Size Of Reconsituted Police Force

Juan Cole 05/04/2003

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.

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page