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Terrorism’s Global Decline, Explained In Charts -- Washington Post
One issue likely to come up during tonight’s presidential foreign policy debate is the U.S. effort to curb international terrorism. While President Obama will probably focus on his administration’s success in killing Osama bin Laden and Mitt Romney on its failure to prevent the September attack in Benghazi, Libya, it’s worth looking at the data. Here are some numbers from the National Counterterrorism Center, which released its most recent report in June.
First, here’s the data on the number of terrorist attacks from 2007 through 2011:
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My Comment: These are sobering stats that tell me that there are a lot of terrorist incidents in the world today .... and will probably be with us for many more years to come.