{"id":3335,"date":"2013-09-11T14:42:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2013-09-11T14:42:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:42:41","slug":"nine-facts-about-terrorism-in-the-united-states-since-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/09\/nine-facts-about-terrorism-in-the-united-states-since-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine facts about terrorism in the United States since 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WTC.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3341\" alt=\"WTC\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WTC.bmp\" width=\"269\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the 12th anniversary of\u00a0the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Both Washington D.C. and New York City are commemorating the occasion\u00a0with ceremonies this morning.<\/p>\n<p>And this seems like an apt time to go back through the history of terrorist attacks in the United States and see how things have changed since Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p>First, some terms: The FBI\u00a0says\u00a0that there \u201cis no single, universally accepted, definition of terrorism,\u201d but the U.S. federal code\u00a0defines\u00a0it as\u00a0\u201cthe unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof,\u00a0in furtherance of political or social objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The best data on terrorism can be found in\u00a0this big December report\u00a0from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Note that their analysis only runs through 2011 \u2014 so the April 2013 Boston marathon bombings aren\u2019t included.\u00a0Here are some \u00a0of the key findings:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/09\/11\/nine-facts-about-terrorism-in-the-united-states-since-911\/\">Nine facts about terrorism in the United States since 9\/11<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 It\u2019s the 12th anniversary of\u00a0the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Both Washington D.C. and New York City are commemorating the occasion\u00a0with ceremonies this morning. And this seems like an apt time to go back through the history of terrorist attacks in the United States and see how things have changed since Sept. 11. First,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,9],"tags":[49,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3342,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}