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A State Department report on terrorism due out next week will show a more than 25% increase in terror attacks worldwide in 2006 to over 14,000 - almost all of it due to incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Friday.

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TechnologyExpert
April 27, 2007, 7:14 p.m.
The title of this article could be used as ammo for the GOP, but in reality, the increase is due to Afghanistan and Iraq. They certainly aren't happening in the US.
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"Based on data compiled by the U.S. intelligence community's National Counterterrorism Center, the report says there were 14,338 terror attacks last year, up 29% from 11,111 attacks in 2005. 45% of the attacks took place in Iraq."
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PsychoHosebeast
April 27, 2007, 8:25 p.m.
Just how do you measure this kind of thing, I wonder, and how much does that job pay?
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NoWayMan
April 28, 2007, 4:44 a.m.
wait, bush keeps saying the opposite of this state dept. report.
he didn't lie to me, did he?