the numbers of the 9/11 legacy
As Khalidmir and I have briefly been discussing the issues surrounding polls, surveys, and statistics themselves, I figured I would end the 9/11 week with some of the odd, and not so odd, numbers of the legacy that is September 11, 2001.
0 - hours of intelligence training provided to FBI agents previous to 9/11
1 - number of those charged with a 9/11-related crime
2 - number of years since US had any credible intelligence on Bin Laden
7 - percent of people in UK who think the US-led “war on terror” is being won
11 - weeks the 9/11 commission’s report was top of the New York Times’ non-fiction best-seller list
19 - the number of hijackers on the 9/11 planes of terror
20 - percent of Americans who claim to have known someone who was killed or injured in the 9/11 attacks
22 - percent of Canadians who believe 9/11 attacks a result of a conspiracy led by influential Americans
24 - hours of intelligence training provide to FBI agents post-9/11
24 - people still listed as missing from the 9/11 attacks
41 - percent of Americans who blame William Clinton “a great deal” or “moderately” for the 9/11 attacks
45 - percent of Americans who blame George W. Bush “a great deal” or “moderately” for the 9/11 attacks
77 - percent of people in the UK of beleive PM Blair’s foreign policy has made UK a terrorist target
91 - precent of terror cases from FBI and others that US Justice department declined to prosecute in the first eight months of 2006
115 - number of nations who lost citizens in the 9/11 attacks
274 - FDNY retirements from January to July of 2001 (before 9/11)
403 - number of firefighters, paramedics, and police officers killed in the collapse of the WTC
455 - number of detainees at Guantanamo Bay
661 - FDNY retirements from January to July of 2001 (post-9/11)
1,248 - number of published books relating to 9/11 attacks
1,776 - height (in feet) of the new “freedom tower” in new york, due to be completed in 2012
2,932 - total number of American servicemen killed in Afghanistan and Iraq
2,973 - total number of people killed in the 9/11 attacks (excluding hijackers)
2,051 - number of children who lost a parent in the 9/11 attacks
22,000 - number of bombs that fell on Afghanistan in the 6 months after 9/11
62,006 - confirmed number of deaths from the “war on terror”
72,000 - estimated number of citizens killed since 9/11 as a result of the “war on terror”
140,000 - number of jobs lost in New York directly because of the 9/11 attacks
180,000 - likely number of deaths from the “war on terror”
422,000 - New Yorkers with post-traumatic stress disorder
1,506,124 - debris (in tons) removed from the WTC site
119,000,000 - ticket sales (in American dollars) for Fahrenheit 9/11
8,000,000,000 - amount (in American dollars) that the United States will spend in 2006 on hunting terrorists
12,000,000,000 - prospected budget (american dollars) of the redevelopment project of the wtc
40,000,000,000 - airline industry losses since 9/11 (in american dollars)
Sources and more info:
- On Revised Trade Center tower
- On the Bitter legacy of 9/11
- On Canadians and conspiracy poll
- On Americans blame Bush
- On 9/11 Numbers
