Category Archives: Terrorism statistics

Ariel Merari: Driven to Death: Psychological and Social Aspects of Suicide Terrorism (Book Review)

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 21. September 2019 by

This is in my view the best book explaining Palestinian suicide terrorism. It deals with the demographics of Palestinian suicide bombers, their background, religiosity, political awareness, organizational attachments and motivations. It also deals with the social and political environment that contributes to their willingness to engage in a suicide operation, including the role and motivations of those who prepared them and sent them to carry out their deadly mission. The depth of this study provides students of suicide terrorism around the world with a template helping to determine whether particular attacks represented genuine suicide bombings or only appeared to be so.

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Impressions of Terrorism, Drawn From Court Files

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 3. April 2008 by

Impressions of Terrorism, Drawn From Court Files http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/us/19bar.html?_r=2&scp=4&sq=Aref&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin New York Times By ADAM LIPTAK Published: February 19, 2008 Jeffrey Breinholt, who is on leave from a counterterrorism post at the Justice Department, has been studying what he calls “an undervalued … Read more . . .

How to disinform with terrorism statistics

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 1. May 2007 by
In the article below the authors studiously avoid to mention the number of fatal victims of terrorism, particularly those who die from terrorism outside areas of armed conflict. No mention is made in this article of the number of people who died from terrorism in the United States.

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UN has no terrorism statistics

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 15. January 2006 by

United Nations has no terrorism statistics Searches of the UN official web site for the strings "terrorism statistics" and "terror statistics" carried out on January 15, 2006, did not yield a single document.  See results: UN terror statistics.pdf  Yet,  the … Read more . . .

5,362 deaths from terrorism worldwide between March 2004 and March 2005

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 15. January 2006 by

"The cold statistics of a RAND Corp. database show the impact of the explosion of violence in Iraq: The 5,362 deaths from terrorism worldwide between March 2004 and March 2005 were almost double the total for the same 12-month period before the 2003 U.S. invasion."

[About  50,000-100,000 people die worldwide yearly of snake bites, approximaterly 10 times more than deaths from terrorist acts; about 16,000 people a year are murdered in the United States alone, about 1000 times more than U.S. nationals dying from terrorist acts:

On snake bite statistics, see http://frogsandsnakes.homestead.com/snakebitefacts.html] and
http://jic.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/5/259

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