9/11: Numbers & Facts

2,977
Total victims of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

343
Fire Department of New York personnel killed at the World Trade Center.

60
Police officers killed at the WTC.

17,400
Approximate number of workers at the WTC when the planes hit.

21,817
Human remains recovered from the destruction.

9.006
Remains never matched to a victim.

1,121
Victims never identified through remains.

289
Number of intact bodies pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center. Most families of victims received only body parts - or only death certificates.

2
Age of the youngest victim. Christine Hanson was travelling with her parents to Disneyland in California when Flight 175 was hijacked. Eight children were killed in the attacks, all of them passengers on hijacked airliners.

source: CBC Newsworld

200

People believed to have jumped of fallen from the twin towers before their collapse, according to USA Today survey, witness photographs, videos and testimony.


56 & 102 minutes was the time the burning twin towers stood.

12 seconds was all it took for them to fall.

2.3
Magnitude, on Richter scale, of the seismic impact of the north tower's collapse.

93
Nationalities of victims.

29.9 million ounces of silver recovered from a Bank of Nova Scotia vault below the towers.

300
Approximate number of search and rescue dogs deployed at the World Trade Center, Fresh Kills landfill and the Pentagon.

7
Days passed before Christie Whitman, the Environment Protection Agency administrator, said the air in New York was "safe to breathe."

99
Days passed before Governor George E. Pataki declared the fires had been extinguished.

261
Days passed before last piece of steel, a 58-tonne segment of column, was carted away.


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following 9.11.2001.

779 
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2002.

26 million
Lighters confisticated at airports in the three years they were banned.

16,000
Names on the US government's "No Fly" list.

US$2.08 million
Average government settlement for families of those killed.

80,680
Service members treated for post-traumatic stress disorder.

13,065
Minimum number of people found to have 9/11-related asthma and other lower respiratory ailments.

10,320
People found to have 9/11-related post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses.

3000
Estimated number of children who lost a parent on 9/11.

36
Newborns named Osama in the United States in 2001.

55
Newborns named Osama from 2002 to 2009.

93
Percentage of Muslim Americans who believe their fellow Muslims are loyal to the United States.

48
Percentage who believe they have experienced racial or religious discrimination in the past years.

2005
The year "jihadist" was added to the Merriam-Webster College Dictionary.

45
Feature films that were postponed or re-edited after the attacks. A Jackie Chan movie called Nosebleed, about a window-washer at the World Trade Center who foils a terrorist plot, was cancelled.

source: New Sunday Times, September 11, 2011.

Remembering September 11, 2001

this is indeed "geez-another-post-about-nineleven-blablabla" kinda thing. well, to most people, it is. i don't know about other bloggers, but all i'm trying to do here... is to deliver my thoughts and feelings upon what happened back in 2001... and what's happening, here and now in 2011.

ten years. one-'O'. big ten, fellas. a split second could determine one's life and death - then how about ten years? on this very date, the world, and especially America - we are all mourning over the loss of lives in one of the darkest hours in history.

by right you should have known the "102 minutes that changed America." hence, i guess my explanation about this 'infamous' history might only bring you the expected boredom. nevertheless, that ain't my intention upon writing this very entry.

back in 2001, the world blamed religious movements upon what happened on 9/11. nonetheless, Islam. why so? because terrorism was claimed in the name of Islam; in the name of "the right thing to do."

three things i'd like to highlight here...

one. the victims of and in the tragedy. thousands of innocent lives were killed due to the attack. working mothers, fathers of children, family guys, happy souls, noblemen and cheerful ladies; you name it. had had them wrong to justify their fate? who were we... are we... to tell to even ourselves, that they got what they deserved? i feel sorry for their families, their husbands and wives, sons and daughters of all ages, relatives and friends... and how i wish they knew, that everybody wishes that time could be turned back, for at least a few minutes before 'it' happened. may God bless them souls.

two. the terrorists. for God sake why did you guys do that?? revenge? unsatisfied, dissatisfaction? redeeming rights and condemning wrongs? the best part was... the attack was proudly claimed in the name of "do the just" and religion. correct me if i'm wrong, but do tell me - why Islamophobia is surprisingly 'popular' after the attack? why every man with beards were eyed and labelled 'suspicious' if not directly 'terrorist'? why women with hijab were forced to take off their face-cover and scanned thoroughly? by right, the 'deeds' that those people committed in the attack somehow have put Muslims and Islam itself in a big cauldron of hot boiling soup. even worse, it's a 'fitna', a false accusation on the holy religion! now who has to shoulder the blame?

victims of 9.11.2001.

three. those who put in faith that 9/11 was the teaching of Islam. as a Muslim, i can confirm you, that Islam teaches no terrorism. Islam promotes love, peace and harmony. and i believe, other religions discard violence and terrorism from their teachings as well. what was claimed as an act of religious belief was totally individuals'. or perhaps, some misconceptions about their beliefs, and what they wanted to believe. never would a religion command its followers to commit such wrong-doings. in Islam, putting something not at its right place is already a sin; zalim. hence, i beg all readers; i beg the world - don't just a religion by its followers. if you want to know about Islam, read the Koran (al-Quran) and hadith. you'll understand the meaning of Islam, and the true way of living as Muslim.

and you know what - as much as Christians and other religions condemn the recent Norway Massacre, Muslims all over the world condemn terrorism and the wrong-doings committed by those misled so-called Muslims.

read up articles, writings and news about 9/11. learn from the past, today, for a better future. God bless.

and yes, America. In God We Trust.