let's go to william dunlop in baghdad.talk about the level of the violence, the numbers of people who are dead, and is it possible we are talking about the numbers debt equal to the height of the iraq war under president bush? year,r the course of this there's been a sharp increase in violence compared to the previous years where there was a steady decline in the number of people killed. this has in the case is specially since april after a security forces raid on a protest site in which dozens of people were killed. death toll spiked after that raid and has remained at a highly elevated level for the remainder of the year. the toll we're seeing this year around the levels of 2008, so not quite the worst year of the iraq war in 2006, 2007, at the height of the war. approaching that level, and approaching a level of violence that has not been seen since near the height of the americas monitor presence in iraq. iraqi security forces are effectively [indiscernible] heightened violence alone. >> william dunlop, what has been t