Definifitive that fatalities are doubling from last year which was the bloodiest year in Afghanistan to date. I'll not analyze these figures. But please not the month by month year by year chart.
http://www.icasualties.org/...
The war is escalating quite dramatically and this isnt even the campaign season in Afghanistan. Look for the casualties to peak around July and August. It seems that the Taliban or whoever is not melting away into the hills as I thought they might. Instead they are taking a steady deadly toll on the US and the UK. This probably doesn't even account for Kabul based Karzai loyalists. Nd can only hope that they are intensively seeking out the Zawahiri and Bin Laden and find them both soon.