Wars & counter-terror killings = worse than terrorism, data table ================================================================= event dead wndd/hmless cost ----------------------------------------------------------------- Intifada Israel 1987-97 2K Ireland 1974-98 3K World Trade Center/Pentgn 2001 3K $5B (initially claimed to be 6K but that proved pessimistic) US-sponsored FDN terrorism post-Somoza Nicaragua 1982-5 12K 350K US ``counter terror'' VICS assassin teams in Vietnam >41K Tobacco-caused (in US only) 180K/yr about $100B/yr Soviet/Afghan War 1500K (50K sov) 8000K US/Vietnam War 2100K (58K US) 5000K $200B Korean War 2800K (54K US) 33% US-war in Afghanistan 20K? $100s of B ------------------------------------------------------------------- VICS = "Viet-Cong Infrastructure Suspects" = named civilians targeted & assassinated by US special forces CT teams in Vietnam in the late 1960s & early 1970s. CIA director William Colby explained in 1971 testimony before Congress that these actions were "necessary to prevent terror." Korean war: Brittanica says 4M killed, 33% of Korean homes & 43% of industry, destroyed. Intifada: I got the count of 2024 dead from some Jewish group on the web that claimed to have tracked and counted... Nicaragua: Souce is Edgar Chamorro, one of the 7 original directors of the FDN, a secret guerilla army created by the CIA. Chamorro provided the figures 12K dead, 50K wounded, & 300K homeless. Chamorro writes that the CIA financed, created, trained the FDN, and hired all its directors (and fired some of them, including him, later when they objected; also the CIA wrote the FDN's press releases; Chamorro originally hoped to be a "freedom fighter" but claimed he later felt he and the FDN were "terrorists.") Soviet-Afghan war: Britannica Annual (1994) says 1,500,000 dead. The UN counted 6.2M Afghani refugees in other countries... Vietnam: US figures are 47K US KIA + 11K dead from other causes like accidents + 305K wounded Also 250K S.Viet. army KIA + 600K wounded Also 900K N.Viet. KIA + 2000K wounded Also 100s of Ks of civilians killed in bombings etc (also in Cambodia & Laos, 100s of K were killed in "secret" US bombings)