The legacy of 11th September 2001

The bitter legacy of 9/11 as published here in todays Independent just about sums it up. I make no apologies for repeating it in full below - makes you think doesn't it?

• 2,973 Total number of people killed (excluding the 19 hijackers) in the September 11, 2001 attacks
• 72,000 Estimated number of civilians killed worldwide since September 11, 2001 as a result of the war on terror
• 2 Number of years since US intelligence had any credible lead to Osama bin Laden's whereabouts
• 2,932 Total number of US servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since September 2001
• 1,248 Number of published books relating to the September 11 attacks
• $119m Ticket sales for anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11
• $40bn Airline industry losses since September 2001
• 2009 Date when the official memorial will open at the World Trade Centre site
• 0 Hours of intelligence training provided to new FBI agents before 9/11. Now they get 24.
• 91 per cent Terror cases from FBI and others that US Justice Dept declined to prosecute in first eight months of 2006
• 11 Weeks the 9/11 commission's final report was top of New York Times' non-fiction best-seller list
• 117 Number of UK service personnel killed in Iraq since invasion
• 40 Number of UK personnel killed in Afghanistan since invasion
• 7 per cent People in UK who think US-led war on terror is being won, according to YouGov
• 1 Those charged in US with a crime in connection with 9/11
• 455 Number of detainees at Guantanamo Bay
• 77 per cent Percentage of people in the UK who believe Tony Blair's Middle East policy has made Britain a terrorist target (YouGov)
• 4,000 Number of UK troops left in Iraq after British-controlled provinceshanded back to Baghdad
• 18 The number of times that undercover investigators with fake IDs have breezed through US border checkpoints in a test by the Government Accountability Office
• $8bn The amount the US will spend this year on hunting Bin Laden and other terrorists