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9/11 aftermath in numbers
10/09/2006 15:24 - (SA)
New York - Cold, dry numbers never can tell the full story.
Ponder enough of them, though, and they help to fill out the portrait of how life has changed since the attacks of September 11 2001, that killed nearly 3 000 people in the United States.
Quantities large and small speak to wars fought, innocence lost, books read, plots foiled, deaths mourned and hassles institutionalised.
War
272: Deaths of US servicemen and women in and around Afghanistan.
2 662: Deaths of US servicemen and women in Iraq war.
21 000: Members of US military now in Afghanistan.
145 000: Members of US military now in Iraq.
1.35 million: Members of US military deployed for Afghan and Iraq wars since 2001.
380 000: National Guard and Reserve members among those deployed for Afghan and Iraq wars.
Culture
11: Weeks the September 11 commission's final report was number one on The New York Times best-seller list for non-fiction.
$19m: Movie ticket sales for World Trade Centre on its first weekend in theatres. (Director Oliver Stone's best weekend debut ever)
$119m: Ticket sales for Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, the top-grossing documentary of all time.
1 248: Books published related to the September 11 attacks.
5: CIA's ranking in a list of ideal places to work, based on a survey of college undergraduates at 207 universities. (FBI was fourth; state department was third; Disney and Google were top two vote-getters.)
Price tags
$2.50: Security fee paid by airline passengers for each leg of every trip flown.
$2.1m: Average award from government compensation fund to families of those killed on September 11.
$150m: Assets of terrorists frozen worldwide.
$40bn: Airline industry losses.
$432bn: Approved by congress for Iraq and the war on terrorism.
Enemies
1: Person in this country charged with a crime in connection with the September 11 attacks.
6: Life sentences for Zacarias Moussaoui, who pleaded guilty to conspiring with the September 11 hijackers.
42: Groups designated foreign terrorist organisations by the secretary of state.
456: People charged in US terrorism-related investigations.
91: Percent of terrorism cases recommended by FBI and other agencies that justice department lawyers declined to prosecute in the first eight months of the 2006 budget year.
455: Detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
5 000: Suspected terrorists captured or killed outside United States with CIA help.
Sentries
2 161: FBI intelligence analysts today.
1 023: FBI intelligence analysts five years ago.
24: Hours of intelligence training provided to new FBI agents.
0: Hours of that training provided five years ago.
20 281: Intelligence information reports filed, sharing raw intelligence within government.
0: Number of shared raw intelligence reports five years ago.
16: Times the colour-coded threat level has been raised or lowered by federal government.
18: Times undercover investigators with fake IDs breezed through US border checkpoints in a test by government accountability office.
42 000: Flights logged since military began combat air patrols over major cities.
40.3 million: Prohibited items confiscated from carryon bags since transportation security agency took over airport screening in November 2002.
2-3: Extra minutes added to airline passenger screening process every time a prohibited item is detected.
Attitudes
46: Percent of people polled in the United States who are confident Osama bin Laden will be caught.
50: Percent who say the attacks affect the way they live their lives today.
60: Percent who think there will be more terrorism in the United States because the US went to war in Iraq.
95: Percent who remember exactly where they were or what they were doing when they heard about September 11 attacks.
Remembrance
5: Galleries in the tribute visitors centre at the World Trade Centre site in New York, which will serve as a temporary memorial space until the official memorial opens in 2009.
184: Benches to be installed at Pentagon memorial, each over its own small reflecting pool and inscribed with a victim's name.
500 000: Visitors to the field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where United Flight 93 crashed.
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