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Patterns of Global Terrorism is a report published each year on or before April 30 by the United States Department of State. The Secretary of State is required by Congress to produce detailed assessments about

* each foreign country in which acts of international terrorism occurred;
* the extent to which foreign countries are cooperating with the U.S. in the apprehension, conviction, and punishment of terrorists;
* the extent to which foreign countries are cooperating with the U.S. in the prevention of further acts of terrorism; and
* activities of any terrorist group known to be responsible for the kidnapping or death of an American citizen.

The exact definition of the requirements are in Title 22, Section 2656f of the United States Code.

The only complete print edition--indexed, updated, and supplemented with maps and tables, 1985-2005--was published by Berkshire Publishing Group in 2005. [1]

[edit] Summaries
Year Acts Killed Wounded
2004 NA NA NA
2003 208 625 3646
2002 199 725 2013
2001 346 3547 1080
2000 423 405 791
1999 392 233 706
1998 273 741 5952
1997 304 221 693
1996 296 311 2652
1995 440 165 6291

Each report includes a short numerical summary. The table at right summarizes the number of international terrorism acts reported each year since 1995. The numbers of those killed or wounded from those acts are also included in the table.

The following list consists of the report excerpts from which the table is based. Note that some of the numbers are revised after initial publication of the report, which causes some of the numbers used in excerpted comparisons to differ from what was originally reported.

* 2004: The report was no longer published to the public after its methodology was challenged by the...