article_snippet: James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, testified in a Feb. 26 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that 2014 will go down as the deadliest year for terrorism since records were first kept .
article_snippet: In 2013, just over 11,500 terrorist attacks world-wide killed approximately 22,000 people,' Clapper told a Senate panel on Feb. 26. '
article_snippet: Preliminary data for the first nine months of 2014 reflect nearly 13,000 attacks, which killed 31,000 people.' 'When the final accounting is done, 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled,' Clapper said.