In the deadliest single attack in Baghdad this year, a refrigerator truck bomb in a Shiite district has killed at least 213 people. Islamic State claimed responsibility, while survivors lambasted the Iraqi prime minister for failing to ensure security. As celebrations for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan stretched past midnight into Sunday in central Baghdad, where Iraqis had gathered to eat, shop and just be together, a minivan packed with explosives blew up and killed at least 143 people — the third mass slaughter across three countries in less than a week. The attack was the deadliest in Baghdad in years — at least since 2009 — and was among the worst Iraq has faced since the American invasion of 2003. Within this research paper questions concerning the events will be answered in the sequence of the …show more content…
The Sunni extremists of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, quickly claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was the work of a suicide bomber and had killed a gathering of Shiite Muslims. The state sponsored terrorist group, ISIS-sponsored network in well-supported and well-supplied operatives (Audrey, March 2016). Where exactly did this event take place? The suicide bomber drove the vehicle into a busy shopping intersection in the affluent Karrada district of the Iraqi capital. Explain what happened The bomb-laden truck plowed into a building housing a coffee shop and stores shortly after midnight, when the surrounding streets were packed with people who had been gathering after breaking their Ramadan fasts. At least 213 people were killed including 25 children and the numbers keep to in increase. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack (Tim, 2016) Explain what type of tactic was used The bombing tactic was employed. They waited until the streets were filled with people shopping for the end of Ramadan. Shortly after midnight, a refrigerator van filled with explosives went into a building housing many
The paris attacks took place on November 2015 in paris’s northern suburbs. The casuality number totalled at 130 people dead. As the french wept for their dead ,the rest of the world sat in mourning and ‘prayed’ for Paris. Their were multiple perspectives that responded to the horrific event caused by the self proclaimed Islamic State. The major role players were Isis ,The french citizens and The media.
On the date of these attacks, suicide bombers in trucks that were loaded with explosives packed their vehicles outside the embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam at around 10:30 and 10:40 am local time. Actually, it's reported that these bomb-laden trucks were driven into these embassies around the same time i.e. approximately five minutes apart. This was followed by a phone call from Baku to London shortly afterwards with the previously
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).
The Aztecs elected a lot of rulers. The name of one of the empires is Montezuma. They stoned most of their rulers or empires. One of the laws is you can’t be drunk in public under 70 years old. Another rule is Legendary Founder Tench. Also you have to pay each city state their prays.Tenochtitlan has 12 rules. The family unit is the basic structure of society. Also the Calpulli is responsible for basic needs of the group. The dominate power is the Nahuat speakers.
William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" is a story of ambition, betrayal, and the consequences of unhealthy desire. At the heart of this tragic story is the character Macbeth, a nobleman whose thirst for power leads to his downfall and the demise of those around him. While there are various factors that contribute to the tragedy in the play, although Macbeth's actions and decisions that serve as the primary fuel for the fire that destroys himself and the others around him. Through his ruthless ambition, and willingness to embrace violence, Macbeth emerges as the central figure responsible for the tragic events that end him and those connected to him. Macbeth's unchecked ambition is the driving force behind the tragedy that unfolds in Shakespeare's
Why do the words that authors use in their writing help set the overall atmosphere of the story? In the story, "What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything," a young boy named Willie and his cautious mother, who were abandoned by their father, come across a beggar, and Willie grows curious of his character, thus leading him to question him. After a series of encounters, Willie learns that the homeless man was not what he seemed, but a man of wisdom. In the story, “Dark They Were, And Golden Eyed” by Ray Bradbury, a party of humans arrive in Mars and try to build their new lives there after an apocalypse on the Earth. One of the humans, Harry Bittering, is skeptical about Mars and how living there may not be the best idea. In both “Dark They Were,
Armed with bombs and automatic rifles, these members of the ISIS terror cell murdered over 120 people, leaving countless others wounded.
It took three attempts to blow up the car.Showing that a single fighter can pose a dangerous pocket of resistance, an ISIS gunman who had been hiding in a cave or in the network of tunnels leading out of the city opened fire on the Peshmerga. The Kurds engaged the militant in a firefight before he apparently blew himself up.In dark gray smoke rising over Mosul, another explosion erupted down the road from the fighters, likely one of the many car bombs ISIS has planted in and around the city in anticipation of what is expected to be its last stand in Iraq.At one point, several dozen pops from semiautomatic weapons rang out from both sides of the road, followed by what sounded like controlled bursts from an automatic weapon.The gunfire part of
While the attacker did have deadly weaponry, the main destruction of the attack was caused by a rented truck, similar to an American U-Haul truck. Large and essentially unstoppable, this truck sped down over a mile of a pedestrian avenue, leaving behind scores of deaths and injuries. This use of a generally innocent object to kill is the overarching issue this attack exemplifies, and what intrigues me about this attack; it is no longer just about the weapons.
Friday the 13th, November, 2015 a terror attack had happened in Paris. This terror attack killed 129 people. Isis was the ringleader of this attack. People wonder how the attack had happened and where all this weapons came in. The official say the border security, surveillance capacity, and coordination between security services will be heavily inspected. In addition seven assaulter has been killed during this attack, but France and Belgium believes there are more suspects. There are lot of theories of why this attack had happened. A theory explains that this was caused so it could discourage powerful nations from carrying out more attacks against it, but we won’t be able to know the truth for the cause of the affect. It took years to know
Killing 130 individuals and injuring several others. Seven terrorists furthermore died, meanwhile the authorities continuing looking for associates. Moreover, in France nevertheless in touching countries too. As a result of World War II, the attacks were the deadliest on France. France had been on steep alert for the attacks on Charlie Hebdo offices and a Jewish grocery in Paris wherever seventeen individuals were killed. Terrorist everything, ISIL claimed business for the attacks, truism it was a paying strengthen for the French send strikes
On March 11, 2004 10 bombs exploded on four trains in Madrid on the rush hour morning. 191 people were killed and 2000 were injured. The bombs were set off from mobile phones. Madrid’s Atocha station seemed to be the terrorist main target. “It was the worst terror attack in Spain's history, the work of a radical Jihadist cell loosely linked to al-Qaida” (Murado). 21 people were convicted in the Madrid bombing. The main people involved in the attack was: Jamal Zougam, Jose Emilio Suarez Trashorras, and Basel Ghalyoun. Jamal Zougam was the one who ran a mobile shop in Madrid. Jose Emilio Suarez Trashorras was a miner who supplied some of the explosives. Basel Ghalyoun had the apartment were
Suicide bombing is an act in which an individual personally delivers explosives and detonates them to inflict the greatest possible damage, killing himself or herself in the process. Suicide bombings are really particularly shocking on account of indiscriminate nature, clearly intending to kill anyone within range of the explosion, the people being mostly unsuspecting civilians, all suicide bombings are linked to political causes and grievances. Many motives are cited for suicide bombings, from religious sanctification to revenge for Western foreign policy to hatred of
On November 13, 2015 Paris was stuck with a variety of attacks, which had a lasting impact on the culture in Paris, as well as many other places. There were a series of planned terrorist attacks that occurred in Paris, the capital of France, and a Northern suburb Saint-Denis. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took responsibility for these events just a few days after they occurred. They claimed that the reason behind this was due to a retaliation to the French. Not only did this striking event effect Paris and the surrounding cities, but it also effected many other people in different countries by watching the tragedy unfold. During these attacks hundreds were killed and many were injured. Paris has been in a state of mourning