From an article in the Washington Post on the "drop in violence" that some are claiming in Iraq:
The intelligence community has its own problems with military calculations. Intelligence analysts computing aggregate levels of violence against civilians for the NIE puzzled over how the military designated attacks as combat, sectarian or criminal, according to one senior intelligence official in Washington. "If a bullet went through the back of the head, it's sectarian," the official said. "If it went through the front, it's criminal."
Frankly, I don't see what's so puzzling about this. In fact, I've obtained the full list of anatomy to cause mappings, and it all seems reasonable to me.
| shot in | cause |
|---|---|
| back of head | sectarian |
| front of head | criminal |
| foot | Republican |
| genitals | jilted spouse |
| face | drunken Vice President |
| hand | over-masturbation |
| stomach | Jenny Craig fanatic |
| any combination | identified too closely with 50-Cent |