SHARP RISE IN TERROR ATTACKS, DEATHS IN 2006: U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT. Terrorist attacks worldwide shot up by 25 per cent between 2005 and last year, killing 40 per cent more people as extremists used
increasingly lethal means to carry out high casualty hits, the U.S. State Department says:
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