US lawmakers stare down government shutdown as funding deal unravels

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 AFP

US lawmakers were set to vote Wednesday on temporary funding to thwart a damaging government shutdown, as a rebellion within the ruling Republicans piled pressure on party leaders racing to keep the lights on just weeks ahead of the presidential election.  

Government funding is set to expire at the end of September and Congress will need a stopgap bill — known as a “continuing resolution” (CR) — to keep operations open past the election because the parties are nowhere near agreement on a full-year budget. 

Former president Donald Trump has urged Republicans to force a shutdown unless certain demands are met.

That would cause the closure of federal agencies and national parks, limiting public services and furloughing millions of workers without pay just weeks before the election.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to call a vote later Wednesday on a six-month extension, punting the shutdown deadline into March, when the next president would be in office.

But he has announced that he intends to pair it with legislation requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections, known as the SAVE Act.

Trump, who dominates the House Republican group and continues to claim falsely that he was cheated by voter fraud in the 2020 election, has lobbied for Johnson to add the measure to the package.

“I would shut down the government in a heartbeat… if they don’t get it in the bill,” Trump told Monica Crowley, a senior Treasury official in his administration, on her podcast. 

And he said in a social media post on Tuesday that Republicans should “in no way” agree to a CR if they “don’t get absolute assurances on election security.”   

President Joe Biden’s administration — worried about eligible voters being blocked from voter rolls or otherwise deterred — opposes the SAVE Act, noting that noncitizen voting is already illegal and that there is no evidence that undocumented migrants take part in elections.

– ‘Election integrity’ –

Nearly 200 House Democrats already voted against the SAVE Act when it was approved by the House two months ago, in a 221-198 vote. 

Johnson does not even appear to have the support of a critical mass of his own side and has said he has no fallback option if the package fails — risking a shutdown at the start of October, less than five weeks before Election Day.

In the Senate, the governing Democrats plan to strip the voting provisions and give Republicans in the House an ultimatum: pass a “clean” CR moving the funding deadline to the end of the year or trigger a government shutdown.

With the election less than two months away, vulnerable Republicans see a government shutdown as disastrous for their reelection prospects. 

At least half a dozen lawmakers from all sides of the party have come out against the Johnson proposal, with defense hawks worried about military readiness and fiscal conservatives always against stop-gap funding measures that don’t cut spending. 

Republicans can only afford to lose four members on any party-line vote.

The spending fight is Johnson’s last big test before he asks his lawmakers for another two years at the helm.

He has argued that a March funding deadline would allow an incoming president Trump to weigh in on spending if he wins the White House, rather than approving the funding under a lame-duck Biden.

And he says “election integrity” is a unifying issue for voters and Democrats will look out of touch by rejecting the proof-of-citizenship bill.

“If Speaker Johnson drives House Republicans down this highly partisan path, the odds of a shutdown go way up, and Americans will know that the responsibility of a shutdown will be on the House Republicans’ hands,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement Friday.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries described the Republican proposal as “unserious and unacceptable.”

‘CLOSE IT DOWN!!!’ Trump Tells Republicans to Shut the Government Unless They Get ‘Assurances’ On His Debunked Voter Fraud Claims

Alex GriffingSep 10th, 2024, 


AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Former President Donald Trump posted a message to his fellow Republicans on Tuesday, urging members of his party in Congress to shut down the federal government unless they get “assurances” his roundly debunked claims of voter fraud will not happen.

“If Republicans in the House, and Senate, don’t get absolute assurances on Election Security, THEY SHOULD, IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, GO FORWARD WITH A CONTINUING RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET. THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO “STUFF” VOTER REGISTRATIONS WITH ILLEGAL ALIENS. DON’T LET IT HAPPEN – CLOSE IT DOWN!!!” Trump posted on his Truth Social account.


Trump has long claimed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen despite countless court cases and audits showing that there was no significant voter fraud that caused him to lose by some seven million votes. Trump and his GOP allies have already begun to claim that the 2024 election will be stolen, further undermining faith in the country’s electoral system – a key tenet of U.S. democracy.

Claims of significant voter fraud have made their way into pro-Trump media and the state of Texas has announced an investigation. Over the weekend Trump promised to use the power of government to jail anyone he suspects of rigging the election, including those donating to Kamala Harris.


“I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election,” Trump wrote on Saturday.

“It was a Disgrace to our Nation! Therefore, the 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” he added, concluding:


Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.


Republicans in the House are looking to tie passing the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) Act to additional funding to keep the government open. The SAVE Act would require those registering to vote to show proof of citizenship, despite non-citizens already being banned from voting in federal elections and states having verification procedures in place.

The Associated Press reported in May, when the SAVE Act was first introduced, about the prevalence of illegal migrants on voting rolls, writing, “To be clear, there have been cases over the years of noncitizens illegally registering and even casting ballots. But states have mechanisms to catch that. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose recently found 137 suspected noncitizens on the state’s rolls — out of roughly 8 million voters — and is taking action to confirm and remove them, he announced this past week.”

Gaza’s toxic air a ‘death sentence’ for trapped Palestinians, warn experts

Nearly 1 million cases of acute respiratory infections reported in Gaza since Oct. 7, according to WHO data

Rabia Ali |10.09.2024 - TRT/AA 

Experts fear more birth defects, lung cancers, mouth cancers, chronic respiratory illnesses and asthma cases in Gaza

ISTANBUL

Experts are warning that millions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are breathing toxic and polluted air that is nothing short of a “death sentence.”

Hundreds of thousands of people in the besieged and bombarded enclave are suffering breathing problems and respiratory issues, and doctors say the scale of the problem will continue to grow as Israeli bombs disperse more chemicals into the air, mixing with dust from the unending mounds of rubble throughout Gaza.

The extent of the crisis will also become clearer when Gaza’s health system is restored and hospitals get back the ability to conduct tests and offer other basic services destroyed in Israel’s ongoing assault.

Dr. Riyad Abu Shamala, a Palestinian ENT specialist in Gaza, fears an increase in birth defects in the near future, along with cases of lung cancer, particularly once “hospitals resume operations and departments such as radiology, MRI, CT scan and others … are restored.”

“I believe the general situation will worsen due to the deterioration of living conditions, increased pollution, lack of sanitation, and the contamination of water and air,” he told Anadolu.

Since Oct. 7 last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recorded 995,000 cases of acute respiratory infections in Gaza.

Yara Asi, an academic specializing in health management, believes these numbers are likely a significant undercount.

“It’s much worse than we know because there are countless people that are in homes or in shelters with no access to physicians or hospitals to tell them about their ailments,” said Asi, an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s School of Global Health Management and Informatics.

Why are respiratory infections rising in Gaza?

The problem is rooted in “air pollution caused by dust, debris, chemicals from the destruction of buildings … and explosions,” said Abu Shamala.

Another major pollutant is vegetable oil that is being used as a substitute for diesel, he said.

The living conditions in Gaza are dire, with severe overcrowding in displacement camps, thousands of tents in close proximity, and piles of garbage everywhere, which are exacerbating the health crisis, said the doctor.

Along with that is the weakened immunity of people who are malnourished and relying on canned food as the main source of sustenance, he said.

Abu Shamala said the most common respiratory ailments among Gazans right now are acute and chronic bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, bronchitis, sarcoidosis, and lung cancer.

Most people have symptoms such as severe cough, difficulty in breathing, phlegm with cough, including bloody phlegm, rapid breathing and wheezing, he added.

Since last October, Israel has dropped more than 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza, and there is more than 40 million tons of rubble across the enclave.

“There are thousands of tons of rubble and dust and people don’t have the tools to clear it. They don’t have the machinery, they don’t have appropriate masks, they’re just walking around in this environment,” said Asi.

Civil rescue workers are literally inside destroyed buildings, trying to dig through the rubble with no protective gear, she said.

“This, of course, will also exacerbate respiratory illnesses,” said Asi.

Normally, smoking is the biggest cause for COPD, but Gaza’s case is entirely different, she said.

“This isn’t a population that is smoking. This is a population that is living amid ruins ... with dust, smoke and toxic chemicals that they cannot avoid,” said Asi.

Is prevention possible?

Another major unknown and exacerbating factor, according to Asi, is the kind of warfare being seen in Gaza.

There is indiscriminate bombing all around civilian areas and with bombs packing thousands of pounds of explosives, she said.

“We’ve seen glimpses of this in Syria, but in many cases there, aside from areas under siege, people were able to escape. Here, they are trapped,” said the researcher.

“It’s kind of an unprecedented health crisis in many ways.”

Health problems for the people of Gaza “will unfold over the years … (and) we will have to manage and deal with it,” she said.

Asi finds it particularly frustrating that many of the diseases that are threatening Palestinian lives are completely preventable or treatable.

“We have the treatments. We have vaccines for many of them ... All of that is gone, or never was in Gaza, because of the (Israeli) blockade,” she said.

She feels at a loss as to what Gazans can do to protect themselves.

“The ultimate fix … would be to leave Gaza entirely right now, but they cannot even do that,” she said.

“The only thing that will stop this at this point is a cease-fire, and a rigorous and sustained humanitarian effort that includes, in some cases, getting the most vulnerable people out of Gaza to receive the medical care they need.”

Long-term consequences

Asi warned that respiratory illnesses can have long-term consequences, including for babies, children, elderly people, people with compromised immune systems, people with cancer, and pregnant women.

“It is especially dangerous for children whose bodies, immune systems, and lungs are still developing,” she said.

There are studies on the link between exposure to viral infections or toxins and developing asthma or other types of wheezing disorders later in life, she added.

After the US dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there were more cases of cancers and other genetic anomalies for decades, as was the case after the Iraq war, said Asi.

“We saw greater incidents of cancers and other ailments, especially in children that were born in those settings,” she said.

“Gaza is yet another setting of environmental disaster and destruction that children are growing up or being born in.”

She fears there will be a rise in “lung cancers, mouth cancers, chronic respiratory illnesses, and asthma.”

“This could be a death sentence for many in the near or short-term future,” she warned.​​​​​​​

Canada suspends 30 permits for arms sales to Israel

Melanie Joly also blocks contract for Quebec ammunition to go to US for delivery to Israeli army

Barry Ellsworth |11.09.2024 - 
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TRENTON, Canada

Canada has suspended 30 permits for arms sales to Israel and cancelled a contract with a US company to sell Quebec-made ammunition to the Israeli army, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said Tuesday.

Joly was emphatic that the government will not allow Canadian made ammunition – in this case manufactured by the Canadian arm of US-based General Dynamics – to be sold or shipped to other countries for resale to Israel.

The announcement was welcome news to the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), Canada’s largest Muslim advocacy organization.

“Minister Joly put out a clear message in stating that Canada’s policy on a weapons ban to Israel remains in place,” NCCM posted on X. “She suggested point blank that the government of Canada was not in favor of any loopholes being used in relation to the recent proposed sale of explosives by General Dynamics.”

The sale of Canadian arms from a go-between country for sale in Israel has been a bone of contention. Joly said this type of business transaction like the one by General Dynamics is expressly forbidden.

“As for the question regarding General Dynamics, our policy is clear,” Joly said. “We will not have any form of arms, or parts of arms, be sent to Gaza. Period. How they’re being sent and where they’re being sent is irrelevant. And so therefore, my position is clear, the position of the government is clear, and we’re in contact with General Dynamics.”

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs said Joly’s words spelled out “a disturbing shift” in Canadian government policy, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported.

THE TRIPLE GODDESS

Restoration of ancient sanctuary to pagan goddess in southwestern Türkiye underway

Lagina temple is largest known sacred area, temple dedicated to goddess Hecate in ancient times, head of excavation team tells Anadolu

Durmuş Genç |11.09.2024 - Update : 11.09.2024



MUGLA, Türkiye

Restoration work is underway at the 3,000-year-old Temple of Hecate in Lagina, a center of ancient pagan beliefs located in Türkiye's southwestern province of Mugla.

The upper structure of the columns surrounding the naos, the temple’s most sacred area, is being re-erected.

The temple of the goddess Hecate being restored

Professor Bilal Sogut, head of the Stratonikeia and Lagina Excavation Team, told Anadolu that they are conducting excavation, restoration and drawing work at Lagina year-round.

Sogut highlighted that Lagina, one of the two religious centers of the ancient city of Stratonikeia, is significant due to the presence of a temple dedicated to the ancient goddess Hecate.

He underscored that this is the largest known sacred area and temple dedicated to Hecate in the ancient period.

"We are conducting both excavation and drawing works at the temple and also performing temporary anastylosis (the reconstruction of a structure from blocks discovered during excavations, without adding any new elements) related to the upper structure of the temple.



"We have reached a better understanding of the ancient architecture and the ongoing processes of such an important cultural center," Sogut added.

He noted that as blocks from the temple dating back 2,100 years are discovered, they are carefully placed back in their original positions.

Sogut added that these works involve reassembling blocks from the naos and the surrounding columns, known as the peristasis.




*Writing by Serdar Dincel

Global repercussions of Sept. 11 terror attacks continue to reverberate 23 years later

Fallout of attacks continues to ripple across the globe after US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq led to further instability, return and creation of new extremist groups

Michael Gabriel Hernandez |11.09.2024 - TRT/AA




WASHINGTON

The chaos and terror that swept across the nation 23 years ago is increasingly becoming a distant memory for many Americans, even as the global shockwaves that followed the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks continue to be felt.

For those who lived through that terrifying and sobering morning, watching as scene after scene of carnage unfolded in New York City before spreading further, the horror lives on.

It all started when a passenger plane slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8.46 a.m. on a busy Tuesday morning. Just 17 minutes later, another plane struck the South Tower.

The massive 110-story skyscrapers, burning and badly damaged by the plane strikes, would collapse within minutes of one another, sending a thick cloud of toxic dust and ash ripping through the streets of Manhattan as people desperately ran away in terror.

Amid the devastation in New York, another plane struck the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. at 9.37 a.m.

A national panic not seen since Pearl Harbor, some 60 years prior, had rapidly set in.

Just minutes after the Defense Department was struck, authorities closed all US airspace, but United Airlines Flight 93 had already been overrun.

Passengers and crew were rushing to the cockpit in an effort to wrest control of the plane from the four hijackers. About five minutes later, the plane would jackknife into an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all onboard.

The plane was about 20 minutes flying time from Washington, D.C., where authorities believe the hijackers sought to strike either the White House or the US Capitol.

It would take time, but Americans would eventually find out that 19 al-Qaeda terrorists were responsible for hijacking the four passenger planes in a plot orchestrated by the terror group’s longtime leader, Osama bin Laden.

A total of 2,977 people were killed on Sept. 11. Thousands more were injured that day. An estimated 400,000 other victims, including firefighters and police who worked tirelessly to rescue as many survivors as possible, were exposed to the carcinogenic dust cloud that swept through New York City when the World Trade Center collapsed.

The fallout has been nothing short of disastrous.

And so began the War on Terror

With the nation scrambling for answers, President George W. Bush would quickly go on the offensive, telling all nations worldwide that if they harbor al-Qaeda, its operatives or its leaders, the US would take action: “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”

“From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime,” Bush said during a joint address to Congress nine days after the attacks, putting the US squarely on a war footing.

“The only way to defeat terrorism as a threat to our way of life is to stop it, eliminate it, and destroy it where it grows,” he added.

In just three weeks, Bush would begin what would become America’s longest war when he invaded Afghanistan, the country from which bin Laden and al-Qaeda planned and executed the devastating Sept. 11 attacks.

The Global War on Terror had officially begun.

The Taliban government would quickly collapse in the face of the vastly superior US military, but the militants would go on to stage a two-decade long insurgency against American and allied forces in Afghanistan, striking from the shadows.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declared an end to “major combat” operations in Afghanistan on May 1, 2003, but the US occupation of the Central Asian country would continue for 18 years until President Joe Biden withdrew all American forces in 2021.

The Taliban rapidly returned to power as US and international troops left Afghanistan, ousting the internationally-recognized government and reimposing their hardline grip on the impoverished nation.

US launches war on Iraq, but never finds alleged weapons of mass destruction

Just a year-and-a-half after Bush declared war on the Taliban, he began a second front in the War on Terror in far-away Iraq.

The pretext for this war was Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein’s alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction. But evidence of the program, detailed before the UN Security Council by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, was never found.

“My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions,” Powell told the Council one month before the March 2003 invasion. “What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.”

No chemical or biological weapons were ever recovered, despite robust investigative efforts after Saddam and his military were eliminated. Powell later reflected that the Feb. 5, 2003 speech was his singular greatest regret during his decades of public service.

Like the Taliban, Saddam’s forces rapidly fell apart in the face of US military power, but like what happened in Afghanistan, an insurgency would form that would bring with it years of violence against coalition forces until the US withdrew in 2011.

Legacy of torture mars War on Terror

The kinetic wars in Afghanistan and Iraq dominated international and domestic headlines for years. But below the surface, US intelligence agencies were carrying out a far more secretive war that involved clandestine renditions of terror suspects, CIA black sites, and a program whose name would become a euphemism for torture.

The “Enhanced Interrogation Program,” as it would be known, was implemented worldwide with hundreds of detainees being subjected, most notably at the infamous US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The interrogation program was publicly detailed in a damning 500-page Senate Intelligence Committee report that was released in redacted form in 2014.

“CIA personnel, aided by two outside contractors, decided to initiate a program of indefinite secret detention and the use of brutal interrogation techniques in violation of U.S. law, treaty obligations, and our values,” Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein wrote in the report.

“It is my personal conclusion that, under any common meaning of the term, CIA detainees were tortured. I also believe that the conditions of confinement and the use of authorized and unauthorized interrogation and conditioning techniques were cruel, inhuman and degrading. I believe the evidence of this is overwhelming and incontrovertible,” she added.

The report brought to light systemic, widespread abuses perpetrated by CIA officers, including the now infamous practice of waterboarding, placing detainees in extended periods of stress positions, sleep deprivation and punitive forced rectal feeding and rehydration.

It further said the CIA’s justifications for the program, based on its alleged effectiveness, were “inaccurate.” A review of 20 cases used by the agency to justify the enhanced interrogation techniques found that there was either no link between torture that was used and counterterrorism successes or found that the CIA falsely claimed a correlation between the intelligence it gained and the methods used.

The report determined that in such cases, the intelligence was either gained from a detainee prior to interrogation or was already available to the CIA from other sources.

Clandestine US operation kills bin Laden not in Afghanistan, but in neighboring Pakistan

It took a decade for the US to find and kill bin Laden. Ultimately, the al-Qaeda leader was not found in Afghanistan, where he had been holed up in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

He was discovered across the border in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, residing in a sprawling compound less than one mile from the country’s premier military academy.

On May 2, 2011, a pair of previously undisclosed modified Black Hawk stealth helicopters crossed the Pakistani border, flying fast and low as they closed in on bin Laden’s safe house. As soon as they reached their target, US special operations forces rapidly disembarked, entered the compound and killed the al-Qaeda leader, taking his body for confirmation.

Bin Laden was subsequently buried at sea after a positive identification was made in what marked the most significant US victory in the war on terror.


Rise of Daesh/ISIS poses far greater threat than al-Qaeda

The victory proved short-lived, however. Just three years later, a new terror group would rise from the remnants of Saddam’s Baathist military before spreading worldwide.

Daesh/ISIS gained global attention when it rapidly overran vast swathes of Syria and then Iraq as it announced the formation of its self-styled caliphate in 2014. Adherents from around the globe would flock to join the terror group’s ranks as its territorial grip grew.

At its height, Daesh/ISIS controlled one-third of Syria and 40% of Iraq amid widespread instability, claiming major cities including Mosul and Raqqa and bringing with it an iron-fisted fundamentalist rule. That was something al-Qaeda only ever aspired to.

While it no longer lays formal claim to any territory in either country following a years-long international military campaign led by the US, Daesh/ISIS maintains cells in the region and has grown to include affiliates as far afield as West Africa and Afghanistan.

It was, in fact, Daesh/ISIS's affiliate in the country that claimed a deadly 2021 suicide bombing on Kabul's international airport as US troops were withdrawing from Afghanistan, killing 13 US troops and nearly 170 civilians.

The terror group's Afghanistan branch has gone on to carry out a series of other attacks on the Taliban following the US exit.

US forces, meanwhile, continue to carry out operations around the world, including in Afghanistan, aimed at eliminating the group. There continues to be no end in sight.

Just The Facts

Remembering the Costs of September 11

The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. changed not only the United States forever. They also had global consequences that are felt to this day.

September 11, 2024

By The Globalist

    

1

At 8:46 AM, American Airlines flight 11 struck the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York. A second plane, United Airlines flight 175, struck the south tower 17 minutes later.

2

A third plane, American Airlines flight 77, struck the Pentagon at 9:37 AM. A fourth plane, United Airlines flight 93, crashed in Pennsylvania at 10:03 AM after its passengers attempted to overpower the hijackers.

3

The attacks were carried out by 19 terrorists associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda, and were — and remain — the deadliest terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the country’s history.

4

The attacks were planned by members of the so-called “Hamburg Cell.” It was located in Hamburg, Germany, and included the ringleader, Mohamed Atta.

5

15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens. Saudi Arabia was also the birthplace of al-Qaeda's leader, Osama bin Laden.

6

Some 2,753 people were killed in New York, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 in Pennsylvania. All 19 hijackers were also killed.

7

An estimated 400,000 people were exposed to toxic contaminants, risk of physical injury and physically and emotionally stressful conditions in the days and months following the attacks.

8

In response to the attacks, instead of pursuing targeted counter-terrorism operations, U.S. President George W. Bush announced the ill-fated Global War on Terror. The United States began military operations in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.

9

The war in Afghanistan was the longest war in U.S. history. It lasted for 20 years and cost the lives of 2,443 U.S. soldiers.

10

Since the U.S. withdrawal, the Taliban, who had given al-Qaeda safe haven, are once again in control of the country.

11

On March 20, 2003, President George W. Bush announced that U.S. forces had begun military operation against Iraq. The goal was to topple dictator Saddam Hussein and confiscate his alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

12

No weapons of mass destruction were found, and the gradual U.S. withdrawal led to the rise of the Islamic State. Saddam Hussein was executed for crimes against humanity by the new Iraqi government on December 30, 2006.

13

The mastermind behind the attacks, Osama bin Laden, was killed in a raid on his hideout in Pakistan on May 2, 2011.

14

More than 7,000 U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, along with more than 8,000 contractors. The financial cost of the War on Terror to the United States is estimated to be over $8 trillion.

15

Globally, it is estimated that over 940,000 people have died in the post-September 11 wars due to direct war violence. An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people died indirectly in post-September 11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to approximately 4.5-4.7 million.

Sources: Britannica, George W. Bush Library, Washington Post, Politico, Al Jazeera, CIA, Watson Institute, World Trade Center Health Program, Reuters

Author

The Globalist