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9/11 - one year on
9/11 in numbers Tom Templeton and Tom Lumley Sunday August 18, 2002 The Observer The twin towers Year the World Trade Centre was built: 1970 Number of companies housed in the WTC: 430 Number working in World Trade Centre on average working day prior to 11 September: 50,000 Average number of daily visitors: 140,000 Number killed in attack on New York, in the Twin Towers and in aircraft that crashed into them: 2,823 Distance, in miles, from which the burning towers were visible: 20 Maximum heat of fires, in degrees fahrenheit, at World Trade Center site: 2,300 Number of days underground fires at World Trade Centre continued to burn: 69 Number of days that workers dug up debris at Ground Zero, searching for body parts: 230 Number of body parts collected: 19,500 Number of bodies discovered intact: 291 Number of victims identified by New York medical examiner: 1,102 Number of death certificates issued without a body at request of victims' families: 1,616 Number of people still classified as missing from the World Trade Centre that day: 105 Number of people who died when American Airlines flight 11 from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center: 92 Number of people who died when United Airlines flight 175 from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center: 65 Number of people who died when United Airlines flight 93, from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, crashed in rural southwest Pennsylvania: 45 Number of people who died when American Airlines flight 77, from Washington to Los Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon: 64 Number of peole killed in the Pentagon: 125 Number of survivors rescued from Ground Zero: 0 Al-Qaeda Number of children born to Yemen-born construction magnate Muhammad Awad Bin Laden: 52 Number child Osama was: 17 Estimated fortune of Osama Bin Laden, inherited from father: $300m Number of wives Bin Laden has: 3 Year Al-Qaeda was founded by Osama Bin Laden and Mohammed Atef: 1988 Date Bin Laden expelled from Saudi Arabia, due to anti-government activities there, and moved to Sudan: 1991 Year the Taliban seized control of Kabul implementing fundamentalist Islamic law and offering refuge to Osama bin Laden: 1996 Date expelled from Sudan due to US pressure, prompting return to Afghanistan: 1996 Number of Al-Qaeda members thought to have hijacked the four planes: 19 Number of the 19 who were Saudi: 15 Number of the 19 who are known to have made a will: 1 Number of years 'American Taliban' Johnny Walker Lindh (left) has been sentenced to for fighting with the Taliban against the Northern Alliance: 20 Percentage of New York Post readers who would like to see him executed: 42 Amount of money 500 relatives of 9/11 victims are suing the Bin Laden family company and Saudi princes for in an effort to bankrupt terrorism: $1,000,000,000,000 (trillion) Emotional fallout Number of orphans created by the 9/11 attacks: 1,300 Number of babies born to women whose husbands were lost on 11 September: 17 Number of days after 9/11 that Pat Flounders, widowed in the attacks, shot herself, the first related suicide: 91 Percentage of those living within a one mile radius from the Twin Towers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: 20 Increase in PTSD among Manhattanites post-9/11: 200 per cent Estimated minimum number of New Yorkers suffering from PTSD as a result of 9/11: 422,000 Estimated number of the city's public school students suffering from PTSD as a result of 9/11: 10,000 Percentage of Manhattanites who increased their alcohol consumption following 9/11: 25 Percentage of Manhattanites who increased their cigarette consumption following 9/11: 10 Percentage of Manhattanites who increased their marijuana consumption following 9/11: 3.2 Percentage sales increase at Toys in Babeland, a sex store in the Lower East of New York, in late September/October 2001: 30 Percentage increase in number of births reported in New York hospitals nine months on from 9/11: 20 Reported increase in church and synagogue attendance following 9/11: 20 Media and culture Percentage of this year's 14 Pulitzer prizes won by the New York Times: 50 Previous record number of Pulitzer wins by a single organisation: 3 Number of copies of Toby Keith's (above) album 'Unleashed' sold in the first week of its release in October 2001, one song contained the line 'We'll put a boot in your ass/It's the American Way': 338,000 Number of songs, including 'Ruby Tuesday' and 'Imagine', banned post- 9/11 for being 'lyrically questionable': 150 Number of countries in which the star-studded telethon, 'America's Tribute to Heroes', was shown on 21 September (including Afghanistan): 200 Amount raised by the telethon: $150m Cost of making the terrorist movie Collateral Damage starring Arnold Schwarzenegger: $85m Number of months the release of Collateral Damage was delayed on account of Warner Bros.' 'sensitivity' to the attacks: 5 Number of mentions of 9/11 at the four-hour 25-minute Oscars ceremony 24 March, 2002: 26 Number of English language books published on the subject of 11 September: 672 Mayor Giuliani's approval rating post 11 September: 91 per cent Charity Amount of Federal Aid New York received within two months: $9.5bn Amount collected by the September 11th Fund: $501m Percentage of fund used for cash assistance and services such as grief counseling for families of victims and survivors: 89 Quantity, in pounds, of food and supplies supplied by 11 September Fund at Ground Zero: 4.3m Number of hot meals served to rescue workers by 11 September Fund: 343,000 Number of displaced workers receiving job referrals: 5,000 Amount of compensation sought by the families of civilian casualties of US bombing in Afghanistan from the US government: $10,000 Amount of compensation sought for reckless misconduct and negligence from American Airlines by husband of 11 September victim: $50 million Britain Number of British victims: 67 Number of articles written over the last year in the UK press mentioning 11 September: 27,920 Number of specific mentions of Britain in threats from Al Qaeda: 1 Days after 9/11 that the 'Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001' was passed: 63 Votes for and against the Bill in the House of Commons: 458-5 Number of defeats in the House of Lords before a compromise was reached: 8 Number of Muslims in the UK: 1.8m Proportion of those deemed to be practising Muslims: 42% Number of 'terror suspects' imprisoned without trial after the 'Anti-Terrorism' act was passed: 11 Airline security Number of days after 9/11 that Bush signed the Aviation Security Act requiring all checked-in bags to be screened for bombs and explosives by January 2002: 39 Percentage of bags checked in screened for bombs and explosives prior to the bill in the US: 10% Number of bags carried each day by airline passengers in the United States: 3,000,000 Size (in inches) of toy soldier's mini replica Armalite rifle, intended as a present for her grandson, confiscated from British tourist Judy Powell's bag by airport security at LA International Airport: 5 Percentage of fake weapons undetected at America's leading Airports: 24 Cost of Frequent Flyers Bra manufactured by a Tokyo-based lingerie company in response to a number of security alerts relating to bra underwires: £20 The financial cost Value of US economy: $11 trillion Estimated cost of attacks to US based solely on property losses and insurance costs: $21billion Estimated total losses to the world insurance market from the World Trade Centre: £25bn-£50bn Amount of office space lost, in square feet: 13.5m Estimated number of jobs lost in lower Manhattan area following 9/11: 100,000 Number of jobs it has been estimated will be lost in the US as result of the attacks by the end of 2002: 1.8m Number of jobs lost in US travel industry in last 5 months of 2001: 237,000 Amount it has been estimated that US commercial insurance premiums will rise by to cover the potential cost of future terrorism between 2002 and 2004: 50% Amount allocated by Congress for emergency assistance to airline industry in September 2001: $15bn Military Days after 9/11 that the US military began bombing Afghanistan: 26 Number of US bombs dropped on Afghanistan in the following six months: 22,000 Proportion of US bombs dropped in Afghanistan that may have missed the target: 25 per cent Proportion that didn't explode, leaving landmines: 10 per cent Estimated Afghan civilian death toll from US bombing campaign so far (they're still bombing): 3,125-3,620 Size of UK military budget 2001-2002: £23.4bn Increase in 2002 budget defence spending that President Bush signed for on 10 January 2002: $30bn Number of major Bush political appointees with significant financial ties to the arms industry: 32 Number of major Bush political appointees with significant financial ties to the energy industry: 21 Wage of a US Special Forces Green Beret with five to seven years' experience: $25,000 Number of UK marines sent to Afghanistan to 'clear up' the remnants of the Al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in Operation Snipe in March: 1,700 Number of sightings of the enemy and shots fired in anger in the three month tour of duty: 0 New York one year on: Review special 18.08.2002: Dirk Winterborn: Life after death 18.08.2002: Walter Mosley: Time for a new Black Power movement Ed Vulliamy: live online, Wed 21/8 Post your questions now 18.08.2002: Ed Vulliamy: The city that never changed Worldview highlights: best of Ed Vulliamy New York lives 18.08.2002: 9/11: They have come through 18.08.2002: Michael Steinberg: A lonely voice of New York dissent 18.08.2002: 9/11: rescue chief and the detective The day 18.08.2002: 9/11: Distant voices, still lives (part one) 18.08.2002: 9/11: Distant voices, still lives (part two) The facts 18.08.2002: 9/11 and after: In numbers Observer special reports Observer Worldview Terrorism crisis: Observer special View from America Iraq: Observer special Afghanistan: Observer special Jason Burke's terrorism dispatch Worldview: debating American power Key moments: the inside story Liberty Watch campaign New York view: Observer highlights 23.09.2001: Peter Carey: letter from New York 16.09.2001: When our world changed forever 21.07.2002: New York, new hedonists 10.03.2002: New York: Big, bad and back to its ballsy best View from America Iraq 18.08.2002: 'Saddam will not stop me being a Kurd' 11.08.2002: The Iraq debate - Doves v Hawks 11.08.2002: Mark Leonard: Could the left back war on Iraq? 11.08.2002: Leader: The world needs a plan for Iraq 11.08.2002: Anthony Sampson: West's greed for oil fuels Saddam fever 11.08.2002: Nick Cohen: Who will save Iraq? Iraq: Observer special Observer Comment: the broadest debate Observer Terrorism Crisis comment Iraq: Observer special 28.07.2002: Jason Burke: Well, they look like Al-Qaeda 21.07.2002: Martin Bright: Terror, security and the media 23.06.2002: Dan Plesch: Can the Afghan peace hold? 14.07.2002: John Pilger: The great charade Peter Beaumont: Bin Laden's men wait to take bloody revenge 10.03.2002: Fred Halliday: New world, but the same old disorder 10.03.2002: Peter Beaumont: America gears up for a new kind of war 03.03.2002: Paul Kennedy: Has the US lost its way? 07.10.2001: Kanan Makiya: Fighting Islam's Ku Klux Klan 23.12.2001: Henry Porter: The triumph of reason 20.01.2002: Christopher Hitchens: What Bush got right 27.01.2002: Paul Rogers: American unilateralism is back Advertiser linksCheap Airline TicketsFind cheap trips and travel deals from over 100 Web sites at... kayak.comOrbitz - TicketSort flights by price, departure time, duration, and airline... orbitz.comVIP Tickets - Entertainment TicketsVIP Tickets, providing VIP Service. 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