“Al Qaeda spent roughly half a million dollars to destroy the World Trade Center and cripple the Pentagon. What has been the cost to the United States? In a survey of estimates by The New York Times, the answer is $3.3 trillion, …” – Shan Carter and Amanda Cox, “One 9/11 Tally: $3.3 Trillion,” NYT.com, […]
9/8/2011
“[T]he number of IEDs [improvised explosive devices] in Afghanistan has mushroomed: from 1,952 in 2006 to 5,616 in 2009. All told, since the Afghanistan war began, homemade bombs have killed 719 U.S. troops and wounded 7,448.” – Spencer Ackerman, “$265 Bomb, $300 Billion War: The Economics of the 9/11 Era’s Signature Weapon,” Wired, Sep. 22, […]
9/8/2011
“[A]ccording to the Pentagon’s bomb squad, the average cost of an IED [improvised explosive device] is just a few hundred bucks, pocket change to a well-funded insurgency. Worse, over time, the average cost of the cheapo IEDs have dropped from $1,125 in 2006 to $265 in 2009.” – Spencer Ackerman, “$265 Bomb, $300 Billion War: […]
9/8/2011
“A Lloyd’s insurance syndicate has begun a landmark legal case [filed on September 8, 2011] against Saudi Arabia, accusing the kingdom of indirectly funding al-Qa’ida and demanding the repayment of £136m it paid out to victims of the 9/11 attacks. The Brighton-based Lloyd’s 3500 syndicate, which paid $215m compensation to companies and individuals involved, alleges […]
9/7/2011
“According to the Costs of War research project by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, the U.S. also spent $1.3 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan before counting interest on the war debt and health care for veterans. Analysts are putting the total price of the wars abroad at closer to $2.6 […]
9/1/2011
“More than 18,000 people are suffering from illnesses linked to the dust from the attacks on New York’s World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. The figure comes from the US government’s monitoring and treatment programme for 9/11 emergency workers, volunteers and local residents. The most common afflictions are respiratory problems including asthma and sinusitis, […]
9/1/2011
Aljazeera.com created an interactive chart titled “September 11: Counting the costs to America” online: “Future Military: $1.38 trillion The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will continue to be a drain on US taxpayers long after the last troops have been withdrawn. More than 50,000 Americans have been wounded in those two wars; some of them […]
9/1/2011
Aljazeera.com created an interactive chart titled “September 11: Counting the costs to America” online: “Debt: $983 billion The US government is heavily in debt, meaning Washington has borrowed trillions of dollars to finance its spending on wars and homeland security. This category accounts for the interest on those debts related to 9/11 – war and […]
9/1/2011
Aljazeera.com created an interactive chart titled “September 11: Counting the costs to America” online: “Domestic: $540 billion Domestic security spending – the ‘homeland security industry’ – has snowballed since 9/11. This category is mostly driven by growth in the intelligence community and the Homeland Security Department; both of their budgets have roughly doubled in the […]
9/1/2011
Aljazeera.com created an interactive chart titled “September 11: Counting the costs to America” online: “Economy: $278 billion The economic cost of 9/11 was significant, and also difficult to measure. Many of these items require proving a negative: How many people decided not to fly because of 9/11? How many fewer tourists visited New York? Several […]