OK. My mistake. The report WILL be
published by the state department, but annual statistics on terrorism activities will be included in some other
report. (???)
“WASHINGTON -- The United States state department said on Monday it will stop publishing annual
statistics on terrorism activities after discrepancies were found last year in figures for the number of attacks and
casualties.
Department spokesperson Richard Boucher said "the government has decided that the National
Counterterrorism Centre should compile and publish the statistical data on terrorism that has previously been
included by the state department in our report."
But he dismissed news reports that the department would do
away with its annual Patterns of Global Terrorism report, which is mandated by law.
"That report is due to
Congress by April 30, and we will do that this year," Boucher said, adding that the publication would contain, as it
had in the past, the country reports on terrorism.
"That's what the law asks of the state department,
that's what we'll be reporting to Congress," he said.
“
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0419-10.htm
Guess I'll have to wait and see what
all this really means.
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