Terror war
Global Terrorism Deaths: Country Comparison
THE attacks of September 11th 2001 killed 2,996 people. Despite the subsequent declaration of a war on terror, over the past ten years thousands more have been killed by terrorists of all hues. The chart below tracks the number of terrorist-related fatalities worldwide. The data is from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, which defines terrorism as “the use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal”.
IT WAS commonplace, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, to declare that the world had changed forever. And so, in many ways, it had. Catching a flight will never be the same, nor getting a visa to visit America. For the citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan, almost nothing remains as it was.
Yet ten years on, it is striking how far down the ranks of public concerns terrorism has fallen. For most in America, and throughout the rich world, economic security has become a far more pressing concern than the physical kind. In part, that is testimony to the lengths Western governments have gone to over the past decade to keep their citizens safe. Mainly, however, it is due to the financial crisis, which several years ago superseded Islamic militancy as the most urgent item on the government’s agenda.
source : Economist
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