“We drew from sources including various news reports, The Brookings Institute’s Iraq Index, and the Costs of War Project to document money and blood spent on the Iraq war between 2003 and 2011. -189,000: Direct war deaths, which doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands more that died due to war-related hardships. -4,488: U.S. service personnel […]
12/18/2011
“The last U.S. troops left Iraq on December 18 [2011] and crossed the border into Kuwait.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 43 […]
12/15/2011
“[I]t was not until December 2011 that the U.S. government declared that the [Iraq] war was oficially over.” [The 15th of the month for date sorting purpose only] – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 43 […]
11/17/2011
“The very last U.S. military base on Iraqi soil, Camp Adder, closed on November 17, 2011.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 50 […]
9/11/2011
“The [Pakistani] army continues to see terrorism merely as a latent threat and India as the more clear and present danger,’ said Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ali Durrani [on September 11, 2011], the former national security adviser to Prime Minister [Yousaf Raza] Gilani. ‘We have not grappled with the issue of extremism seriously–neither the public, nor […]
9/11/2011
MarketWatch.com reported on the post-9/11 costs to the U.S. economy: “These costs can be seen in long lines at airports. They can be found in the budgets of private companies and government agencies that have spent vast sums to beef up security. They’re also evident in struggling industries such as tourism, whose representatives blame tougher […]
9/11/2011
END: Although important events related to 9/11 will assuredly continue to surface, I believe that our coverage from 1947 through the tenth anniversary of 9/11 covered a substantial amount of the important information preceding and resulting from that catastrophic day. Therefore, we do not plan on adding additional sourced comments dated after Sep. 11, 2011, […]
9/10/2011
“On September 10 [2011], the Haqqani [insurgent] network sent a suicide truck bomb packed full of explosives into a U.S. post in Wardak province, close to Kabul [Afghanistan]. It killed five Afghans and wounded seventy-seven American soldiers–the largest single casualty toll since the war began.” – Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink, Page 180 […]
9/10/2011
“The anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has told his followers to stop attacking US troops in Iraq so as not to slow their withdrawal from the country. In a statement posted on his website, the Shia cleric tells his militias to halt attacks until the US withdrawal is finished at the end of the year as […]
9/8/2011
“The terrorists who crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001 spent an estimated $400,000 to $500,000 to kill nearly 3,000 people. The total costs of the attack for U.S. companies and taxpayers are much more difficult to ascertain. The cost of losing so many human lives is incalculable. And […]