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Threat Assessment: United States Ranks Fourth on List of Countries Most Likely to Suffer Attack A report prepared by the World Markets Research Center ranks the United States fourth among 186 countries most likely to experience a terrorist attack within the next year, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, July 31). The World Terrorism Index report lists Colombia, Israel, Pakistan, the United States and the Philippines as the countries most likely to be targeted by terrorists. North Korea was ranked as the least likely to suffer a terrorist attack. “Another Sept. 11-style terrorist attack in the United States is highly likely,” the report says. “Networks of militant Islamist groups are less extensive in the U.S. than they are in Western Europe, but U.S.-led military action in Afghanistan and Iraq has exacerbated anti-U.S. sentiment,” it says. Several criteria were used to determine a country’s terrorist-risk ranking, including motivation of terrorists, presence of terrorist organizations, scale and frequency of past attacks and number of previously prevented attacks (Audrey Woods, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Aug. 18).
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