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Terror Networks
New On-line Terrorism Database !
2007-05-24
The majority of terrorist attacks result in no fatalities, with just 1 percent of such attacks causing the deaths of 25 or more people.
I haven't had a chace to go and look at their data yet, but if they are including all the Eco-Terror groups like PETA and their "militant wing" ELF, that sounds about right. Those are mostly property crimes. You get a lot of people being killed a few at a time and it skews the percentages. Hek's boys toss a lot of grenades, and miss most of the time, too.
And terror incidents began rising some in 1998, and that level remained relatively constant through 2004. These and other myth-busting facts about global terrorism are now available on a new online database open to the public.

The unclassified Global Terrorism Database (GTD) will give anyone interested the opportunity to peruse through the actual details of global terror attacks. The database identifies more than 30,000 bombings, 13,400 assassinations and 3,200 kidnappings. Also, it details more than 1,200 terrorist attacks within the United States.

The database was developed by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) based at the University of Maryland, with funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It includes unclassified information about 80,000 terror incidents that occurred from 1970 through 2004. (Visit the database.)

The searchable database parses the data by more than 100 variables, ranging from type of perpetrator-such as religious or ethno-nationalist-to type of weapon used and the number of injuries incurred. Summaries of each incident divulge the date, location, weapons used, target type, number of casualties and, when possible, the perpetrator.

Searches of the database have uncovered some additional unexpected statistics. For instance, terrorist groups are not so long-lived, with about 75 percent of such alliances formed between 1970 and 1997 lasting no more than one year.
A lot of them are the same groups with just a new name on the door.
From 1998 through 2004, India reportedly experienced the greatest number of terror attacks (1,000), followed by Colombia, the Russian Federation and Iraq, which came in fourth with nearly 500 attacks.

LaFree and a colleague mined the database for clues about the effectiveness of counter-terror measures. Among their findings announced last year: British counter-terrorist interventions used in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1992 may have backfired and actually aided in a terror backlash.
Ah yes, the old "Fighting terror only causes more terror" meme.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Nothing to see here, move along.

These aren't the droids you're looking for.
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-05-24 15:15  

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