War on terrorism going badly, US admits


	War on terrorism going badly, US admits

arifsali

5-3-2007 11:06 PM

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war, politics, terrorism, united states, bush administration, military, iraq, iraq war

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/53ce471c-9e7c-4c42-847a-678cba486aa4/C7DBA931-D885-495A-9DE6-CFAF04A30B5B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/war-on-terrorism-going-badly-us-admits/2007/05/01/1177788144224.html" href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/war-on-terrorism-going-badly-us-admits/2007/05/01/1177788144224.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smh.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/war-on-terrorism-going-badly-us-admits/2007/05/01/1177788144224.html">THE US State Department yesterday urged that "non-military"
strategies be used to fight terrorism as it admitted that more than
20,000 people died in terrorist attacks last year, up 40 per cent
on 2005.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/war-on-terrorism-going-badly-us-admits/2007/05/01/1177788144224.html">The big rise in deaths, injuries and terrorist incidents was
almost entirely due to deteriorating security in Iraq and
Afghanistan where the US is engaged in a conventional military
response to the threat of Islamic extremism.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/war-on-terrorism-going-badly-us-admits/2007/05/01/1177788144224.html">Incidents of terrorism in Iraq almost doubled to 6630 in 2006,
resulting in more than 38,000 deaths, injuries or kidnappings. In
Afghanistan the number rose from 491 to 749, accounting for almost
3000 deaths, injuries or abductions.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/war-on-terrorism-going-badly-us-admits/2007/05/01/1177788144224.html"><P>The State Department said progress since 2001 was "mixed".</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C7DBA931-D885-495A-9DE6-CFAF04A30B5B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>