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Published online 12 July 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050711-5
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Is terrorism the next format for war?
Death statistics in Iraq suggest conflict is turning into a 'war without end'.
As bombings in London attract international attention, one study claims that terrorist patterns of attack might be the natural endpoint for all modern armed conflicts.
Ongoing wars in Iraq and Colombia, which had quite different causes and began as very different kinds of conflict, are developing a characteristic signature of long-term terrorist activity, say economist Mike Spagat of Royal Holloway, University of London, and his co-workers1.
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