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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Catching out a catch-all

From the BBC website:

“The number of people killed around the world in terror attacks rose by 40% last year to more than 20,000, the US State Department has said. The increase is mostly due to greater violence in Iraq."

Closed captioned for the thinking impaired: "The definition of 'terrorism' grew by 40% last year, allowing the Bush Administration to justify the War on Terror by labelling civil war deaths as 'terror attacks'."

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