STATE DEPARTMENT HIDES STATS SHOWING TERROR WAR A FLOP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/26/AR2005042601623.html


SUSAN B. GLASSER, WASHINGTON POST - The number of serious international
terrorist incidents more than tripled last year, according to U.S.
government figures, a sharp upswing in deadly attacks that the State
Department has decided not to make public in its annual report on
terrorism due to Congress this week.
Overall, the number of what the U.S. government considers "significant"
attacks grew to about 655 last year, up from the record of around 175 in
2003, according to congressional aides who were briefed on statistics
covering incidents including the bloody school seizure in Russia and
violence related to the disputed Indian territory of Kashmir.

Terrorist incidents in Iraq also dramatically increased, from 22 attacks
to 198, or nine times the previous year's total -- a sensitive subset of
the tally, given the Bush administration's assertion that the situation
there had stabilized significantly after the U.S. handover of political
authority to an interim Iraqi government last summer.