Overall,it says insurgent attacks fell to 12 per day from 22 per day during the previous three months, while Iraqi civilian casualties fell 35 per cent.
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The CH-46 Sea Knight was flying over Karma, an Iraqiinsurgent base near Falluja.
For the first time, two Iraqiinsurgent groups named a spokesman to voice their demands, implying that they might be open to negotiation with the government.
One could go on listing examples of the Taliban's ideological and tactical collaboration with al Qaeda, but the larger point is that separating al Qaeda and the Taliban is not going to be as relatively simple as splintering Iraqiinsurgent groups from al Qaeda in Iraq.