The Legacy of 9/11 in Numbers

From The Independent

• 2,973 Total number of people killed (excluding the 19 hijackers) in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• 72,000 Estimated number of civilians killed worldwide since September 11, 2001 as a result of the war on terror.
• 2,932 Total number of US servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since September 2001.

• 2 Number of years since US intelligence had any credible lead to Osama bin Laden's whereabouts
• 1,248 Number of published books relating to the September 11 attacks
• $119m Ticket sales for anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11
• $40bn Airline industry losses since September 2001
• 2009 Date when the official memorial will open at the World Trade Centre site
• 0 Hours of intelligence training provided to new FBI agents before 9/11. Now they get 24.
• 91 per cent Terror cases from FBI and others that US Justice Dept declined to prosecute in first eight months of 2006
• 11 Weeks the 9/11 commission's final report was top of New York Times' non-fiction best-seller list
• 117 Number of UK service personnel killed in Iraq since invasion
• 40 Number of UK personnel killed in Afghanistan since invasion
• 7 per cent People in UK who think US-led war on terror is being won, according to YouGov
• 1 Those charged in US with a crime in connection with 9/11
• 455 Number of detainees at Guantanamo Bay
• 77 per cent Percentage of people in the UK who believe Tony Blair's Middle East policy has made Britain a terrorist target (YouGov)
• 4,000 Number of UK troops left in Iraq after British-controlled provinceshanded back to Baghdad
• 18 The number of times that undercover investigators with fake IDs have breezed through US border checkpoints in a test by the Government Accountability Office
• $8bn The amount the US will spend this year on hunting Bin Laden and other terrorists

Comments

[Achiri]

800,000...number of people killed during the Rwanda genocide while the world watched.Over 300,000...number of Africans massacred in Dafur,and it continues while the world watches.
Since they are good for nothing "niggas",nobody cares.
Give us a break!!!

[AngryMan]

Hi Achiri,

If you don't mourn, your dead, celebrate your heroes, spread your religious and political mythologies, no one else will do it for you. What stopped the African media and governments to create a huge mobilization around the 10th Anniversary of the Rwandan genocide? How many African news organs are paying any attention to the ongoing trial of the perpetrators of the genocide in Arusha, Tanzania?

Did Cameroon's leading English language newspaper, The Post, dedicate even one line to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Lake Nyos tragedy? No!

We Africans must stop being perpetual victims; eternal crybabies always waiting for the "whiteman" to validate our pain and joy, or our successes.

Darfur is first of all an African problem not a Western one. Deal with it!

[FineboySunday]

To AngryMan. U Cannot be so POed with Achiri. Awareness is the beginning. He makes a strong point. Why should africans cry about the pain of some arabs when arabs are busy massacreing Afrikans in the name of their religion?

[Achiri]

AngryMan u made no point!!!