{"id":1344,"date":"2004-09-02T06:09:05","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T11:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/the-cost-of-large-scale-terror\/"},"modified":"2004-09-02T06:09:05","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T11:09:05","slug":"the-cost-of-large-scale-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/the-cost-of-large-scale-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"the cost of large-scale terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>two stories crossed the ap wires recently,  and being the kinda person that synthesizes stuff all the time,  they just begged for a little calculation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>last came the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/US\/ap20040902_117.html\" class=\"broken_link\">news<\/a> today about the wealth of bin laden and in that the cost of the september 11 attacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the attack&#8217;s price tag of just $400,000 to $500,000 over two years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>a couple weeks ago, there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.tbo.com\/ap\/florida\/MGBSYJUXUXD.html\" class=\"broken_link\">story<\/a> about the top insurance companies losses, related to an expected double-whammy hurricane action going on in florida, that included this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Terrorist attack (New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania), September 2001 &#8211; $20.7 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>that&#8217;s a ($20,700,000,000 \/ $500,000) = 41,400-fold multiplier.<\/p>\n<p>just a comment now that i have a figure on it&#8230; you can&#8217;t beat that with an army.  bush was <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/it_depends_on_what_the_meaning_of_win_is.html\">closer to the truth<\/a> than maybe even he realized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>two stories crossed the ap wires recently, and being the kinda person that synthesizes stuff all the time, they just begged for a little calculation&#8230; last came the news today about the wealth of bin laden and in that the cost of the september 11 attacks. the attack&#8217;s price tag of just $400,000 to $500,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}