Facts about the war
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| • | Soldier killed in suicide attack has family here |
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| AMERICA AT WAR | |
| • | Allied forces inching closer to Iraqi capital |
| • | Tactics by Iraq force U.S. shift in strategy |
| • | Iraqi soldiers flee as push for suicide bombers mounts |
Casualties
U.S. military: 43 dead, seven captured, 14 missing
British military: 24 dead, none captured or missing
Iraqi forces: No estimate of military casualties. Iraqi officials say 425 civilians have been killed.
— Associated Press
Quote
"I want our troops home and I want them home before more of them are killed."
— Robin Cook, former member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet, who resigned when it became clear that Britain would go to war
By the numbers
12 — days since start of war
58 — percent literacy rate in Iraq
97 — percent literacy rate in U.S.
66.3 — years is the life expectancy of the average man in Iraq
74.5 — years is the life expectancy of the average man in the U.S.
$150 — the extra "imminent danger pay" service members in Iraq receive each month
600 — oil wells and three oil refineries under coalition control
4,000 — Iraqi prisoners of war
4,000 — Arabs have come to Iraq to help fight against the United States
7,000 — war-wounded can be treated by the International Committee of the Red Cross
26,000 — feet is the altitude for most planes flying over Baghdad
120,000 — additional troops ordered to start moving toward the Persian Gulf
350,000 — troops in Iraqi military
20,851,820 — population of Texas
24,001,816 — population of Iraq
32,000,000 — leaflets dropped by U.S.
The time
Iraq's time zone is 13 hours ahead of Hawai'i time.
Persian Gulf weather
Tuesday's forecast:
Baghdad — Day: 78 degrees, mostly sunny. Night: 51 degrees.
Basra — Day: 85 degrees, sunny. Night: 59 degrees.
Kuwait City — Day: 83 degrees, mostly sunny. Night: 58 degrees.
Unit spotlight
Like its famous namesake, the current USS Constellation (CV-64) has a long and proud record of service. Built at the New York Naval Shipyard as the second ship in the "Kitty Hawk" class of aircraft carriers, it has sailed into harm's way from Yankee Station off the coast of Vietnam to the Gulf of Oman in the Indian Ocean.
- Launched: Oct. 8, 1960
- Commissioned: Oct. 27, 1961
- Propulsion: eight Steam Boilers
- Main engines: four Steam Turbine Engines
- Catapults: four
- Length, overall: 1062 feet
- Flight-deck width: 252 feet
- Area of flight deck: about 4.5 acres
- Cost: about $400 million (1961)
- Planes: about 85
- Ship's crew: 2,900
- Homeport: San Diego, Calif.
