sad toll that such attacks took last year. This report also details the steps the United States and some 92 other nations took in 19 — or 2003 to fight back and to protect our peoples. Indeed, you will find in these pages clear evidence that we are prevailing in the fight. On June 10, 2004, a few weeks after challenges from two professors (Alan Krueger of Princeton University and David Laitin of Stanford University) and Congressman Henry Waxman, the State Department announced that the report previously issued for 2003 was incomplete and incorrect in part. The revisions issued twelve days later included significant changes, including a doubling of the number of killed and wounded mentioned in the April 2004 version. Here are examples from the section "The Year in Review": In November 2004, news leaked to the Los Angeles Times about an internal report from the State Department's Office of Inspector General. The report found more errors in the 2003 report, and concluded that even the June version "cannot be viewed as reliable" because of questionable statistics on terrorist attacks and casualties, as well as other issues. The inspectors cited some short-term problems from the transition to the government's new interagency Terrorist Threat Integration Center. These included gaps in data entry, inadequate oversight, and personnel issues. They also cited a long-standing failure by the State Department, CIA, and other agencies to use consistent standards for the identification and classification of terrorism-related events. See also Global Terrorism Database Notes External links Patterns of Global Terrorism from the State Department's website Patterns of Global Terrorism 1985-2005: U.S. Department of State Reports with Supplementary Documents and Statistics from Berkshire Publishing Group. Title 22, Section 2656f of the United States Code Armitage's remarks on the release of the 2003 report Faulty Terror Report Card, a May 2004 article by professors from Princeton and Stanford State Dep't announcement on June 10, 2004 Article on June 10 announcement from The Guardian 2003 changes blamed on "Outdated databases and mismanaged data input" Doubts Fly on Terror Report's Reliability, a November 2004 article from the Los Angeles Times Maps of Patterns of Global Terrorism - https://web.archive.org/web/20060913222636/https://www.gl.iit.edu/govdocs/maps/maps.htm United States Department of State Government documents of the United States Counterterrorism intelligence United States Department of State publications