Attacks in Iraq down slightly in "the surge"

The NYTimes has a long source article, but the AP sums it up more briefly.

A U.S. government report released Tuesday showed that the recent U.S. troop increase and security crackdown has had little effect on the high number of attacks in the country.

The average number of attacks rose from 71 a day in January 2006 to a high of 176 per day in October, according to the report from the Government Accountability Office. In February, when the troop increase began to take effect, daily attacks dropped slightly to 164. Daily attacks averaged 157 in March and 149 in April, the report said.

The report, which cited the U.S.-led forces in Iraq for the figures, did not measure the numbers killed and wounded in the attacks.

Just eyeballing the graph, it looks like most of the small drop is in the number of attacks against US troops, but the rate of US killed and wounded is up over the last four months.

(Oh, and notice that's 157-149 attacks per day!!!!)