Ratios
One number is now 2025, with the month count at 92 for October. Another is 26,000, with the daily average hovering around 60. Still another is 40 today, including 12 children.
These are uncorrelated.
Just as a matter of operational art, the Resistance units that used pre-positioned stand-off munitions to engage mobile Occupation units -- Task Force Baghdad in Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, 29th Brigade Combat Team near Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad, and II Marine Expeditionary Force near Nasser Wa Salaam, 25 miles west of Baghdad (indirect gunfire), and inflict 7 KIA, are not effectively counter-engaged by air operations near Taji, on the Syrian boarder.
If a police reporter were covering the Iraqi Beat, the reportage would read "Gang killings in Chicagoland. Police raid New York."
We've no idea how effective the Resistance units on the Syrian boarder are. We have a very good idea how effective the Resistance units are that opperate around Baghdad.
As a string of ... events, there does not appear to be correlation between "crime" and "detection", and closure, the apprehension of the agents of causation therefore simply can't happen.
Its good to know that, and what that means. Of course that isn't "good", for large values of "good", but its good to know, just as its not good to not know.