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Wed Nov 20, 2013, 09:56 AM Nov 2013

2013 the Bloodiest Year According to American Report — and the U.S. Sponsors Terrorism While Claimin

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2013 the Bloodiest Year According to American Report — and the U.S. Sponsors Terrorism While Claiming to Fight It!
al-Thawra, Syria
By Dina al-Hamd
Translated By Jackson Allan
9 November 2013
Edited by Gillian Palmer

American forces are still violating the national sovereignty of Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia as U.S. drones comb the skies above these countries, Afghanistan and other countries, killing dozens of civilians — men and women, young and old — each day. The U.S. admits this, claiming that civilian deaths happen by accident. It pays no attention to international law nor does it give any respect to national sovereignty. Rather, it sees the concept of sovereignty itself as a subject of its own interests, wishes and decisions, not of international law.

On top of all that, America creates terrorist organizations all around the world and recruits them to serve its strategic interests. It claims to fight terrorism around the world while using terror and aggression against helpless peoples and invading their countries. It is the biggest sponsor and applicator of terror; it collaborates with the Israeli entity to commit the kind of systematic terror that international law calls “state terrorism.”

Although America, alongside Israel, breaks international law and violates human rights in the name of fighting terror, its media and intelligence organizations come out each year with reports that talk about the extent, goals and causes of terrorism around the world as though it has nothing to do with these things. An American security report has revealed that the number of terrorist attacks and operations around the world in 2012 was 69 percent higher than in 2011. It observed that seven main organizations, six of which have direct ties to al-Qaida, were responsible for most of the attacks.

CNN’s website related from the report, which was prepared by the American National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, that “more than 8,500 terrorist attacks killed nearly 15,500 people last year as violence tore through Africa, Asia and the Middle East.” The report added that the number of causalities constitutes an 89 percent rise since 2011, a year that saw 5,000 attacks; the [previous] high for casualties was in 2007, when 12,000 people were killed. The report expects 2013 to be bloodier than last year, as the first six months saw more than 5,100 attacks. Three countries — Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan — witnessed 55 percent of all terrorist attacks in 2012 and 62 percent of the human losses.
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