| DEATHS
FROM TERRORISM US
TARGETS
April 1983 - US
Embassy, Beirut, suicide bomb (63 deaths)
October 1983 - US
Marines barracks, Beirut (299)
December 1988 - Pan
Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie (270)
February 1993 - World
Trade Centre, New York (6)
April 1995 - Federal
Building, Oklahoma City (168)
June 1996 - US
Military Complex, Saudi Arabia (19)
August 1998 - US
Embassies, Kenya and Tanzania (224)
October 2000 - USS
Cole, Aden, Yemen (17)
11th September 2001 -
Terrorist attacks on Utd States (2,823) -
[Revised September 2002]
OTHER POLITICAL
TARGETS
June 1985 - Air India
over Irish Sea (329)
April 1987 - Bus in
Colombo, Sri Lanka (150)
September 1989 - UTA
Flight over Chad (170)
July 1994 - Jewish
Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina (96)
October 1994 -
Suicide bus bomb, Tel Aviv, Israel (23)
November 1997 -
Tourists gunned down in Luxor, Egypt (62)
August 1998 - Omagh
town centre bomb, Northern Ireland (29)
September 1999 -
Apartments bombed in Moscow (118)
June 2001 - Suicide
bombing of discotheque, Tel Aviv (21)
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ENDURING
TERRORS
Number
of people who died of hunger on 11th
September 2001*: 24,000
Number
of children killed by diarrhoea on 11th
September 2001*: 6,020
Number
of children killed by measles on 11th
September 2001*: 2,700
Number
of malnourished children in developing
countries: 149 million
Number
of people without access to safe drinking
water: 1,100 million
Number
of people without access to adequate
sanitation: 2,400 million
Number
of people living on less than a dollar a
day: 1,200 million
Number
of African children under 15 living with
HIV: 1.1million
Number
of children without access to basic
education: 100 million
Number
of illiterate adults: 875 million
Number
of women who die each year in pregnancy
and childbirth: 515,000
Annual
average number of people killed by
drought and famine 1972-96: 73,606
Annual
average number of children killed in
conflict 1990-2000: 200,000
Annual
average number of children made homeless
by conflict 1990-2000: 1.2 million
*Assuming annual
deaths were evenly spread
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