New Global Terrorism Knowledge Base

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This may be of interest to some of our members...

The Terrorism Knowledge Base (TKB), unveiled July 5 partly to commemorate the Oklahoma bombing, is a cooperative project between the:

- National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism

- Department of Homeland Security

- National Counterterrorism Center

- DFI International

- Rand Corporation

- National Terrorism Project

The Knowledge Base can be search by incident, group, group leader or member, nation or region.

As part of the unveiling of this new site, a revised estimate of terrorism incidents from 2004 was released: http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/07/05/terror.site/

The U.S. government Tuesday increased its 2004 estimate of terrorist attacks worldwide to 3,192 from 651 after changing to a broader definition of terrorism.

A new U.S. government Web site set up to track terrorism incidents says the 2004 incidents left 28,433 people killed, wounded or kidnapped. A preliminary report in April said there were 651 terrorist attacks in 2004 classified as "significant," with 1,907 people killed.

But unlike the previous figures, the new estimate by the National Counterterrorism Center, or NCTC, includes attacks that were strictly domestic in nature, officials said.