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The other day we referred to the State Department’s report on global terrorism.

Although we did not devote a full post to it, we now recognize that despite claims elsewhere in the same post that 1115 knows its patriotic duty when it sees it, we did not in fact perform our patriotic duty with respect to this report.

Rather than mope around and hang our heads in shame, we decided to promptly perform past due patriotic duties, and then go above and beyond the call of patriotic duties by way of making amends.

So first let it be said that even if terrorist attacks increased worldwide, and surged dramatically in Iraq, the good news is that terrorism has not increased at all — and may even have declined — in Norway. (That’s our belated duty done.)

And here’s the above and beyond, the good news you won’t hear anywhere else. Terrorist attacks in Guantanamo were down sharply in the second half of 2006. Remember the heinous attack in June 2006, when three detainees* waged “an act of asymmetrical warfare” against us by committing suicide? Sure you do. That was the one where instead of using IEDs or EFPs, they attacked us by “slowly (strangulating) themselves by wrapping a sheet around the toilet bowl”. Well, one attack causing three fatalities in the first half of 2006, was followed by zero attacks, zero fatalities in the second half. Can’t improve any better than that.

So there’s clearly good news on the terrorism statistics front, if people would only bother looking for it, and then making the effort to spread the good word.

Many of our readers are bloggers. To them we say: you too can lend a hand, just by linking to this post. (It’s the exact same concept as buying energy credits. Honest.)

To those who are not bloggers, we say: Send emails to five friends (blogger-friends, if it’s not too much trouble), asking them to spread the good word in turn.

* Regrettably, we are still unable to confirm that all three were al-Qaeda number threes.