The Pentagon is asking that we not give the suicide attack more credit than it is due here. Defense Department officials would like us to look at this as an isolated event in an otherwise promising scenario of the rebuilding of Iraq. Yet analysts are no longer buying that line of reasoning. The problem is that during a war, you cannot look at these kind of incidents as 'isolated events,' they say. Every skirmish or attack must be correlated with every other and laid out in a clear, coherent and accurate manner to be analyzed for any discernible patterns, capabilities and methods. Only then can any projections be made from which to plan our next move.

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