So what happened to the mother of all bloody Sundays?

Ralph Kenny Bennett on why the Thuggies were no show at the elections. Media hype and media ignorance and laziness. What a surprise.

The low level of terrorist violence came as a surprise to most observers, but in fact a combination of factors, many of them largely unreported or misreported in the mainstream news media, contributed to this happy turn of events.
"In the turmoil, through happenstance or dumb luck, they may achieve 'spectacular' hits like the possible downing of that British transport aircraft on Sunday. But their ability to have any strategic or tactical effect on operations in Iraq is gone. And millions of Iraqis, simply by walking up to ballot boxes all over the country, have removed any shred of legitimacy that may have been imputed to them by some fevered editorialists.
They are losers. Worse, they are brutal murderers and cowards, who skulked away when confronted by real freedom fighters -- men and women with smiles on their faces and ink stains on their fingers."