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Five Years After 9-11, By The Numbers

The 9-11 Terrorist Attacks

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Sep 11 2008
Life has changed - sometimes significantly - for Americans and others since 9-11-2001. Although numbers tell only part of the story, it's a part that's too often ignore. With that in mind, read on (props to Harpers):

Civil Rights
2: The number of Supreme Court rulings dismissing Administration military tribunals for detainees at Guantanemo Bay, Cuba.

Domestic Costs
$2.50: The security fee paid by each airline passenger on each leg of a US flight.
$2.1 million: The average government award to families of those killed on 9-11.
$40 billion: Airline industry losses attributed to 9-11.

Enemies
1: Person -- Zacarias Moussaoui -- charged with a crime in connection with the 9-11 attacks.
9: Percent of terrorism cases that DOJ accepted to persue, first six months of 2006.
46: The number of individuals charged in international terrorism cases in 2005, fewer than charged in 2001.
355: The number of individuals charged in international terrorism cases in 2002.
455: Detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Oil
1.059: The average US price for a gallon of gas, December 2001.
2.845: The average US price for a gallon of gas, August 2006.
18.68: The average world price for a barrel of oil, January 2002.
66.45: The average world price for a barrel of oil, August 2006.
1.1m : The number of barrels of oil per day in Iraq, August 2006.
3.5m : The number of barrels of oil per day in Iraq, before the March 2003 invasion.

Quality of Life - Iraq
3-6: Average number of hours per day that Iraqi homes have electricity, 2002.
6.4: Average number of hours per day that Baghdad homes have electricity, September 2006.
11.0: Average number of hours per day that Iraqi homes have electricity, September 2006.
16-24: Average number of hours per day that Baghdad homes have electricity, 2002.
2,000: The number of physicians in Iraq murdered since 2003 invasion.
12,000: The number of physicians who have left Iraq since 2003 invasion.
34,000: The number of physicians in Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion.

Safety
14: The number of daily insurgent attacks in Iraq, February 2004.
18: Number of times undercover officers successfully used fake IDs to enter the US at a border checkpoint, 2006 GAO report.
90: The number of daily insurgent attacks in Iraq, August 2006.

War Numbers - Personnel
14: Number of journalists killed by US forces in Iraq.
236: The number of US servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan
2,659: The number of US servicemen and women killed in Iraq.
5,323: The number of Iraqi military and police casualities.
84,105: Private contractors in Iraq supporting US servicemen and women.
145,000 : The number of US servicemen and women currently in Iraq.
350,000 : The number of National Guard and Reserve troops deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq.
1.35 million : The number of US servicemen and women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq.

War Numbers - Costs
$1.4 billion: Halliburton overcharges classified by the Pentagon as unreasonable and unsupportble.
$9 billion: US money lost or unaccounted for in Iraq.
$432 billion: The Congressional appropriation for Iraq and the "war on terrorism."

Sources: AP, DOE, DOE, US Liberals Guide, USAID

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