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  Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003 - NTIS Products
Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000: Latin America Overview
Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000: Middle East Overview
Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000: Overview of State-Sponsored Terrorism
www.ntis.gov /products/glob-terr.asp?loc=4-1-0   (245 words)

  
  Patterns of Global Terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patterns of Global Terrorism is a report published each year on or before April 30 by the United States Department of State.
The total number of fatalities from international terrorism worldwide declined from 314 in 1994 to 165 in 1995, but the number of persons wounded increased by a factor of ten to 6,291 persons; 5,500 were injured in a gas attack in the Tokyo subway system in March.
Terrorism continues to destroy the lives of people all over the world; and this report we are releasing today, "Patterns of Global Terrorism: 2003," documents the sad toll that such attacks took last year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patterns_of_Global_Terrorism   (1773 words)

  
 Patterns of Global Terrorism - Terrorism Information Center
Patterns of Global Terrorism is a Congressionally-mandated report from the U.S. Department of State intended to provide a full and complete record for those countries and groups involved in international terrorism.
Country Reports on Terrorism is a Congressionally-mandated report from the U.S. Department of State intended to provide a full and complete record for those countries and groups involved in international terrorism.
Also includes information concerning the September 11th attacks, state-sponsored terrorism, background information on terrorist groups, a statistical review, as well as a list of extraditions and renditions of terrorists to the U.S. Contains an extensive appendix detailing the policies and responses of the U.S. and several international organizations to the September 11th attacks.
www.terrorisminfo.mipt.org /Patterns-of-Global-Terrorism.asp   (0 words)

  
 Patterns of Global Terrorism: 2002 - Africa Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sudan, one of the seven state sponsors of terrorism, is discussed in the state sponsorship section of this report.
Djibouti, a critical frontline state in the global war on terrorism and a member of the Arab League, has taken a strong stand against international terrorist organizations and individuals.
Uganda is a party to four of the 12 international conventions and protocols relating to terrorism, and in 2002 it worked to complete the process required to become a party to all 12.
www.usemb.se /terror/rpt2002/africa_overview.html   (2370 words)

  
 Patterns of Global Terrorism
The annual "Patterns of Global Terrorism" report is submitted in compliance with Title 22 of the United States Code, Section 2656f(a), which requires the Department of State to provide Congress a full and complete annual report on terrorism for those countries and groups meeting the criteria of Section (a)(1) and (2) of the Act.
The 2001 report states, "[T]errorism cast its lethal shadow across the globe--yet the world's resolve to defeat it has never been greater.
This chilling report details the very clear and present danger that terrorism poses to the world and the efforts that the United States and our partners in the international community are making to defeat it.
www.state.gov /s/ct/rls/pgtrpt   (0 words)

  
 1994 Patterns of Global Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This pattern of terrorism in 1994 reflects a trend in recent years of a decline in attacks by secular terrorist groups and an increase in terrorist activities by radical Islamic groups.
Because terrorism is a global problem, the Clinton administration is deeply engaged in cooperation with other governments in an international effort to combat terrorism: -- US intelligence and law enforcement agencies have an active network of cooperative relations with counterparts in scores of friendly countries.
European Overview Terrorism in Europe declined somewhat in 1994, in part because of a cease-fire in Northern Ireland declared by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) on 1 September, and by the Loyalist paramilitary groups in early October.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/arms/PGT_report/1994PGT.html   (20469 words)

  
 Bush Administration Eliminating 19-Year-Old International Terrorism Report - Empire? - Global Policy Forum
The State Department published "Patterns of Global Terrorism" under a law that requires it to submit to the House of Representatives and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a country-by-country terrorism assessment by April 30 each year.
The senior State Department official said a report on global terrorism would be sent this year to lawmakers and made available to the public in place of "Patterns of Global Terrorism," but that it wouldn't contain statistical data.
Global Policy Forum distributes this material without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
www.globalpolicy.org /empire/terrorwar/analysis/2005/0415elimreport.htm   (899 words)

  
 United States Agencies
Patterns of Global Terrorism, 1997 (April 30, 1998)
Patterns of Global Terrorism, 1996 (April 30, 1997)
Patterns of Global Terrorism, 1995 (April 30, 1996)
www.hri.org /docs/usa.html   (0 words)

  
 Patterns of Global Terrorism
Terror attacks are on the rise again--but their focus is shifting.
In the latest version of its annually updated survey, "Patterns of Global Terrorism," the State Department reports that the worldwide toll for acts of international terror in Year 2000 was 405 killed and 791 wounded.
However, terrorism, at least in numerical terms, is well down from peak levels in the mid-1980s.
www.afa.org /magazine/July2001/0701terror.asp   (732 words)

  
 Bush Administration Covers Up Rise in Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Last June, the administration was forced to issue a revised version of the report for 2003 that showed a higher number of significant terrorist attacks and more than twice the number of fatalities than had been presented in the original report two months earlier.
The State Department published "Patterns of Global Terrorism" under a law that requires it to submit to the House of Representatives and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a country-by-country terrorism assessment by April 30 each year.
The senior State Department official said a report on global terrorism would be sent this year to lawmakers and made available to the public in place of "Patterns of Global Terrorism," but that it wouldn't contain statistical data.
www.truthout.org /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/10412   (989 words)

  
 Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1999 - Middle East Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Middle Eastern terrorist groups and their state sponsors continued to plan, train for, and carry out acts of terrorism in 1999 at a level comparable to that of the previous year.
The Government of Algeria in 1999 made significant progress in combating domestic terrorism, which President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said has claimed approximately 100,000 lives since Islamist extremists began their brutal campaign to overthrow the secular regime in 1992.
Bin Ladin has stated publicly that terrorism is a tool to achieve the group's goal of bringing Islamic rule to Muslim lands and "cleanse" them of Western influence and corruption.
www.usemb.se /terror/rpt1999/mideast.html   (3941 words)

  
 Patterns of Global Terrorism -- Deep Six The Worksheets | This Is Rumor Control
Because this year's "Patterns of Global Terrorism" reveals in fl and white that terrorist attacks have risen from 175 in 2003 to 624 "significant" attacks in 2004.
Many agree that Rice decided to ax "Patterns of Global Terrorism" because the NCTC would not use an "alternative methodology" that would have decreased the number of terrorist attacks, ie doctored downward the impact of the Sunni Arab Iraqi resistance.
Goss would have something to say about terrorism himself, as he was having breakfast on the morning of September 11, 2001, with Mahmud Ahmad, then director of the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence, and the author of a wire transfer to one of the September 11 masterminds.
www.thisisrumorcontrol.org /node/2098   (1547 words)

  
 Patterns of Global Terrorism
Islamist extremists from around the world--including North America; Europe; Africa; the Middle East; and Central, South, and Southeast Asia--continued to use Afghanistan as a training ground and base of operations for their worldwide terrorist activities in 1999.
The United States repeatedly has asked Islamabad to end support to elements that conduct terrorist training in Afghanistan, to interdict travel of militants to and from camps in Afghanistan, to prevent militant groups from acquiring weapons, and to block financial and logistic support to camps in Afghanistan.
Credible reports continued to indicate official Pakistani support for Kashmiri militant groups that engage in terrorism, such as the Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM).
www.thewednesdayreport.com /twr/terrorism12.htm   (787 words)

  
 iViews.com - Patterns of Global Terrorism
According to a recent US State Department report, Patterns of Global Terrorism, issued for the year 2001 - There were a total of 348 terrorist attacks throughout the world.
The Red Army Faction in Germany, the Basque Separatists in Spain, the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, the Shining Path in Peru and the National Liberation Army in Columbia are not viewed with the same horror as terrorist groups of Muslim background.
There is no moral justification for terrorism regardless of the ethnic or religious background of the perpetrator or the victim, but the factual basis of terrorism has been either hidden or twisted in the public's perception of this policy problem, especially in congressional hearings on terrorism.
iviews.com /Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0303-1888   (0 words)

  
 Asia Times: Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000
As a result, state-sponsored terrorism has continued to decline, international isolation of terrorist groups and countries has increased, and terrorists are being brought to justice.
We expect those states in the region that are committed to peace to distance themselves from all forms of terrorism and to ensure that their countries do not become safehavens or launching points for terrorist acts.
The designation of state sponsors of terrorism by the United States - and the imposition of sanctions - is a mechanism for isolating nations that use terrorism as a means of political expression.
atimes.com /ind-pak/CD05Df04.html   (8556 words)

  
 Country Reports on Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003 in PDF Format
Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000 also in PDF Format
Patterns of Global Terrorism 1999 also in PDF Format
www.usemb.se /terror   (45 words)

  
 2001 Patterns of Global Terrorism: Spain
Spain is a firm ally in the global war against terrorism.
Spain is one of the primary advocates within the EU for enhancing mechanisms to fight terrorism.
Spain is a party to all 12 international conventions and protocols relating to terrorism and currently chairs the UN Counterterrorism Committee and co-chairs with the United States the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Terrorism Finance Working Group.
www.embusa.es /terrorspainen.html   (602 words)

  
 PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM AND THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000 is an unclassified and authoritative statement by the U.S. government on the recent history of evolving nature—the nature of terrorist threats to the United States.
Globally, the number of attacks by international terrorists rose from 392 in 1999 to 423 in the year 2000.
Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000 also notes that state-sponsored terrorism is being superseded by nonstate-sponsored terrorists.
commdocs.house.gov /committees/security/has142240.000/has142240_0.HTM   (10733 words)

  
 Security Resource Net: 1995 Patterns of Global Terrorism
These transnational terrorists benefit from modern communications and transportation, have global sources of funding, are knowledgeable about modern explosives and weapons, and are more difficult to track and apprehend than members of the old established groups or those sponsored by states.
Terrorism by extremist individuals or groups claiming to act for religious motives continued to dominate international terrorism in 1995.
The total number of fatalities from international terrorism worldwide declined from 314 in 1994 to 165 in 1995, but the number of persons wounded increased by a factor of tenóto 6,291 persons; 5,500 were injured in a gas attack in the Tokyo subway system in March.
nsi.org /Library/Terrorism/terror95.html   (20637 words)

  
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Berkshire, specialists in global topics and known for coverage of international political and religious trends, organized the reports and related data into a coherent, accessible resource in two volumes.
In the aftermath of 9/11 and the U.S. government’s efforts to understand and combat terrorism, the annual Patterns of Global Terrorism report became a political football.
Berkshire’s Patterns of Global Terrorism 1985-2005: U.S. Department of State Reports with Supplementary Documents and Statistics is arranged in a user-friendly format replete with tables, graphs, and illustrative material—much of it from the original reports but with additional material developed by Berkshire and its editors (and clearly indicated as additional content).
www.berkshirepublishing.com /bpg/pogt_intro.asp   (0 words)

  
 Patterns of Global Terrorism 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It is widely recognized that state support for terrorist groups enhances their capabilities and makes law enforcement efforts to counter terrorism more difficult.
No specific acts of terrorism attributed to the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hizballah in 1995 were on the scale of the July 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, which is believed to have been perpetrated by Hizballah.
Iran remains the premier state sponsor of international terrorism and is deeply involved in the planning and execution of terrorist acts both by its own agents and by surrogate groups.
www.sarbazan.com /terrorreport95.htm   (903 words)

  
 Patterns of Global Terrorism: Middle East Overview (1 May 2000)
Middle Eastern terrorist groups and their state sponsors continued to plan, train for, and carry out acts of terrorism in 1999 at a level comparable to that of the previous year.
Libyan support for terrorism has declined significantly in recent years, but Libya continued to have residual contacts and relationships with terrorist organizations.
Bin Ladin has stated publicly that terrorism is a tool to achieve the group's goal of bringing Islamic rule to Muslim lands and "cleanse" them of Western influence and corruption.
www.meib.org /articles/0006_medoc1.htm   (3947 words)

  
 ANG Air National Guard - Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Antiterrorism, Combating Terrorism, Anti-Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Global Trends and the Implications of the 11 September Attacks, speech by the chairman of the National Intelligence Council
Combating terrorism activities within the Department are divided into four components: antiterrorism, counterterrorism, terrorism consequence management, and intelligence support to combating terrorism.
Terrorism consequence management includes a range of activities required to provide emergency assistance to mitigate the effects of an act in order to alleviate damage, loss, hardship, or suffering caused by terrorist attacks and to protect the public health and safety and restore essential government services.
c21.maxwell.af.mil /terrorsm.htm   (1166 words)

  
 Global Terrorism
The Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on October 19, 1999 unequivocally condemning all acts, methods, and practices of terrorism and calling on states to strengthen international cooperation in fighting terrorism and bringing terrorists to justice.
"Terrorism is a menace to which open societies are vulnerable; it becomes particularly difficult for democracies to counter when terrorists are armed, financed and backed by governments or their agencies, and benefit from the protection of state power.
Cross-border terrorism, sponsored from across our borders, has taken the lives of thousands of our citizens, and ruined, those of countless others.
www.indianembassy.org /policy/Terrorism/index.htm   (830 words)

  
 SEMP, Patterns in Global Terrorism 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The 2003 “Patterns in Global Terrorism 2003”; provides a good overview of the current state of global terrorism.
Its layout of content matter conforms to previous reports, which are also available online (type global terrorism and year in your search engine).
“Patterns in Global Terrorism 2003”; in its entirety is available at http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/31912.pdf.
www.semp.us /biots/biot75.html   (190 words)

  
 Global Beat: Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1997
Although the number of international terrorist incidents has dropped in recent years and more terrorists are being arrested and tried for their crimes, international terrorism remains a serious, ongoing threat around the world.
During 1997 there were 304 acts of international terrorism worldwide, an increase of eight from the previous year.
Furthermore, terrorist acts are part of a larger phenomenon of politically inspired violence, and at times the line between the two is difficult to draw.
www.bu.edu /globalbeat/pubs/terrorism.html   (1628 words)

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