>On average 250 insurgents are killed a day in Iraq by American troops. That does not include any innocent victims in the process. No mention of that is ever released by the defense department and I wonder if it is simply for those same reasons you mention.

Problem is that when this is done within full scale war perceived by most of local population as occupation, then (as Metin objected) it is kind of dificult to distinguish who is real 'insurgent'.

I don't believe that all those killed are affiliated to Al-qaeda.