Meant to post it to your thread, Mud! (Sorry for the double post!)
From Lars Larson.com :
-..."What's the best way to fight international terrorism - police enforcement action or military action? If the new State Department report entitled 'Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003' is any guide, the data speak for themselves."
The following data are from page 176 of the report and represent the information included in a bar graph available in PDF or HTML format:
TOTAL INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ATTACKS, 1982 - 2003
1982- 487
1983- 497
1984- 565
1985- 635
1986- 612
1987- 665
1988- 605
1989- 375
1990- 437
1991- 565
1992- 363
1993- 431
1994- 322
1995- 440
1996- 296
1997- 304
1998- 274
1999- 395
2000- 426
2001- 355
2002- 198
2003- 190
-"Clearly, the war on terrorism is working. Since taking the fight directly to the terrorist where them train and operate, their ability to engage in terrorism has been genuinely crippled, with the number of international terrorist incidents at historic lows since the Bush administration began its systematic effort to root out terrorism worldwide."
(You can read the entire 182 page report at the following URL):
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2003/