Aside from the overall increase, which is blatant, it also seems to indicate that there's a growing proportion of the attacks being made against Iraqi forces and civilians. Guess that's the civil war that's not happening, then....

Being as I'm not going to read the full 64 page report in the five minutes before I go home, do those figures indicate number of attacks or number of casualties in attacks? 5,000 a month sounds hell of a lot, either way round, so what actually constitutes an "attack"? And I'm sure Iraqi civilian population is sustaining far higher casualties than the occupying forces, so is, say, a car-bomb in a crowded Baghdad market counted as "one attack" along with a sniper's bullet ricocheting off a hummer also being "one attack"?

I'm sure I'll have a lot of debate to catch up on tomorrow morning....