Major terrorist attacks tripled worldwide in 2004, according to a new US government count. That is one reason why Condoleezza Rice has suppressed further publication of Patterns of Global Terrorism, as reported originally by Knight Ridder's Jonathan Landay. It's such increasingly frequent displays by Rice of suppressing the truth that makes one lose respect for her rather quickly all over again. Wednesday Update: The same tactics are being resorted to by Rumsfeld's Pentagon as Iraq violence spikes. Again. Update II: Praktike gets this right. How very disappointing. More Here from Larry Johnson at the so-good-it-should-be-classified Counterterrorism Blog. (Hat Tip, Praktike).

Posted by Laura at April 26, 2005 04:28 PM