Worldwide terror attacks exceeded 10,000 last year for first time

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Worldwide terror attacks exceeded 10,000 last year for first time
By KATHERINE SHRADER Associated Press Writer

(AP) - WASHINGTON-Terror attacks and kidnappings worldwide exceeded 10,000 for the first time last year, propelled in part by a surge in Iraq, according to government figures to be released soon.

Officials cautioned against reading too much into the overall total. The government last year adopted a new definition of terror and changed its system of counting global attacks, devoting more energy to finding reports of violence against civilians.



Yet the numbers are a striking reminder that violence around the globe has increased dramatically in the more than four years of the war on terror.

In 2004, the National Counterterrorism Center, the government's new hub for monitoring terrorism, counted 3,192 terror attacks - including more than 28,000 people wounded, killed or kidnapped.

http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/04-21-2006/83a80023988f5819.html

[Ian David]

1. Americans still 3,000 times more likely to die by road rage than terrorism

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. But the Decisionator said the World was a safer place with evildoer

Saddam out of power. :yoiks: He wouldn't lie about that, would he? :rofl: