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CuriousLurker3/13/2012 4:27:21 pm PDT

I was just taking a look at the FBI’s available murder statistics for the U.S.:

Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter

2001 - 16,037*
2002 - 16,229
2003 - 16,528
2004 - 16,148
2005 - 16,740
2006 - 17,309
2007 - 17,128
2008 - 16,465
2009 - 15,399
2010 - 14,748

Seems to me most Americans should be far more concerned about being killed by their fellow countrymen in non-terrorist related acts of violence. It’s mostly Muslims overseas who get killed by suicide bombers.

Suicide Bombs In Iraq Caused 200 Coalition Soldier And 12,000 Civilian Casualties From 2003-10:

In Iraq, two data sets recorded suicide bomb casualties from March 20, 2003 to December 31, 2010, and examined and compared by investigators. One set documented coalition-soldier deaths from suicide bombs and the other documented deaths and injuries of Iraqi civilians caused by armed violence. 19% (42,928 of 225,789) of overall civilian casualties were caused by documented suicide bomb events, 26% (30,644 of 117,165) of injured civilians, and 11% (12,284 of 108,624) deaths.

For civilians the injured-to-killed ratio was 2-5 individuals injured to one person killed from suicide bombs. 43% of recorded suicide bomb deaths were caused by suicide bombers on foot, suicide bombers using cars cause 36% of documented deaths and 40% of civilian injuries.

75% of the 3,963 identifiable suicide bomb fatalities were men, 11% women, and 14% children. Children made up for a higher ratio of demographically identifiable deaths caused by suicide bombings compared to general armed violence (9%). For women the injured-to-killed ratio for all suicide bombings was a little higher than for men, however, for children the ratio was lower than for both women and men, revealing lower survival of children from suicide bombings.

Pakistan & Afghanistan:

Pakistan saw 3,021 deaths in terrorist attacks in in 2009, up 48% on the year before, according to a new report by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), an Islamabad-based defence thinktank. Researchers counted a total of 12,600 violent deaths across the country in 2009, 14 times more than in 2006.

At least half of the dead were militants who were killed in US drone strikes or, mostly, sweeping army offensives against their mountain strongholds of Swat and South Waziristan along the Afghan border. Another 2,000 or so Pakistanis died in bloodshed unrelated to militancy: political clashes, tribal feuds and border skirmishes.

In comparison just over 2,000 civilians were killed in war-torn Afghanistan during the first ten months of 2009, according to the UN. In Iraq 4,500 civilians were killed during the year, said Iraq Body Count, an independent monitoring organisation.

*The murder and nonnegligent homicides that occurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001, are not included in this table.