Attacks Drop Since Bin Laden

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has reported a decline in global
insurgency since the assassination of Al Qaida founder Osama Bin Laden.
The State Department, citing Bin Laden's death in May 2011, recorded the
lowest number of attacks deemed terrorist since 2005. The department's
annual report cited 10,283 attacks last year, down from 11,641 in 2010, a
drop of 12 percent, with more than 75 percent of the strikes in the Middle
East and South Asia.