Page No: 35 Christmas Issue 2015
calling the war ‘operation Paris’ and it’s up to them to hack ISIS. Forget massive airstrikes or immense wars, Anonymous is in control of a weapon of mass destruction which ISIS should be afraid of. Whether this is just a bluff or not, we should all be prepared for what Anonymous could actually do to anyone and everyone. If the government don’t react to ISIS or Anonymous, we could all be hacked. Anonymous, if successful, could make a deal with the government to give them no punishment for hacking everything. Why are they helping? Who knows? Some people think that they are here to help but once they are finished with ISIS, they could hack everything. Are they here to help us or themselves? People believe that Anonymous can really do it even without the government, whereas others believe that this is nonsense. Can we believe the man behind the mask? Sham Hadgu, 7E Anonymous is attempting to destroy Islamic state online. Last January, after the attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, the internet hacking group Anonymous declared war on Islamic State. Following the recent Paris attacks on the 13 th of November they have promised to intensify their action. Before the Paris attacks they had brought down 149 websites, flagged over 100,000 twitter accounts and reported over 5000 propaganda videos. Anonymous gained attention during the mid-2000s when it launched a series of random, apolitical hacking attacks. It has launched campaigns against the racist group the Ku Klux Klan, the CIA and the Burmese government. Some are with the movement, “Never mind politicians, ordinary people are the ones who will beat Islamic State”. Others responded with, “ No! This fight will need to be fought physically with soldiers, weapons and advanced technology.” Islamic State: the origins In June 2014, the group formally declared the establishment of a "caliphate" - a state governed in accordance with Islamic law, or Sharia, by God's deputy on Earth, or caliph. It has demanded that Muslims across the world swear allegiance to its leader - Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri al- Samarri, better known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - and migrate to territory under its control. IS can trace its roots back to the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian. In 2004, a year after the US-led invasion of Iraq, Zarqawi pledged allegiance to Osama Bin Laden and formed al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), which became a major force in the insurgency. Benedict Milliken, 7B
about it, this attack is barely scraping the iceberg that is terrorism. On the 3 April 2015 the group Al-Shabab stormed into a university in north-eastern Kenya and randomly shot and killed at least 147 people. More people died in this university shooting than in the world famous Paris attacks, so surely it would be everywhere in the news, with news companies trying to educate the world on these attacks? The answer is simple. No. It has been 5 months since this attack and yet I have just learnt about it. On the other hand I have known about the Paris attacks since day one of them starting and in a matter of weeks they’ve already found the car they have driven and they have identified and killed most of the IS supporters who carried out the attacks. The Kenyan attacks, no one really cared, it may have had 2 to 3 days in the news but that’s it. No one really knows what happened in Kenya and the people who do know about the attacks don’t know any detail about the shooting. Why do we not seem to care if it doesn’t concern us? If it doesn’t concern Europe? Or are we just trying to forget about terrorism and how important it is? Every single day, a new terrorist group emerges once again and does something unthinkable. Most of them do reach the news, but can one article with nothing but a few words express the sorrow of the broken families? The pain that the victims and their friends will feel for every single day of their lives after the event? We can easily stop this problem by just starting to properly investigate the attacks so we can understand every aspect and feel the pain and sorrow they have caused so many people. When we start caring about terrorism like we should, It shouldn’t matter how big or small, in Europe or not. All terrorism should be treated equally, even if only one person was harmed, because one person dead adds up to depressed families and friends, and when they try and reach out to the public no one pays much attention because its only one person. Once we realise how big a problem there is, maybe, just maybe, we might just stop terrorism in all of its forms. William Neal, 7L
I See….
I see humans, but no humanity I see people’s lives, with no strategy I see them doing things that they were not made for I see them putting people down to the floor
They may have guns, but we have flowers Which shows that we have the most power They may be cold, and brutal slayers But don’t show weakness. Be much braver
Do we care enough about Terrorism?
Pray for your family Pray for your friends Pray for your loved ones Until the end
Every day people unfortunately die and are injured in terrorist attacks. Recently, as you may have heard, many people were killed by the group IS. Many families were devastated at the mass killing, with approximately 130 people killed. But when you think
Pray for Paris
Francois Denaro, 7B
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