Mmmmm...media bias

Someone on a board I frequent pointed out this AP article dealing with terrorist acts of violence being in higher number last year.

The United States said that terrorist activity in the world increased sharply last year with the number of attacks and dead more than tripling but that it was winning the global "war on terror."

They frame the whole report on this premise that implies that the State Department is in a fantasy world. After digging into the article, they say this:

More than half the attacks reported for 2004 were in South Asia, which recorded 327 incidents that produced 502 deaths. The bulk of the incidents were reported in the divided Kashmir state claimed by both India and Pakistan.

So, the bulk of half the number were in a region that is not directly involved in the US efforts to nail terrorism. They also fail to speak one word of the massive decline in violence in Iraq since the elections...oh, wait, I forgot, the media couldn't end a story in a positive note.