Comments on: terrorism knowledge base

terrorism knowledge base

ab3 — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:14:37 -0800

we may not know where they are - but here's where they've been... An incredible amount of information - current and historical - well indexed and with about a billion options for searching through it. pretty impressive for what is at least unofficially a quasi-federal government site despite protestations to the contrary.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:23:48 -0800

Protestations? Quasi-federal? Sounds like a public/private foundation. There are lots of these type organizations. Boo.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:30:31 -0800

Would it have been too much trouble to give some hint in the post as to what it was about?

By: alasdair

alasdair — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:53:39 -0800

Well, it missed the enormous IRA bomb in Manchester in 1996, so that makes me a bit skeptical of its powers.

By: Rumple

Rumple — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:01:25 -0800

A number of the so-called terrorist activities are actually political assassinations, which I believe to be a very different phenomenon.

By: ab3

ab3 — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:21:17 -0800

languagehat - um... oops. i guess i spent so much time thinking about how exactly to word my post that i never realized it was missing that slightly important bit of information. sorry. oh, and it's a terrorism knowledge base, is what it's about...

By: jefeweiss

jefeweiss — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:06:15 -0800

The most interest thing about this, to me, is that you can see that there's been almost no terrorism in the US since the 70s. I was too young to realize there was so much terrorism in the 70s. Briefly looking though the different cities in the US there were attacks left and right.