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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. These were "a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks [...] against the United States of America on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001."
Of the 2,977 people who died, 2,605 were U.S. citizens and 372 non-U.S. citizens (excluding the 19 perpetrators). More than 90 countries lost citizens in the attacks, including the United Kingdom (67 deaths), the Dominican Republic (47 deaths), India (41 deaths), Greece (39 deaths), South Korea (28 deaths), Canada (24 deaths), Japan (24 deaths), Colombia (18 deaths), Jamaica (16 deaths), Philippines (16 deaths), Mexico (15 deaths), Trinidad and Tobago (14 deaths), Ecuador (13 deaths), Australia (11 deaths), Germany (11 deaths), Italy (10 deaths), Bangladesh (6 deaths), Ireland (6 deaths), Pakistan (6 deaths), and Poland (6 deaths).
It was a tragedy not only for America, but for the world.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 11 2021, @07:53AM (1 child)
Here it is. [slashdot.org]
What was more important, unless you had family or friends directly involved, was the erosion of civil liberties in the following years as covered by sites like Slashdot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 11 2021, @04:06PM
Wrong. Both were important to everyone in the West. You are going to handwave away a coordinated attack that showed how completely vulnerable the "open" West was?