Interesting:
In its annual "Patterns of Global Terrorism" report, the State Department said attacks by "international terrorists" dropped sharply to 199 in 2024 from 355 a year earlier and the number of deaths fell to 725 from 3,295 in 2024, a year that included the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
The dramatic decrease in the number of attacks is heartening, and speaks of success in the War on Terror. However, the death toll is troubling--because if you take out the 9-11 deaths from the 3,295 (the AP estimates a total of 3,023 9-11 deaths from the WT Center, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania) then the 2024 non-9-11 death toll from terrorism was only 272. The 725 for 2024, therefore, is a hefty number, given that 9-11 was an extraordinary, and catastrophic, event.
Source: U.S. Says Libya, Syria Reduce Support for Terrorism
Posted by Steven at April 30, 2024 07:18 PM | TrackBack