Size of reconsituted police force currently deployed in Baghdad: 3,000
Population of Baghdad: 5 million
Days since new Baghdad police chief has resigned: 1
Size of police force in Chicago: 13,000
Population of Chicago proper: 3 million
Number of days since Shiites in slums of East Baghdad have seen a US Patrol: 4
Number of radical Shiite militiamen patrolling slums of East Baghdad: 6,000
Percentage Iraqis without access to clean water: 40
Number of Iraqi children who are chronically malnourished: 1 million
Number of press reports saying most of Baghdad has security, electricity, water: 0
*Villagers of Qawwam Bakr near Babil in south Iraq say they have found a mass grave. The bodies are victims of Saddam’s brutal crushing of the 1991 uprising against him. So far 35 bodies have been recovered.