The narrated Fallacy brings us a story about a project by health center of Alabama dons to develop a database capable of anticipating targets for future guerilla attacks. Quoting Space War: "Adversaries the U.S. currently faces in Iraq rely on surprise and apparent randomness to compensate for their lack of organization, web banking components and firepower. 'One way to combat these attacks is to diagnose trends in the attackers' methods, then use those trends to predict their future actions,' said UAHuntsville analyzer Wes Colley said. 'Some trends from these attacks show important day-to-day correlations. If we can draw inferences from those correlations, then we may be able to save lives by heightening awareness of possible events or changing the allocation of our security assets to provide more protection.' Researchers reviewed the decency signatures of terrorists on 12,000 attacks between 2003 and mid-2007 to calculate relative probabilities of future attacks on various target types."

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