What The State Department Doesn’t Want You To Know
What The State Department Doesn’t Want You To Know
Last April, in its 18th annual report on terrorism, the State Department reported the number of terrorist attacks around the globe had fallen. The White House pounced on the report, using it as objective proof that President Bush was winning the war on terrorism. Just a few months later, the State Department had to revise the 2003 figures and acknowledge the original report drastically underreported the number of terrorist attacks. In fact, the number of significant terrorist attacks in 2003 had increased.
It’s a year later, and the new State Department report on terrorist attacks is due next week. According to former State Department terrorism expert Larry Johnson, statistics were set to show there were 625 “significant” attacks last year, making 2004 the worst year for terrorist attacks in two decades.
So the State Department simply decided not to publish the statistics this year. Instead, they say numbers will be compiled by the brand-new National Counterterrorism Center.
The State Department’s report on terrorism, sans numbers, is still due to Congress by the end of this month. But what about the numbers and statistics on international terrorist incidents? In today’s press briefing, spokesman Richard Boucher admitted:
“Don’t have a date yet. They’ve agreed to do it; don’t have a date yet…. I don’t know when.”
Don’t hold your breath.
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This will conveniently be ignored by the mainstream media…in America.
April 18th, 2005 at 5:08 pmMeanwhile Bush’s supporters cite the lack of terrorist attacks as proof that his policies are working.
April 18th, 2005 at 6:13 pmI especially liked one of the lost sentences in the first reports on this–that the 625 significant incidents did not count any of the hundreds of attacks on US troops in Iraq. Therefore, these must not be incidents of terror perpetrated by insurgents, but rather standard military operations between two warring parties.
April 18th, 2005 at 6:47 pmSo, in other words, the numbers may or may not be published. Ever. Smells like they’ve been passed off for “doctoring.”
Nice.
April 18th, 2005 at 7:02 pmExpect the reporting will be resumed as soon as we’ve “Turned the corner” in the war on terror.
Giving you a timetable for this or any exit strategy would just give hope to our enemies.
In other news, outer of leftist CIA agents Bob Novak said Sunday that Democrats are all stupid Castro-lovers.
April 18th, 2005 at 7:15 pmCastro can’t be all bad. That “traitorous commie bastard” Jimmy Carter has a grudging respect for him in some ways.
April 18th, 2005 at 7:42 pmOn roughly the same general topic, James Glanz, NYT: Arms Equipment Plundered in 2003 Is Surfacing in Iraq. Our Iraqi campaign has been so much more than just a wonderful recruiting drive for Islamic terrorists. We’ve been supplying them with both usable materials and saleable commodities. Remember that period of systematic looting and utter lawlessness, of which Rumsfeld said “stuff happens.” Stuff will be happening for years to come because of the early and often failures we made in Iraq.
Not that you should care, but my old links on the same.
April 18th, 2005 at 7:47 pmI should not surprise us that the bushies are play on both sides. Remember the Iran-Contra affair when they made sure both sides had the weapons they needed? Arms dealer and oil men are the winners no matter who wins.
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