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      "title": "The Department of State's Patterns of Global Terrorism Report: Trends, State Sponsors, and Related Issues",
      "summary": "This report highlights trends and data found in the State Department's annual  Patterns of\nGlobal\nTerrorism  report , (Patterns 2003)  and addresses selected issues relating to its\ncontent. This report\nwill not be updated.\n  On April 29, 2004, the Department of State released its annual  Patterns of Global\n Terrorism \nreport. After discrepancies were noted in reported data, the Department of State issued revised\nstatistics on June 22, 2004. The newly released data showed minimal change in the number of\nterrorist attacks  worldwide  in 2003 over 2002 levels -- an increase from 205 attacks to\n208. In 2003,\nthe overall number of reported  anti-U.S.  attacks declined visibly, 60 anti-U.S. attacks\nin 2003 as\nopposed to 77 attacks in the previous year. In 2003, the number of  persons killed  in\ninternational\nterrorist attacks was 625, down from 725 in 2002. In 2003,  persons wounded  numbered\n3,646, up\nfrom 2,013 the previous year. In 2003, as in 2002, both the highest number of attacks (80) and\nhighest number of casualties (159 dead and 1,268 wounded) continued to occur in Asia. Notably,\nthe report defines terrorist acts as incidents directed against noncombatants. Thus, attacks in Iraq\non military targets are not included.\n   Patterns , a work widely perceived as a standard, authoritative reference tool\n on terrorist\nactivity, trends, and groups, has been subject to periodic criticism that it is unduly influenced by\ndomestic, other foreign policy, political and economic considerations.  Patterns  is\ncurrently\nundergoing an internal executive branch review.\n  This year for the first time, data contained in  Patterns was  provided by the newly\n operational\nTerrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC). On August 2, 2004, President Bush announced plans to\ncreate a National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), an institutional change recommended by the\n9/11 Commission in its July 19, 2004 report. The center is envisioned as serving as a central\nknowledge bank for information about known and suspected terrorists and would be charged with\ncoordinating and monitoring counterterrorism plans and activities of all government agencies, and\npreparing the daily terrorism threat report for the President and senior officials. Presumably the\nfunction of compiling the data for  Patterns  will be performed by the new National\nCounterterrorism\nCenter, if and when it is established.\n  It has been some fifteen years since Congress mandated the first  Patterns  report. \n When the\nreport was originally conceived as a reference document, the primary threat from terrorism was state\nsponsored. Since then, the threat has evolved with Al Qaeda affiliated groups and non-state sponsors\nincreasingly posing a major threat. Given the increased complexity and danger posed by the terrorist\nthreat, one option available to Congress and the executive branch is to take a fresh look at\n Patterns, \nits structure and content.",
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