Terror attacks up more than 25%, report says

[babylonsister]

Heckuva job, dim one. Is everyone feeling safer?

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/17145599.htm

Terror attacks up more than 25%, report says
By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay
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.

[54anickel]

1. See, it's working...otherwise those attacks would be taking place here!

And what a testimony to DHS - I mean, not a single successful attack here - they've all be thwarted. There could have been more attempts here, but they're taking place over there. We first thought of sitting on this good news to avoid the appearance of gloating and rubbing the success of the Bush strategy in the noses of Congress.


Do I really need to add --- :sarcasm:

[babylonsister]

2. No, I got it. Sad, isn't it. nt

[54anickel]

3. Very sad indeed, and deserving of a kick.