War by Numbers

3: presidential compounds, including the main Republican Palace, occupied by US forces.

4: 900kg bombs dropped on a building where US intelligence put Saddam Hussein, his sons and other Iraqi leaders.

18: metre-deep crater caused by the bombing.

2: bodies recovered by rescue workers searching the rubble.

100: or more tanks and armoured vehicles used on assault in central Baghdad.

700: British paratroopers walked unopposed in single-file columns past the bodies of Iraqi militiamen into the centre of Iraq's second city of Basra.

19: days until Saddam Hussein turns 66 - if he is alive. The Iraqi president was born April 28, 1937.

20: billion US dollars ($NZ37.43 billion), estimated cost of reconstruction in Iraq.

800: tanks Iraq had at the war's start.

24: tanks Iraq has left, according to the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers.

750: anti-war demonstrators fired upon with rubber bullets by Oakland police in what was believed to be the first use of such force against US protesters since the war on Iraq began.

Herald Feature: Iraq war