This week so far in Baghdad

- Four soldiers were killed by small arms fire
- Nine more were killed by explosions
- Sixteen Iraqis were killed and 87 wounded when a bomb went off in a shopping district
- Sixteen more were kidnapped
- Twenty-three civilians were executed
- An Iraqi National Police Brigade was pulled out of the line for aiding the militia death squads
- And a newly orphaned two-year old girl falls asleep cradled by Chief Master Sergeant Gebhardt.

(all figures gathered from the Stars and Stripes, Mideast edition)