And it is certainly not that you kill somebody in order to silence them,” he said, as the crowd applauded. When speaking about the Al-Qaeda attacks, the governor recalled how that event changed the trajectory of his own life. “There’s others — first responders — who are still suffering from very significant afflictions as a result of their service on that day. So, all in, you’re looking at way more than 3,000 people as a result of that terrorist attack on 9/11. does not track whether cancer was the cause of death or the death was caused by 9/11-related illness.