Take 5: 9/11: Cost and consequences

2005-The year Jihadist was added to Merriam-Webster College Dictionary.

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225,000

A conservative number of lives lost,both civilian and soldiers,in Afghanistan,Iraq and Pakistan,according to costsofwar.org. 6,204 American military personnel have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan operations.

2005

The year Jihadist was added to Merriam-Webster College Dictionary. The word is defined as a Muslim who advocates or participates in a jihad and says the first known use of the word was in 1989.

38,144

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Green cards issued to immigrants from Pakistan,Iraq,Afghanistan,Iran and Egypt in the fiscal year 2001. That number went down to 23,695 in fiscal year 2002 but shot up to 63,290 in fiscal year 2010.

26 million

Lighters confiscated at airports in the two years they were banned. In April 2005,over three years after 9/11,the US Transportation Security Administration banned lighters anywhere on a plane. The ban was lifted in 2007 after authorities found that a ban on the devices did little to make flying safer.

1.1 million

The estimated number of people on various terror watch lists,including the no-fly list,in the US in 2009. Before 9/11,there were only 16 people on the no-fly list. In 2004,the late Senator Ted Kennedy said he was repeatedly stopped at airports because the list had the name T Kennedy,an alias of a suspected terrorist and a name Sen Kennedy shared with about 7,000 others.