Fatalities.

{From wikipedia, Sept. 11 casualty list}:

Fatalities included the following:

• Everyone aboard the four hijacked planes.^[31] Excluding the hijackers, this includes 76 passengers and 11 crew members aboard American Airlines Flight 11; 49 passengers and 11 crew members aboard United Airlines Flight 175;^[32] 53 passengers and 6 crew members aboard American Airlines Flight 77; 33 passengers and 7 crew members aboard United Airlines Flight 93.^[33][34]
• 2,606 in New York City in the towers and on the ground:^[2]
  • This includes 343 New York City Fire Department firefighters, including one FDNY Fire Chaplain, Franciscan Fr. Mychal Judge,^[35] 23 New York City Police Department officers, and 37 Port Authority Police Department officers.^[36] Casualties of the 9/11 attacks also included 15 EMTs^[37] and 3 Court Officers. Approximately 2,000 first responders were also injured in the attacks.^[37]
  • 1,366 people died who were at or above the floors of impact in the North Tower (1 WTC); according to the Commission Report, hundreds were killed instantly by the impact while the rest were trapped and died after the tower collapsed (though a few people were pulled from the rubble, none of them were from above the impact zone).^[38]
  • As many as 600 people were killed instantly or trapped at or above the floors of impact in the South Tower (2 WTC). Only about 18 managed to escape in time from above and in the impact zone and out of the South Tower before it collapsed.
  • About 292 people were killed at street level by burning debris and falling bodies of those who had jumped from the World Trade Center's windows.
  • Of those who worked below the impact zones, 110 were among those killed in the attacks. The 9/11 Commission notes that this fact strongly indicates that evacuation below the impact zones was a success, allowing most to safely evacuate before the collapse of the World Trade Center.^[39]
  • A USA Today report estimated that approximately 200 people perished inside the elevators, while only 21 escaped the elevators. Many elevators did not plunge, but were destroyed due to the crash and subsequent fires, or were stranded in the shafts. A locking mechanism prevented escapees and rescuers, with the exception of one elevator, from opening the doors of some of the stranded elevators.^[40]
  • A bomb sniffing dog named Sirius^[41] (not included in above total).
• 125 in the Pentagon^[3]

 {Iraqi citizen fatalities}:

Iraq War Logs: What the numbers reveal

First published 23 Oct 2010

• The Iraq War Logs contain an estimated 15,000 previously unknown civilian deaths.
• The majority of these new deaths come from small incidents of one to three deaths.
• Additionally, IBC calculates that over 150,000 violent deaths have been recorded since March 2003, with more than 122,000 (80%) of them civilian.

The Iraq War Logs released by WikiLeaks on 22 October 2010, contain 54,910 records compiled by the United States military whose numerical fields register 109,032 violent deaths between January 2004 and December 2009. These casualty records contain four categories of casualties, ‘Civilian’ (66,081 deaths), ‘Host Nation’ (15,196 deaths),‘Enemy’ (23,984 deaths), and ‘Friendly’ (3,771 deaths).

Deadly blast hits Somali capital. .

{From AlJazeera}:

At least four people have been killed in a car-bomb blast near the Somali foreign ministry building in the capital, Mogadishu.
The attack, which wounded 15 others, occurred on Tuesday while Kenya's defence minister, Yusuf Haji, and foreign minister, Moses Wetangula, were meeting Somali officials in the offices of the foreign ministry.
"There was heavy explosion near the foreign affairs ministry building and initial reports are indicating a car laden with explosives detonated," Mohamed Adan, a Somali government official said, on Tuesday.
"It was a car bomb that exploded but we don't know what it was targeting," Ali Abdi Rahman, a witness, told the AFP news agency.
The explosion did not damage the ministry building but did tear down a stone wall in front of it. Hundreds of on-lookers gathered to see the demolished car scattered across the road. Several body parts littered the street, witnesses said.
Abdikarim Sheikh Hussein, a university student in Mogadishu, said he was standing on the other side of the street when the explosion happened. Bloodied textbooks were lying on the ground in the post-explosion ruins.
"When the car blew up a ball of flame and smoke engulfed the whole area, then some wounded people ran through the streets'' he told the Associated Press.
Ambulances evacuated the wounded and government forces fired in the air to disperse a crowd of onlookers.

{Compare to}:

U.S. Bomb kills 10 in Afghan village.

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes pounded Taliban positions around Kabul Sunday but one bomb killed at least 10 people in a village controlled by Afghanistan's opposition Northern Alliance, television reported.

Waves of bombers hit positions of the hardline Muslim militia in the north of the capital overnight, witnesses said.
Qatar's al-Jazeera television said a stray bomb hit a village in the area but did not give its name. It quoted medical sources in the town of Jabal-us-Saraj as saying the village was located a few kilometers from the frontline.
It showed footage of destroyed houses, apparently in the village.
Jazeera said Italian medical staff operating in the area confirmed the attack, saying 16 people were killed.
A source at the Northern Alliance Foreign Ministry also confirmed to Jazeera the village had been hit, but gave no details.
The Taliban says hundreds of Afghan civilians have been killed by stray U.S. bombs or missiles.

Comparing.

They say seeing is believing, but in this day and age of media propaganda and high-tech imaging equipment, that point is no longer valid. This blog is not to force opinions on to anyone or even to express my own. I will simply post different news articles and videos, and also try to find the other side of the story or a story that could be compared with the posted article.