Inresponse to correspondents' questions, hesaid that a reliable number for the amount ofcasualtieswould not be available for at leastdays, maybe evenweeks.
But our big concern is that most of these deals are done behind closed doors and by the time an announcement is made negotiations will have been continuing for 3, 4, 5 weeks-maybe even a couple of months, and so when it then appears on the streets there's very little time to do anything about it.