WHERE THINGS STAND.

Presents a report based on interviews with Iraqis in 30 towns across the country about whether their lives had improved since the end of the war. Claim that, a year since the U.S. and its allies launched the war in Iraq, the country has fallen into a prolonged state of anarchy which has killed more than 600 allied soldiers and 10,000 Iraqis; Report that there are initial rumblings of economic expansion and political freedom in the country; Report on the attitudes of Iraqis towards the U.S.; Details of the threat posed by tensions between Kurds and Arabs in Kirkuk; Details of the challenges involved in rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure and medical services; Signs of private sector activity in Basra; Speculation about how Iraq's search for a new identity will progress.