Just what the title says. I put this in the GD forum because I don’t think there’s a definitive answer.
I’m aware of the dangers of selective memory, and I don’t see conspiracies everywhere, but I have noticed that I am frequently surprised by the announcement, usually late in the weekend, of US forces killed in Iraq. Here, from an AP story, is this Sunday’s announcement:
It almost seems timed to avoid being the top story on Monday.
There may be correlation without cause and effect of course, it could be the insurgents have day jobs and plan ambushes for the weekends, it could be that Iraqui troops have the weekends off and US forces pick up the slack, or it could be that I have more time on the weekends to read the news, and so am more apt to notice these stories.
Are there more troop deaths on the weekends, are more of them announced, or is it just random??