Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Lies, Damned Lies, and...
There were nearly 3,200 terrorist attacks worldwide last year, a federal counterterrorism center said Tuesday, using a broader definition that increased fivefold the number of attacks the agency had been counting. The National Counterterrorism Center's interim director, John Brennan, called a new database that was to go online Wednesday "the most comprehensive U.S. effort to date to track terrorist incidents worldwide." But he cautioned that comparing the new tally to previous ones was comparing apples to oranges.Last year, the State Department tried releasing false numbers that showed terror attacks had declined to a historic low, when in fact they had increased
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