War by Numbers

2320: Iraqi military casualties, for Baghdad alone, estimated by US military. Iraq has given no figures.

500: Iraqis who arrived to fight in Baghdad by bus.

2: Members of Medecins Sans Frontieres relief group missing since April 2. MSF has since suspended operations in Iraq.

3: Journalists killed in an attack in central Baghdad, two of them after the Palestine Hotel was hit.

720 million: Value in US$ (NZ$1320 million) of undelivered goods for the emergency needs of Iraqi people.

38.6: Tonnes of medical supplies stranded in Jordan.

50,000: Tonnes of Australian wheat finally being unloaded in Kuwait.

3: Weeks of war so far.

5: Days of blackout in Baghdad.

40,000: Kurdish soldiers waiting on the northern Iraqi border for an order to advance.

Herald Feature: Iraq war