U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit remove a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from the wall at the Iraqi Naval base in Az Zubayr, in southern Iraq's desert, Sunday, March 23, 2003.
A British Army Challenger II tank crushes a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein at a former military training ground outside the southern city of Basra, March 27, 2003. British troops battling to take Basra, Iraq's second city, have taken over the local radio and television stations, Sky television news said on Thursday.
An unidentified U.S. Marines hangs a sign, making a joke about slow moving troops, along their road to Bagdad, north of Nasiriya in central Iraq, Thursday, March 27, 2003.
Lance Cpl Jose Miguel Garcia Gonzalez, left, from Houston, Tx, takes advantage of a satphone belonging to a journalist to call his mother while Pvt 1st Class Omar Desoto, from Glennville, Ga, looks on, along a road heading Bagdad, near Nasiriya in central Iraq, Thursday, March 27, 2003. They are with the 3rd Batallion, 4th Marines Regiment and have not been able to call their loved one for three months.
The Iraqi communication center is damaged during an air strike in Baghdad, March 27, 2003. Powerful explosions rocked central Baghdad on Thursday and more blasts shook the city outskirts Iraq's capital marked a week since the start of a U.S.-led war to oust President Saddam Hussein.
