Sources: U.S. report says terror attacks up nearly 30% to 14,000 worldwide; 45% of attacks in Iraq

Above: Iraqis flee one of three car bombings on April 18th in Baghdad. At least 178 people were killed.

WASHINGTON - A State Department report on terrorism due out next week will show a nearly 30 percent increase in terrorist attacks worldwide in 2006 to more than 14,000, almost all of the boost due to growing violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Friday...

Based on data compiled by the U.S. intelligence community's National Counterterrorism Center, the reports says there were 14,338 terror attacks last year, up 29 percent from 11,111 attacks in 2005. Forty-five percent of the attacks took place in Iraq.

Five U.S. officials with knowledge of the report agreed to discuss it on the condition they not be identified.

Worldwide, there were about 5,800 terrorist attacks that resulted in at least one fatality, also up from 2005.

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Note: The report above has been updated since the original posting to reflect a change made by McClatchy News Service. Originally, the last line above read... 'Worldwide, about 5,800 people were killed in terrorist attacks, also up from 2005'.