How Many Suicide Bombers Have There Been Since “Mission Completed”?

This is a question I would love to have an answer for. I’ve been googling for days but no one seems to be keeping track. Heck, even the statistics on U.S. dead is kind of iffy — it all depends on if you were killed right there in active combat but not in an ambush or en route to a battle and if you were a legal U.S. citizen and not a foreigner recruited to serve in the U.S. armed forces in exchange for your citizenship; suicides and those who die of their injuries en route to or at the hospital are not counted either apparently. (One of my co-workers who served in the marines insists that the government wouldn’t play with the numbers like that.)

What I started out to look for was the number of terrorist attacks/bombings a year in the Middle East before and after the invasion of Iraq. I had read somewhere that the number had risen since Bush called the war over. Supposedly someone in the Bush administration had claimed that we were making the Middle East a safer place.

But what I’m curious about is if the number is just up in Iraq or if it is everywhere in the Middle East.

There seems to be multiple bombings everyday now and no one seems to be keeping a record. I think most Americans would be shocked about the tallied if anyone could get ahold of that information. Heck, I bet even I’d be shocked.

tags: Suicide Bombers, Middle East

One comment

1. on July 17, 2005 at 2:02 pm

   carla said:

   Excellent question. If you get it figured out…email me. I’d love to include it in a blog post.

   Welcome to the Progressive Women Bloggers webring.

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