You're missing the point, Tom. It's not the numbers, it's the nature of the target itself (the physical symbol), and to a lesser degree, the people within those targets (that is, their role in the institutions attacked). The message is qualitative, not quantitative.
If you must play the body count game, then consider that 3,000 individuals killed at random by terrorists, with a random distribution of occupations in a random distribution of locations, would most clearly be an attack on the "general population". But the attacks of September 11th were a lot more focused than that. Three locations, three institutional categories represented by high-profile buildings that everyone in the world recognizes as symbolizing those categories. The message is all too clear.
--Robert
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