U.S. Marines of the 3rd Batallion, 4th regiment, receive their first mail since the beginning of the war in Iraq on the outskirts of Baghdad, Sunday, April 6, 2003. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours) U.S. flight deck crew unload mail for members of the military from a C-2A Greyhound plane with the VRC 40 'Rawhides', on board the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Mediterranean sea, in this March 31 photo, made available Wednesday April 2, 2003. (AP Photo/PHAR Chris Thamann,HO) Engineers of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry division leave a message to Saddam Hussein a day ago on the nose of a destroyed Iraqi Airways plane on the runway at Baghdad International airport on April 6, 2003. Bombs and artillery thundered across Baghdad on Sunday as U.S. forces tightened their grip on the capital's outskirts, bringing up more troops and cutting approaches on three sides of the embattled city. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach Iraqi citizens pull down a statue of Sadam with the help of U.S. soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 70 Armor and 101st Airborne division in Kerbala, April 6, 2003. Moving block by block, U.S. troops pushed into the center of the holy Shi'ite Muslim city of Kerbala on Sunday after vicious battles with Iraqi paramilitaries threatening U.S supply lines north to Baghdad. REUTERS/Peter Andrews Brigade chemical officer Capt. Micah Bright, left, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), hands out chewing gum to Iraqi children in the holy city of Najaf, in this Friday, April 4, 2003 photo made available Sunday, April 6. (AP Photo/Pfc. Joshua Hutcheson/MOD/Pool) U.S. Army Seargent Carry Wollenzien, left, from Shawano, Wis. plays with Afghan girls in village Qalai Nasro, 4 kilometers, or 2.5 miles, southwest of the Coalition Joint Task Force base in Bagram, Afghanistan, Saturday April 5, 2003. U.S. army personnel distributed humanitarian aid to the village, in addition to toys for children. Placed strategically on the frontline during the conflict between Northern Alliance and Taliban, the key Taliban stronghold village suffered heavy bombardment from U.S. attacks in November 2001. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan) An Afghan girl plays with U.S. Army Seargent Carry Wollenzien, unseen, as others smile, in village Qalai Nasro, 4 km ( 2.5 miles), southwest of the Coalition Joint Task Force base in Bagram, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 5, 2003. An Afghan girl plays with U.S. Army Staff Seargent Eliza Downing, unseen, as others smile, in village Qalai Nasro, 4 km (2.5 miles), southwest of the Coalition Joint Task Force base in Bagram, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 5, 2003. Soldiers hold hand in prayer at a Sunday Mass in camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait Sunday, April 6, 2003. Soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division are getting ready in several camps in Kuwait to be deployed in Iraq. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
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