4.28.2005
US 'Conceals High Terror Figures' (news.BBC.co.uk)
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Data withheld from an annual report on terrorism by the US state department show a sharp increase in attacks in 2004, a top Democratic lawmaker says.
Henry Waxman, citing official briefings given to congressional aides, said the number of "significant" attacks had risen more than three-fold in a year.
The California congressman urged the administration to release the figures.
The state department has said it will stop providing them. It admitted to mistakes in last year's report.
In June 2004 the department was forced to double its original estimate of terror victims in the previous year.
It said 625 people had been killed in attacks worldwide in 2003 - not 307 as stated in the annual Patterns of Global Terrorism report published two months earlier.
(More .. BBC NEWS | Americas | US 'conceals high terror figures') ¶ 08:41
Data withheld from an annual report on terrorism by the US state department show a sharp increase in attacks in 2004, a top Democratic lawmaker says.
Henry Waxman, citing official briefings given to congressional aides, said the number of "significant" attacks had risen more than three-fold in a year.
The California congressman urged the administration to release the figures.
The state department has said it will stop providing them. It admitted to mistakes in last year's report.
In June 2004 the department was forced to double its original estimate of terror victims in the previous year.
It said 625 people had been killed in attacks worldwide in 2003 - not 307 as stated in the annual Patterns of Global Terrorism report published two months earlier.
(More .. BBC NEWS | Americas | US 'conceals high terror figures') ¶ 08:41
