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To: Win Smith who wrote (138036)	6/25/2004 10:58:41 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 281500

The new report, reflecting two weeks of efforts led by the State Department to review the original statistics, showed that the total number of international terrorist episodes rose to 208 last year from 205 in 2002. A first report, issued April 29, said the number had fallen to 190 from 198. The number of injuries resulting such episodes rose to 3,646 from 2,013 last year, instead of falling to 1,593 as the earlier report said.... Nor does it include civilians killed accidentally by military action inside a country. Thus, foreigners killed by suicide bombs in Israel are included, but civilians killed accidentally by Israeli forces are not. American soldiers killed in Iraq are not included unless they are in a civilian setting, such as in a hotel bombing. It is still a bogus report, even with the revisions. Everything of course depends on the what the definition of is is. So to speak....