Decade of US 'War on Terror' Yields More 'Terrorism'

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/04



naugural study says that terror attacks worldwide have grown rapidly in the years since 9/11 and spiked during the US occupation of Iraq


Decade of US 'War on Terror' Yields More 'Terrorism'
Published on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 by Common Dreams
- Common Dreams staff

After more than eleven years of the US waging wars abroad in the name of "fighting terrorism" a new report released Tuesday shows that the number of global terror attacks has dramatically increased during the post-9/11 era, not decreased.

The new Global Terrorism Index (GTI) found that while the US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere generated huge spikes in terrorist activity and civilian deaths in those countries, it is North America which has been most insulated from the growth in violence.

Produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) the GTI is the first index to rank countries on the impact of terrorism and analyses the associated economic and social dimensions. The index is based on data from the Global Terrorism Database, which is collected and collated by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), headquartered at the University of Maryland.

"After 9/11, terrorist activity fell back to pre-2000 levels until after the Iraq invasion, and has since escalated dramatically," Steve Killelea, founder and executive chairman of the Institute for Economics and Peace, told Reuters in an e-mail interview.

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1. du rec. nt

[JayhawkSD]

2. "...it is North America which has been most insulated from the growth in violence."

And so we have accomplished our goal. Violence everywhere else is a feature, not a bug.