Orly Attack

In recent law enforcement news, a 39-year old, Ziyed Ben Belgacem,was shot dead at Orly airport after he attacked a solider. This case is being treated as a possible terrorism attack.
A prosecutor added that the offender had a lengthy police record, including arrests for robbery and drug-related offenses, and had served time in prison. He was known to the authorities but primarily as a criminal.
Before Belgacem was shot dead he said "I'm here to die in the name of Allah. Whatever happens, people are going to die.”


While in prison during 2011 and 2012, Mr. Belgacem was identified by intelligence officials as someone who had become radicalized. After his release, he remained on the authorities’ radar, and his house was searched in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, although no action was taken against him. The attack on Saturday before a heated election campaign.

The New York Times mentioned that any terrorist attack so close to the election, political analysts suggest, could be an opportunity by the candidates of the far right, Marine Le Pen, and the center right, François Fillon, to berate the current Socialist government and by association Emmanuel Macron, the center-left candidate, who was previously the economy minister, for failing to protect the French people.

Its particularly interesting to me what radicalization can do to one, and what lengths one will go to. I think it is sad how one is willing to die for their beliefs in all the wrong ways. However, I just wanted to share a current event that I was a bit intrigued by.

Investigative writing

As a writer, I feel I also try to include as much detail and description as I possibly can. While I have went about this writing style for an extended amount of time, investigative writing seems to be quite the opposite.
You are suppose to get right to the facts in a concise manner. You want to have just the basics in a report but, you also want to make sure you include all the essentials details, just with little opinions and vivid descriptions. Who, what, where, when, and why are main subtopics to answer when writing a report because this is essentially the most important part of the report.
I think of investigative writing as more complex then it really is, and hopefully I can reduce my word limit in future reports.

Privacy Problems

Some recent current events I thought I would bright to light is the wiretapping incident. President Donald Trump accused Barack Obama of wiretapping his buildings. Right now this event is under investigation but there has been many assumptions pointing to the idea that the Obama administration did however wiretap Trump's Tower. There is also minimal proof regarding this incident, but enough proof to confirm this took place.
Now, the investigators are trying to figure out if Obama had anything to do with it. So far, there is no factual proof. Although there is no proof Obama still needs to be held accountable for his administration. Obama created his administration, so he is required to make sure they are not breaking the rules or breaking laws such. Even if there is no direct communication out of Obama's mouth, there is still a responsibility and accountability on his part because it is his administration.
As for wiretapping, if our federal government is violating such a law, what kind of example does that leave for the people? There was already the recent CIA problem, where they were exposed for being able to hack anything and everything to spy on people.
Everyone just wants their privacy and too feel safe. There is the issue of, well if you aren't hiding anything then why does it matter? But people shouldnt have to worry about being spied on despite that reasoning. 
Regardless, our government needs to be held accountable for illegal actions, as it isn't. violation of privacy.