Terror attacks on the rise, report reveals (more than 10,000 attacks!)

[UpInArms]

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/nation/14392444.htm?source=syn

WASHINGTON -- The number of terrorist attacks documented by U.S. intelligence agencies jumped sharply in 2005, crossing the 10,000 mark for the first time, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials and documents obtained by Knight Ridder Newspapers.

Officials caution that much of the increase, due to be reported publicly next week, stems from a change last year in how terror attacks are counted, coupled with a more aggressive effort to tally such violence worldwide.

But the documents say, and officials confirm, that some of the rise is traceable to the war in Iraq, where foreign terrorists, a homegrown insurgency and sectarian strife have all contributed to political bloodshed.

More than half the fatalities from terrorism worldwide last year occurred in Iraq, said a counterterrorism official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the data haven't been made public. Roughly 85 percent of the U.S. citizens who died from terrorism during the year died in Iraq.

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There were 3,192 terrorist attacks in 2004, the center reported last July.

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The figures cover only noncombatants and thus don't include combat deaths of U.S., Iraqi and other coalition soldiers.

[jayfish]

1. This Story Seems Vaguely Familiar.

Oh ya, cause I read it last year. How many times are they going to change how terra attacks are counted.

Jay

[BR_Parkway]

5. 33% approval on FAUX will do it every time - "KKKarl, we need more

terror - get to work and get my poll numbers back up!"

Hey Shrub, Mr "I keep Americans safe" - how many of those 10,000 have you brought to justice? How many convictions? How many indictments? How many trials?

And where the hell is Osama?

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Yep, Dim Son sure has made the world a safer place.

[OneBlueSky]

3. 10,000? . . . they must be including every engagement . . .

between us and them that happens in Iraq . . . since this is a war, and we're the aggressors, I don't buy that these are all terror attacks . . .

were this happening to our country, these kinds of attacks would be called "patriotic resistance" . . . or "homeland protection" . . . or something . . .

[DrBloodmoney]

4. Time to raise the terra alert level! n/t

[ShortnFiery]

6. Hey Earle! I thought that we're safer fighing them over there? n/t