2975: last exact figure on 9/11 casualties.
20: percentage of Americans who knew someone hurt or killed in the 9/11 attacks.
26: days after 9/11 the US began bombing Afghanistan.
US$50,000,000,000: increase in US defence spending every year since 9/11 until 2005.
35: number of miles from Islamabad that bin Laden’s compound was located.
12 to 18: number of feet in height that the outer walls of the compound, topped with barbed wire, measured.
12,384,000: average tweets generated per hour at peak during and after President Obama announced bin Laden’s death.
30,000: number of articles written about bin Laden in the top 50 US newspapers in 2001.
18,428: number of followers for bin Laden’s fake Twitter account.
1957: year bin Laden was born.
50 or more: number of siblings bin Laden has.
10: number of years the manhunt for bin Laden took.
8: number of months it took between US intelligence identifying bin Laden’s compound and the eventual helicopter assault that killed him
99.9: Percentage of accuracy, according to officials, of a DNA test confirming the man shot in Abbottabad was Osama bin Laden. (The US is believed to have collected DNA samples from several of bin Laden’s family members during the decade since the terrorist attacks of 9/11.)
20,354: total number of media mentions of bin Laden locally since his death was announced yesterday, according to Media Monitors.
*We’ve been a little late to the party these past two days due to technical difficulties beyond our control. We’ve fed the hamster and vow to be on time tomorrow.
Dear Crikey, the RSPCA has been duly notified of your extreme cruelty to hamsters.
You can expect a raid by an elite “Hamster Rescue Squad” by deadline tomorrow.
20% of Americans knew someone hurt or killed? Do you read what you write or just cut&paste random websites.
If that were true, every single person killed or injured would have more than 10,200 friends, relations and acquaintances.
This story is huge enough without making stuff up.
You forgot:
17 & 39 – those killed and injured by the USS Cole bombing in 2000
219 – those killed in the US embassy bombing, Kenya in 1998
12 – those killed in Dar es Salaam 12 minutes later
1 – journalist, Daniel Pearl, beheaded in 2002
6 – those killed in WTC1 in 1993
61 – those killed at the British Consulate in Instanbul, 2003
19 – those servicemen killed in Saudi in 1996
202 – those killed in Bali in 2002
11 – Those killed in Mombassa in 2002
1 – engineer, Paul Johnson, beheaded in 2004
155 – those killed by a double-suicide bomb in Baghdad in 2009
2000 – the capacity of London club, Ministry of Sound, which was targeted for bombing attacks in 2004
3521 – days since at least 200 people jumped from the 110th floor of the WTC, away from a firestorm and to their deaths.