Thursday, September 11, 2008

9/11 Fund: Once Was Enough -- By Kenneth R. Feinberg

Over the next 33 months, the fund paid out more than $7 billion to 5,560 people; the average award for a death claim was just over $2 million, and the average award for a physical injury claim was more than $400,000. (Sadly, there were few injury claims resulting from the attacks; people either escaped from the World Trade Center towers or the Pentagon, or they didn't.) Never before in American history has there been an example of such taxpayer generosity.

Afghans Incensed by Air Attack on Village
The 43-page report, “‘Troops in Contact’: Airstrikes and Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan,”

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