Walter
That's a wonderful piece of news. Since I'm not disposed to accept
anything at face-value (unless and until I see it myself or gain alternately sourced information corroborating the assertion), I remain skeptical. (think AGW here..

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Criteria for "armed conflict(s) is a moot point and particularly when you try to make a determination between say border conflicts in some provinces of Afghanistan or drug warlords fighting between themselves on a background of NATO participation in the mess America and the Taliban have created in that nation. Similarly, it would be just as correct to say that during WWI and WWII there was only one major conflict right? The details of millions of people being sacrificed to various causes happenign concurrently within the larger morass of these conflicts are subsumed and uncounted.
Nonetheless, any perspective that factually supports a reality that see's human conflict from Darfur to Indonesia from Iraq to Afghanistan from Kosovo to etc. etc. is good news.