The current violence is attributed to a bewildering variety of shadowy groups, including the National Revolutionary Front, the Pattani Islamic Mujahidin and New Pulo.
Much of the regular violence is attributed to Al Qaeda in Iraq, and in recent weeks the country has faced an increase in violence that has been clearly linked to the elections.
Much of the new violence is attributed not to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the homegrown group that American intelligence says is led by foreigners, but to more local insurgent groups, including the Mujahedeen Army, which claimed responsibility for killing the three American reconstruction officials, and the Islamic Army of Iraq.
Other peacekeepers were stoned by government troops, angry that the UN had prevented them from trying to achieve a total military defeat of the rebels.Much of the latest violence is attributed to Laurent Nkunda, a dissident Tutsi general who now leads a rebellion.
Much of the violence was attributed to Capone and his rivals.
Most of the violence is attributed to fighting between rival drug gangs for control of territory and drug shipment routes.
In the story of Cain and Abel that opens "Act II," "god was brutal waste, the taste / of ash and torrid stone," and in "Act III," in a hypothetical dialog between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, man's violence is attributed to instinct.
Of the 1.7 million additional deaths reported in the survey, 200,000 were caused by acts of violence, whereas the rest were attributed to the war-related collapse of health services and food supplies.
The ultimate success of the surge itself remained a source of continuing debate, however, as the declining levels of violence observed in 2007 were attributed not solely to the surge itself but to a confluence of factors.
Fewer than 5% of injury claims were attributed to acts of violence, smoke inhalation or contact with fire, The Times found.
