Report documents major increase in terrorist incidents

[kpete]

Report documents major increase in terrorist incidents
By Warren P. Strobel
Knight Ridder Newspapers

HUMPHREY NEMAR, Express Syndication
A double-decker bus is torn open from an explosion at Tavistock Place in London, one of several explosions in July 2005. 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.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14390584.htm

[shenmue]

1. You see, the way to convince people...

not to be violent, is for us to go over there and blow their stuff up!

:crazy:

That'll work...

:sarcasm:

:dunce:

[CJCRANE]

2. You've got to fight them over there

because they can't get over here...or something.

[varkam]

3. Thank GOD the world is safer! n/t

:sarcasm: