Posted on 05/16/2004 2:53:02 PM PDT by FairOpinion
The total number of international terrorist attacks in 2003 -- 190 incidents that killed 307 people -- was the lowest since 1969, according to the latest Department of State report on worldwide terrorism.
The annual report, "Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003," shows the number of attacks last year was down slightly from the 199 attacks reported in 2002. At the same time, the 2003 figure is a 45 percent decline from the 346 attacks in 2001.
The 2003 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report -- required by federal law to be submitted to Congress annually -- was released by the State Department in Washington April 29.
"A total of 307 persons were killed in the attacks of 2003, far fewer than the 725 killed during 2002," the report said. "A total of 1,593 persons were wounded in the attacks that occurred in 2003, down from 2,013 persons wounded the year before."
By geographic region, there were four terrorist attacks in Africa, 70 in Asia, two in Eurasia, 53 in Latin America, 37 in the Middle East, and 24 in Western Europe, according to the report. And the report indicated that the dominant type of terrorist event was bombing, with 137 occurrences in 2003.
"In 2003, the highest number of attacks (70) and the highest casualty count (159 persons dead and 951 wounded) occurred in Asia," the report said.
According to the report, there were 82 anti-U.S. attacks in 2003, which is up slightly from the 77 attacks the previous year. However, the 2003 figure represents a 62 percent decrease from the 219 attacks recorded in 2001.
Thirty-five American citizens died in 15 international terrorist attacks in 2003," it said.
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You registered on a Saturday night specifically to post this?
That's just more stuff out of context.
In the original report it said that the attacks in Afghanistan and Iraq are not included, because those countries are battle grounds -- in the rest of the world the attacks are down.
Rumsfeld words are misquoted and out of context. Rumsfeld was talking to Asian countries --- to get them on board, he said that we -- the world -- don't have a coherent approach, and that's true -- there are quite a few countries, which still don't get it. Rumsfeld was trying to convince them of the danger -- that the terrorists are still out there and capable of doing major damage. It's was about defending the Malaga straights.
I meant
Malacca Straits -- my fingers were typing without my brain leading them.
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