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February 21, 2007
Check It Out: Jihadist Violence and Crying Wolf
Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank find that jihadist violence has increased by 607 percent around the world and the number of people killed in those attacks has grown by 237 percent since the 2003 Iraq invasion. Their story appears in Mother Jones.
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH: Federal prosecutors and the FBI mistakenly pumped up the number of terrorist investigations and prosecutions by tossing marriage fraud and immigration violations into the terrorism-related bin. So finds a scathing report released Tuesday by a Justice Department Inspector General. ...
The Justice Department and the FBI made fighting terrorism a priority after the Sept. 11 attacks, but the IG determined the collection and reporting of the statistics as "decentralized and haphazard."
RAND's terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman told The Chicago Tribune that it might be a good idea if authorities not exaggerate what they're doing in their counter-terrorism efforts.
"Without explaining their methods more clearly, the public could look at it as 'crying wolf,'" Hoffman said.
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For the record, here's the Inspector General's pdf report: Internal Controls over Terrorism Reporting.
Posted by davidphinney at February 21, 2007 10:05 PM
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