War on Terror by Amanda Spera December 20, 2006

In the year 2001 on September 11th, the United States of America was attacked by a group of unidentified hijackers who plunged three airplanes into three U.S. buildings. One was the Pentagon in Arlington County , Virginia , and the other two were the World famous World Trade Centers (both buildings) in New York City , New York . Later authorities identified the teams of hijackers aboard each devastating flight as Islamic terrorist from the middle-east. All were from the terrorist group called al-Qaeda (al-Qā`ida) and each were under the order of Osama bin Laden, who was under order of Saddam Hussein. President George W. Bush initialed an attack against bin Laden and Hussein by sending troops out to Iraq , where they have been hiding.
In the year 2003, two years after the attack, the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq and toppled President Saddam Hussein. With bin Laden still on the run and in hiding, our troops led on with no mercy of enemy targets.
Nowadays in current news of the war on terror, five years later, local protests of President George W. Bush have increased of liberal citizens stating that President George W. Bush is wrong for deciding war. The casualties from March 19, 2003 through Nov. 30, 2006 were 2,881 in Iraq and at least 21,921 U.S. troops have been wounded in action. However the numbers of troops are climbing up in order to control the escalating violence in Baghdad. There are now 138,000 U.S. troops fighting for our country. In other stories, recently in June, President Bush announced the killing of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; he was the most visual leader of al-Qaeda. Though the death of him will not stop the violence completely, it gave the U.S. a brighter outlook on defeating the enemy. On August 29, 2006 Iraqi forces regained control of restive city after fighting with Shiite militia. Forty were killed out of a twelve hour street battle. In the end no one knows when exactly the war will stop, but in the mean time the U.S. and its allies our fighting strong.