International terrorist activity down, State Department says
By Mike Nartker, Global Security Newswire
The number of international terrorist incidents continued to decline in 2003, reaching its lowest level since the late 1960s, according to an annual State Department report released Thursday.
Last year, a total of 190 terrorist attacks were conducted throughout the world, a slight decrease from the 198 attacks reported in 2002 and a 45-percent decrease from the 346 incidents reported in 2001, according to the report, entitled Patterns of Global Terrorism. The 2003 total represents the lowest number of terrorist incidents since 1969, the report says.
