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Amari & Trevor's US Presence Essay:

Standard- Explain the U.S presence and interests in Southwest Asia. Include the Persian Gulf conflict and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Essential Question- What are the factors that led U.S to the participation in the Persian Gulf conflict and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq? Persian Gulf War The Persian Gulf War was a war between Iraq and thirty other nations. Iraq accused Kuwait of stealing Iraqi oil by drilling under the nation’s border between the two countries. In August of 1990, Iraq decided to invade Kuwait, and kill innocent people. This got the U.S involved, because they didn’t want it to be a big huge war. Also they didn’t want this war to affect the oil production, because the price of oil would increase. U.S invasion of Afghanistan On September 11, 2009, Al-Qaeda attacked target’s in the U.S. Al-Qaeda is a group of Islamic terrorists based in Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda hijacked four planes and crashed two of them in the world trade center located in New York. The third plane Al-Qaeda attacked was crashed In the Pentagon located in Virgina, and the fourth plane was crashed in the rural Pennsylvania. In these attacks, Al-Qaeda killed 3,000 innocent people. Investigations of these attacks accused Osama bin Laden of the ring leader of these attacks. In October 2001, the U.S and British troops invaded Afghanistan in search of Osama Bin Laden. The U.S bombed places where he was known to be…. He was never found. The Iraq war Saddam hussein was the president of Iraq at the time of the invasion of Afghanistan. U.S officials feared of connections between Al-Qaeda, and the Hussein regime. The U.S were also afraid that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction “WMD’s”, such as chemical and biological weapons. The U.S sent ivestgators to iraq to check for WMD’s. In the year 2002, the U.S congress passed an Iraq war resoultion that allowed the president to go forward with a war in Iraq. In march of 2003, the U.S bombeb targets in the Iraq captital Baghdad. The next day, british, australian, and polish soilders joined the U.S forces of invading Iraq and defating the Iraqi millitary. This was known as “Operation of Iraqi freedom”. Saddam Hussein was later captured and his rule later ended. In the year 2006, Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death, after being charged for killing 148 innocent people in the Iraqi village of Dujail. He was also charged with killing another hundreths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq. In the year 2007, the U.S. government continued their search of WMD. They have also yet to be found.