MOJO: The IRAQ Effect

War Has Increased Terrorism Sevenfold WORLDWIDE!

By Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank
Research fellows at the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law. Bergen is also a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C.

An exclusive Mother Jones investigation -- being released today -- that documents how jihadist terrorism around the world has increased since the invasion of Iraq.
The study, by terrorism experts Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, uses data from the RAND Corporation to produce the first public report that measures the "Iraq effect" on jihadist terrorism. Their report is summarized in the March issue of Mother Jones magazine and can be found in its Entirety Online at MotherJones.com . It documents that since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, incidents of jihadist violence in the world have increased by 607 percent, and the number of people killed in those attacks has risen by 237 percent.
Excluding violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, the authors found a 35 percent rise in the number of jihadist attacks and a 12 percent rise in fatalities worldwide. They found that the rate of attacks on Western interests and citizens has risen by almost 25 percent.
This new study comes at a pivotal time as Congress and President Bush contend over authority to manage the war and its statistical analysis casts further doubt on the Bush administration's claim that the Iraq invasion has helped stem global terrorism.


And Listen o This 'Democracy Now' Interview On Terrorism Report

* The Iraq Effect: New Study Finds 600% Rise in Terrorism Since US Invasion
of Iraq *

As the fourth anniversary of the Iraq approaches, a new study by Mother
Jones magazine has found that the number of fatal terrorist attacks has
increased by over 600 percent since the U.S. invasion. We speak with the
study¹s co-author, Paul Cruickshank.

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