The Attack by Yasmina Khadra follows the story of Dr. Amin Jaafari, a successful Palestinian surgeon who resides in Israel. He lives with his beloved wife, Sihem, live alone in a beautiful house. Amin and Sihem live happily until an unimaginable event occurs, Sihem is killed in a suicide attack. The police discover that Sihem was not a victim, but the bomber. Amin desperately attempts to understand how his kind, loving wife could possibly carry out such an attack. He sets out on an incredible journey to investigate the secret life Sihem lived outside of their marriage. In the novel, The Attack, Yasmina Khadra illustrates the intense frustration that precedes suicide attacks and the intense physical and physiological results of …show more content…
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The commander held Amin for a week so he could experience the same pain, suffering and frustration that the Commander and other extremists feel. As they continue to lose their homeland the desperation as a result of the conflict the deep seated hatred only grows deeper. The aftermath of a suicide attack has both physical and ideological consequences. The physical effects of the bombing are much more apparent. While working in the emergency room in the aftermath of Sihem’s suicide attack, Amin can see firsthand how devastating these attacks can be. In the course of fifteen minutes, the lobby of the emergency room is transformed into a battlefield. No fewer than a hundred wounded people are packed into this space, the majority of them lying on the floor. All the gurney are loaded with broken bodies, many horribly riddles with splinter and shard... The whole hospital echoes with wailing and screaming... (14-15) This tragic scene illuminates how many people can be hurt and killed in suicidal events. The author is trying to show what the terrible consequences of Sihem’s actions were. In another instance, Wissam Jaafari makes those around him suffer physical repercussions
The officer informs me that as a consequence of the suicide operation carried out by Wissam Jaafari against an army checkpoint and in accordance with the instructions he's received from his superiors , we have a half of an hour to evacuate the dwelling
suicide attacks. The database helps the reader knows what all terrorist attacks have in common.
On April 19, 1995, a terrorist set off a bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building. The explosion killed 168 people and injured 842 more. The bomb went off at 9:02 a.m., and it “destroying a third of the building and left a thirty-foot-wide crater” (Casey 2).
Shocking news came out yesterday that Jake Harris of Deadliest Catch was attacked and thrown out of a car. His brother Josh shared on Facebook about what happened when it went down. As The Inquisitr shared, Jake was in ICU and had a cracked skull from the attack. Jake shared saying his brother Jake also was bleeding out of his brain and has brain trauma.
Over the years there have been different attacks in the United States that have caused innocent people to be injured or killed. The Columbine High School massacre in 1999 and the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in 2012 are two examples that have involved an attack on a school, but the Ohio State University attack just happened recently. The Ohio State stabbing is one of the many attacks that have caused innocent people to be injured.
I’m going to writing about the bombing in Birmingham. If you don’t know about what, when, and how it happened this is the paper you’re looking. You might have questions about the things I talk about in this paper. But it’s ok because when I first started reading articles about my topic it was confusing. So relax, read this paper, and will you understand more about the bombing in Birmingham.
Before the bombing took place, these victims had normal and happy lives, which were ended in a cruel attack fueled by hatred (About the
“You do whatever it takes to clean this shit up! Our medics got to get in there and see what’s what. Make sure no one else goes in there until the medics arrive. No sense in making a bigger mess. Give me an update in two hours. I expect to see every damn medic we got working on this! I’ll drag their asses over here myself if I have to!” says the LT.
When mad, one may act vengefully without thinking. Others take time to mull things over and think of plans of revenge. In either case, retaliation or vengeance is never positive or fruitful. These negative effects can clearly be seen in Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone through Beah’s experiences as a child soldier, as well as Al Qaeda’s attacks on the Atocha train station in Madrid, Spain. Beah’s representation of the effects and dangers of vengeance helps delineate the terrorists reasons behind their attacks in Spain because both Beah and the terrorists sought retribution for what had been done to them.
(AGG)In Afghanistan the people say that U.S. bombings and suicide bombers are “evil twins” and in the novel U.S. bombings, which are meant to root enemy positions, are characterized a evil and greatly affect the characters.(BS-1)The U.S. power to hit targets from the air greatly changes and affects nusrat in many ways. (BS-2)Because the U.S. caused the deaths of 2 of Najmah’s family members Najmah has a growing fear and affect deeply by the U.S.(BS-3)Finally the U.S. affect both Najmah and Nusrat due to airstrikes causing indirect, bombings near the characters or near their loved ones, and direct, deaths of family members, changes in the 2. (TS)The characters in the book “Under the Persimmon Tree” are greatly affected by the U.S. involvement and the author uses real life events to provoke conflicts and changes in how the two characters act and think.
The latest hot topic when it comes to the Republican candidates for the presidential election is Muslims. From Donald Trump saying we have a “Muslim problem”, to Ben Carson saying Muslims are unfit for office, the attack on Muslims has been a big subject. In this New York Times editorial “The Republican Attack on Muslims”, the author talks about how recently the Republicans were not the nicest when it comes to the Muslim community. Recently, Donald Trump has hinted towards his dislike for Muslims. In a recent interview, the interviewer stated that “we have a problem in this country, it’s called Muslims”, and that our President (who is an American-born Christian) is also a Muslim. When the interviewer asked Mr. Trump when we would get rid of them, he said “We’re going to be looking into that.” Donald Trump has also stated that he thinks Muslims were behind the World Trade Center attacks, which is not true.
Something strange happens to me whenever I fly into Beirut airport, which I have done several times in the past twenty years. My heart beats faster and I get butterflies in my stomach. I begin to recall Lebanon’s history and the horrific events that took place. Lebanon, a country that has suffered from civil wars as well as invasional wars, continues to overcome and recover from all the past scars left behind. One particular war in which Beirut and several other cities were affected is the 1982 war with Israel, also known as Operation Peace for Galilee. This war has been of interest to me since I was young because my mother would not stop talking about it every now and then. She describes her startled feelings as a young girl experiencing a violent and disastrous war.
Living the United State when one thinks of a terrorist attacks often their mind will first go to a larger scale attack such as the events of September 11th 2001. “September 11, 2001 changed the United States forever, the terrorist attack that day marked a dramatic escalation in a trend toward more destructive terrorist attacks which began in the 1980s. It also reflected a trend toward more indiscriminate targeting among international terrorists. The vast majority of the more than 3,000 victims of the attack were civilians. In addition, the attack represented the first known case of suicide attacks carried out by international terrorists in the United States.” (Waston, 2002) However as the years have gone by we have come to learn that terrorist attacks are not always on a large scale and that even one person who is inspired by the ideologies of a terrorist group without being directly connected to them can carry out attacks. Those that engage in this type of terrorism are referred to as lone wolf terrorist. A recent example of such an even was the mass shooting at the San Bernardino Inland Regional Center in December of 2015.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the Terror as an instrument of the French Revolution.
“The hearts and mind (HAM) theory is identified as winning the hearts and minds of the population which is a technique based on the implementation of the counter-insurgency (COIN) strategy of persuading the population to support the government and reject the insurgents.” The counter-insurgency (COIN) strategy as outlined by President Obama and General Petraeus’s most closely embrace is the heart and minds (HAM) theory. President Obama speech identified the United States strategic approach with Afghanistan in three elements. The three core elements addressed by President Obama during his speech on the strategy in Afghanistan are identified as: 1) utilize the military effort to create conditions for transition, 2) a civilian surge that
Ever since the beginning of the terrorist attacks on American soil, the War on Terror has been involved in the lives of Americans and nations near us. The War on Terror’s background originated through conflicts between warring countries in the Middle East; U.S. involvement started when a terrorist guided plane crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 in New York City. The attack was suspected to be the work of the middle-eastern terrorist group Al-Qaeda. The U.S. military, under the leadership of then commander-in-chief George W. Bush, declared a “War on Terror” on the terrorist group and the fighting began.