Title: Osama Bin Laden Death Raid

Date: May fifth, two- thousand and eleven

Written by: Alec Stockton Finke

            Osama Bin Laden is known as a very evil, terrible human being here in the United States of America and all over the world. On the day of September eleven, two- thousand and one; the Al Qaeda leader plotted out a terrorist attack on America. On that morning, Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Two of those jet airliners were intentionally crashed in to the “Twin Towers” or the “World Trade Center” located in New York City, New York. The two tallest buildings in New York City collapsed within two hours, killing two thousand, seven hundred and fifty two innocent, American citizens.

            One of the other planes crashed in to The Pentagon located in Arlington, Virginia just outside of the nation’s capital, Washington D.C. This attack killed another one hundred and eighty four people. Lastly, the fourth plane was attempting to crash in to the White House located in Washington D.C. This attempt failed due to the passengers on the plane. The passengers tried to take over control of the aircraft and it ended up crashing in to a large field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. There were no survivors from any of the flights.

            This was the most tragic, horrible terrorist attack America has ever gone through. This killed more American citizens and did more damage to our country than any other attack. This scarred a lot of lives and this was a terrible thing we had to go through.

            The master mind to this attack was the Al Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden. This attack led to war over in Iraq and Afghanistan. This war has been the longest America has ever fought in a war. We have been fighting and looking for Osama for ten years now. This is an unbelievable fact; but, on the day of May first, 2011. Osama was killed by American Navy SEALs and taken in to U.S. possession. The United States have been waiting for this day to come ever since the morning of that horrific attack. When our president, Barack Obama announced “Osama is dead.” Hundreds of U.S. citizens rallied around Washington D.C. waving their American flags and celebrating over this man’s death.

            President Obama called for a last-second press conference on the night of the killing of Osama. He released some information about the situation on how it happened and it was pretty interesting.

            This was the biggest counterterrorism mission in U.S. history and it was one of the most secretive as well. Very few U.S. officials knew what was about to happen.  The location of the attack was at a fortified compound in a popular Pakistani town. There was 18 foot walls topped with barbed wire surrounding this compound and there were two security gates which was the only way to enter the multi-million dollar compound. U.S. officials knew this had to be a hide out for some terrorist but they could not figure out who it was. They thought and thought about it and every conclusion on who it could be was Osama, They knew it had to be the Al Qaeda leader. So President Obama planned secretly and heavily for a good eight months before the actual attack.

            After heavy training and tremendous focus and determination by the small group of Navy SEALs, on April 29, Barack Obama approved the operation to kill Osama. The Navy’s elite SEAL Team Six flew in to the town of Pakistan in two helicopters. One ended up crashing tdue to mechanical failures and they had to destruct the aircraft for their protection. After they waited for about forty minutes, the stealthy entered the building and attacked Osama. After a “fire fight,” Osama was killed including three others, and one of those three was his son and another was a woman that Osama threw in front of him as protection.

            Americans have been waiting ten years for this day and it has finally come. This will always be known as one of the greatest military operations in American Hisory.

Name: A- dog

Title: Ghost City Symbolizes Cost of Nuclear Disaster

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2011

Author: Richard Ingham

This article is about a small city, Pripyat, in the Soviet Union. In this now vacant city, a tragic event occurred a while back that forced the whole population to evacuate.  On that day of April 26, 1986, the 50,000 people who lived there left due to a #4 reactor explosion. This threw caesium, iodine, strontium, pluotonium in to the air. This was a big scare for the city so it caused an immediate, emergency evacuation.

This would be very scary and a horrible thing to go through. A lot of the people who lived there said that it was one of the greatest places to live in the Soviet Union. I can not imagine leaving in such a wonderful place and being forced out of my home. This would be a very tragic, horrible thing to encounter.

A lot of people think the same thing will happen to certain areas in Japan. That would be a terrible thing because Japan is such a good country and it does so much for our world. It would be horrible to see such a thing happen.

Name- A – Dog

Title- Doubts raised on book’s tale of atom bomb

Author- William J. Broad

Date- February 20, 2010

          The Atom bomb is a very destructive weapon. It is probably the most effective weapon out there. In the book “The Last Train from Hiroshima,” it claims that a secret accident occurred. It says that the atom bomb killed one American and irradiated others. This situation greatly reduced the weapon’s destructive power. But, there is one problem with this section in the book. All of the information and technical details are based on the recollections of Joseph Fuoco. He is known as a substitute on one of the two observation planes that escorted the Enola Gay.

          However, this statement is wrong because Mr. Fuoco, who died in 2008 at the age of 84 years old, never even flew on the bombing run. Also, he never substituted for anyone either.  Mr. Fuoco did a ton to put all of the pieces together with this. I am very glad that he cleared everything up. When ever I hear these kinds of stories it really makes me wonder how much stuff is over exaggerated. This is a great example of the saying “Don’t always believe what you hear.”

Name - A – Dog

Title – God said multiply, and did she ever

Author – Joseph Berger 

Date – Unknown

          This article is about an old lady named, Yitta Shwartz. She died recently at 93 years old, surviving World War 2 and the Holocaust. Her husband also died about 34 years ago. She had 15 children, more than 200 grand children and many great, great, and great grand children. This woman could be responsible for perhaps 2,000 living descendants.

          This is very awesome. I think it would be great to be In a big family like that because you would always have someone to go to. Especially in this family, because this mom cared about everyone. She knew all of their names, she visited everyone and she looked out for everyone. I am in a small family, and I think it would be way sick to be in a huge family.

          This is a great thing that this lady did. She is very kind to take care of all of these kids and to be a good mom. This is the coolest thing I have ever heard. I think she was very kind and the best mom ever to do all of this.

Tsunami in Japan

Horrible tsunami in Japan

            On the very sad, horrible day of March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake rocked the country of Japan. This was the biggest earthquake in the country of Japan’s history. It caused a gnarley tsunami to hit Japan as well. This only made everything worse. This has been a crazy, devastating event that the families and the people of Japan have had to go through.

            Because of all of these terrible events happening, the nuclear plants in Japan have been going through devastating times. They have been exposing radiation in to the air and in to the oceans. The other day they found radiation that is harmful to the citizens of Japan, in their beef. This has been a major scare across the globe.

            The day this terrible earthquake hit Japan, I was vacationing with my family in Maui, Hawaii. I was leaving the day it happened and we were so very glad. We got out on the flight safely. About 2 hours after I left the island, they starting getting very nervous because the earthquake caused energy inside the earth and they were expecting tsunamis in Hawaii and on the pacific coast of California and Oregon.  I flew from Hawaii to California. So it was still a scare in California, because of that, we were still kind of nervous about it. Luckily, we got out in time before anything intense happened.

            A lot of scary, horrible stuff has been going on in the country of Japan.  We know that eleven thousand, seven hundred, thirty four people have died. Also two thousand, seventy-seven people are injured and sixteen thousand, three hundred, seventy five people are missing. This is very scary stuff.

            A lot of this is due to the tremendous after shocks of the earthquake. The first one was at 7.0 and the second one was a 7.4. This resulted in a major tsunami that devastated many families and towns. The tsunami was rocking through cities, buildings, towns, cars, and roads. It had as much dubree in it as the Great Wall of China. That is a lot of stuff rolling through the country. It ran nearly 6 miles in to land. This is an insane statistic. The towns kuji and ofanto got swept away with no trace that towns were ever there.

            This was the biggest earthquake that ever hit japan and it is a very devastating time for their country. I hope that all goes well and I hope that they will recover soon.

Here are some pics of what I LOVE to do. Shreddin the slopes every weekend on skis. Playing and watching my favorite sports. Also, listening to 70's music.

Utah Utes B-ball

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=14767336&nid=635
This article tells about how the Utah Utes are looking for a coach that will guide them to success. They fired their former coach Jim Boylen on Thursday.