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To: tejek who wrote (191386)	6/22/2004 2:54:02 PM
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U.S. Doubles Number of Terrorism Deaths in 2003 Tue Jun 22, 2004 02:09 PM ET (Page 1 of 2) By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - International terrorism killed 625 people last year, more than double the 307 deaths the Bush administration cited in a faulty report used to argue it is winning the war on terrorism. The errors in the annual "Patterns of Global Terrorism" report have embarrassed the administration and dented its claim that Washington is prevailing in the war on terrorism, a key part of President Bush's re-election strategy. The number of deaths from international terrorist attacks last year remained below 2002's 725 fatalities, the administration said on Tuesday. One U.S. official said the main reason for the surge in 2003 fatalities was the original failure to count many attacks in November and December, including a Nov. 9 car bombing in Riyadh that killed at least 17 people and Nov. 15 and Nov. 20 car bombings in Istanbul that killed at least 61 people. Secretary of State Colin Powell and State Department Counterterrorism Coordinator Cofer Black were to announce the new figures at 2:10 p.m., dramatically revising the original State Department report issued on April 29. The number of international terrorist attacks last year was revised up to 208 from the 190 the State Department initially reported and the number of 2002 attacks was also revised up to 205 from the 198 originally reported. When the State Department released its annual terrorism report with fanfare nearly two months ago, officials cited it as evidence Washington was prevailing in the war on terrorism. U.S. officials have since denied they manipulated the figures for political gain ahead of the Nov. 2 U.S. election. Bush appears to be losing ground on the issue of terrorism amid growing public disenchantment with the Iraq war, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Monday. The poll of 1,201 Americans found 48 percent said they trusted Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry to do a better job of handling the U.S. campaign against terrorism versus 47 percent who trusted Bush to do a better job. Powell has said clerical and administrative errors helped cause the mistakes by the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, an interagency group set up last year to address the failure of U.S. intelligence agencies to prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Continued ... © Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved. 1 \| 2 Next More Top News Militants Decapitate South Korean Hostage in Iraq Bush Says U.S. Won't Be Intimidated by Beheading Pentagon's Wolfowitz Says Iraq Is No U.S. Quagmire U.S. to Release Secret Memos on Prisoner Treatment Senate Raises Radio, TV Indecency Fines reuters.com