Dirty Greek - Worldwide terrorist attacks down in 2003

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Wow.

^"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- International acts of terror in 2003 were the fewest in more than 30 years, according to the U.S. State Department's annual terrorism report released Thursday.

The Patterns of Global Terrorism report said 190 acts of international terrorism occurred in 2003 -- a slight drop from 198 attacks the previous year and the lowest total since 1969.

The figure marked a 45 percent decrease in attacks since 2001, but it did not include most of the attacks in Iraq, because attacks against combatants did not fit the U.S. definition of international terrorism.

Of course, the reason why the total number of terrorist attacks is down is because a large portion of the terrorism is being carried out by the U.S. And nothing the U.S. does is ever considered terrorism. Also interesting:

^"The report counted 82 anti-U.S. attacks around the world in 2003, up from 77 in 2002. Thirty-five American citizens died in terrorist attacks last year.

The highest number of attacks, 70, occurred in Asia, the report said.

The report said the war in Iraq has turned that country into "a central battleground in the global war on terrorism."

So, in other words, we've created the Iraq debacle and it's now a "central battleground." Way to bottleneck, guys!