Country Reports on Terrorism

As a counterpoint to the Anna Nicole Smith opinion released today take a look at the annual Country Reports on Terrorism. This report is required to be written by April 30th of each year, for the archives of this report back to 2004, see http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/. This page also has the previous version of this title, Patterns of Global Terrorism, available back to 1995, for the print or microfiche version back to 1975, search Chinook. According to the 2005 report, 56 "private citizens" were killed due to terrorism, 48 of them in Iraq. Overall there were 14,602 deaths in 2005 worldwide in attacks directed against noncombatants.