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It has been almost two months since Baghdad fell but around 50% of the city's population is still without water and electricity and nearly the entire city is without security even though heavy contingents of occupying force remain deployed who watch the sad plight rather indifferently in most of the cases. Armed gangs still wander around and shooting breaks out occasionally. People wonder why a city that was captured within 20 days remains hapless even after two months of takeover even though there has been, at least, one round of civil administrative effort under retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner. Also, there were many other Americans supposed to be overseeing various departments of administration most of whom have now been recalled to be replaced with a new administrator, Paul Bremer, at the helm. Is the occupying force, therefore, trying to communicate that Baghdad remains in dire straits mainly because of mundane administrative reasons and shortcomings? If this be the case, then why Al-Hawza's men were being asked to withdraw prematurely from their supervision of hospitals in the slums of formerly called Saddam city, now renamed as Sadr city, east of Tigris. Al-Hawza's came primarily to fill the administrative gaps until the