Those other peaks? The 1995 Oklahoma bombing and the 1984 wounding peak was the Rajneeshee bioterror attack where restaurants were deliberately contaminated with salmonella. This chart of total attacks shows how 9/11 distorts the total figures - comprising 85% of all the terror deaths recorded. The biggest caveat about these figures is that these are all attacks, not necessarily those that cause more loss of life. It's based on this report from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, reporting on last year's GTD figures. This great post from the Washington Post points this - and more - out. Between 20, it shows a total of 21 fatal terror attacks.īut the other side of that is the more recent attacks have been incredibly deadly - with 9/11 obviously dominating the data. The smallest number of attacks occurred in 2006 when the database recorded six. They went down from a high of 40 in 2001 to nine in 2011. There were a total of 207 terrorist attacks in the US between 20. The data - which excludes 1993 - shows how there are actually fewer attacks now than in the 1970s. The threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation
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