WASHINGTON - The number of terrorist attacks documented by U.S. intelligence agencies jumped sharply in 2005, crossing the 10,000 mark for the first time, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials and documents obtained by Knight Ridder Newspapers.

Officials caution that much of the increase, due to be reported publicly next week, stems from a change last year in how terror attacks are counted, coupled with a more aggressive effort to tally such violence worldwide.

But the documents say, and officials confirm, that some of the rise is traceable to the war in Iraq, where foreign terrorists, a homegrown insurgency and sectarian strife have all contributed to political bloodshed.

More than half the fatalities from terrorism worldwide last year occurred in Iraq, said a counterterrorism official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the data haven't been made public. Roughly 85 percent of the U.S. citizens who died from terrorism during the year died in Iraq.
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Sure is a lot!

Better to fight them over there than over here though..

Better to stop creating them.

This might make you happy...I honestly think religion created them. (Jihad)

I think it has created them over here too (700 club ).

Islam's existed for about two thousand years. If it was the cause, why would violence rise or fall?

It should also be noted that this is all terrorist attacks, not just ones directed against Americans.

Can we say "whoops"

You'd have to eradicate the religion of Islam in order to do that, because that's where 99% of this is originating.

So is that what you're promoting? Religious persecution? Wipe out the Muslims? How genocidal of you!

Islam has NOT existed for about 2,000 years.

Do your history homework.

Islam has ALWAYS been violent. They just didn't have sophisticated explosives until recently. Before IEDs it was swords.