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September 11th 2001 in Perspective

DEATHS FROM TERRORISM

US TARGETS

April 1983 - US Embassy, Beirut, suicide bomb (63 deaths)

October 1983 - US Marines barracks, Beirut (299)

December 1988 - Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie (270)

February 1993 - World Trade Centre, New York (6)

April 1995 - Federal Building, Oklahoma City (168)

June 1996 - US Military Complex, Saudi Arabia (19)

August 1998 - US Embassies, Kenya and Tanzania (224)

October 2000 - USS Cole, Aden, Yemen (17)

11th September 2001 - Terrorist attacks on Utd States (2,823) - [Revised September 2002]

OTHER POLITICAL TARGETS

June 1985 - Air India over Irish Sea (329)

April 1987 - Bus in Colombo, Sri Lanka (150)

September 1989 - UTA Flight over Chad (170)

July 1994 - Jewish Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina (96)

October 1994 - Suicide bus bomb, Tel Aviv, Israel (23)

November 1997 - Tourists gunned down in Luxor, Egypt (62)

August 1998 - Omagh town centre bomb, Northern Ireland (29)

September 1999 - Apartments bombed in Moscow (118)

June 2001 - Suicide bombing of discotheque, Tel Aviv (21)

ENDURING TERRORS
  • Number of people who died of hunger on 11th September 2001*: 24,000

  • Number of children killed by diarrhoea on 11th September 2001*: 6,020

  • Number of children killed by measles on 11th September 2001*: 2,700

  • Number of malnourished children in developing countries: 149 million

  • Number of people without access to safe drinking water: 1,100 million

  • Number of people without access to adequate sanitation: 2,400 million

  • Number of people living on less than a dollar a day: 1,200 million

  • Number of African children under 15 living with HIV: 1.1million

  • Number of children without access to basic education: 100 million

  • Number of illiterate adults: 875 million

  • Number of women who die each year in pregnancy and childbirth: 515,000

  • Annual average number of people killed by drought and famine 1972-96: 73,606

  • Annual average number of children killed in conflict 1990-2000: 200,000

  • Annual average number of children made homeless by conflict 1990-2000: 1.2 million

*Assuming annual deaths were evenly spread

Statistics Reproduced from New Internationalist Magazine,
Nov 2001 edition, pp18-19.