Terror database open for public inspection

[maddezmom]

Source: The Examinier

A database used to track and predict terrorist activity is now available online to researchers, authorities and the public, said Gary LaFree, director of the project at University of Maryland, College Park.

“There’s nothing in our database that you couldn’t go and figure out yourself,” said project’ research director Gary Ackerman, referring to the Global Terrorism Database, which was compiled from news stories, public records and, links to the original document.

The database, which contains 80,000 domestic and international terrorist incidents since the 1970s, had been available to researchers and government agencies upon request, said LaFree, director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terror.

About 50 University of Maryland graduate students have contributed to the database since it began in 2001. The project receives the majority of its funding from the Department of Homeland Security.

The database can track long-term terrorism trends and measure the success of counter-terrorism tactics, LaFree said.


Read more: http://www.examiner.com/a-773982~Terror_database_open_for_public_inspection.html?cid=rss-Baltimore

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http://www.start.umd.edu/data/gtd/

[fed-up]

1. How big is the file on * and his administration?-they are the REAL terrorists nt