More Terrorism Now than Before The War On Terror?

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From War News Updates come this:

* More terrorist attacks have been recorded but the number of fatalities has fallen 25 per cent since 2007
* Western Europeans were 19 times more likely to die in a terrorist attack than North Americans in the past ten years
* Only 31 of 158 countries ranked have not experienced a terrorist attack since 2001
In 2011, terrorism had the most impact on Iraq, according to the new Global Terrorist Index

Read more @ Has the War on Terror failed? Number of terrorist attacks QUADRUPLE in decade after 9/11 | Mail Online

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One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter...
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No End in Sight for the Long Struggle to Define Terrorism
February 19, 2013 – Participants at a Saudi-hosted, U.N.-backed counter-terrorism conference this past weekend reiterated the need to combat “all kinds of terrorism,” but agreement on what constitutes terrorism continues to elude the international community.
The official Saudi Press Agency cited a speech to the two-day event by Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, in which he said the kingdom “has always confirmed its condemnation and denunciation of terrorism in all its forms.” SPA added, “The participants condemned all kinds of terrorism, confirming that terrorism doesn’t belong to a specific religion or race and that the world should stand united to bring to justice whoever was involved in financing, planning or carrying out terror acts.” In seven weeks, an “ad-hoc committee” set up by the U.N. General Assembly will meet in New York – as it has done almost every spring for the past 16 years – to discuss a draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism, which was first proposed by India in 1996.

A few sticking-points have prevented progress over the years, in particular the stance, held by Arab and Islamic states including Saudi Arabia, that in defining terrorism an exception must be made for the fight against “foreign occupation.” Failure to break the impasse prompted a dispirited U.N. to call off the planned 2012 session of the ad-hoc committee, but at a meeting in New York last November it was decided to give the effort another push, so the committee will meet again from April 8-12. During that November meeting, the “occupation” issue reared its head, again. The official account of the proceedings cited unnamed delegations as stressing the importance of concluding a comprehensive convention in order to provide states with “a definition of terrorism to ensure universal criminalization.”

However, “the need for a clear definition of terrorism, which distinguished terrorism from the legitimate struggle in the exercise of their right to self-determination of peoples under colonial, alien domination or foreign occupation was reaffirmed,” it said. Evident in the record of the meeting was the frustration felt by some countries’ representatives, with some saying that if agreement could not be reached “then it was pointless to continue to discuss the matter annually.” “The committee should not, it was suggested, continue to deliberate on the same issue every year if it is clear to all in attendance that there was no possibility for agreement,” it said.

Some remained optimistic, suggesting that a date be set for a high-level U.N. conference that “could assist in resolving the outstanding issues surrounding the draft convention, including the definition of terrorism.” But other participants countered that a conference should only be held after agreement is reached on the draft convention.

‘Differentiate between terrorism and legitimate struggle’

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Russian lawmaker's body found cemented in barrel
February 18, 2013 — The body of a Russian lawmaker was found cemented in a barrel, and a former government official has been accused of ordering the killing over an $80 million debt, officials said Monday.
Mikhail Pakhomov, 37, went missing last week. He was a member of the local legislature in Lipetsk, a city some 350 kilometers (some 215 miles) south of Moscow. He was last seen last Tuesday when three unidentified men pushed him into a car outside a restaurant in Lipetsk and drove away. Russia's Investigative Committee says several suspects were detained, and that authorities found Pakhomov's badly beaten body in a barrel of cement in a garage.

Russian television stations aired footage provided by police that showed a fragment of a barrel, pieces of concrete and officers carrying what appeared to be Pakhomov's body on a stretcher and loading it into a vehicle. The Investigative Committee said Yevgeny Kharitonov is being held on suspicion of ordering the killing of Pakhomov, allegedly over the $80 million debt. Kharitonov is a former deputy minister for communal services in the Moscow region's provincial government.

The committee's spokesman, Vladimir Markin, said that one of the detained suspects told investigators that Kharitonov had told them that he had to recover the debt to advance his career. "For Kharitonov, career was the main priority," Markin said in a statement. Russian news reports said Kharitonov was detained by police at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport while preparing to board a flight to the southern city of Krasnodar. It wasn't immediately clear if Kharitonov had retained a lawyer.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/russian-lawmakers-body-found-cemented-barrel
 
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The "war on terror" is a bunch of bullshit anyway.

Terror is a tactic in war, not an enemy.

They didn't call WWII, "war on blitzkreig".
 
The "war on terror" is a bunch of bullshit anyway.

Terror is a tactic in war, not an enemy.

They didn't call WWII, "war on blitzkreig".

What would work for you? War on Muslims? It's not like it's a country we're talking about here.
It's a bunch of religious fanatics spread around the globe. Spreading terror.....hmmmm.
 
What would work for you? War on Muslims? It's not like it's a country we're talking about here.
It's a bunch of religious fanatics spread around the globe. Spreading terror.....hmmmm.
It's a bullshit myth of creating perpetual war that allows the government to strip us of our civil rights and rape our tax dollars for the military industrial complex.

You talk like these religious fanatics are one, coordinated entity, all acting in unison. They're nothing but average muslim citizens who have been radicalized into US hating terrorists as a result of us bombing the shit out of their country's over made up, bullshit reasons.
 
What would work for you? War on Muslims? It's not like it's a country we're talking about here.
It's a bunch of religious fanatics spread around the globe. Spreading terror.....hmmmm.
It's a bullshit myth of creating perpetual war that allows the government to strip us of our civil rights and rape our tax dollars for the military industrial complex.

You talk like these religious fanatics are one, coordinated entity, all acting in unison. They're nothing but average muslim citizens who have been radicalized into US hating terrorists as a result of us bombing the shit out of their country's over made up, bullshit reasons.

Seems like you were on the name thing with the Blitzkrieg statement.
As to it being made up? I wouldnt say made up. Played up? You bet....

It did bring us the Homeland Security. Which the gov. is now using to it's fullest extent.
With more to come I'm sure..
 
Seems like you were on the name thing with the Blitzkrieg statement.
As to it being made up? I wouldnt say made up. Played up? You bet....

It did bring us the Homeland Security. Which the gov. is now using to it's fullest extent.
With more to come I'm sure..
I wonder how much that cost us? With all this talk about cutting government spending, how much did it cost us to add a whole new, unecessary Cabinet post?

"Made up", as in there is no tangible enemy and no way to determine and end to the war. There is no VE Day or VJ Day. It's perpetual. It never ends. And that's the point.

"Played up", as in exaggerating the threats that are, in part, the result of our own foreign policy decisions.
 
Seems like you were on the name thing with the Blitzkrieg statement.
As to it being made up? I wouldnt say made up. Played up? You bet....

It did bring us the Homeland Security. Which the gov. is now using to it's fullest extent.
With more to come I'm sure..
I wonder how much that cost us? With all this talk about cutting government spending, how much did it cost us to add a whole new, unecessary Cabinet post?

"Made up", as in there is no tangible enemy and no way to determine and end to the war. There is no VE Day or VJ Day. It's perpetual. It never ends. And that's the point.

"Played up", as in exaggerating the threats that are, in part, the result of our own foreign policy decisions.

Played up,as in our gov not passing up a chance to insert more control over the populous via the Patriot Act.
And if thats the case both sides are guilty. Cause this shit sure as hell hasn't let up under obama.
 
obama said the war on terror was over when Bin Laden was killed. He declared himself the winner.
 

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