Al Qaeda Kills a Lot of Muslims

Not exactly news, I know, but with Stephen Walt tallying up the number of Muslims felled by the U.S. over the past 30 years, it's also worth noting al Qaeda's body count:

Few would deny that Muslims too are victims of Islamist terror. But a new study by the Combating Terrorism Center in the US has shown that an overwhelming majority of al-Qaida victims are, in fact, co-religionists....

... Between 2004 and 2008, for example, al-Qaida claimed responsibility for 313 attacks, resulting in the deaths of 3,010 people. And even though these attacks include terrorist incidents in the West -- in Madrid in 2004 and in London in 2005 -- only 12 percent of those killed (371 deaths) were Westerners.

That's from a report from the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. Read the whole thing here (pdf).

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