area airspace and orders all New York-bound planes nationwide to stay on the ground.
- 9:15 a.m: American Airlines orders no new takeoffs in the United States.
- 9:32 a.m: The New York Stock Exchange closed.
- 9:37 a.m: American Airlines Flight 77 is lost from radar screens and impacts the western side of the Pentagon.
- 10.05: The south tower collapses, 62 minutes after being hit.
- 10.29: The north tower collapses. The death toll was feared to be as high as 20,000 but gradually dropped to about 2,800.
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Russia and Georgia at War
Russia sent its troops into South Ossetia, a day after Georgian forces were sent in to seize the region. South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia after a 1992 civil war. Around 1,400 people had been killed by the aerial bombardment of The South Ossetia capital of Tskhinvali by Georgian air force. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Georgian forces were engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Georgia, a U.S. ally against war against terrorism, has about 2,000 troops in Iraq. It is the third-largest contributor to coalition forces after the United States and Britain.
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How War Affects Children
War tears the childhood happiness apart. According to the United Nations, children in 50 countries are currently growing up in the midst of war. When researchers asked few moral questions to these children, there was a whole new moral outlook found. When researchers questioned these children about the morality of stealing or harming someone. Although they grew up in an environment filled with homicide, theft and physical violence on daily basis, surprisingly, these children all said that stealing and harming others was wrong, morally wrong, even if everybody did it. But the children had a whole different view of right and wrong within the context of revenge. They will harm someone when it comes to revenge.
Fights, terrorism and all-out conflict are based in real or imagined scenarios where each side see themselves as victims. These children justified the reason for revenge. You have harmed me or those I love, so I can righteously harm you and yours which is a social context of tit-for-tat. These children are dragged into the complex network of revenge justice.
Reason For Irrational Fear
We worry too much about man-made catastrophe. We are disproportionately afraid of some things but can ignore others. The reason for this is how our brains are wired, which allow us to respond to danger before we’ve even had time to think about it.
Asteroids are natural and dangerous, but we are more terrified by risks such as terrorism or bio-engineered foods. Because we don’t believe that the asteroid impact can happen. Our experience and culture taught us what to fear. We are born with some basic phobias, and we learn few others from media and everyday life. We’re more afraid of catastrophic events such as airplane crashes than of everyday risks like cancer which kills may people every single day.
