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Posted on 04-28-05 10:57 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Data withheld from an annual report on terrorism by the US state department show a sharp increase in attacks in 2004, a top Democratic lawmaker says.
Henry Waxman, citing official briefings given to congressional aides, said the number of "significant" attacks had risen more than three-fold in a year. He said there were about 650 such attacks in 2004 - up from 175 in 2003. The California congressman urged the administration to release the figures. The state department has said it will stop providing them. It admitted to mistakes in last year's report.
In June 2004 the department was forced to double its original estimate of terror victims in the previous year. It said 625 people had been killed in attacks worldwide in 2003 - not 307 as stated in the annual Patterns of Global Terrorism report published two months earlier.
US DEFINITION OF TERRORISM
Washington has long defined "terrorism" as politically motivated violence against non-combatants Attacks targeting US or other forces in Iraq are not included "Significant" terror attacks result in loss of life, serious injury, or major damage. Last week the department announced that it would no longer publish statistical data, but that would be done by the newly created National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) - an arm of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The NCTC on Wednesday released the figures separately from the annual State Department report, according to the AFP news agency.The NCTC said that there were 651 terrorist attacks in the world in 2004 in which 1,907 people died. Low estimates?
On Tuesday Mr Waxman accused the state department of concealing an increase in terror attacks.
He said congressional briefings by federal officials pointed to a dramatic rise in the number of "significant" terrorist attacks - those that result in loss of life, serious injury or major damage.In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice circulated by his staff, Mr Waxman said that even the latest figures may be too low.
The large increases in terrorist attacks reported in 2004 may undermine administration claims of success in the war on terror Henry Waxman He said many incidents most Americans would regard as terror attacks were excluded from the data because they did not meet the state department's definition.
"The large increases in terrorist attacks reported in 2004 may undermine administration claims of success in the war on terror, but political inconvenience has never been a legitimate basis for withholding facts from the American people," the letter added.

Last year's original report said there had been a total of 190 terror acts around the world in 2003 - pointing to a steady decrease over three years.

The administration seized on this and other numbers as proof that its war on terror was succeeding.

In the revised report the department said there had in fact been 208 attacks - an increase from 2004.

Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell said there had been no attempt to deceive people, and blamed clerical and administrative errors.


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Posted on 04-28-05 12:09 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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BBC, now that's a credbile source *snickers*

 
Posted on 04-28-05 12:13 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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While the terrorism reached all time high in US giving all the chills, Palestine, Iraq and war ridden towns in africa released encouraging transcript today that there hasn't been suicide bombing in TWO DAYS *puckers*
 
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"While the terrorism reached all time high in US giving all "
HUH? Been sniffing glue have you? Terrorism has reached all time high in the US????? You probably meant in the world, which is true.



 
Posted on 04-28-05 12:39 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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hahaha! never mind. Even sarcasm can be a double edged sword.
 
Posted on 04-28-05 12:48 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Sure, spew utter crap and call it sarcasm. Nice defense.
LOL.

 
Posted on 04-28-05 1:16 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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oh my! here's the breaking news:
RADAR scare hits WHITE HOUSE!

WASHINGTON-President Bush was rushed to a secure underground white house bunker and Vice president Cheney was whisked outside the compound Wednesday because of a radar "anomaly"-- perhaps a flock of birds or pocket of rain--that was mistaken for a plane flying in restricted airspace.

LMAO! watch out. Terrorists in disguise as BIRDS :)
 
Posted on 04-28-05 1:27 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Yeah, that's better. But it sure didn't make me crack a smile though.

 
Posted on 04-28-05 2:11 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Actually, THE breaking news in the DC metro area is the arrest and subsequent confession of the serial arsonist.
 
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I surely wouldn't smile at such grave matters of security breach broda!
 
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Speaking of security breaches, Z Man's laptop with a large hard drive was captured by U.S. forces south of Ramadi. Reports indicate that Z narrowly escaped capture himself. He must be feeling his security breached ever increasingly.
 
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And I thought you were giving those wise cracks to make us laugh. Oh yeah, black humor eh? Now only you can pull it off.
 
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Has anyone noticed that even though there is an increase in attacks ...terror level has not gone up at all this year(actually since the election). Hmmmm ..... Scare tactics maybe.....there is definately something fishy here.
 
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don't give a fk if america burns down....they all sk at higher levels like neps do..peace out
 
Posted on 04-29-05 10:36 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Well, according to our Bush-ba, the reason there are no terror alerts at home recently is because he has been able to take the fight to Iraq and Afghanistan. It's up to you to believe him or not. Apparently majority of voting Americans do and to our Bush-ba and his bacheras, that's all that matters.

 


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