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The Iraq Effect: New Study Finds 600% Rise in Terrorism Since US Invasion of Iraq
by Democracy Now (reposted)
Thursday Feb 22nd, 2007 9:29 AM
As the fourth anniversary of the Iraq approaches, a new study by Mother Jones magazine has found that the number of fatal terrorist attacks has increased by over 600 percent since the U.S. invasion. We speak with the study’s co-author, Paul Cruickshank.
As the fourth anniversary of the Iraq approaches, new concerns are being raised over the effect the war has had on global security. A new study by Mother Jones magazine has found that the number of fatal terrorist attacks has increased by over 600 percent since the U.S. invaded Iraq. The effect of the Iraq war has been felt from London to Kabul, and from Madrid to the Red Sea. The study contradicts key claims by President Bush that the Iraq war has made the world safer.

President Bush, speaking at his State of the Union last month.

Paul Cruickshank is co-author of the new study, “The Iraq Effect – the War in Iraq and its Impact on the War on Terrorism.” He is a research fellow at the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law.

* Paul Cruickshank. Fellow at New York University Law School’s Center on Law and Security and co-author of the new study “The Iraq Effect: The War in Iraq and its Impact on the War on Terrorism.”

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Are we the American people so foolish
by ron kuffel
Thursday Feb 22nd, 2007 10:41 PM
Yea, and my MOTHER wears combat boots, these people in the white house make up stories as they go along. And we Americans go along with the fairy tails. We the American people are to busy trying to make more money and could really care less for the rest of the world.