Over at his new Iraqslogger.com blog, ex-CNNer Eason Jordan raps the Pentagon for refusing to heed experts’ advice and reform its reporting of violence in Iraq.
As the Iraq Study Group noted in its recent report, the Pentagon does not include incidents of sectarian violence in its reports. As the country falls into civil chaos, attacks by Iraqis against other non-military, non-official Iraqis are probably the fastest-growing type of violence in the country.
Yet in the Pentagon’s newest report on the state of Iraq, that violence does not exist.
“Thus, the total number of attacks in Iraq remains much higher than is reflected in the U.S. military’s qualified tally,” Jordan finds.
