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World Trade Center
Pentagon
Flight 11
Flight 175
Flight 77
Flight 93
2,823 (includes airline passengers)
125 (not including plane victims)
92 people on board
64 people on board
64 people on board
44 people on board
Fact Sheet
U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC
August 15, 2002
http://www.state.gov/coalition/cr/fs/12701.htm
Every day, almost 16,000 children die
from hunger-related causes—one
child every five seconds.
Black, Robert, Morris, Saul, & Jennifer Bryce. “Where and Why Are 10 Million
Children Dying Every Year?” The Lancet. 361:2226-2234. 2003.
Black, Robert, Morris, Saul, & Jennifer Bryce. “Where and Why Are
10 Million Children Dying Every Year?” The Lancet. 361:22262234. 2003.
Americans see 9/11 as most
important event of their lives
Agence France-Presse: Six years after the September 11
attacks on the United States, most Americans view the plane
hijackings that killed around 3,000 people as the most significant
historical event of their lives, according to a poll released Monday.
Eighty-one percent of those surveyed said they see the attacks
as the most significant historical even of their lifetimes, with more
people on the east coast -- 90 percent -- choosing this view
compared to 75 percent on the west coast.
The Zogby International telephone poll surveyed 938 people
between September 6 and 9 and has a three-percentage point
margin of error.
The Holocaust was the
systematic, bureaucratic, statesponsored persecution and murder
of approximately six million Jews by
the Nazi regime and its
collaborators. “Holocaust” is a word
of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice
by fire.” The Nazis, who came to
power in Germany in January 1933,
believed that Germans were
“racially superior” and that the
Jews, deemed “inferior,” were an
alien threat to the so-called German
racial community.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
During the era of the
Holocaust, German authorities
also targeted other groups
because of their perceived
"racial inferiority": Roma
(Gypsies), the disabled, and
some of the Slavic peoples
(Poles, Russians, and others).
Other groups were persecuted
on political, ideological, and
behavioral grounds, among
them Communists, Socialists,
Jehovah's Witnesses, and
homosexuals.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
Castro: capitalism causes new holocaust
Cuban President Fidel
Castro has blamed
capitalism for causing
deaths and suffering on
a scale comparable to
the Nazi Holocaust.
“The images we see of mothers and children
in whole regions of Africa under the lash of
drought and other catastrophes remind us of the
concentration camps of Nazi Germany,” he said
at the opening of the first G-77 summit of
developing countries, in Havana.
BBC News. Thursday, 13 April, 2000, 12:06 GMT 13:06 UK
Point of View?
• Holocaust 1933-1945: Six million Jews,
200,000 Roma (Gypsies), and 200,000
mentally or physically disabled patients
died needlessly.
• 21st-Century Capitalism 2000-2007:
Eighty million children died needlessly.
Most Important Event?
• On September 11, 2001, terrorists killed
3,212 people in the United States.
• On September 11, 2001, easily
preventable diseases such as diarrhea,
malaria, and starvation killed 27,397
children.