now, you could have the same in niniwa. clearly the general is now calling for additional deployment of u.s. troops, so that would presumably mostly be there, because that's where the least american troops are and where the need seems to be the greatest, so that would make sense. but there is also mediation done by the u.s. embassy, tchs shuttling back and forth all the time, and by the united nations with their people going also up and down top niniwa and other places to try to calm things down whenever there's another little spat, usually along the trigger line. and in diala, you know, we already have had an experiment with joint patrols, with iraqi army, operating together at check points and going on patrol. so it is possible. and i just, just for a historical footnote, it's very important to remember that in 1991, after the uprising, after the uprising was crushed, iraqi forces went into kurdistan. there was a standoff. and then there was an accommodation, and there were joint patrols between the iraqi army and the kur