[quote]FCFighter wrote:
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims. [/quote]
"The State Department’s report, ‘Patterns of Global Terrorism, 1999,’ published on May 1, 2000, flatly contradicts the government’s statements about terrorism, as well as the general public’s perception of the phenomenon. "
According to the report, Latin America and Europe have each accounted for a greater number of terrorist attacks than the Middle East and Asia combined.
"Again, as in the case of the Middle East, the principal events in South Asia, such as the hijacking of an Indian airliner and bombings in India and Pakistan which claimed many lives, were unrelated to the United States, and seemed to be related to local or regional conflicts such as that in Kashmir or Sri Lanka.
Similarly, the vast majority of incidents in Europe are, according to the report, attributable to Basque separatists in Spain, the conflict in Northern Ireland, the Kurdish movement in Turkey, and various anarchist groups in Greece. Middle Eastern or ?Islamic? terrorism was not a significant factor in this region, either.
By far most of the anti-US attacks occur in Latin America. Much of this terrorism, which includes bombings and kidnappings, is committed in Colombia and Peru by leftist rebels and right-wing paramilitary groups. American citizens and commercial interests have been attacked partly for ransom money to help finance insurgencies and partly to undermine national economies. But these groups, which commit most of the attacks against Americans and their property abroad, get less attention than groups with Arab or Muslim orientations. Moreover, Colombia and Peru are not designated as a major threat to the United States. The reasoning for this is absent from the report."
- From “The Truth About Terrorism” article in the book “You are Being Lied To”