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Are terror attacks really a threat? If Al Qa'ida could repeat 9/11
every year then the probability of dying in such an attack would be
something like 3 in 100.000. This is totally insignificant compared to
the probability of dying from other unnatural causes, see table below.
Does everyone agree that we should place ``Dying as a result of a
terror attack by Saddam´´ at the bottom of this table?
In case the table doesn't appear correctly, see this article:
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/clark/hr.html
Table. Chances of dying from selected causes (USA)
cause of death Chances
Motor vehicle accident 1 in 100
Homicide 1 in 300
Fire 1 in 800
Firearms accident 1 in 2,500
Electrocution 1 in 5,000
Asteroid/comet impact 1 in 20,000
Passenger aircraft crash 1 in 20,000
Flood 1 in 30,000
Tornado 1 in 60,000
Venomous bite or sting 1 in 100,000
Fireworks accident 1 in 1 million
Food poisoning by botulism 1 in 3 million
Drinking water with EPA limit of tricholoethylene
1 in 10 million
(From C.R. Chapman & D. Morrison, 1994, Nature 367, 33-40.)
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