Duplicate post. Sorry mods

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22165856.htm

WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Tuesday more than doubled its count of people killed and injured by international terrorism in 2003 as it revised a faulty report used to argue it was winning a war on terrorism.

The administration said international terrorism killed 625 people last year, up from the 307 it reported on April 29 but below 2002's 725 fatalities. It found 3,646 were wounded last year, above the 1,593 initially cited and the 2,013 in 2002.

The errors in the annual "Patterns of Global Terrorism" report have embarrassed the administration and dented its claim to be prevailing in the war on terrorism, a key part of U.S. President George W. Bush's re-election strategy.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell blamed "computational and accounting errors." Other officials said they had failed to count many terrorist attacks in November and December, double-counted others and misclassified still others.

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1. dupe

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2. Since they doubled the numbers you KNOW that they probably should

have been quadrupled. How can there only be 625 lives lost to terrorists when the Phillipines are getting their asses kicked day in and day out? And how about Africa? Thousands die each month but the guys are referred to as 'rebels'. I am highly suspicious of the number they used. Wonder where they got it.