Terror attacks increase, says US
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So much for the invasion of Iraq being part of the 'war on terror'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6610345.stm
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 04:08 GMT 05:08 UK
Terror attacks increase, says US
The number of people killed around the world in terror attacks rose by 40% last year to more than 20,000, the US State Department has said.
The increase is mostly due to greater violence in Iraq the State Department's annual report on terrorism says.
Iran is listed as the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism, supporting extremist groups throughout the Middle East but particularly in Iraq.
Venezuela is criticised for allowing Colombian rebels to use its territory.
The number of attacks in Iraq nearly doubled to 6,630, accounting for 45% of the global total.
Iraq alone accounts for nearly two-thirds of all terrorism-related deaths last year.
The numbers do not include attacks on US or other coalition troops in the country.
In the latest violence, a suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 32 people and himself at a Shia funeral in Khalis, north of Baghdad in Diyala province.
GLOBAL TERROR REPORT 2006
40% increase in deaths to 20,498
28% increase in attacks to 14,338
Iraq: 65% of all deaths
700 children killed, 1,100 wounded
Source: US State Department
Iran is playing a "destabilising role" in Iraq, supporting Shia militias that have attacked Sunnis, as well as US and British forces, the report says.
The report also points to "militias and death squads increasingly engaged in sectarian violence and criminal organisations taking advantage of Iraq's deteriorating security situation."
The number of attacks also took a large jump in Afghanistan.
Syria is named as the number two state supporter of terrorism, followed by Cuba, North Korea and Sudan.
Children were increasingly the victims of terror attacks last year. As many as 700 children were killed and 1,100 wounded - an increase of 80%.
The report, put together by the US National Counterterrorism Center says that al-Qaeda is adapting to counter-terror measures.
"Although we have killed or captured numerous senior al-Qaeda operatives," said the NCTC's director Frank Urbancic, "al-Qaeda's core elements are resilient and they remain the immediate national security threat."
The report also repeated allegations from previous years that the Venezuelan government allows the Colombian left-wing rebel groups Farc and ELN to use its territory as a safe haven.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6610345.stm
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 04:08 GMT 05:08 UK
Terror attacks increase, says US
The number of people killed around the world in terror attacks rose by 40% last year to more than 20,000, the US State Department has said.
The increase is mostly due to greater violence in Iraq the State Department's annual report on terrorism says.
Iran is listed as the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism, supporting extremist groups throughout the Middle East but particularly in Iraq.
Venezuela is criticised for allowing Colombian rebels to use its territory.
The number of attacks in Iraq nearly doubled to 6,630, accounting for 45% of the global total.
Iraq alone accounts for nearly two-thirds of all terrorism-related deaths last year.
The numbers do not include attacks on US or other coalition troops in the country.
In the latest violence, a suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 32 people and himself at a Shia funeral in Khalis, north of Baghdad in Diyala province.
GLOBAL TERROR REPORT 2006
40% increase in deaths to 20,498
28% increase in attacks to 14,338
Iraq: 65% of all deaths
700 children killed, 1,100 wounded
Source: US State Department
Iran is playing a "destabilising role" in Iraq, supporting Shia militias that have attacked Sunnis, as well as US and British forces, the report says.
The report also points to "militias and death squads increasingly engaged in sectarian violence and criminal organisations taking advantage of Iraq's deteriorating security situation."
The number of attacks also took a large jump in Afghanistan.
Syria is named as the number two state supporter of terrorism, followed by Cuba, North Korea and Sudan.
Children were increasingly the victims of terror attacks last year. As many as 700 children were killed and 1,100 wounded - an increase of 80%.
The report, put together by the US National Counterterrorism Center says that al-Qaeda is adapting to counter-terror measures.
"Although we have killed or captured numerous senior al-Qaeda operatives," said the NCTC's director Frank Urbancic, "al-Qaeda's core elements are resilient and they remain the immediate national security threat."
The report also repeated allegations from previous years that the Venezuelan government allows the Colombian left-wing rebel groups Farc and ELN to use its territory as a safe haven.
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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Interesting how it''s being passed off as the "new just cause" and "wave of the future".
What a lark...it's a total con...
400 billion in Pentagon "defense" spending should throw some cold water in your face and shake people up to reality.
People are starving, schools are a mess, health care is non existent...but hey those shiny new nukes keep rolling off the American assembly line to fight an invisible enemy... 400 BILLION!
omg....yee-fuckin-haw!
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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( o.O)
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:rolleyes:
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
y Arwa Damon
CNN
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's prime minister has created an entity within his government that U.S. and Iraqi military officials say is being used as a smokescreen to hide an extreme Shiite agenda that is worsening the country's sectarian divide.
The Office of the Commander in Chief has the power to overrule other government ministries, according to U.S. military and intelligence sources.
Those sources say the 24-member office is abusing its power, increasingly overriding decisions made by the Iraqi Ministries of Defense and Interior and potentially undermining the entire U.S. effort in Iraq.
The Office, as it is known in Baghdad, was set up about four months ago with the knowledge of American forces in Iraq. Its goal is ostensibly to advise Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki -- the nation's new commander in chief -- on military matters.
According to a U.S. intelligence source, the Office is "ensuring the emplacement of commanders it favors and can control, regardless of what the ministries want."...
Really? So you're saying that those who oppose war are responsible for it? Thank you for that piece of lopsided logic Dr Strangelove.
It was sarcasm.
Ah hah! I suspected it may have been. You can never be too sure.
Apologies dude!