Winter Arrives In Iraq And Deaths Go Down As A Result

[JWing]

Despite press accounts in the western media that violence was increasing at the end of November 2011, the casualty counts for the month were actually down by around 20% compared to the previous month. The media has a bad habit of reporting on Iraq with little context, and takes any string of attacks as being an upsurge in militant operations, without comparing them to previous trends. November was a perfect example, with a few mass casualty bombings, but with deaths declining. Overall, insurgents appear to be following their traditional pattern of stepping up their operations in the hotter summer months, and then decreasing them during the winter.

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