This Will Help

I don't think this will go over too well in the Arab world. No one will read the fine print, just the headline.

The Los Angeles Times leads with numbers that say U.S. and NATO troops killed more civilians in Afghanistan in the first half of 2007 than the Taliban and other insurgents.Of course, there are plenty of caveats to the explosive statistics. Western officials say that sometimes it's impossible to know who is a militant and insist that civilians are killed primarily because of the Taliban's tactics of putting them in the front lines. But, still, according to U.N. figures, by late June Western-led forces were responsible for the deaths of 314 civilians in the year, while militants killed 279 people.