Terrorism Down Worldwide
What? I got this tip from NewsMax:
Last week the State Department issued its annual report on terrorism around the world, which showed a sharp decline in terrorist attacks and murders in many regions last year.
Aside from the Middle East, the number of attacks was down by more than 300 incidents compared to 2005.
According to the report, terrorism was down by 10 percent in South Asia, down 18 percent in Europe, and down 54 percent in Central and South America.
“That, however, has not been the lede story in America’s liberal media,” reports NewsBusters.org, a blog from the Media Research Center dedicated to combating liberal media bias.
“Instead, they’ve chosen to focus their attentions on how terrorism has increased in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
One wire service story cited by NewsBusters was headlined “U.S. sees sharp rise in global terrorism deaths.”
NewsBusters complains: “What is unacceptable is the American press’ complete ignoring of the rest of the State Department’s numbers.”
NB referenced the annual Country Reports on Terrorism:
I crunched the numbers (click here for OpenDocument data file, requires free OpenOffice suite) based on the raw data provided by State Department’s National Counterterrorism Center.
Sadly, most Americans will never know these facts. I guess they’re what you might call inconvenient truths.
N.B. Get your own numbers to crunch at the NCTC’s Worldwide Incidents Tracking System here.
(Thanks to commenter MrShy for story idea.)
Update 11:45. Paul Mirengoff adds: “To the extent that the State Department numbers militate in favor of a particular course of action for 2007, that course is to continue prosecuting the Bush administration’s overall strategy against global terrorism, but to develop new ways to take on the terrorists in Iraq. This is what the administration has decided to do.”
While we are on the subject of the media ignoring the truth…take a look at Sparse Coverage of CBO’s Friday Deficit Report Ignores Record April Tax Collections
May 6, 2007 - 09:32 PM on May 6th, 2007
Terrorism down worldwide? This cannot be possible! AKD (on another topic) has pronounced that it is up!
May 6, 2007 - 10:04 PM on May 6th, 2007
up or down get Bin Laden make Me Happy:grin: any way yes its down for now we have a great ARMY Doing its job that is why its down, no thinks to the government. wouldn’t it be great to see Bin Laden at the end of a rope, what a nice day that would be, my cat would be so happy.:roll:
May 7, 2007 - 08:43 PM on May 7th, 2007
Oddly the only place it’s on the rise is here in the States.
Anyone hear about the Virginia Tech Massacre? Terrorism can be homegrown you know.