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Incidents of terrorism/all deaths caused by Terrorism in Iraq (male and female):
2005: 3,468/20,731
2006: 6,630/38,863
2007: 6,212/44,008
Total attacks worldwide:
2005: 11,156
2006: 14,570
2007: 14,499
Percentage of worldwide attacks that occurred in Iraq:
43%
Increase in terror attacks worldwide, 2005-2006
25%
Claimant to most terror attacks:
The Taliban (Afghanistan)
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2006:
U.S. citizens worldwide killed as a result of incidents of terrorism: 28
U.S. citizens worldwide injured as a result of incidents of terrorism: 27
U.S. citizens worldwide kidnapped as a result of incidents of terrorism: 12
(non military)
Total: 67
Figures provided by the US State Department
edit: added in 2007
Last edited by cheshirecat79; 06-11-2008 at 11:02 AM.
I'm interested in how these people catagorize instances of violence in Iraq as 'terrorism'. It looks to me as if they're calling any sort of violent act of insurgency in a wartime country "terrorism".
Terrorism is the new communism. We need something to hate and an enemy to fight so it might as well be terrorists.
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I'm interested in how these people catagorize instances of violence in Iraq as 'terrorism'. It looks to me as if they're calling any sort of violent act of insurgency in a wartime country "terrorism".
I believe that is correct- the reason being that they classified a large majority of people killed by terror attacks as civilians, with almost all civs being muslim. So the civil war definitely played into the numbers.
However, listening to human rights groups around the world, one would place the civilian death toll due to war in general much higher.
U.S. citizens worldwide killed as a result of incidents of terrorism: 28
U.S. citizens worldwide injured as a result of incidents of terrorism: 27
U.S. citizens worldwide kidnapped as a result of incidents of terrorism: 12 (non military)
Why non military? Would have been nice to include those numbers in there.
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Why non military? Would have been nice to include those numbers in there.
I wanted to be objective when talking about "our" (common civilians) chances of dying from the various causes in the first post. Adding in the deaths of our soldiers doesn't seem objective to me.
If I can find it, I'll add it in as a separate number. Shouldn't be too hard to find.
Last edited by cheshirecat79; 06-11-2008 at 12:24 PM.
Perspective.
