US urged to release terrorism report figures

"An American politician has called on the United States Government to release the figures it used to compile a report on global terrorism.

"Congressman Henry Waxman says the figures may undermine Washington's assertion that it is winning the war on terrorism.

"He says he has been told that the number of terrorist attacks in Iraq last year was nine times higher than in 2003.

"The State Department last year initially released erroneous figures that understated the attacks and casualties in 2003, and used the figures to argue that the Bush administration was prevailing in the war on terrorism."
Source: BBC/Reuters/ABC