Database of Terror Attacks

May 24, 2007 6:29 PM

The Global Terrorism Databaseis now available online. It includes information on more than 27,000 bombings, 13,000 assassinations, and 2,800 kidnappings. With 2D and 3D georeferences for some incidents. The interactive map isn't working for me though.
posted by tellurian (18 comments total)

On a similar note there's the Global Incident Map, which is a Google Maps mashup to display similar events.

from that site, i like this one: Officials: Pakistani man was not planning attack on Camp Casey. The "incident" was that a man was innocent. TERROR ALERT
posted by thethirdman at 6:33 PM on May 24, 2007

This CRS report on 'North Korean hostile actions since 1950' makes interesting reading (if you like reading this kind of thing). via FAS and Steven Aftergood.
posted by acro at 7:21 PM on May 24, 2007

No mention of Puerto Sandino I see. What a surprise.

Database of (some) terrah, to go with the war on (some) terrah.
posted by pompomtom at 7:24 PM on May 24, 2007

Site not loading for me right now
posted by longsleeves at 7:29 PM on May 24, 2007

On other similar notes there is the MIPT terrorism database and the NCTC terrorism database.

Both START and NCTC are department of homeland security "centers of excellence", so you might expect them to be using the same (or at least similar) data. But apparently not. It looks like the START data ends in 2004, while the NCTC data starts in 2004.

Tangentially, the award for best-named DHS center of excellence must go to the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense
posted by thrako at 7:42 PM on May 24, 2007

See also RAND's Terrorism Knowledge Base, used in this recent study on global terrorism.
posted by homunculus at 7:56 PM on May 24, 2007

Does it have the TSA list?
posted by Balisong at 8:02 PM on May 24, 2007

Great links thrako, thanks. Using Australia as a search criteria in each of the three databases throws up some interesting incidents. Samples: MIPT, NCTC, GTD. Classifying a terrorist act is hard.
posted by tellurian at 8:30 PM on May 24, 2007

No Sydney Hilton bombing.
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:37 PM on May 24, 2007

(Tim Anderson is vindicated)
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:38 PM on May 24, 2007

UbuRoivas, if you're using GTD it isn't (and it won't be on NCTC - pre 2004), but here it is on MIPT.
posted by tellurian at 8:54 PM on May 24, 2007

Why no domain name? Weird, has someone already got
GlobalTerrorismDatabase.com ?

What about beafraid.org, or alertbutnotalarmed.ws
posted by mattoxic at 8:58 PM on May 24, 2007

Previous thread about the NCTC database.
posted by Rhomboid at 9:32 PM on May 24, 2007

What about beafraid.org, or alertbutnotalarmed.ws

wehaveallbeenatwarwitheastasia.com
posted by pompomtom at 9:33 PM on May 24, 2007

...alwaysbeen...

bugger.
posted by pompomtom at 9:33 PM on May 24, 2007

thethirdman writes "from that site, i like this one: Officials: Pakistani man was not planning attack on Camp Casey. The 'incident' was that a man was innocent. TERROR ALERT"

I enjoyed "Big rig not carrying explosives" in Los Angeles.
posted by Bugbread at 9:58 PM on May 24, 2007

I see that the July 7th London Bombings never really happened, then.
posted by metaxa at 2:27 AM on May 25, 2007

I see that the July 7th London Bombings never really happened, then.

The GTD coverage stops in 2004.
posted by thrako at 5:42 AM on May 25, 2007