Terrorism is winning the WOT

By Libby

The latest figures on terrorist attacks will be reluctantly released by Condi Rice and it doesn't look good.

WASHINGTON - A State Department report on terrorism due out next week will show a nearly 30 percent increase in terrorist attacks worldwide in 2006 to more than 14,000, almost all of the boost due to growing violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Friday.
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her top aides earlier this week had considered postponing or downplaying the release of this year's edition of the terrorism report, officials in several agencies and on Capitol Hill said.

They've tried that ploy before but at least Condi appears to understand that the new Democratic order on Capitol Hill won't sit quietly by as the White House sweeps unflattering statistics under the rug. And these stats just show non-combatant deaths, it doesn't include soldiers.

The White House will no doubt tout figures that suggest worldwide terrorist attacks are actually down and claim this proves that Iraq is the central front on terror. That ought to play well for democracy building on the Arab Street. Let the US "liberate" your country and you too can become the prize winner in the death by terrorism sweepstakes. Hard to believe the rest of the Middle Eastern countries aren't lining up to buy tickets for that contest.