5 US urban counties lead 'Terror Hot Spots' list, but rural areas not exempt
January 31, 2012
Five urban counties lead the list of US terror "hot spots" - Manhattan, LA, Miami-Dade, San Francisco and Washington, DC - though smaller, more rural areas have emerged as hot spots in their own right in recent years with an increase in domestic terror there, says new research from the University of Maryland and Mass-Boston. The researchers identified 65 of the nation's 3,143 counties as "hot spots" of terrorism.
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