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Agence France Presse, Dec. 6, 2012
WASHINGTON: The number of terrorist attacks worldwide has sky-rocketed over the past decade, with a third of all incidents taking place in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new study published Wednesday.
Violence carried out by a “non-state actor” rose from less than a thousand incidents in 2002 to 4,564 attacks in 2011, according to the Global Terrorism Index, produced by the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace.
The other countries most affected were Pakistan, India, Thailand, the Philippines and Russia, the study said. The number of victims claimed by the violence peaked in 2007 with 10,000 people killed, while 7,500 died in 2011.
“The current global trend of terrorism can best be described as plateauing rather than decreasing” since 2002, the report said [....]
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More on this with Josh Keating @ Foreign Policy, including link to the report:
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/12/04/report_iraq_and_afghanist...
by artappraiser on Thu, 12/06/2012 - 2:51am