In pictures: UK forces in Iraq
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British and US Marines in a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter hunting Iraqi surface-to-surface missiles |
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British pilot Flt Lt Paul Francis checks the time beside his Harrier GR7, armed with a Maverick missile, at a Kuwait base |
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An RAF Puma's machinegun is trained on an Iraqi truck as British troops search for weapons in southern Iraq |
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RAF weapons junior technician Richard Cole walks past a row of freefall bombs stacked at a base in Kuwait |
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These British army Challenger tanks set out for a night of patrols around Basra |
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These Scots Dragoons play a waiting game at a makeshift camp, known as Bridge Four, just outside Basra |
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Locals leave their homes as a 42 Commando British Royal Marine looks on in Umm Qasr |
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Iraqis prepare to be frisked by members of the Parachute Regiment troops in southern Iraq |
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Captain Dai Jones of the Queens Lancashire Regiment, left, and Corporal Mark Pearsall of HQ 16 Brigade with Ramala locals |
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The RAF's Bobbie Winterbaker is 18 and one of the youngest British forces members in Iraq |
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BBC
March 30, 2003
