---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Travis <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 6:59 AM Subject: Fwd: [grendelreport] The Orlando Massacre and Global Terrorism To:
http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2016/06/13/the-orlando-massacre-and-global-terrorism/?cid=nlc-public-the_world_this_week--link8-20160617&sp_mid=51632621&sp_rid=ZWhleW1hbkBjb3gubmV0S0 *The Orlando Massacre and Global Terrorism* [image: Description: blogterrorism]People gather at a vigil in solidarity for the victims of the Orlando nightclub mass shooting at Taylor Square in Sydney, Australia, June 13, 2016. (Stringer/Reuters) *Share* A brief note to place Sunday morning’s horrific massacre in Orlando, Florida, within the broader global context of terrorism. In 2014, the last year for which there is complete data, there were eighty-two terror attacks around the world that killed more than fifty people—twenty-eight of them killed over 100 people. This is according to the *Global Terrorism Database* <https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/>, which is maintained by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. The country and number of attacks with more than fifty fatalities is listed below. Nigeria: 37 Iraq: 17 South Sudan: 7 Syria: 7 Cameroon: 3 Ukraine: 3 Central African Republic: 2 Afghanistan: 2 Pakistan: 2 Somalia: 1 Sudan: 1 The United States has fortunately avoided being the location of such mass-fatality terrorist attacks since 9/11 through new laws, vastly more funding, and a massive expansion of homeland security and intelligence capabilities. Indeed, before the attack against the Pulse night club, forty-five Americans had been killed within the United States by “violent jihadist attacks,” according to the *New America Foundation* <http://securitydata.newamerica.net/extremists/deadly-attacks.html>. Not only was the hate crime perpetrated in Orlando the deadliest terror attack within the United States since 9/11, it was deadlier than every other jihadist terror attack combined since then. In countries where large and highly-capable militant armies exist, governments lack the homeland security and law enforcement infrastructure needed to prevent mass-fatality attacks as successfully as been the case for the United States. The innocent victims of terrorism within these countries suffer so greatly, because they try to create a life among ongoing insurgencies and civil wars, cannot rely upon the state to protect them, and then are killed by terrorists searching for the least well-defended populations, in order to spread fear and elicit recruits. Few of these eighty-two attacks were covered by Western media, and even those (like myself) who try to understand terrorism probably knew of only a dozen of them. Though we do not know their individual stories, we should recognize that they too are the tragic victims of the scourge of terrorism, which overwhelmingly has devastated those living within conflict-prone Middle Eastern and African countries. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=oa-2322-b> Virus-free <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=oa-2322-b> __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Visit Your Group <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmbmVhNmxtBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NjY0MTQ1OTc-> [image: Yahoo! Groups] <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlZWptb3VqBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQ2NjQxNDU5Nw--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
