Numbers and Literacy
The reckoning for the day is now in excess of 200. The run for the week has been higher than average, both for the Occupation Forces, and for the Occupied Population.
The conflict between the Islamic State of Iraq (al-Qaeda) and the Islamic Army of Iraq, Ansar al-Sunna is in the open, Marc Lynch has been writing about it for a week at Abu Aardvark, and there is nothing to suggest that more than a few people writing in English are aware that anything is going on at all.
As if the daily reckoning was produced by a random number generator ...