Days since the U.S. government first placed the nation under an “elevated terror alert” that the level has been relaxed : 0
Years of “elevated” or “high” terror alerts since then : 2
Aid that U.S. leaflets dropped on Fallujah in July threatened to freeze if insurgent attacks continued : $102,000,000
Number of insurgent attacks in Fallujah in the week before and after the leafletting, respectively : 21, 36
Compensation the U.S. government has paid Iraqis for wrongful deaths, injuries, and property damage since 2002 : $4,475,643
Total “death gratuities” the U.S. government has paid since then to survivors of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq : $11,436,000
Total amount Ohio’s crime-victims compensation fund has paid the survivors of one U.S. soldier killed in Iraq : $5,656.77
Maximum percentage income- and corporate-tax rate under laws made for Iraqis by the Coalition Provisional Authority : 15
Days a House committee postponed July hearings on antidepressants while its chair considered a pharmaceutical-lobbyist job : 50
Number of the 5 Republicans investigating Rep. Tom DeLay on ethics charges who have taken donations from his PAC : 4
Number of Ohio election boards being sued over erroneously informing parolees that they may not vote : 21
Number of banks robbed in Davenport, Iowa, while John Kerry and George Bush gave speeches there on August 4 : 3
Estimated number of right-wing Jewish extremists Israel monitors as potential threats to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon : 300
Years after leaving his post during the Vietnam War that a Connecticut man was arrested for desertion in July : 34
Minimum number of Guantánamo detainees who boycotted their military tribunals in August : 13
Average number of kidnappings per week in Iraq since March : 5
Number of non-Iraqis detained there by U.S. forces in the last year : 400
Ratio of the minimum number of beheadings by the Saudi government last year to those by Saudi terrorists so far this year : 50:1
