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Andrew Sullivan has a quote today from a blog called musingsoniraq. The quote is about a Terror listing , a list of countries where terror attacks are the worst.
The report was issued by Maplecroft, a British company which sells it’s reports to companies doing business abroad. The report was issued in February, and for some reason turned up on Mr. Sullivan’s facility in April.
The report ranks 196 countries worldwide on terror attacks. Number one “with a bullet” was Iraq.
Rounding out the top ten was Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Lebanon, India, Algeria, Columbia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The United States was 46.
While the violence situation in Iraq is better, they seem to lose a lot of people to random bombings. Musings has a more current report on the violent deaths. In March, there were 12 mass casualty bombings, with 142 deaths. The total body count for March is estimated at 183-367, depending on who does the counting. This is for a country with a population estimated at 31 million, or roughly 10 percent of the United States. This means that March, for terror deaths, was the equivalent of 911 in the United States, and is considered a vast improvement.
Some say the surge is a success, and that Iraq is on the way to being a stable democracy. Others
say it is a long way away, and that the road is littered with i.e.d.s. This is what America has bought with the lives of thousands of soldiers, and a ruined local economy.