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1 results foundAuthor: Gagel, Andrew C. Title: Patterns in Terrorism in North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia: 2007-2010 Summary: There are many definitions of terrorism and many ways to count it. The key, from a US policy viewpoint, is how the US government makes that count and what data it uses for measuring the threat and shaping its counterterrorism policies. With this in mind, the Burke Chair has compiled a set of tables showing terrorist attacks in North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia from 2007-2010. All of these data come from the National Counter Terrorism Center’s (NCTC) World Wide Incidents Tracking System (WITS). While the NCTC tracks attacks by a number of different factors, the tables created below show the number of attacks, dead, wounded, and hostages broken down by country and then by terrorist groups acting within each country. Every group that the NCTC had as at least conducting a single, known attack in the time period has been included (even if the attack resulted in not a single death, wounded, or hostage taken). Attacks that were not claimed by or attributed to any particular group fall under the category “Unknown/Unclaimed.” It should be noted that such counts do not include low-level acts of terrorism like intimidation and extortion, which are often a critical part of the threat; nor do they attempt to measure the influence and control that terrorist and extremist groups have in given areas. The goal of such actors is not terrorism, per se, but the use of terrorism to achieve political and ideological control or influence. There also is no way to measure the error rate or uncertainty in such data. Many countries deliberately conceal the success of terrorist and extremist movements, and others count what the US sees as legitimate political protest as terrorism. Details: Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2011. 49p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 14, 2011 at: http://csis.org/files/publication/110629_MENA_Central_Asia_China_Terrorism_2007_2010.pdf Year: 2011 Country: International URL: http://csis.org/files/publication/110629_MENA_Central_Asia_China_Terrorism_2007_2010.pdf Shelf Number: 122051 Keywords: Terrorism (Africa, Asia, Middle East)Terrorists |