HW35B Al Capone
After reading Riverbends blogs for august and September in Baghdad Burning i found that she mentioned a lot of interesting people. She mentioned Al Capone on page 52 and i know he was a mob boss but i wanted to learn a little more about him, so i researched him on the internet. When i researched him i found out that he was born in Brooklyn, New York and was an American Gangster who’s nickname was Scarface. He was the boss of a criminal organization called the Chicago Outfit, but his cover-up job was a used furniture dealer. His career ended in 1931 when he was convicted for income tax evasion by the federal government. Al Capone has to do with Riverbend’s blog because she was talking about Donald Rumsfeld and saying how she loved what he said about Iraq being like Chicago. When she talks about this she is saying that he hasn’t completed the sentence and that he should have have said that its “like Chicago ….during the 1920’s, when Al Capone was running it:”(52) and then she goes on to describe what it was like back then when he was running it. It is described like how Iraq is described today according to Riverbend.
