 At the height of the revolution, the government lost effective control over 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces.However, the people of Baghdad remained largely passive, as the Dawa Party, the Communist Party, and the pro-Syrian Ba'ath splinter party had all failed to build underground structures in the capital.There was only a limited unrest in the Shia-populated vast slum of Saddam City while the rest of Baghdad remained calm.