An Iraqi raises her arms in celebration as US tanks roll into the heart of the Iraqi capital. US troops who rolled into the very heart of Baghdad aboard tanks voiced their surprise at the warm welcome extended to them by ordinary Iraqis after a tough fight.(AFP/Karim Sahib)
An Iraqi man throws stones at a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) as it falls in central Baghdad April 9, 2003. U.S. troops pulled down a 20-foothigh statue of Saddam and Iraqis danced on it in contempt for the man who ruled them with an iron grip for 24 years. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)