The Global Terrorism Database developed by START, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism based at the University of Maryland, with funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Available online: http://www.start.umd.edu/data/gtd/.The database, five years in the making, includes 80,000 terror incidents from 1970 through 2004. START plans to update the database through 2007 within the next 12 months. The Internet site is designed to be as user friendly as possible. Each attack is coded on more than 100 variables to aid in the identification and explanation of trends in domestic and international terrorism.
"This is a powerful new weapon in the hands of researchers and policy-makers who must respond to the threat of terrorism," says Gary LaFree, director of START, a University of Maryland professor and a criminologist by training. "We're not just counting up the number of attacks. We're looking at a long list of specific details, as well as social and economic considerations that may help us understand the 'whys' and 'hows' of terrorism. This can especially help counterterrorism experts and researchers improve their understanding of violent radical groups and movements, and to predict the nature of future incidents."
Cool tool for a few bloggers I can think of, too.
Does it ever occur to anyone that information is power and publicizing information about an enemy provides them with resources as well???
response to O-
Yes, but these days, it works more than one way. By being open with this information, they know we know. More importantly, we collectively know more about what they want to do, we can know what to look for, and we can actively contribute to defeating what they want to do.
Basically, they want to live under a rock, and the more rocks we turn over, the fewer places they have to hide.
Yes ...and if they do not know which rocks have been turned over they may be trapped when they try to hid under one that is already exposed to us!
Yet if they know we are looking they will avoid it!
Basic entrapment. Ever play chess?
Interesting data but almost useless. To download the full database, one has to write a program to enumerate all incidents and scrape data from the web page generated for each individual incident hoping that the format of the HTML will be uniform. Easy to do, yes, but most tedious and time consuming. It would be much more usefull if the same data was provided as a zip file for downloading and then one could manipulate it on ones own computer as one wished.
No doubt the webserver is designed to flag IP addresses that are attempting to download the whole database and either make this information available to US homeland security or block access after some threshold number of accesses have been made in a critical time interval.
I happen to be a firm believer in free access to information and this web site fails miserably in this regard. Interesting programming project to scrape the site via multiple international proxies, but have much more pressing things to do first.
DB one shows 38 incidents in Canada 78% of them in Quebec.
This is the province with immigration controls?
Cool tool for terrorist wannabes too
How many terrorists have already entered this country along with all those illegal aleins?
WLMR: DB one shows 38 incidents in Canada 78% of them in Quebec.
Not that it's related in any way to provincial immigration policies, but how did you even arrive at your figure of 78 percent? I count only 13 incidents in Quebec.
Data you can use today. . .
**Israeli politicians became too sophisticated to simply destroy Iranian nuclear capabilities. And anyway, there are 53 Pakistani nuclear bombs. **
Acmahdinejad must be a nutcase. How can he spout off about tossing nukes when he sure as hell has no decent reserve?
** The Iranian nuclear threat is vague. Iran only runs 1,300 centrifuges, a far cry from the minimally feasible 3,000 centrifuges.
Things often go wrong with nuclear enrichment. Centrifuges don’t now produce weapons-grade uranium; further enrichment is required, certain to be noticed by IAEA inspectors. Nuclear warhead design isn’t an easy job; even if constructing a nuclear warhead, Iran would shrink from risking its one or two nuclear charges in easily interceptable missiles.
Delivering a large nuclear assembly in sea container would result in low-yield ground-level blast only. Thoughtful analysis suggests that the Iranian threat is over-hyped – at least, for the current prime minister’s term.
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Yeah, that*s what I thought too. = TG
North America is quietly becoming hardened against petrolium refinery sabotage and sabotage of our economy.
While bio-fuels are less than pracitical in the pure energy sense, they are essential as a strategic fuel reserve sense.
There are thousands of bio-fuel refineries and many have been busy for 20 years.
A lot of military, emergency, police and municipal service equipment can run on biofuels.
Engine modification for biofuel is minor and with diesel may only require starting with diesel fuel and switching back to diesel just before turning the engine off.
Even some of our local Courtenay and Comox municipal vehicles on Vancouver Island are in biofuel mode.
One could drive a:
Volkswagen Jetta TDI Diesel Wagon
1.9 L, 4 cylinder
5 speed manual
Annual Fuel Cost: $791
Annual Fuel Use: 1180 L
Fuel Consumption City: 6.6 L/100 km (43 mi./gal.) Hwy: 5.2 L/100 km (54 mi./gal.)
while waiting for a reasonably priced EV to show on the market. = TG
Kate,
Blogging at 12/45? Youv'e got to get some sleep, motorcycles for painting, dog shows and the world-wide demand for your sensible reporting all require that you REST!
Thanks for everything.
Paul