MS,

In your dealings with the locals, who do they point to as the driving force behind the insurgent attacks? To expand on that, do they even see the attacks as coming from insurgents?

I ask because I've tried to get my hands around the perceptions of the average man on the street, and whom they blame their ills on. I've generally assumed that their perception is a simple matter of the Shi'a blaming the Sunnis, and vice-versa, but one can never be too sure.