Picture of the Day - 2
This was compiled off the State Dept's statistics by another website. (sorry, I don't remember who.) A "significant terrorist attack" in one in which there is a death.
posted by mikevotes at
1:53 PM
Sunday, March 05, 2006
This was compiled off the State Dept's statistics by another website. (sorry, I don't remember who.) A "significant terrorist attack" in one in which there is a death.
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That graph is pretty damning, but even more interesting would be a graph of the number of deaths year by year. You know what I bet we'd find...that it's flat from 2001 on. In other words, the deaths on 9/11 are being made up for by our turning Iraq into a shooting gallery.
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Anonymous, at 5:43 PM
I don't think I understand what you're saying here. Certainly it would spike in 2001, but it's my impression that since the number of "significant attacks," those involving a death are up so significantly, that the total number of deaths is up as well.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 5:52 PM
amazing
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Yukkione, at 8:14 PM
I don't think I understand what you're saying here.
The graphic shows incidents, "significant" and total. I'm merely saying that a graph of deaths per years from terrorist incidents would be just as damning, or more so--probably an inverted "shallow" bell curve. In other words a rise in 2001, then a dip in 2002 followed by a steady rise to the level that it is now. I don't think that it would spike going toward 2005, as 2001 and 2004 (9/11 and 3/11) where very bad years numbers-wise, but our turning Iraq into a shooting gallery would show a total that probably eclipses both with no major terrorist incident to back it up.
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Anonymous, at 9:38 PM
Gotcha. I just misunderstood your description. I thought you were describing a 2001 spike, followed by flat with no upsurge.
You're right.
That data is out there somewhere on the State Dept. website if you're fired up enough. They file this terror incident report every year and it does include deaths. You might have to reformat it a little, though, they've been busted a couple of times over the last few years for trying to make it look better than it is.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:49 PM
The reason for the spike is that the State Department changed the methodology that they used to count the attacks. That graphy not really a useful comparison as the years each measure something different.
In general, there have been fewer terrorist attacks in the last few years, but they have been deadlier.
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Charlie, at 8:37 PM
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