Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
Ruth Alexander’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If it was in fact by North Korea, it wouldn't count because that would be a state act.
And anyway, it's non-violent.
That's right.
There are other criteria, other considerations.
Is there a political, economic or religious goal?
Here's one.
Is it an attempt to send a message to a wider audience, not just to the direct victims?
Or is it outside the context of legitimate warfare activities?
The tricky thing is Erin and her team rely on media reports and she says they don't often contain information about the religion of victims.
Well, she thinks it's a bit high, actually, but that it's probably in the right ballpark.
The story, then, is that most terrorist attacks affect domestic targets, and so casualties will, to some extent, reflect the make-up of the civilian population.
And just to put the latest available numbers on this, over the ten years from 2004, the UK suffered 400 terrorist attacks, mostly in Northern Ireland, and almost all of them non-lethal.
The US suffered 131 attacks, fewer than 20 of them were lethal.
France suffered 47.
But in Iraq, there were 12,000 attacks, and 8,000 of them were lethal.
Yes, although Erin Miller is a bit dismayed that we find the religious affiliation of victims so fascinating.
Most cases of cancer are the result of sheer bad luck.
So there are genetic factors behind cancer.
There are environmental factors, smoking, diet, pollution and so on.
And then there's just the luck of the draw because one of these zillions of cell divisions in your body goes wrong.
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