It is often difficult to get accurate figures about deaths due to terrorist activities but by combining the journalistic and professional resources of the BBC World Service, BBC Monitoring, and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London we learn the following. 'The findings are both important and disturbing. In the course of November, jihadists carried out 664 attacks, killing 5,042 people - many more than, for instance, the number of people who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks.' (BBC News, 11 December) In so-called local skirmishes capitalism with its economic and military rivalries slaughtered over 5,000. RD
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