"mistakes regarding how many died in 9/11"
Someone else, in a post above, pointed out that he also mentioned it being four years since Sept. 11th, when it's actually been 3. With regard to the mistakes regarding how many died on Sept. 11th (I thought he said "abandoned," not "died"), the number he mentioned was 50,000...he mentions that number at least twice in that tape.
I finally had enough patience to take a closer look at the transcript. It is chilling considering the number of times he mentions women and children; rockets and bombardoments of houses, high rises and towers; and stresses priority to private interests over public interests...it brings to mind the information obtained on schools.
"Someone else, in a post above, pointed out that he also mentioned it being four years since Sept. 11th, when it's actually been 3."
If I recall the transcript correctly, he said something along the lines of "As we enter the fourth year...", which then makes more sense. Odd, still that he would choose the beginning of a time period rather than simply marking the anniversary.
If in fact the terminology used is "abandoned" versus "died", this puts it in a different perspective. IIRC, initial reports the morning of 9/11 gave a figure somewhat near that number ( I know it was in the tens of thousands.) I always assumed that figure was for the number of occupants of the buildings (who would have been killed if the towers had collapsed immediately), but that number was scaled back dramatically when many were lucky enough to make it out before the collapse.
"We have the right to kill four million Americans - two million of them children - and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands."
-Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (bin Laden's Press Secretary): 2002