Praying and paying homage to the departed in Terror brutal attack

The Burning TAJ



The list of the Departed



World Reacts




14,499 WAS THE number of terror attacks worldwide in 2007, compared to 11,156 in 2005. Almost 43 per cent— about 6,200—occurred in Iraq, where 13,600 fatalities—60 per cent of the worldwide total—were reported in 2007, according to the US National Counterterrorism Center’s Country Report on Terrorism 2007.

1795 WAS WHEN the word terrorism was invented, in connection with the French revolutionaries who executed their enemies. But terrorism as we know it today is hought to have taken its roots after the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War in 1967. After the Israelis occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the PLO hijacked planes. They raided the Olympic village in Munich, in 1972, killing 17 Israeli athletes.

1,111 PEOPLE KILLED in terrorist attacks in India this year till November 24, two days before the Mumbai terrorist attacks.

$430 BILLION IS the amount that the US Congress has spent since 2001 on military and diplomatic efforts in support of the Global War on Terrorism.

1 BILLION DOLLARS is what it would cost the world to stop one catastrophic terrorist event, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal Doubling the Interpol budget and allocating one-tenth of the IMF’s yearly financial monitoring and capacity-building budget to tracing ter rorist funds would cost about $128 million annually.

22 FOREIGN NATIONALS DEAD, AMONG THEM

5 ISRAELIS,

5 AMERICANS,

2 EACH FROM CANADA, AUSTRALIA AND FRANCE,

AND

ONE EACH FROM SINGAPORE, JAPAN, GERMANY, THAILAND, ITALY AND THE UK