Where can I find these numbers???

[Fleshdancer]

How many troops are currently in Iraq?

How many troops are in Afghanistan? Didn't Moore say in F911 (technically it was the person he was interviewing I believe) that we only sent 11,000 troops over there and that there are more police officers in NYC than that? Was it NYC or the State of NY??

I have an apolitical friend who's interested in seeing F911 and one of her other friends (a republican) is attempting to convince her not to see it and sent her that god awful article by Christopher Hitchens (a long and tedious bitch fest disguised as a movie review). My job here is easy considering my friend still wants to see it but I wanted to know these numbers.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Might be an inaccuracy, depending on semantics.

How many police officers are there in NYPD?
There are currently 39,110 police officers in NYPD. This is the total number of Police Officers, Detectives, Sergeants, Lieutenants, Captains, Deputy Inspectors, Inspectors, Deputy Chiefs, Assistant Chiefs, and Bureau Chiefs budgeted for fiscal year 2003

Now...of that 39,110, how many are on patrol? Who knows?

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/misc/pdfaq2.html#41

[Fleshdancer]

2. whoa. searching for my own answers, I stumbled across this:

here's what I came across googling for the Afghanistan numbers:

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8462598.htm


Many Afghans now say bin Laden isn't a terrorist, and some even suggest that he never existed. Instead, they argue that he was a ploy used by the United States to pursue world domination. No individual, they say, could have successfully organized the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

"It was not Osama bin Laden in New York but computer generated images of destruction," said Abdul Ghani, a religious leader in the Haji Yaqub Mosque in Kabul. "The Afghan people say if it was Osama bin Laden who caused this trouble, why did he not continue attacking the United States on September 12th, 13th and 14th? It was just an American plan to capture Afghanistan."

In the teashops of downtown Jalalabad, near the Pakistani border, unemployed workers take little comfort in the international aid that's gone into rebuilding Kabul.

"There is no future here," said Taiq Ahmad, 25. "Osama bin Laden, I think, was a hero. The U.S. says he is the enemy, but they don't have proof. They can't catch him. He is for all of Islam. The U.S. forces are in our streets with guns like they want to start something. Afghan people don't like this."