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14,499 was the number of terror attacks worldwide in 2007, compared to 11,156 in 2005. Almost 43 per cent8211;about 6,2008212;occurred in Iraq, where 13,600 fatalities8212;60 percent of the worldwide total8212;were reported for 2007, according to the US National Counterterrorism Center8217;s Country Report on Terrorism 2007..
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 DOLLARSis 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 International Monetary Fund8217;s yearly financial monitoring and capacity-building budget to tracing terrorist funds would cost about 128 million annually.
