Facts about the war

Advertiser Staff

Casualties

U.S. military: 107 dead, 10 missing and seven captured

British military: 31 dead

Iraqi forces: Coalition commanders estimate at least 3,000 Iraqi solders have been killed in the defense of Baghdad.

— Advertiser news services

Q & A

Q. Sometimes people refer to Saddam Hussein as Saddam. Isn't Hussein his last name?

A. Saddam's full name is Saddam Hussein al-Majd al-Tikriti, but he uses neither al-Majd nor al-Tikriti. Hussein is not a last name, but his father's first name. In the Middle East, he is not usually referred to as President Hussein; the usual practice is to use two names — President Saddam Hussein — or simply use Saddam.

Quote

"They're either dead or they're running like hell. That is the case with the leadership of the regime inside Iraq."

— Gen. Tommy Franks

BY THE NUMBERS

55 — cards in a deck featuring Iraqi leaders wanted by U.S.

5,000 — anti-coalition foreign fighters thought to have traveled to Iraq

24,000 — capacity of the POW camp being built in the Iraqi city of Umm Qasr.

30,000 — Iraqi soldiers who left the city of Mosul without a fight

30,000 — Iraqi refugees gathered near Iranian border

200,000 — Iraqi refugees from 1991 Gulf War in Iran

$8 billion — Soviet-era debt Iraq owes Russia

OIL PRICES

New York: Up 68 cents, or 2.5 percent, to $28.14 a barrel.

London: Up 28 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $24.75 a barrel.

The time

Iraq is 14 hours ahead of Hawai'i time.

Persian Gulf weather

Sunday's forecast:

Baghdad — Day: 85 degrees, partly cloudy. Night: 61 degrees.

Basra — Day: 92 degrees, mostly sunny. Night: 59 degrees.

Kuwait City — Day: 88 degrees, partly cloudy. Night: 56 degrees.

Unit spotlight

26th Marine Expeditionary Unit

The unit, now aboard the USS Iwo Jima and other ships in the Persian Gulf, is going to northern Iraq to keep order after the fall of the cities of Kirkuk and Mosul. The unit is made up of four elements: Battalion Landing Team 1/8, the ground combat element made up of infantry, light armored vehicles, artillery and amphibious assault vehicles; Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron-264, forming the aviation combat element; MEU Service Support Group-26, a combat service support element that provides logistical support; and a command element.

Home base: Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Commanding officer: Col. Andrew P. Frick