Sounds like a very important project. You will first, I think, need to define "terrorism," a tricky business. There's been a lot of shuffling on this in recent years, but you may want to start with the Defense Department's definition, which, according to PBS, reads as follows:
Terrorism is defined by the U.S. Department of Defense as "the unlawful use of -- or threatened use of -- force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives."
(Sounds a lot like what we did to Fallujah, but I digress.)
Wikipedia (a public domain source) lists a number of examples of "Islamic extremist terrorism," omitting, interestingly, the Munich attacks, at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism
(The list I'm referring to shows up near the end of the article.)
Wikipedia also has a good article on American terrorism, with examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_terrorism_%28term%29
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This site chronicles terrorism in early America:
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2002_winter_spring/terrorism.htm
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It would also be important to get some summary of US terrorism against indigenous Indian populations, but I don't know where you would find that.
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An important site keeping track of civilian casualties in Iraq is:
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
And note that it features an incident-by-incident database:
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/database/
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These sites may also be of interest in documenting the Palestinian conflict:
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/terrisraelworst.html
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/terrisrael-2.html
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For a summary of Zionist terrorism, of which there are many examples, You will want to read this article in its entirety, I think:
http://brneurosci.org/israel-terrorism.html
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..... and for a balanced understanding of the Palestinian confllct, consider consulting this whole site very closely:
http://ifamericansknew.org
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Yusuf Toropov
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