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21 Awful Truths About 9/11

In total, workers sifted through more than one million tons of debris looking for remains and personal effects. They found 65,000 items, including 437 watches and 144 wedding rings. THE SHA DOW OF 9/11 KRISTEN BROCHMANN / THE NEW YORK TIMES FILES A fireball erupts from the south tower of the World Trade Center after it was struck by a plane on 9/11. It took firefighters 100 days to extinguish all the fires ignited by the attacks. BY THE NUMBERS 21 arwfuțtruths about The number of The top four search topics on Google in the week of 9/11, in descending order, were for: Nostrada- mus, CNN, The World Trade Center and Osama bin Laden. children who lost a parent in the events of 9/11 was 3,051. Seventeen babies were 6.75 Years it took to build the World Trade Center (WTC), from 1966 to 1973. subsequently born to women whose hus- bands died during the attacks. Nine months after 9/11, the number of births in New York City rose by 20% com- pared with the same month in 2000. 102 Minutes it took to destroy both towers, from first impact to final collapse. In an exercise named "Vigilant Guardian," NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command), simulated at least four plane hijackings in the week prior to 9/11 and was scheduled to simu- 56 Minutes the south tower (2 WTC) stood before collapsing. 102 Minutes the north According to research- ers, alcohol consump- tion in Manhattan in the week after 9/11 increased by 25% com- pared with the same period the year before. Tobacco consumption rose by 10%, mari- juana consumption by 3.2% and church and synagogue attendance by 20%. tower (1 WTC) stood before collapsing. 9/11 late another on the morning of the attacks. 12 Seconds it took for each tower to crumble. Próperty developer Larry Silverstein bought the 99-year lease on the World Trade Center for $3.2- billion just six months 125 Military and civilian before they were destroyed. 2,992 People who died in the Sept. 11 attacks, accord- ing to the 9/11 Commission report. Details that got buried in the rubble workers who died in the attack on the Pentagon. 64 People who died aboard the flight that crashed into the Pentagon. The section of the Pentagon hit by Flight 77 had just under- gone a $258-million rearmament, in which walls had been strengthened and re- inforced windows had been installed. Many 19 Al-Qaeda hijackers who windows right next to the plane's point of im- pact remained intact. 15 Hijackers who were Saudi. A Muslim prayer room was destroyed when the World Trade Cen- Only 291 dead bod- ies were recovered "intact" from Ground Zero. The parents of Lisa Anne Frost, 22, who was a passenger on United Flight 175, which hit the South Black boxes from Flight 77 were report- edly discovered in the Pentagon on Sept. 12. Donald Rumsfeld later said data from the cockpit voice recorder was unrecoverable, thought to be the first time in 40 years that a recovered cockpit voice tape yielded no data. ter collapsed, along with a store of Korans. 44 People who died in the plane that crashed into rural Pennsylvania. The total value of art lost when the Twin Towers collapsed ex- ceeded $100-million. Items included Alex- ander Calder's sculp- ture WTC Stabile, Joan Miro's epic World Trade Center Tapestry, a painting from Roy Lichtenstein's En- Tower, had to wait almost a year before anything belonging to their daughter was found by workers sift- ing through debris. died in the Sept.11 attacks. 23 NYPD officers who died John Patrick O'Neill, a special agent in charge at the FBI, who had The best-selling U.S. novel of 2001 was Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Hundreds of memor- ials, flagpoles, cru- cifixes and artworks have been made using steel from Ground Zero, including a cross in Shanksville, Phila- delphia, where United Flight 93 crashed, made out of steel from the north tower. at the WTC site. investigated al-Qaeda 343 Firefighters who died In total, workers sifted through more than one million tons of debris looking for remains and personal effects. They found 65,000 items, includ- ing 437 watches and 144 wedding rings. tablature series and others by Picasso and David Hockney. and the first attack on the World Trade Cen- ter in 1993, left the FBI 37 due to policy disagree- ments. He took up a new job as head of security at the World Trade Center – where he died on 9/11. at the WTC site. Port Authority police who died at the WTC site. One of the unsung heroes of 9/11 was a guide dog, Roselle, a yellow Labrador who led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 78 storeys of the North Tower and to the home of a friend. When the 9/11 ring- leader, Mohamed Atta, checked in at Logan airport, in Boston, his name triggered an alert on the airport's security system and his bags were never put in the plane's hold. 3 EMS workers who died at the WTC site. 836 WTC responders, It took firefighters 100 days to extinguish all the fires ignited by the attacks in New York. recovery workers and volun- teers who died after working at ground zero as of June 2010. Earlier this year, the official death count for 9/11 was raised by one to 2,753. New York's Medical Examiner's Office ruled that Jerry Borg, an accountant and part-time actor, had died in late 2010 from a lung disease caused by inhaling dust close to the Scientists took ad- vantage of the flight ban over the U.S. 50 In thousands, number of Three hours before the attacks, a machine called a Random Event Generator at to conduct experi- ments on the effect on the atmosphere of jet planes. They found the days were a people who worked in the WTC complex. Princeton University predicted a cataclys- mic event was about to unfold. Five of the 9/1 hijack- ers stayed in a motel right outside the gates of the National Secur- itv Ageney in the days immediately before the attacks. 140 In thousands, esti- mated number of people who visited the WTC complex daily. little warmer and the nights cooler. Compiled by John Hind, The Sunday Telegraph World Trade Center. National Post

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A fireball erupts from the south tower of the World trade Center after it was struck by a plane on 9/11. It took firefighters 100 days to extinguish all the fires ignited by the attacks.

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