There were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, based on the government’s top terrorism center. This suggests that the “War on Terror” is failing. The State Department is taking steps to correct the problem – by discontinuing the report, which is “the definitive report on the incidence of terrorism around the world,” according to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California. Condoleezza Rice’s Rice’s office “was leery of the methodology the National Counterterrorism Center used to generate the data for 2004, believing that analysts anxious to avoid a repetition of last year’s undercount included incidents that may not have been terrorist attacks.”

But the U.S. intelligence officials said Rice’s office decided to eliminate “Patterns of Global Terrorism” when the counterterrorism center declined to use alternative methodology that would have reported fewer significant attacks.

The officials said they interpreted Rice’s action as an attempt to avoid releasing statistics that would contradict the administration’s claims that it’s winning the war against terrorism.

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