Iraqi children ask for food from U.S. Marines in the city of Nassiriya, April 6, 2003. U.S. Forces appear to be strengthening their grip over the city after quelling small pockets of resistance by supporters loyal to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)
Iraqi children greet Royal Marines from 42 Commando as they drive into the heart of the city of Basra in southern Iraq (news - web sites), April 6, 2003. After a two-week siege, British forces thrust into Basra, moving in from the south and the west, a spokesman said. Photo by Pool/Reuters
Children enjoy a new swing as a US Navy soldier guard a playground during a visit by a US Navy admiral hours after a team of Seabees set up the playground in Umm Qasr, Iraq (news - web sites) Sunday April 6, 2003. The Seabees have started working with locals in repairing roads, setting up playgrounds and helping in the distribution of potable water in an effort to return life to normal, following two weeks of battles against Iraqi forces, which culminated in coalition forces invading and taking over the town. (AP Photo/Roberto Schmidt/Pool)
Coalition tanks move along a road adjacent to the Tigris River, with fires burning in the foreground, Monday, April 7, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites). U.S. troops stormed into the heart of Baghdad on Monday, seizing key buildings including one of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s palaces on the Tigris River and the Information Ministry. (AP Photo/APTN)
Men believed to be Iraqi soldiers, seen in an image from video, roll down an embankment and into the Tigris River under supressive fire from coalition tanks Monday, April 7, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites). (AP Photo/APTN)
Iraqi soldiers, background right, are seen leaving their postions as shells from U.S. tanks rolling into Baghdad explode nearby, on the banks of the Tigris river outside Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s presidential palace, Monday April 7, 2003. Coalition soldiers took over key buildings Monday, as gunfire and explosions thundered in many parts of the battered Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)