ATTACKS ON AMERICA:
THE WORLDWIDE FACE OF TERROR

Terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11 shocked the world. The U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR) extends its deepest sympathies to the thousands of victims and their families.

The tragic events of September 11 are an awful reminder that massive death and utter terror are a sad daily reality in too many places of the world. We at USCR are painfully aware in our daily work that tens of millions of innocent people around the globe are regularly victimized by atrocities, human rights abuses, and the destruction of all that life holds dear. The 34 million people worldwide who struggle to live day to day as refugees and displaced people are the survivors of bloodshed and hate that still afflict humankind in the 21st Century. Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers have fled to the United States over the years to escape merciless acts of violence and persecution that have terrorized their homes. They have endured the kind of loss that Americans have rarely experienced, until now.

As the U.S. government strikes back at the perpetrators and supporters of terrorist attacks, the American public should recognize that all American citizens now have a deeper bond with refugees and asylum seekers of the world because they, too, know the face of terror.

U.S. Committee for Refugees
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