KIM SENGUPTA AND PATRICK COCKBURN, INDEPENDENT, UK - An authoritative US
study of terrorist attacks after the invasion in 2003 contradicts the
repeated denials of George Bush and Tony Blair that the war is not to
blame for an upsurge in fundamentalist violence worldwide. The research
is said to be the first to attempt to measure the "Iraq effect" on
global terrorism. It found that the number killed in jihadist attacks
around the world has risen dramatically since the Iraq war began in
March 2003. The study compared the period between 11 September 2001 and
the invasion of Iraq with the period since the invasion. The count -
excluding the Arab-Israel conflict - shows the number of deaths due to
terrorism rose from 729 to 5,420. As well as strikes in Europe, attacks
have also increased in Chechnya and Kashmir since the invasion. The
research was carried out by the Centre on Law and Security at the NYU
Foundation for Mother Jones magazine.
Iraq was the catalyst for a ferocious fundamentalist backlash, according
to the study, which says that the number of those killed by Islamists
within Iraq rose from seven to 3,122. Afghanistan, invaded by US and
British forces in direct response to the September 11 attacks, saw a
rise from very few before 2003 to 802 since then. In the Chechen
conflict, the toll rose from 234 to 497. In the Kashmir region, as well
as India and Pakistan, the total rose from 182 to 489, and in Europe
from none to 297. . .
study of terrorist attacks after the invasion in 2003 contradicts the
repeated denials of George Bush and Tony Blair that the war is not to
blame for an upsurge in fundamentalist violence worldwide. The research
is said to be the first to attempt to measure the "Iraq effect" on
global terrorism. It found that the number killed in jihadist attacks
around the world has risen dramatically since the Iraq war began in
March 2003. The study compared the period between 11 September 2001 and
the invasion of Iraq with the period since the invasion. The count -
excluding the Arab-Israel conflict - shows the number of deaths due to
terrorism rose from 729 to 5,420. As well as strikes in Europe, attacks
have also increased in Chechnya and Kashmir since the invasion. The
research was carried out by the Centre on Law and Security at the NYU
Foundation for Mother Jones magazine.
Iraq was the catalyst for a ferocious fundamentalist backlash, according
to the study, which says that the number of those killed by Islamists
within Iraq rose from seven to 3,122. Afghanistan, invaded by US and
British forces in direct response to the September 11 attacks, saw a
rise from very few before 2003 to 802 since then. In the Chechen
conflict, the toll rose from 234 to 497. In the Kashmir region, as well
as India and Pakistan, the total rose from 182 to 489, and in Europe
from none to 297. . .
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2311307.ece
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