U.S. military: 27 dead
British military: 22 dead
Iraqi forces: No estimate of military casualties. Iraq says about 350 civilians have been killed.

— The Associated Press

Quote

"Forget telling great war stories at the VFW. What we are doing is serious."

Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Glenn, to fellow Marines as he led a resupply convoy in central Iraq

By the numbers

5 — cents a gallon is the price of gasoline in Iraq

31 — percent drop in U.S. movie box office receipts since the war started compared to a year ago

43 — calls from worried parents about the 1,200 U.S. students studying abroad under the Institute for International Education of Students

75 — dolphins in the Navy's Marine Mammal Program

500 — coalition helicopters in the Persian Gulf region

2,500 — staff at the U.S. military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.

4,333 — Iraqis heading back to Baghdad from Jordan since war began

40,000 — vehicles imported to Iraq since June 2000.

Oil prices

NEW YORK: Up $1.67 cents, to $30.30 a barrel
LONDON: Up $1.51 to close at $26.80 a barrel

The time

Iraq's time zone is 13 hours ahead of Hawai'i time.

Persian Gulf weather

Saturday's forecast:

Baghdad — Daytime: 67 degrees, mostly sunny. Night: 46 degrees.
Basra — Daytime: 80 degrees, sunny. Night: 53 degrees.
Kuwait City — Day: 77 degrees, mostly sunny. Night: 51 degrees.

Unit spotlight

The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is launching aircraft from the Persian Gulf for strikes in Iraq. Combat aircraft dropped bombs "just about as fast as we can load them," Capt. Thomas A. Parker, the ship's commander, said yesterday.