Are we safer now?
From the Times Online (UK):
Rise in attacks
- A new report says there has been a sevenfold increase in jihadist terror attacks worldwide since the invasion of Iraq
- Comparing terrorist attacks between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, and then March 21, 2003, to September 30, 2006, it found that even when Iraq and Afghanistan were excluded, attacks have increased by 300 per cent in the rest of the world
- Peter Bergen, an expert on al-Qaeda, and Paul Cruickshank, of New York University, based their report on figures provided by the Rand Corporation