Putting Numbers to What We Know: Tracking Terrorist Attacks in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza

Abstract

The activity of terrorist groups in the Middle East from January 1, 2001 through December 31, 2002 was examined to test six published assumptions about terrorism. Using existing data from the Anti Defamation League/International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism database, we found that aggregating reports of terrorist attacks skew the results due to outliers in the data. Our data show the increase in deaths from terrorism is a result of suicide bombings and the activities of one particular group.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA576642

Entities

People

  • Devere D. Woods Jr.
  • James W. Steward

Organizations

  • Indiana State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Counterterrorism
  • Databases
  • Department Of State
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Governments
  • Grenade Launchers
  • International Relations
  • Man Borne Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Middle East
  • New York
  • Public Policy
  • Security
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Regression Analysis.