Attacks have increased in recent years, he said, to well over 100 a year.
At least as of 2010, the attacks have increased each year.
As a result, no effective action was taken and attacks increased.
Such attacks have increased dramatically in the last year and a half, however.
During this period, which began around 1999, the group's attacks against foreign vessels, most especially French, increased.
Attacks on the Serbian minority have increased in the last three months.
Attacks against journalists in the Mexican drug war have been increasing.
The attacks increased around Jerusalem, but no part of the country was immune.
"But unfortunately we find that attacks on Iraqis have increased."
But attacks with the device have steadily increased since then.