Nato Redefines Violence In Order To Say There's Less Of It

ISAF said yesterday that insurgent attacks were down two percent in the first eight months of this year compared to the same period in 2010, and down 17 percent between June and August.
By contrast, the United Nations said the number of security incidents was up 39 percent on the first eight months of last year.
ISAF tried to spin the discrepancy by saying that unlike the UN, it did not define a string of acts including assassinations or attempted attacks as "security incidents."
Almost immediately it faced accusations across Twitter of playing down violence levels, more than a year after a "surge" of 30,000 extra American troops was designed to reverse the Taliban momentum.
"The UN category of 'security incidents' includes a wide range of events as contrasted in ISAF's significant activities reports," ISAF spokesman Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson told a press conference in Kabul.
"The UN counts a number of additional event types that ISAF does not include in its definition of security incidents such as cache finds, arrests, assassinations, intimidation and others.''

 Approximately 25 percent of the total UN security incidents are event types that ISAF excludes from its figures. This helps explain why nobody takes anything NATO/ISAF say seriously.