Deadly Month
The Today Show notes that 126 Americans have died this past month. They are agog at the casualties.
Un-noted; that is almost exactly the death toll in the four days of the ground phase of the first Gulf War.
Posted by Mitch at
April 30, 2004 06:08 AM
And if you divide the number of deaths on September 11th by the 4 hour total duration of the attacks, its equal to about 10 minutes.
The score so far is
US Deaths ( War on Terror, since Sept 11th)
NYC - 2,726
DC - 415
Pennsylvania - 255
Afghanistan - 53
Bali - 202
Madrid - 180
Ryhadi - 45
morocco - 41
Iraq - 739
Terrorism is not new:
From 1968 until 2000, there were 4,957 terrorist attacks against U.S. interests.
- We lost 854 people due to those attacks.
Posted by: Frank Martin at April 30, 2004 04:56 PM- Worldwide, during that same time frame, there were 14,039 terrorist attacks, resulting in 10,614 deaths.