Is the threat of terrorism going down in the US?

This story would indicate that terrorism is not getting better under Bush. On top of that, not allowing the evidence out is just stupid! Maybe he thinks if we pretend hard enough, this threat will go away?

"Bush administration eliminating 19-year-old international terrorism report"
By Jonathan S. Landay Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered.

Full story here: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11407689.htm

And, the foreign press has this report out: No link between Iraq and al Qaeda. But you already knew that, right? Of course, we would all like to know *why* our Bush team made such ridiculous claims, won't we? What's really amazing is that it is a US Senator presenting the evidence in formerly classified documents, yet US corporate media are not covering it at all! But this is from an Australian newspaper:

"Reports undercut Iraq, al-Qaeda link"
From correspondents in Washington
April 16, 2005
A TOP Democratic senator has released formerly classified documents that he says undercut top US officials' pre-Iraq war claims of a link between Saddam Hussein's regime and the al-Qaeda terrorist network. "These documents are additional compelling evidence that the intelligence community did not believe there was a cooperative relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda, despite public comments by the highest ranking officials in our government to the contrary," Senator Carl Levin said today. The declassified documents undermine the Bush administration's claims regarding Iraq's involvement in training al-Qaeda operatives and the likelihood of a meeting between September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in April 2001, Senator Levin said in a statement.

Full story is here:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12875384^1702,00.html

Finally, I went to a seminar this weekend on Israel/Palestine issues. The last thing we did was watch a movie called "Gaza Strip". It was awful watching the Palesinians in Gaza suffer because of a nerve gas that Israel military fired on them - and there was plenty more that was awful in that short movie..... Like bulldozing down homes, shooting at kids, the hate and hopelessness being generated in the children because of all the violence they see happening - all of the violence coming from the Israeli military. This movie was filmed by an independent film maker back in 2003. It came out last year. It really shows the horror of occupation, and what it does to people.

And makes one wonder who the real terrorists are........