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Vol. CLIV, Issue 9
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Numbers in the news

3,654 Days since the September 11th attacks

2,975 Total death toll of the World Trade Center, Pentagon and western Pennsylvania field attacks

20  Percent of Americans knew someone hurt or killed in the attacks

422,000  Estimated number of New Yorkers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the September 11th attacks

1,714  Total number of hate crimes reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations nationwide since the attacks

1,751  Number of American causalities in Operation Enduring Freedom

7,276  Estimated minimum total number of Afghanistan civilian casualties as a result of insurgent actions

$1.28 trillion  Amount spent to date on the Afghanistan and Iraq war

Sources:   New York Magazine, CBS News, U.S. Department of Defense, UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Congressional Research Service

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