Lunch Special (4/30/04):
Big John Rook provides today's Lunch Special -- a slab of bleeding red meat, with powder burns, that I'll label The International Terrorism Blue Plate. Believe it or not, the number of international terrorist attacks dropped for the second year in a row last year, to 190, the lowest total since 1969. Deaths from terrorist attacks dropped from 725 to 307. Mebbe the bad guys are being kept busy in Iraq. And don't have time to plan mass murder elsewhere. For the sake of head count, international terrorism doesn't take into account killed and wounded soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the four contractors murdered and butchered in Fallujah count. The Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism runs the numbers for today's Lunch Special here.
