Researchers: Israel second most likely target of major terrorist attack

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON


The London-based World Markets Research Center ranked Colombia, Israel, Pakistan, the United States and the Philippines, in descending order, as the five countries most likely to be targeted in a terrorist attack in the next 12 months, Guy Dunn, author of the company's World Terrorism Index, said in a telephone interview.

The goal of the index, to be published Monday, is to assess the risk of terrorism in 186 countries and, "crucially, against those countries' interests abroad over the next 12 months," he said.

Five criteria were used: motivation of terrorists, the presence of terror groups, the scale and frequency of past attacks, efficacy of the groups in carrying out attacks, and prevention how many attacks have been thwarted by the country.

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No doubt terror groups within Israel were considered. The threat seems rather maginal for a major attack however, IMO. You'll have to read the report to find out. It is published today.

The goal of the index, to be published Monday, is to assess the risk of terrorism in 186 countries and, "crucially, against those countries' interests abroad over the next 12 months," he said.

Five criteria were used: motivation of terrorists, the presence of terror groups, the scale and frequency of past attacks, efficacy of the groups in carrying out attacks, and prevention how many attacks have been thwarted by the country.

The categories were weighted differently; for example 40 percent for motivation and 10 percent for prevention.

"Another Sept. 11-style terrorist attack in the United States is highly likely," the report states. "Networks of militant Islamist groups are less extensive in the US than they are in Western Europe, but US-led military action in Afghanistan and Iraq has exacerbated anti-US sentiment."
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really DID happen the way we were told? There is ever-mounting evidence that things were not the way CNN presented them. If 9/11 wasn't plain a terrorist attack (like Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone) - what makes it so likely to repeat itself?

Same forces at work?

No Russia? No Chechnya? Where is Indonesia?

Indonesia is 7...

Russia/Chechnya must be somewhere between 11 and 180...:smoke:

My browser doesn't like JPost.
Or it doesn't like my browser.
If I reboot into Windoze it will come up and they will ask
me a bunch of questions that I will lie about, so it's better
to skip the whole thing.

But seriously, there have been way more truck bombs etc.
in Russia this year than in the USA, and that is not likely
to change any time soon.

Iceland is next-to-last at 185, and Andorra, Belarus, Liechtenstein and Slovenia are tied for places 181-184...

North Korea is last at 186...

good to know for planning that next vacation...

You probably wouldn't need this report to plan a vacation, but if you're interested in emerging parkets, etc, it might prove useful. the cost to buy a hard copy is $1500, but it might be worth it to forgo your health insurance this year.

http://www.worldmarketsanalysis.com/application/t-index_2003.html

$1500, that is a good one.
It must be nice to have that much money and believe in
the tooth fairy still.
Thanks for the chuckle.

I am surprised to see the US there based on criteria shown. Russia and Indonesia have been hit with more frequency than we have. I did notice that with the exception of Colombia, Whahabbi Islamist terrorists are the responsible parties. When and if the descent people of Islam gain the upper hand, these attacks will stop.

"The London-based World Markets Research Center ranked Colombia, Israel, Pakistan, the United States and the Philippines, in descending order, as the five countries most likely to be targeted"

"The goal of the index, to be published Monday, is to assess the risk of terrorism in 186 countries and, "crucially, against those countries' interests abroad over the next 12 months,""

Columbia, Israel, Pakistan, Philippines?

Are these not all American interests abroad?

Is the US not front and centre in each of these countries running the show behind the scenes?

to mention the UN. and is Iraq part of the assessment? Of course, it should have been number one, even though it is already destroyed.

They got israel right as number two. A bus carring religious families. How cowardly. No American interest there.

The UN might be considered an American interest, but it is a world interest.

The casualties were about the same in the two attacks.

Israel's second, Pakistan's third, and the US is fourth. Bush's homeland security is so great, isn't it?