The bitter legacy of 9/11
The Independent & The Independent on Sunday
(September 11 2006)
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 - Number of years since US intelligence had any credible lead to Osama bin Laden's whereabouts
2,932 - Total number of US servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since September 2001
1,248 - Number of published books relating to the September 11 attacks
$119 million - Ticket sales for anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11
$40 billion - 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 provinces handed 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
$8 billion - The amount the US will spend this year on hunting Bin Laden and other terrorists
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Copyright (c) 2006 Independent News and Media Limited
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1466758.ece
Bill Totten http://www.ashisuto.co.jp/english/index.html
(September 11 2006)
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 - Number of years since US intelligence had any credible lead to Osama bin Laden's whereabouts
2,932 - Total number of US servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since September 2001
1,248 - Number of published books relating to the September 11 attacks
$119 million - Ticket sales for anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11
$40 billion - 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 provinces handed 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
$8 billion - The amount the US will spend this year on hunting Bin Laden and other terrorists
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Copyright (c) 2006 Independent News and Media Limited
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1466758.ece
Bill Totten http://www.ashisuto.co.jp/english/index.html
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