WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) -- This year's State Department undercounted terror attacks because it did not count attacks in November and December, a spokesman said Monday.
The Patterns of Global Terrorism report also counted non-significant incidents differently than in previous years, spokesman Richard Boucher said. The non-inclusion of the last two months of 2003 left out the terror attacks in Turkey, resulting in the under-counting of global terror attacks. It also left out attacks that did not result in casualties.
Last week, the department acknowledged errors in the report and said it would work to rectify them soon.
The numbers were put together by the Terrorist Threat Information Center, an interagency group that the CIA heads. Secretary of State Colin Powell met Monday with TTIC head John Brennan and other officials who worked on the report to discuss the next steps.
