by Col. Dan Smith

Foreign Policy in Focus, June 29, 2004

Col. Smith analyzes recent events in Iraq, including recently released legal memoranda on the Bush Administration's detention policy, the new "Patterns of Global Terrrorism 2003" report, and other trends in the Iraqi occupation.

Excerpt: "...[T]he revelations concerning standards of conduct in interrogations were but one part of the week's bad news. Almost lost in this torrent of interrogation-related papers was the State Department's re-issue of a corrected "Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003" report. The original version, which was released April 29, indicated a drop in total terror incidents and overall casualties. The revised report showed an increase in the number of 2003 incidents from even a revised 2002 baseline, a larger increase in 'significant' incidents, and a sharp rise in the numbers injured in terror attacks."

Read the full article at: http://www.fpif.org/papers/0406deluge.html


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