Writing to Terrorism Experts

Te Maungarongo Maarie e-mailed Richard Barrett to ask him questions about September 11.

Richard Barret's Reply:

Thank you for your enquiry about the terrorist attacks in the United States on 9/11/2001.

1. Were there certain people they wanted to kill? No. The attacks killed random people. But the attack on the Pentagon was designed to hit Defence officials, and the planned attack on the US Capital (the 'plane crashed in Pennsylvania) was intended to hit law makers. It is also possible that this aircraft might have been aimed at the White House in which case the hijackers would have hoped to kill President Bush (although he was not there at that time).
2.Did the terrorists mean to crash? Yes. They intended to hit their targets with the 'planes. They chose long haul flights which they knew would be carrying a lot of fuel and hijacked them soon after take off.
3. Did the terrorists target 9/11 as the day? No. The hijackers chose the day, not Usama bin Laden. This means that they chose a day when everything would be ready, not a day that had been decided by Al-Qaida. The date 9/11 was chosen in August, so not very long before the attacks.

From,
Richard Barrett
Coordinator
Al-Qaida Taliban Monitoring Team
United Nations, New York

Richard Barrett is "an expert on Al Qaeda-related terrorism. He is based in New York. Since March 2004 he has been the United Nations Coordinator of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Implementation Monitoring Team, also known as the Al-Qaeda and Taliban Monitoring Team, appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General at the request of the Security Council."
http://www.theglobalexperts.org/experts/expert-location/north-america-expert-location/richard-barrett

Room 6 Rugby World Cup 2011 Rugby Results

Room 6 has been playing a fictional Rugby World Cup using a dice game that Mr Waite invented.  Here are the results. GO ROMANIA!!!

Fri Sept 9 20.30 A New Zealand 14 Tonga 7 Auckland
Sat Sept 10 13.00 B Scotland 19 Romania 21 Invercargill
Sat Sept 10 15.30 D Fiji 21 Namibia 7 Rotorua
Sat Sept 10 18.00 A France 10 Japan 21 Auckland
Sat Sept 10 20.30 B Argentina 14 England 17 Dunedin
Sun Sept 11 15.30 C Australia 14 Italy 12 Auckland
Sun Sept 11 18.00 C Ireland 21 USA 26 New Plymouth
Sun Sept 11 20.30 D South Africa 12 Wales 5 Wellington
Wed Sept 14 14.30 D Samoa 19 Namibia 12 Rotorua
Wed Sept 14 17.00 A Tonga 17 Canada 19 Whangarei
Wed Sept 14 19.30 B Scotland 5 Georgia 5 Invercargill
Thurs Sept 15 19.30 C Russia 5 USA 8 New Plymouth
Fri Sept 16 20.00 A New Zealand 21 Japan 26 Hamilton
Sat Sept 17 15.30 B Argentina 19 Romania 21 Invercargill
Sat Sept 17 18.00 D South Africa 26 Fiji 12 Wellington
Sat Sept 17 20.30 C Australia 21 Ireland 7 Auckland
Sun Sept 18 15.30 D Wales 22 Samoa 10 Hamilton
Sun Sept 18 18.00 B England 12 Georgia 0 Dunedin
Sun Sept 18 20.30 A France 19 Canada 22 Napier

The tramp ( with a pooy sitution)

On Tuesday the 30th of August Room Six and nine people from Room Five went on a tramp at the Westmere walkway.

We finally arrived, the people who sat on the back of the bus emerged out of the bus followed by the middle and then the front.

We stood at the start of the walkway while Mr Waite put us in groups.I got put in Group One, only one of my friends got put in my group, it was Tem.

The hills were gigantic, weirdly shaped, and small it was so tiring. If I drank lots of water I would waste my water so I drank it slowly. From my point of view I was'nt excpecting it to be so hard but kept on walking and dodging cowpats, peew!

It was time for morning tea I had my peach and a few of my chips. Then we carried on, ''Ohhhkk! Mr Waite there's cowpatts everywhere ''.So then he started jumping in the icky poo then Grace started to jump in the poo to, "ewww!" Then he jumped in a big ozey one.

We stoped for lunch, "mmmm" I sat down by Ulani to eat my sandwiches, biscuits, popcorn and to drink some of my water. After that I chatted to friends and played in a stream trying to stop people from building a dam.

On the way back I saw a horse that kept on bucking so I called it Bucky , we carried on walking and waited for the bus to pick us up and it came about 2 minutes later. Off we went back to school.

On September 12, Room 6 studied September 11

SOME OF ROOM 6'S SEPTEMBER 11 QUESTIONS

Why didn't the flight attendants call the Air Force?

Why did they hijack these particular planes?

Why those buildings?

Why four planes? Why not more?

How long did it take them to plan the attacks?

Why did the terrorists want to hijack the planes?

How did they smuggle weapons on to the plane?

Did they give clues beforehand?

Why did they have to kill the pilots?

Were they experienced pilots? Who taught them to fly?

How to make a Clay Rhino

Watch this video to find out how to make a clay Rhino.

So! What animal is that Trazarn?

Westmere Walkway

On the 30th of August all of Room Six went on a walk. We went there to practice for camp. It was a humongous farm. At the start of thewalk it was raining. Everone had lots of energy. Once we started going up the hill we lost all our energy. It was boring.

Once we had gone half way up the hill we started singing 'Dora the Explorer'. We all started strugling up the hill. When we had finally reached the top of the hill we had morning tea.Climbing the hill was really exhausting

After at least another hour of torturing walking we had lunch. After that everyone was making a dam in the creek. Some people were taking photos. Ethan and I kept climbing up the hill and running down. It was really fun. After that we walked to the street and went back to school on a bus. It was a really astonishing day at the farm.

Ford.P

Wanganui Tramping Club

Dick Mitchell from the Wanganui Tramping Club visisted Room 6 today to share some thoughts and information about our upcoming tramp.  Dick shared photos of Sunrise Hut and some special items he takes on a tramp with him.  Here he is showing off his balaclava.

By Carly and Tony