It's official: The War on Terror Is the Leading Cause of Terrorism

[babylonsister]

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/48620/

The War on Terror Is the Leading Cause of Terrorism

By Kim Sengupta and Patrick Cockburn, The Independent UK. Posted March 1, 2007.

It's official: A new report shows that the U.S. has made the world more dangerous -- not just for Americans, but for everyone.


Innocent people across the world are now paying the price of the "Iraq effect," with the loss of hundreds of lives directly linked to the invasion and occupation by American and British forces.

An authoritative U.S. 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.

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[stellanoir]

1. Finally more are awakening to the fact that

energetically, wars only empower the object of their aggression.

See Wars on Poverty and Drugs for reference.

I'll keep on typing this till enough people get it. . .

In this still new millennium, wars are simply no longer winnable.

We may just require something a bit more enlightened than "testosterone based solutions." It's perhaps simply time for us all to evolve and learn to get along globally and lead with our collective hearts and minds.

Three applicable links:

http://www.globalcommunity.org/flash/wombat.shtml

http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2007/03/iraq_e...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUdh3WPGmhA

[Doctor_J]

2. The only person MIGHT be surprised by this is *

he's so thoroughly ignorant that any study more than about three sentences is completely incomprehensible to him. He stopped following the war on terror after he pranced on the Lincoln.

[patrice]

3. Meanwhile: the new Bait in the new Bait and Switch is the Blood of American Troops.

Have you read this yet? http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/070305fa_fact_hersh

RE: General Pace's testimony before the Senate Appropriations committee yesterday - Pace is saying one third of the total military force in Iraq will not be fully manned, fully trained, or equipped AND he (Cheney) doesn't want Murtha to do anything about that.

Pace also said before the Senate Appropriations Committee that a weak Iraqi government (Shia) results in stronger militias (Sunni). The "Redirection" documented by Seymour Hersh (linked above) describes a process that is weakening Shia in the region and strengthening Sunnis.

So, as the Sunni Iraqi militias get stronger they have to decide whether to kill more Americans or more Shia. Doesn't the fact that the Administration is resisting Murtha's plan, and thus leaving those forces weak in that situation, suggest that this is supposed to push the Sunni Iraqi militias in the direction of attacking the Shia instead?

It's the old "Bait and Switch" routine again. Only this time it is American Blood being waved under the noses of the Sunnis in the region to get them into what's going on, and then through the use of special Sunni operative$$$$$$$$, their efforts are turned on the Shia instead.

[Tuesday_Morning]

4. k & r

:kick:

[CJCRANE]

5. What do you expect from a "War President"? n/t

[SemperEadem]

6. So, it would seem that cheney needs to rethink his stupidity... although I doubt

his hubris will allow him to do so.

No, Mr. Cheney, removing the troops will not embolden al Qaida. Sending IN more troops will embolden al Qaida and it would seem that YOU are the person that they pray to stay in power because you are so willing to send innocent young men and women to their deaths or to Walter Reed Hospital.

[ClayZ]

7. So, arrest the MAIN terrorists! BFEE

K and R

[robinlynne]

8. well put.

[qwlauren35]

9. And who is going to see this study?

Who is going to HEED this study????

Who is going to BURY this study!!!! I think I can answer this one...

[NewYorkerfromMass]

10. sadly this was predicted. nt