Global Terrorism Database
May 25, 2007 | 8:50 am
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Global Terrorism Database
Here's an interesting database I'd not seen mentioned before.
http://www.start.umd.edu/data/gtd/
Found a reference to it in Jerry Pournelle's View From Chaos Manor.
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/v....html#Thursday
From his Thursday entry he recounted a conversation with a DHS official. I'm sure there's quite of few us who would have appreciated a chance to bend this official's ear a bit. I think Jerry did a good job of articulating our concerns on the $'s wasted in the name of security theatre.
http://www.start.umd.edu/data/gtd/
Found a reference to it in Jerry Pournelle's View From Chaos Manor.
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/v....html#Thursday
From his Thursday entry he recounted a conversation with a DHS official. I'm sure there's quite of few us who would have appreciated a chance to bend this official's ear a bit. I think Jerry did a good job of articulating our concerns on the $'s wasted in the name of security theatre.
There was a fire drill today and I found myself outside next to an official in Airport and Aircraft security. I put it to him that Bin Laden never does the same things twice. On 9/11 we lost about $20 billion in buildings, and about 4 weekends worth of traffic casualties. Not a good thing, but the real disaster came when we then imposed about $40 billion a year in penalties on air travel and the airlines. We would be about as safe if we abolished the TSA and told the airlines that if they lose an airplane they better be insured against it. We would certainly be as safe against hijacked airplanes being flown into buildings as we are now. I also said that the main accomplishment of TSA is to make citizens feel like subjects.
May 25, 2007 | 9:49 pm
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Thanks for posting.
Check out this graphic: Terrorist Incidents by Perpetrator Type, 1998-2004.
WOW.
Check out this graphic: Terrorist Incidents by Perpetrator Type, 1998-2004.
WOW.
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May 25, 2007 | 10:44 pm
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Thanks for posting.
Check out this graphic: Terrorist Incidents by Perpetrator Type, 1998-2004.
WOW.
Check out this graphic: Terrorist Incidents by Perpetrator Type, 1998-2004.
WOW.
May 26, 2007 | 1:54 am
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May 26, 2007 | 9:25 am
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May 28, 2007 | 10:59 am
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Check out this graphic: Terrorist Incidents by Perpetrator Type, 1998-2004.
WOW.
Check out this graphic: Terrorist Incidents by Perpetrator Type, 1998-2004.
WOW.
I guess they don't count the millions of people killed by state-sponsored wars, famines, etc. in that time period.
May 28, 2007 | 4:22 pm
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Well, there is an epistemological distinction between terrorist strike and its fallout or secondary consequences that must be accounted for if their methodology is to be credible (and therefore, useful). :-:
May 28, 2007 | 4:52 pm
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Check out this graphic: Terrorist Incidents by Perpetrator Type, 1998-2004.
Isn't that "odd"?
May 29, 2007 | 1:34 pm
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