Posted on 03/25/2003 7:05:20 AM PST by dead
US forces in Iraq, with burning oil wells in the distance. Picture: AFP
23-03-2003: DEADLY onslaught ... 20mm shell casings drop to the ground as a US Cobra helicopter fires on Iraqi positions in the southern port of Umm Qasr, where coalition troops are meeting resistance. Picture: AFP
23-03-2003: A US soldier escorts Iraqis out of a temporary military camp in southern Iraq after they wandered into it. Picture: AP
22-03-2003: A government building burns during a US-led bombardment of Baghdad / AP
TURNING day into night ... billowing smoke shrouds Baghdad yesterday after Iraqi forces set trenches of oil alight to counter attacking coalition helicopter gunships. Iraqi ground forces braced for the battle of Baghdad as the Allied war machine advanced to within 80km of the city. Picture: Associated Press.
22-03-2003: Smoke covers the presidential compound in Baghdad following a massive US-led air attack / AP
21-03-2003: REST TIME . . . American troops rest in their foxholes by their convoy in the Kuwaiti desert.
22-03-2003: US troops rest in southern Iraq / AP
21-03-2003: DEFIANT . . . an Iraqi soldier, left, mans an anti-aircraft gun atop a building hit in the surprise attack.
British Royal Marines from 3 Commando, Tam McDonald/Royal Navy
20-03-2003: SMOKE billows from the compound of the Planning Ministry in Baghdad after the Iraqi capital came under heavy bombing. Three buildings were reported damaged in the bombardment. Picture: Agence France-Presse.
21-03-2003: British Royal Air Force group captain Mike Harwood, who commands the British joint Harrier Force, addresses his detachment in Kuwait/AFP photo
21-03-2003: An F-14 Tomcat takes-off over a line of F/A-18 Hornets on the flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman.
21-03-2003: A B-2 Spirit multi-role bomber is towed along the tarmac at an undisclosed airbase in southwest Asia./AP Photo
21-03-2003: An F/A-18 Hornet takes off from the deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt/AP Photo
Royal Marines from 40 Commando exercise in Kuwait, rehearsing disembarkation drills. Picture:AFP
21-03-2003: British Royal Marines, during exercises off the coast of Kuwait with members of 42 Commando/AP Photo
A Tomahawk cruise missile bound for Iraq is launched from the USS Cape St George in the Mediterranean yesterday. / AP
I want to see some pictures of the Shi'ia uprising in Basra soon!
British wounded are taken to a Puma helicopter to be flown out from 1 CS Medical Regiment based near Basra, southern Iraq Tuesday, March 25, 2003. In an about-face, British forces said they had decided to move against militia fighters who blocked them from securing Basra _ even as Iraqi forces in the area allegedly began using civilians as human shields.(AP Photo/Dan Chung, Pool)
Members of Britain's 16 Air Assault Brigade, 21 Close support regiment - 3 Army Air Corps, patrol the deserts around the oil fields of North Ramala in a sandstorm.(AFP-Pool/Ian Jones)
A statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein stands in the middle of an empty square in Baghdad Tuesday, March 25 2003, as a fierce sandstorm sweeps through the area. Visibility is severely reduced not only by the sandstorm but also by the pollution caused by oil set ablaze by Iraqis as a defense against US and British warplanes. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Iraqi militia man a sandbag position in Baghdad, Tuesday, March 25 2003, as a fierce sandstorm casts a yellow pall over the city. More security and police officers were seen around the city in anticipation of the onslaught of coalition forces closing in on the capital. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Iraqi militias man a sandbag position in Baghdad Tuesday, March 25 2003, as a fierce sandstorm casts a yellow pall over the city. More security and police officers were seen around the city, and residents said members of Saddam Hussein feared intelligence agencies were also posted on the streets.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Members of Britain's 16 Air Assault Brigade, 21 Close support regiment - 3 Army Air Corps, patrol the deserts around the oil fields of North Ramala in a sandstorm.(AFP-Pool/Ian Jones)
Photo by Alan Lessig, Times Staff An F-16 pilot waves as he taxis after returning from a mission over Iraq on Wednesday.
Photo by Jud McCrehin, Times Staff
Navy corpsmen and Marines with battery M and headquarters battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment work on a lance corporal who was shot in the shoulder during a patrol mission Wednesday.
Photo by Jud McCrehin, Navy Times Staff
Navy corpsmen and Marines with battery M and headquarters battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment work on a lance corporal who was injured Wednesday during a patrol mission.
Photo by Jud McCrehin, Navy Times Staff
Marines with battery M, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment intercept an Iraqi civilian non-combatant who was trying to walk through the artillery position Thursday in central Iraq.
Photo by Jud McCrehin, Navy Times Staff
Cpl. Patrick Rivera, 21, of Glendale , Calif., and 1st Sgt. Henry Prutch, 40, of Dubuque, Iowa, with battery M, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, hold down an Iraqi civilian non-combatant who was trying to walk through the artillery position Thursday morning in central Iraq.
Photo by Rob Curtis, Navy Times Staff
Soldiers with the 1st Squadron, Bravo Company, 2/502nd board a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle during a break in a 19-hour truck ride in blowing sand and high winds from Camp New York into Iraq on Thursday.
AP Photo
In this image from video, an Army Paladin artillery vehicle fires during a fight with Iraqi forces north of Najaf, Iraq on Thursday.
A soldier gestures while on patrol near burning oil fields in southern Iraq on Thursday.
AP Photo
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