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Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport by gadders on Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:04AM (#6139945)
There would be a bit of a spike in the last 10-15 years though, no?
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Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport by aslakhellesoy on Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:17AM (#6140046)
5031 US citizen deaths caused by terrorism in 148 years is 34 per year.

US citizen deaths caused by terrorism in 2011: 17 [1]

So no, it doesn't seem to have spiked apart from obvious outliers like 9/11.

[1] http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2011/195556.htm

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Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport by bowlofpetunias on Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:23AM (#6140090)
If you only look at the US, maybe just the one spike on that well known date.

If you look at the entire Western world as a whole, my guess is that deadly terrorism on the whole has actually decreased pretty dramatically since the 80's.

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