2004 Was a Record Year for Terrorist Attacks

Do you remember last year when the State Department issued a report called Patterns of Global Terrorism that reported the number of terrorist attacks worldwide? It came out in the heat of the election and significantly undercounted the number of terrorist incidents. Bush tried to use this report to support his claim that his war on terrorism was working, then was embarrassed when the numbers had to be revised UPWARD. It was very suspicious because it looked like the Bush administration was cooking the books. (Not that they would ever do such a thing!)

Well, this year’s version of the same report was due to come out this month. It would have reported that 2004 had the highest number of “significant” terrorist attacks (625) worldwide in the history of the report. This report was first published in 1985.

I say that it “would” have reported this record number of terrorist attacks because the State Department has conveniently decided to stop publishing this document.

Here’s the story from the Seattle Times.