The State Department’s Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003 report, released in April 2004, claimed that terrorist incidents had dropped to 190, the lowest in over 30 years. “But after Democratic congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) sought a review of the report by the Congressional Research Service, Secretary [of State] Colin Powell was forced to admit that terrorism activity was actually at a twenty-year high. ‘We are still trying to determine what went wrong with the data and why we didn’t catch it,’ said an embarrassed Powell [in a Washington Post article on June 10, 2004]. The correct report finally admitted that the total number of terrorist incidents actually rose in 2003. There were 390 deaths, versus 307 in the first report.”
– Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 250