Life for education

You probably know that education for women is questioned in most middle eastern countries. After a chain of recent attacks on hospitals and schools many children have been staying away from school, however a group of Afghan girls have been going to school any way and risking their lives.

The most dangerous part for them is the walk to school because many girls have been direct targets of acid attacks, poisonings, and precision bombings. Even though all of these things have been happening the number of children attending school since 2002 has gone from less than a million to 8.2 million. The there are groups dedicated completely to preventing women from going to get an education at any means necessary.

This video is graphic and do not recommend showing it in class but it's your call.

http://cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/01/21/abawi.afghan.acid.cnn

Colombian Drug Lord captured

One of the last great crime bosses has been captured by authorities in San Cristobal, Venezuela Tuesday night. The boss Daniel Barrera AKA "El Loco" is one of the biggest drug lords in the Columbia and was discovered to be in alliance with paramilitaries and the revolutionary armed forces of Columbia gorilla group for over 20 years. "He is one of the last crime bosses, this is a very forceful blow," said Columbian president Santos in televised remarks. "This is a very important step toward the security we want to achieve in this country," he continued.

The nations who helped capture Barrera were; the British, Columbia, the US, and Venezuela. Santos gave special thanks to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, the CIA, and M16 British intelligence.

Along with his capture authorities discovered a total of 46 million euros in two of his houses alone. Being one of the biggest drug trafficker in the world the Colombian government offered $2.5 million reward for information leading to his capture. Barrera received life in prison with no chance of parole.

The Taliban seduces Australian soldiers on the web

This is somewhat interesting, i read that Taliban soldiers have actually been using Facebook and posing as you cute girls and befriending Australian forces to find out locations and other important details. Thinking they were talking to a girl they would disclose where their next mission is, who they will be with and sometimes specific details regarding what vehicles and weapons they will be using. Soldiers would brag about ranks and other things that would help the Taliban find out which certain people need to die first. The biggest problem is soldiers using smart phones that has geotags that let their "hot young girlfriends" to know where they will be and to help the Taliban have a large advantage on the. The Taliban have been decoding pictures and gaining important information that they have been selling globally.

Bloodshed increases greatly in Syria

According to what UNICEF's spokesman said this past week has been the bloodiest of all, 5,000 people (rebels and civilians) died in August alone and 1,600 in the past week. The Syrian government is responsible for a massacre of 35 civilians including children in Al Fan in the Hama province at one time. The "reason" for this massacre was a "terrorist" group was said to have been in the area and the government forces wanted to find them and kill them. Also the Syrian government is not allowing CNN to cover the civil war for undisclosed reasons. 3 airforce bases are being used by Syrian forces to kill civilians, a rebel force managed to launch a succesful 11 day siege on one to prevent further murder of civilians.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/02/world/meast/syria-civil-war/index.html