Now we’re getting somewhere. At the National Press Club this morning, Gen. Petraeus for the first time peeled back the curtain behind his questioned methodology for tabulating ethno-sectarian violence. Calling his methodology “pretty logical and rational,” the general said he has a “three-page document” — he read from it at his Press Club podium — that refutes a senior intelligence official who told Karen DeYoung of The Washington Post that Multi-National Force–Iraq doesn’t count front-of-the-head executions as sectarian incidents. “It’s just not true,” Petraeus said. So what is a sectarian murder?
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179909