TERROR DOWN

Serious Terrorist Attacks in Israel - Arieh O'Sullivan (Jerusalem Post)
2001 - 283
2002 - 117
2003 - 41
2004 - 19

Ex-Shin Bet Chief: Targeted Interception Policy Led to Calm - Amos Harel
Avi Dichter, the recently retired chief of the Shin Bet domestic security service, said Tuesday that Israel's policy of targeting terror leaders led to the decision by armed Palestinian groups to declare a period of calm. "Senior Hamas leaders decided they were tired of seeing the sun only in pictures," Dichter told a conference on aerial warfare against terrorism in Herzliya. (Ha'aretz)