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ARTICLES
DATE AND PLACE DECEMBER 1,08
PAKISTAN India Says Pakistan Was Behind Terrorist Attack :Indian officials say Pakistani militants carried out the brazen attack on several landmarks in Mumbai that killed 173 people. The accusation further strains an already tense relationship between the two countries. Indian and U.S. officials say they believe the militant Islamic group Lashkar-e-Taiba was involved. DECEMBER 11.08
PERSONS INVOLVED
ASPECTS
LASHKARTAIBA AND THE INDIANS OFFICIALS. INDIANS AND U.S OFFICIALS
THE SOCIAL ASPECTNEGATIVE EFFECT OF THIS ARTICLE was many people who is innocent were killed in this attack.
KURDISH
SOCIAL ASPECT
Suicide Bomber IN NORTHERN IRAQ Targets Meeting to Bridge Sectarian Divide: Nearly 50 people are killed in the bombing at a restaurant in northern Iraq, where Kurdish leaders and members of the Sunni Awakening Councils were meeting to discuss ways to reduce tension in Kirkuk between Arabs and Kurds. DECEMBER 28.09
Israel Launches Airstrikes into Gaza: Days after the ceasefire between Israel and
ISRAEL
IMPLICATION
POSTITIVE EFFECTS: I think there is no positive effect happened in this article. NEGATIVE EFFECTS: Many people killed in the bombing
HAMAS and RUSSIA
SOCIAL ASPECT
THE NEGATIVE EFFECT is that their country became worst
because of the airstrikes.
Hamas expired, Hamas begins launching rocket attacks into Israel, which retaliates with airstrikes that killed about 300 people. Israel targets Hamas bases, training camps, and missile storage facilities. 2008
India Rocked By a Wave of Terrorist Attack 9:03 PM
During much of 2008, India experienced a series of terrorist attacks largely blamed on Islamic militants, as well as religious and ethnic clashes that pitted Muslims against Hindus and Hindus against Christians. None of the attacks, however, were nearly as devastating as the November attacks on several of Mumbai's landma rks and commercial hubs. Ten gunmen laid siege to the city for three days, killing 173 people and exposing India's utter lack of preparedness for such an attack.
INDIA
HINDUS, MUSLIM, CHRISTIANS,
SOCIAL
There are no positive. The negative effect many innocent civilians are dying.
Indian and U.S. officials said they have evidence that the Pakistan-based militant Islamic group Lashkar-eTaiba was responsible.
RussianGeorgian Conflict
AUGUST 2008 RUSSIA AND South Ossetia and Abkhazia,
RUSSIAN AND GEORGIAN
SOCIAL
There are no positive. The negative effect many people were killed.
JANUARY 10-11
TALIBAN MILITANTS
SOCIAL ASPECTS
There is no positive . Negative :there are many Taliban die in the attack in Pakistan.
9:04 PM
In August 2008, fighting between Georgia and its two breakaway regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, broke out. Russia sent hundreds of troops to support the enclaves, and also launched airstrikes and occupied the Georgian cities of Tbilisi and Gori. Observers speculated that Russia aggressive tactics marked an attempt to gain control of Georgia oil and gas export routes. 46 Die in Taliban Attack in Pakistan (Jan. 10–11): At least 46 Pakistani soldiers and militants at a paramilitary base were killed when hundreds of Taliban militants crossed the border of Pakistan. 9:08 PM
PAKISTAN
9:08 PM
Jobless Rates Reach 7.2% (Jan. 9): Unemployment is at a 16-year high, 7.2%, according to the Labor Department. 524,000 jobs were lost in December 2008, for a total of 2.6 million in 2008. More than 11 million Americans are currently unemployed. Shelling near Sri Lankan Hospital Kills 9 (Feb. 2): As a result of three artillery attacks in Puthukkudiyiruppu, Sri Lanka, at least nine people were killed. The last shelling hit a ward for women and children. The Sri Lankan military is trying to overthrow the area, controlled by guerrillas from the rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; it is uncertain whose blasts were the cause of the deaths. Fire in Beijing Destroys Hotel (Feb. 9): Illegal fireworks in Beijing, China—set off to celebrate the final day of festivities for the Lunar New Year— caused the Mandarin Oriental Hotel to catch fire. The hotel is part
JANUARY 9
UNEMPLOYEE S
ECONOMIC
of China Central Television's headquarters, and the hotel was under construction, leaving it more vulnerable to fire. CCTV hired the fireworks company and later apologized for the blaze. One firefighter was killed and seven people were injured due to the fire. Critic of Chechen President Killed (Jan. 13): Umar S. Israilov, 27, a vocal critic of President Ramzan A. Kadyrov of Chechnya, was killed while in exile in Austria. Israilov, a Chechen, had once worked as a bodyguard to President Kadyrov, but he later filed a complaint against the government, citing abduction and torture as common practice for handling insurgents and their families.
President of GuineaBissau Killed (Mar. 2): President João Bernardo Vieira of the small African country of Guinea-Bissau has been shot to death by Army troops. The assassination is said to be a retaliation for a bomb attack that killed
the army chief of staff, Gen. Batista Tagme Na Wai, on March 1, which they blame on the President. According to The New York Times, the military denies that a coup is under way, stating that the president's killers are an isolated group of soldiers.
DATE AND PLACE DECEMBER 1,08
PAKISTAN India Says Pakistan Was Behind Terrorist Attack :Indian officials say Pakistani militants carried out the brazen attack on several landmarks in Mumbai that killed 173 people. The accusation further strains an already tense relationship between the two countries. Indian and U.S. officials say they believe the militant Islamic group Lashkar-e-Taiba was involved. DECEMBER 11.08
PERSONS INVOLVED
ASPECTS
LASHKARTAIBA AND THE INDIANS OFFICIALS. INDIANS AND U.S OFFICIALS
THE SOCIAL ASPECTNEGATIVE EFFECT OF THIS ARTICLE was many people who is innocent were killed in this attack.
KURDISH
SOCIAL ASPECT
Suicide Bomber IN NORTHERN IRAQ Targets Meeting to Bridge Sectarian Divide: Nearly 50 people are killed in the bombing at a restaurant in northern Iraq, where Kurdish leaders and members of the Sunni Awakening Councils were meeting to discuss ways to reduce tension in Kirkuk between Arabs and Kurds. DECEMBER 28.09
Israel Launches Airstrikes into Gaza: Days after the ceasefire between Israel and
ISRAEL
IMPLICATION
POSTITIVE EFFECTS: I think there is no positive effect happened in this article. NEGATIVE EFFECTS: Many people killed in the bombing
HAMAS and RUSSIA
SOCIAL ASPECT
THE NEGATIVE EFFECT is that their country became worst
because of the airstrikes.
Hamas expired, Hamas begins launching rocket attacks into Israel, which retaliates with airstrikes that killed about 300 people. Israel targets Hamas bases, training camps, and missile storage facilities. 2008
India Rocked By a Wave of Terrorist Attack 9:03 PM
During much of 2008, India experienced a series of terrorist attacks largely blamed on Islamic militants, as well as religious and ethnic clashes that pitted Muslims against Hindus and Hindus against Christians. None of the attacks, however, were nearly as devastating as the November attacks on several of Mumbai's landma rks and commercial hubs. Ten gunmen laid siege to the city for three days, killing 173 people and exposing India's utter lack of preparedness for such an attack.
INDIA
HINDUS, MUSLIM, CHRISTIANS,
SOCIAL
There are no positive. The negative effect many innocent civilians are dying.
Indian and U.S. officials said they have evidence that the Pakistan-based militant Islamic group Lashkar-eTaiba was responsible.
RussianGeorgian Conflict
AUGUST 2008 RUSSIA AND South Ossetia and Abkhazia,
RUSSIAN AND GEORGIAN
SOCIAL
There are no positive. The negative effect many people were killed.
JANUARY 10-11
TALIBAN MILITANTS
SOCIAL ASPECTS
There is no positive . Negative :there are many Taliban die in the attack in Pakistan.
9:04 PM
In August 2008, fighting between Georgia and its two breakaway regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, broke out. Russia sent hundreds of troops to support the enclaves, and also launched airstrikes and occupied the Georgian cities of Tbilisi and Gori. Observers speculated that Russia aggressive tactics marked an attempt to gain control of Georgia oil and gas export routes. 46 Die in Taliban Attack in Pakistan (Jan. 10–11): At least 46 Pakistani soldiers and militants at a paramilitary base were killed when hundreds of Taliban militants crossed the border of Pakistan. 9:08 PM
PAKISTAN
9:08 PM
Jobless Rates Reach 7.2% (Jan. 9): Unemployment is at a 16-year high, 7.2%, according to the Labor Department. 524,000 jobs were lost in December 2008, for a total of 2.6 million in 2008. More than 11 million Americans are currently unemployed. Shelling near Sri Lankan Hospital Kills 9 (Feb. 2): As a result of three artillery attacks in Puthukkudiyiruppu, Sri Lanka, at least nine people were killed. The last shelling hit a ward for women and children. The Sri Lankan military is trying to overthrow the area, controlled by guerrillas from the rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; it is uncertain whose blasts were the cause of the deaths. Fire in Beijing Destroys Hotel (Feb. 9): Illegal fireworks in Beijing, China—set off to celebrate the final day of festivities for the Lunar New Year— caused the Mandarin Oriental Hotel to catch fire. The hotel is part
JANUARY 9
UNEMPLOYEE S
ECONOMIC
of China Central Television's headquarters, and the hotel was under construction, leaving it more vulnerable to fire. CCTV hired the fireworks company and later apologized for the blaze. One firefighter was killed and seven people were injured due to the fire. Critic of Chechen President Killed (Jan. 13): Umar S. Israilov, 27, a vocal critic of President Ramzan A. Kadyrov of Chechnya, was killed while in exile in Austria. Israilov, a Chechen, had once worked as a bodyguard to President Kadyrov, but he later filed a complaint against the government, citing abduction and torture as common practice for handling insurgents and their families.
President of GuineaBissau Killed (Mar. 2): President João Bernardo Vieira of the small African country of Guinea-Bissau has been shot to death by Army troops. The assassination is said to be a retaliation for a bomb attack that killed
the army chief of staff, Gen. Batista Tagme Na Wai, on March 1, which they blame on the President. According to The New York Times, the military denies that a coup is under way, stating that the president's killers are an isolated group of soldiers.
