I was wondering why nobody had posted this yet.

Seems like a kind of "wall pic" to me  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=157360.0

I cannot give graphs for AML requests right now, but I can tell you that the rate of new requests increased in the same way, with around 1000 new requests on Friday. Three new staff will be starting Monday on the AML.

Just checked the queue, there are 5500 accounts pending verification at this very moment.