..AP IMPACT: 35,000 worldwide convicted for terror

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

..AP IMPACT: 35,000 worldwide convicted for terror
By MARTHA MENDOZA - AP National Writer | AP – 4 hrs ago..

At least 35,000 people worldwide have been convicted as terrorists in the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. But while some bombed hotels or blew up buses, others were put behind bars for waving a political sign or blogging about a protest.

In the first tally ever done of global anti-terror arrests and convictions, The Associated Press documented a surge in prosecutions under new or toughened anti-terror laws, often passed at the urging and with the funding of the West. Before 9/11, just a few hundred people were convicted of terrorism each year.

The sheer volume of convictions, along with almost 120,000 arrests, shows how a keen global awareness of terrorism has seeped into societies, and how the war against it is shifting to the courts. But it also suggests that dozens of countries are using the fight against terrorism to curb political dissent.



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[ixion]

1. this was always the REAL reason for declaring Endless War

so they could toss whomever they choose in the box.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

5. ATTA BOY BROWNIE

[hack89]

2. Turkey and China - big surprise they are the worst offenders

Fighting terrorism is just a fig leaf for their routine repression.

[goforit]

3. Back to the good old mid evil Spanish Inquisition days.

There will be no more trials.
Arrest for life.

[coyote]

4. Pretty amazing considering that on average, 17 Americans die per year

from terrorism since 1970 (this excludes 9/11). Throw in 9/11 it's 90 Americans per year since 1970.

Then there is this:

1.2 MILLION: People in killed in road accidents EVERY YEAR.

430,000: Americans killed by cigarettes EVERY YEAR. (The equivalent of 9/11 repeated every two days forever.) Bush's response to a real threat? His election promise to stop the Justice Department's law suit against the tobacco industry.

400,000: Americans die each year from obesity (while much greater numbers around the world starve to death).

11,000: the people killed in America every year by guns, a human tragedy equivalent to a new 9/11 every 3 months.

8,437: Civilians killed by US/UK attacks in Iraq in 2003.

3,800: Civilians killed by US/UK attacks in Afghanistan by 2002.

135,000: Deaths from cancer in UK alone EVERY YEAR

3 MILLION: Killed by HIV/AIDS in 2003.

780,000,000: People starving to death RIGHT NOW.

1.2 BILLION: People "living" on less than $1 a day.

513,000,000: Number of people without access to safe drinking water.

2,500: Palestinian civillians killed "by accident" in Palestine by the Israeli army - and that's just since September 2000.

14,000: Palestinian people whose homes have been demolished by Israeli bulldozers - and that's just since October 2000. Families who do not escape in time are crushed to death - often at night in their beds.