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state.gov
There were 208 acts of international terrorism in 2003, a slight increase from the most recently published figure of 198* attacks in 2002, and a 42 percent drop from the level in 2001 of 355 attacks.
Originally posted by syntaxer
Nice effort in providing us with an extremely erroneous website FlyerFan (www.johnstonsarchive.net). I really had a good time laughing (no offence) .
Reports of anthrax bioattacks, September-October 2001 (www.johnstonsarchive.net)
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 27 October 2000
Originally posted by syntaxer
Nice effort in providing us with an extremely erroneous website FlyerFan (www.johnstonsarchive.net).
Originally posted by AceOfBase
I'd like to see US data for 2004.
Originally posted by Nygdan
Why is the international and domestic data insufficient? Or are you just expressing curiosity?
Originally posted by Jamuhn
I'd say the initial post is very misleading, but hey,
whatever you can get right?
Originally posted by paperclip
Wasnt there a scandal a while back, Bush administration
fixing stats data so it shows a drop on terror activity,
when in fact they were rising?
Originally posted by FlyersFan
If there was, I don't recall it.
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. government restated its 2003 accounting of terrorist attacks Tuesday, reporting a sharp increase in the number of significant attacks and more than doubling its initial count of those killed.
The State Department's annual Patterns of Global Terrorism report now counts 208 terrorist attacks as having occurred in 2003, with 625 dead. When the report was released in April, it counted 307 deaths in a total of 190 terror attacks.
Originally posted by AceOfBase
I think he's referring to the US Patterns of Global Terrorism report released last year:
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. government restated its 2003 accounting of terrorist attacks Tuesday, reporting a sharp increase in the number of significant attacks and more than doubling its initial count of those killed.
The State Department's annual Patterns of Global Terrorism report now counts 208 terrorist attacks as having occurred in 2003, with 625 dead. When the report was released in April, it counted 307 deaths in a total of 190 terror attacks.
[edit on 10-2-2005 by AceOfBase]
Originally posted by paperclip
I've seen a similar statistic recenly in local newspapers, but I can't find it on the internet.
It showed a significant drop of terror activities around 96-98, then a rise through 2000-2002, then drop again, then rise with the "official end" of war in Iraq (remember that craptacular Bush anouncement on aircraft carrier).