From: "Phil Payne" 

What a monumental fuckup.  And it will get worse.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2157116,00.html

THREE years after its invasion of Iraq the US Administration acknowledged
yesterday that the war has become "a cause" for Islamic
extremists worldwide and there is a risk of the country becoming a safe
haven for terrorists hoping to launch fresh attacks on America.

According to CIA data released yesterday, there were 11,111 terrorist
incidents last year, killing more than 14,600 non-combatants, including
8,300 in Iraq. Of the 56 American civilians killed by terrorists in 2005,
some 47 of them were in Iraq.

The figures in the State Department's annual report on terror represented a
fourfold rise compared with 2004, partly because it has adopted a broader
definition of such incidents since having to withdraw data used two years
ago on the ground that it was grossly understated. Officials conceded
yesterday that the rising violence in Iraq was a factor in last year's
figures, saying that fatalities from terrorism there had "probably
doubled".

Great.

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