Informed Comment

Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion

Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute

Sunday, May 04, 2003

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.

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