2004 A Record Year for Terrorism

...which means of course Bush's "War On Terror" is a bust. And the more they try to dance, the more they demonstrate that they just can't move their legs fast enough. This, by the way, is the report Condoleezza Rice wants discontinued since the numbers are no longer going Preznit Crackhead's way. Getting all that? Good.

World Terror Attacks Tripled in 2004 by U.S. Count

The U.S. count of major world terrorist attacks more than tripled in 2004, a rise that may revive debate on whether the Bush administration is winning the war on terrorism, congressional aides said on Tuesday.

The number of "significant" international terrorist attacks rose to about 650 last year from about 175 in 2003, according to congressional aides briefed on the numbers by State Department and intelligence officials on Monday.

The aides were told the surge partly reflected an increased tally of violence in India and Pakistan related to the Himalayan region of Kashmir, which both countries claim, and the devotion of more manpower to the U.S. monitoring effort, which resulted in more attacks being counted overall.
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Former intelligence official Larry Johnson last week first disclosed the 2004 increase in his Web log, saying the 2004 numbers would rise at least 655 from about 172 in 2003.

Waxman's letter said that of the about 650 significant attacks last year, about 300 reflected violence in India and Pakistan, leaving some 350 attacks elsewhere in the world -- double the total 2003 count.

Oops. Checkmate.

Comments

This is part of Bush's plan to draw them out into the open silly!