Whipping up fear

November 17, 1993
Issue 
578

Much of the pontificating about the threat of terrorism is merely fear-mongering. You are still more likely to get die in a car accident or of a terminal illness than be killed in a terrorist attack. Patterns of Global Terrorism 2002, a report released by the US State Department in April 2003, stated: "International terrorists conducted 199 attacks in 2002, a significant drop (44%) from the 355 attacks recorded during 2001." In 2002, there were the fewest number of attacks classified as "acts of international terrorism" by the State Department since 1969.

From Green Left Weekly, April 7, 2004.
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