The Baghdad Order Of Battle as of March 19, 2007.
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More than a month has now passed since the official announcement of the Baghdad Security Plan on February 14. While it is impossible to judge progress over the course of one month in such a complex battlespace as Baghdad, the initial signs are encouraging.

Sectarian murders, the fuel for the potential Sunni-Shia civil war, have been dramatically reduced. Before the operation began, scores of bodies were found daily on the streets of Baghdad, now the number is in the single digits. Massive car bomb attacks, which in the past have killed dozens and wounded hundreds, have been reduced. While the number of car bombings has increased, their effectiveness has decreased. Over the past week only one significant suicide car bomb attack occurred inside Baghdad–a failed assassination attempt on the head of the Baghdad city council. Eight were killed in the explosion. The other attacks have been aimed at security forces and checkpoints, such at the roadside bombing that killed four U.S. troops patrolling eastern Baghdad.