Remember the pomp and circumstantial announcement of the terrorism report for 2003--and how greatly terrorism deaths had declined, hence, a supposed "winning" of the war on terror? It was wrong by half.

From the Times:

The revised report said that 3,646 people were wounded in terror attacks last year, more than double the 1,593 cited in April, and a substantial increase from the 2,013 in 2002.

Secretary of State Colin Powell blamed "errors in the way the data was being added up." He said that the report "is not designed to make our efforts look better or worse."

Nonetheless, the mistakes in the report, which were acknowledged on June 10, have opened the administration up to new criticism. The report has drawn close scrutiny as a gauge of how United States policy and the Iraq war have affected the war on terrorism, and the errors have undercut the administration's repeated claim that the United States is winning that fight.