Foreign dead on Sept.11

Michael · 28 December 2001, 07:15 AM

Stephen,

Non-practising Catholic - A person who has not bothered to examine the beliefs of the Catholic Church enough to make a decision of conscience whether to follow them or reject them, but meanwhile finds the requirements too onerous to follow. *In other words they want to wear the uniform but not do the duty.

Theologically, "non-practising Catholic" is equivalent to "non-breathing human".

mike_baram · 28 December 2001, 09:05 AM

It's a lot easier being Jewish.
You are either "observant", or "non-observant".
We don't have to practice. We got it right the first time.

28 December 2001, 01:39 PM

Guys, getting back to the question, do we have any idea just how many foreign citizens died on Sept.11? I see that "TIME" magazine has listed the adjusted death toll at 2992. From above, we know of about 125 or so Brits and Canadians. There must have been lots of others - didn't a large German bank take a big hit?
An Aussie I met in San Francisco said his wife worked for a major insurance company at the WTC. She was out of town on the 11th, but most of the people in the company who died that morning were foreign nationals, not Americans.

Rick · 28 December 2001, 02:07 PM

Say What?? You mean you want a complete break-down of all the illegals who worked in the restaurants on the top floors of both towers. Heck, nobody's even claimed they are 'missing'. R.

28 December 2001, 04:29 PM

I would guess that the majority of those foreigners working at the WTC that day were high-income, white collar business executives, not "illegal" busboys. Certainly the bios of the Canadian dead in a national magazine seemed to indicate this.
God knows how many illegal immigrants died there were as well, but remember, there are lots of foreigners working legally in the US as well.
Surely a nation as statistically minded as the USA (as any issue of The Sporting News will bear out) has computed rough estimates of the nationalities of the dead.