Fact SheetU.S. Department of State

Washington, DCAugust 15, 2002

http://www.state.gov/coalition/cr/fs/12701.htm

World Trade Center 2,823 (includes airline passengers)Pentagon 125 (not including plane victims)

Flight 11 92 people on boardFlight 175 64 people on boardFlight 77 64 people on boardFlight 93 44 people on board

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. 361:2226-2234. 2003.

Americans see 9/11 as most important event of their livesAgence 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, state-sponsored 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

“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

Cuban President Fidel Castro has blamed capitalism for causing deaths and suffering on a scale comparable to the Nazi Holocaust.

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.