Killing Osama

After being elected President, Obama accomplished many things but the most notable is ordering the killing of Osama Bin Laden. After several Security Council meetings, it is agreed to invade Pakistan in search of Osama. Navy Seals arrive at the building Osama was living in two Black Hawks and breaching the defenses of the building. The entire operation took around 40 minutes, with only around 5-10 minutes of actual firefight. At the end Osama was killed by a gunshot above his left eye.

Marwan Al-Shehhi

Marwan al-Shehhi was born on May 9, 1978, in the United Arab Emirates. Reports show that al-Shehhi's family lived in a village in Ras-al-Khaimah. Shehhi's father was rumored to be the person who called everyone to prayer in the local mosque. During 1997, al-Shehhi moved away from his home after a family crisis, and into Germany to study the German language. Then he moved into Hamburg where he enrolled in the same school as Mohamed Atta. In Hamburg, he became radicalized, after seeing how western powers were influencing his own country and began to feel alienated by them. He later became an al-Qaeda member. al-Shehhi was motivated enough to be the leader of the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 175 on 11 September 2001, and the plane was crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, alongside Mohamed Atta.

1993 World Trade Center Attack

In 1993, in one of New York´s World Trade Centers a car explosion was planted by Amzi Ahmed Yousef and Omar Abdel Rahman which were both members of Al Qaeda. Their actual intent of terror was to make the whole building collapse under itself. On the day of February 26, the plotters loaded up their 1,200 pound homemade bomb and headed to the building´s undergound parking lot. At 12:17 p.m. the bomb exploded, knocking out the World Trade Center’s sprinklers, generators, elevators, public address system, emergency command center and more than half of the high-voltage lines that fed electricity to the complex. Six people died that day, and about 1,000 people were injured from the smoke.

Suspicious Events Before 9/11

Weeks before the 9/11 attacks suspicious events took place that people find hard to believe as a coincidence.

1. Security at the WTC was increased
Around August of 2001, there was a lot of reason to believe that the 9/11 attack would take place soon. Security was placed in the entrance of the underground garage where deliveries were made. This exact place was the same place where the bomb went off in 1993. This increase in security was removed on the day of the 9/11 attack, striking as unusual for the other workers.

2. Fire alarms were constantly being tested
Every morning for 7 days the fire alarms in the buildings were being tested, meaning they were not in use until the afternoon. Any time the alarms went off, it was already expected as a result of the maintenance on these alarms.

3. Elevators were not working
The most suspicious event was when the elevators stopped working in the months leading up to the 9/11 attack. Elevators that went from the ground to the top of the building were not working and elevators would malfunction. There were a total of 10 elevators in the building and at any point in time, there was always one either malfunctioning or not working at all.

9/11

On the day of September 11, 2001 four planes were hijacked in an Airport in New Jersey by four members of Al-Qaeda. Using only box cutters, they killed off the pilots. One of the planes, crashed on the side of the west side of the pentagon killing 125 military personelle and civilians along with 64 passengers riding along the plane. Two planes crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center costing the lives of thousands, leaving 10 people who were in the tower alive and 10,000 left with injuries. The last plane, Flight 93, had crashed in a rural field in Pensylvania killing 44 passengers.

Enron Power Company

In the midst of the new generation, Enron was a power company providing electricity to the country. It was during the early 2000´s that Enron had come up with a strategy to increase profits, but it was very scandalous. The power company had chose to manipulate where power was being sent throughout the nation.The former president of Enron, Jeff Skilling, encrouraged his employees to trade aggresively and take advantage of the state´s wholesale market to boost their own stock prices. They decided to cut off power in the north coast of California, making it so there would be heatwaves hitting the Bay Area all through Los Angeles. These short power outages would increase sales by double since they were trying to compete with the rest of the industries and people were desperate of air conditioning. The fears of rolling blackouts would push large scale companies in California into more than $1 billion in long-term energy contracts. Once the company´s trick was discovered, they were forced to pay their debts, but also would come up with new contracts with other companies.

Gay Marriage in the 2004 Presidential Election

Around the 2004 Presidential Election, gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts, which turned a lot of heads, as Massachusetts is a southern state.

However, Bush's party pushed to get same-sex marriage on the ballots in a lot of Republican states not because they wanted it to be passed, but because they knew that it was an issue that Republicans felt very strongly about, and would get out and vote against it.

In the process, while standing at the ballot, they would potentially vote for Bush. In this way, Bush was able to get a lot of votes that he wouldn't have otherwise because people were too lazy to get out and vote.