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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 11 2021, @04:57PM (1 child)
How exactly did the terrorists win? Unless you a count a fraction of them surviving or outlasting you as winning.
Also you didn't walk into the same trap as the Soviet union. America more or less pushed the Soviet union into the trap. Question might be who pushed you? Who pushed the British before the Soviets etc.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday September 12 2021, @08:45AM
The terrorists have had us in a permanent state of fear for 20 years.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].