Annual terrorism report will show 25% rise in attacks(McClatchy)

[RedEarth]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — A State Department report on terrorism due out next week will show a more than 25 percent increase in terror attacks worldwide in 2006 to over 14,000 -- almost all of it due to incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Friday.

Based on data compiled by the U.S. intelligence community’s National Counterterrorism Center, the reports says there were 14,338 terror attacks last year, up 29 percent from 11,111 attacks in 2005. Forty-five percent of the attacks took place in Iraq.

Five U.S. officials with knowledge of the report agreed to discuss it on the condition they not be identified.

Worldwide, about 5,800 people were killed in terrorist attacks, also up from 2005. The figures for Iraq and elsewhere are limited to attacks on noncombatants, and do not include strikes against U.S. troops in Iraq. The annual report’s release comes in the midst of a bitter feud between the White House and Congress over funding for U.S. troops in Iraq, in which Democrats controlling both houses favor a deadline to begin a U.S. troop withdrawal.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her top aides had considered postponing or downplaying the release of this year’s edition, due to the extreme political sensitivities, several officials said. But ultimately, they decided to issue the report on or about the congressionally mandated deadline of Tuesday, the officials said.

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[maddezmom]

1. Bush has made the world so much safer with the war on terrorism

:sarcasm:

[cliss]

2. I'm really surprised.

No, really, I mean it. I'm completely SURPRISED that the thing is even going to be published. Is it????

Also, I thought I read earlier that the US does NOT include car bombings in its statistics, when they say things are LOOKIN BETTER BY GOD in Iraq.

Man, I can't wait to get my claws on this report. I'll wipe my ass with it, just like we used to do as kids in Arctic Sweden. We had an outhouse, and you were supposed to rub the magazine pages real good until it was soft enough to use.

[Hissyspit]

3. State Dep't: Terrorism Attacks Expected To Rise Nearly 30%

Source: McClatchy

Terrorism attacks expected to rise nearly 30%.

McClatchy reports that a State Department terrorism report due out next week will show a nearly 30 percent increase in terror attacks worldwide in 2006. “Based on data compiled by the U.S. intelligence community’s National Counterterrorism Center, the reports says there were 14,338 terror attacks last year, up 29 percent from 11,111 attacks in 2005. Forty-five percent of the attacks took place in Iraq.”

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/27/terrorism-attacks-expected-to-rise-nearly-30

[superconnected]

4. In other words, it's an election year.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Heckuva Job Bush

you've helped make the world a more dangerous place to live

[rodeodance]

6. what we are doing is not working.

[applegrove]

7. How horrible. And what will stop the attacks in Iraq? Only negotiations

between all the parties. And Bush refuses to do this with anyone who has attacked the troops. How the hell do ya think they got peace in Northern Ireland or South Africa? They broke bread with the threatening party (in Northern Ireland it was the IRA, in South Africa the apartheid regime).

[MrPrax]

8. More Fascist Hype

500 Terror Attacks in EU in 2006 - But Only 1 by Islamists

There were almost 500 acts of terrorism across the European Union in 2006 -- but only one, the foiled suitcase bomb plot in Germany, was related to Islamist terror, a new EU report reveals. Meanwhile the trial of one of the main suspects in the German plot has been adjourned in Lebanon.

Almost all the terrorist attacks in the European Union in 2006 were unrelated to Islamist terror, a new report reveals -- but the potential impact of an attack aimed at mass casualties made Islamist terrorism a top priority for European investigators nonetheless.

The vast majority of terrorist attacks were carried out by separatist terror groups targeting France and Spain. Almost all attacks "resulted only in material damage and were not intended to kill," the report's authors write.

....

"Treating Iraq as part of the war on terror ... created a combat training zone for jihadists," it said, and also warned that any military intervention in Iran would be "disastrous." The report added that the United States is "increasingly viewed as the greatest threat to world peace."

Speigel

At least 'old Europe' doesn't feel the need to constantly frighten it's own people, they leave that to 'young America'.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. Guess whose fault it is why there are so many terrorist attacks?

yes you guessed Mr Bush and Cheney

[CJCRANE]

10. Um...

I wonder what diversion they'll pull next week to get this out of the headlines?

Or more likely the WH spokesperson will simply claim the report says the opposite.

[AlCzervik]

11. jesus Christ, thats 25% on top of last year, now go back to 2000 and compare

it to this year, i bet it's staggering.

[CGowen]

12. I don't know why, but the image is gone from the state departments home page

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2000/2451.htm lots of 404 errors


http://web.archive.org/web/20021031220855/http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2000/2452.htm




from 423 terrorist incidents in 2000 to 14,338 in 2006 that is something like 3300%

[AlCzervik]

13. OMG!

[WePurrsevere]

15. 423 in 2000 up to 14,338 in 2006!!! Wow, the neo-CON agenda sure is

making the world a better place. :sarcasm: :puke: :grr:

Thank you for finding this and posting it. It's information like this that we really need to get out there to the masses somehow. Unfortunately I'm rather sure that the Bush admin and neo-CONs will try to spin or bury this.

(btw - sadly for the world you're very close with the % increase... I came up with 3,389.6% using a calculator. :()

[Lone_Star_Dem]

17. An increase of 3,389.6% since 2000!

Even I am shocked by this when I see the actual numbers.

[CGowen]

18. Of course it's working

According to a classified document, "Special Operations and Joint Forces in Countering Terrorism" prepared for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld by his Defense Science Board, a new organization has been created to thwart potential terrorist attacks on the United States. This counter-terror operations group— the "Proactive Preemptive Operations Group" (P2OG) will require 100 people and at least $100 million a year. The team of covert counter-intelligence agents will be responsible for secret missions designed to target terrorist leaders. The secret missions are designed to "stimulate reactions" among terrorist groups, provoking them into committing violent acts which would then expose them to "counterattack" by U.S. forces.

This means that the United States government is planning to use secret military operations in order to provoke murderous terrorist attacks on innocent people

http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2004/4.html


Corporate Media Coverage:
Los Angeles Times, October 27, 2002, "The Secret War", by William Arkin

[fed-up]

14. k/r nt

[Doctor_J]

16. Wonder what section of the Times and Post this will be in?

Waaaaaaay in the back.

[kath]

22. page Z27.

[Beetwasher]

19. Annual terrorism report will show 29% rise in attacks

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - A State Department report on terrorism due out next week will show a nearly 30 percent increase in terrorist attacks worldwide in 2006 to more than 14,000, almost all of the boost due to growing violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Friday.

The annual report's release comes amid a bitter feud between the White House and Congress over funding for U.S. troops in Iraq and a deadline favored by Democrats to begin a U.S. troop withdrawal.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her top aides earlier this week had considered postponing or downplaying the release of this year's edition of the terrorism report, officials in several agencies and on Capitol Hill said.

Ultimately, they decided to issue the report on or near the congressionally mandated deadline of Monday, the officials said.

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[fshrink]

20. It works! nt

[onehandle]

21. What distraction is Rove working up for this Monday?

Could be anything.

I say...dangerous train derailment in...South Carolina.