Members of the US Coast Guard, Port Security Unit 313, based in Tacoma, Wash., stand over a picture of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein at the Mina al Bakr oil terminal in the North Arabian Gulf in Iraq - Monday, March 24, 2003. The unit is maintaining security on Iraqi oil terminals that have been taken over by coalition forces.
A U.S. Marine lights up a cigarette for a wounded Iraqi who appeared to be a Republican Guard soldier, as others Marines search around a bus shot earlier on the key road in Qat'at Sukkar in central Iraq, March 27, 2003. Marines treated enemy wounded on Thursday and searched the blood-stained luggage of Iraqis killed inside a bus by a storm of bullets from advancing armored units. Reporters counted four corpses outside the bus and marines said another 16 lay inside. All the bodies were adult men, wearing a mixture of civilian and military clothing and had papers that appeared to identify them as Iraqi Republican Guard.
Instead of killing them with ammo...they light cigarettes for them.
British light infantry and 2nd Royal Tank Regiment members distribute humanitarian aid packages in Zubayr near Basra in southern Iraq, March 27, 2003. U.S. and UK troops fighting their way north towards Baghdad have found evidence that Iraqi troops are prepared to use weapons of mass destruction, Britain's Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon said on Thursday.
U.S. Marines from CSSB 10 field hospital carry a wounded Iraqi prisoner of war, who was shot following yesterday's Iraqi attack on the military convoys on the road, some 150 km 90 miles) north of the town of Nassiriya, March 27, 2003. U.S. Marines fought bloody skirmishes as their surge north towards Baghdad came under sporadic Iraqi attack. U.S. artillery fired back, allowing the Marines to get through Shatra after a two-hour delay and reach Qal'at Sukkar, about 100 km (60 miles) north of Nassiriya.
Young Iraqi's welcome British troops from 42 Commando as they go on patrol in the southern Iraqi town of Um Qa-eel, 35km south of Basra, March 27, 2003. U.S. President George W. Bush vowed on Thursday to press on with the war in Iraq (news - web sites) for 'however long it takes' to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power.