I chose to study the data on terrorist activities in the year 2003, concluding that the majority of terrorist activity that year took place in Asia. Although the United States State department declared that international terrorist acts were at their lowest in 30 years in 2003, it did not include those that occurred in Iraq because they did not fit the United States definition of international terror. Most terrorist activity took place in the countries of India, Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. All of these countries had a high percentage of people living in poverty and practicing the Islamic religion. The majority of the attacks took place in India, however there does not appear to be an organized campaign because anything
