1. By: Paige Waldberg

2. importance
• National security issue
• Attacks are devastating
• Impacts everyone

3. impact
• Death
• Increased security
• Hurts economy
• War

4. How to help
• Learn more about terrorists
• US tries to spread world peace

5. 9/11
• NY economic loss in the month following the attack: $105
billion
• $600 million in clean up
• 4,220 New Yorkers still suffer post-traumatic-stress
disorder
• 50% increase in CIA applications
• 26 days after attacks, US bombed Afghanistan
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/04/9-11-attacks-seen-by-first-person-footage-
video.html

6. Facts about 9/11 deaths
• 2,753 people killed
• 343 firefighters & paramedics killed
• 3:1 ratio of men to women killed
• 115 nations citizens killed
• 1,609 people lost their spouses
• 3,051 kids lost their parents

7. Things you probably don’t know
• Terrorism is a business
• Globalization boosts terrorism
• Each time an American reads a newspaper or takes a sip at
a soft drink, they contribute to Osama bin Laden's financial
empire
• The terror economy is larger than the UK’s

8. Osama bin Laden
• Leader of Al-Qaeda
• Mastermind behind 9/11
• Had 3 wives & 11 children

9. Citations
http://www.netvibes.com/privatepage/1#terrorism_news
ndiatoday.intoday.in/story/us-consulate-attack-act-of-terrorism-hillary-
clinton/1/221943.html
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/09/24/new-terrorism-suspects-
nabbed.html
http://washingtonexaminer.com/the-haqqanis-terrorists-at-
last/article/2508805#.UGCzgrKPXY8