Posted on 04/22/2003 8:54:26 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Throngs of Iraqi Shiite pilgrims celebrate as they circle the Imam Hussein holy shrine in Karbala, Iraq (news - web sites) Tuesday April 22, 2003. For the first time in decades, Shiite Muslims in Iraq are able to gather in mass to the Shiite holy city of Karbala to mark the end of the 40-day mourning of the death of one of their most important saints, Imam Hussein. During the rule of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), such rituals were banned. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
A rescue worker lifts the body of a child recovered from the Buriganga River at near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, April 22, 2003. Two river ferries capsized in the river Monday during tropical storms, killing at least 100 people. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) speaks at a joint press conference as Pakistani Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali looks on in Islamabad. They discussed terrorism and trade.(AFP/Saeed Khan)
U.S. Marines from Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment practice riot control drills outside of their camp Monday, April 21, 2003, in Numiniyah, Iraq (news - web sites). (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps, Cpl. Shawn C. Rhodes)
A Greek-Orthodox priest holds a white dove before releasing it during an Easter baptism ceremony Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at the River Jordan.
United States envoy retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner gestures after his meeting with Patriotic Union of Kurdistan leader Jalal Talabani and Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Massoud Barzani in Dukan, Iraq (news - web sites) Tuesday April 22, 2003. Garner's visit to the autonomous Kurdish region in Northern Iraq was welcomed by the mostly pro-american Kurds. Garner, who is overseeing the postwar reconstruction of Iraq, was touring the country for a second day. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, POOL)
A young settler sits on a rooftop in the West Bank. Reuven Rivlin laid the first stone in a project to build more houses in a West Bank Jewish settlement.(AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)
CAPTION CLARIFICATION - TRANSLATION OF WRITING IN DUST - An Iraqi man peers out of a bus while passing a demonstration in front of the Palestine hotel in central Baghdad, April 22, 2003. Cheering Shi'ite Muslims paraded through central Baghdad on Tuesday, celebrating what they said was their leader's release from U.S. detention. Hundreds followed a car they said carried their leader, cleric Muhammad al-Fartusi, as he passed the Palestine Hotel in the city center, where many foreign journalists are staying. Writing at top reads 'Saddam Dog.' REUTERS/Petr Josek
Nearly 100 people have died and dozens are still missing after two ferries sank in storms that swept parts of Bangladesh, but rescuers were hobbled by bitter weather and inadequate equipment. Hundreds of grieving relatives and villagers crowded riverbanks on April 22, 2003 to scan bodies lined up on the sand and await rescue vessels, witnesses said. (Reuters Graphic)
Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims shout slogans in front of the Hotel Palestine (not pictured) April 22, 2003, celebrating what they said was their leader's release from U.S. detention. Aides said cleric Muhammad al-Fartusi, one of many rival religious leaders in the Shi'ite sect to which over half of Iraqis belong, had been arrested on Monday by U.S. forces who have declined any comment. The aides said he had been released along with three other clerics, arrested in Hilla on their way from Baghdad to the holy pilgrimage city of Kerbala, but said they did not know why the four had been detained. REUTERS/Petr Josek
Syrian Foreign Ministry Farouk al-Sharaa, right, and Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa speak to reporters after their meeting Tuesday, April 22, 2003, in Damascus. Arab countries face 'dangerous challenges' now that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime has fallen and Iraq (news - web sites) is under Western occupation, Moussa said Tuesday.(AP Photo/Wael Hamzeh)
Retired general Jay Garner raises arms with Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) leader Jalal Talabani (L) and Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Massoud Barzani (R), in Dukan, Iraq (news - web sites), April 22, 2003. Garner was welcomed to the Kurdish-run north on Tuesday with cheers, hugs and a shower of petals 12 years after helping the Kurds break free from Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). Garner told an emotional crowd of Kurdish leaders and students that their self-governed region was a model for Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam. REUTERS/POOL/Kevin Frayer
U.S. Brigadier General Vincent Brooks shows a slide of a suicide bomber's vest during a briefing at Central Command in Camp As-Sayliyah near Doha, April 22, 2003. Brooks said that the U.S.-led forces had found 800 suicide bomber vests in Iraq (news - web sites). Photo by Andrew Winning/Reuters
Taking up one of the infantry's defensive formations, Cpl. Dana W. Perkins, a team leader with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment and native of Lancaster, N.H., scans the area for signs of danger Sunday, April 20, 2003, Al Numiniyah, Iraq (news - web sites). His team kneels behind him in the background, awaiting his orders. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps, Cpl. Shawn C. Rhodes)
Army Spc. William Holden, a member of the 155th Transportation Company, shares a brief moment with his wife at Fort Eustis Army Base, Va, Monday, April 21,2003, before being deployed as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Nearly 200 soldiers said goodbye to their families Monday afternoon at Fort Eustis. (AP Photo/Jason M. Hirshfeld) True Heros in Action.
Shiite Muslims chant as they march through the streets of Basra, Iraq (news - web sites), Tuesday, April 22, 2003, on the holy day for Imam Hussein Bin Ali Bin Abi Talib. Though the holiday is considered the most important of the year for Shiite Muslims, Tuesday was the first time since the reign of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) that they have marched though the streets of Basra in celebration. Ali Al-Sustanni, a well-known Imam put under house arrest under Saddam Hussein, appears in photo at top left. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Retired U.S. Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, center, who is overseeing the postwar reconstruction of Iraq (news - web sites), waves to a cheering crowd during a visit to a local university campus in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah Tuesday, April 22, 2003. Garner met with Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq on Tuesday, praising the support they gave in ridding the country of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). (AP Photo/Odd Andersen/Pool)
An Iraqi man looks through scattered documents April 22, 2003 in Abu Ghraib, site of Iraq (news - web sites)'s largest prison and home to thousands of political prisoners over Saddam's 24 year rule. The picture on the wall shows former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) holding his daughter Halla at a young age, scrawled with grafitti reading, 'Saddam is an infidel and murderer.' REUTERS/Chris Helgren
U.S. Army Brigadier General Vincent Brooks points to take a journalists question during a news conference at the Central Command Center in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, April 22, 2003. Brooks updated the media on the events ongoing in Iraq (news - web sites) following the war. (AP Photo/Richard Lewis)
U.S. Army Brigadier General Vincent Brooks talks to the media during a news conference at the Central Command Center in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, April 22, 2003. Brooks updated the media on the events ongoing in Iraq (news - web sites) following the war. (AP Photo/Richard Lewis)
Iraqi Shiite pilgrims slash open their heads with swords. Its a weird culture.
An undated handout photograph from Coalition Central Command shows a booby trapped coffee table found at an undisclosed location in Iraq (news - web sites). The table, which was made of marble and filled with explosives and shrapnel, was primed to explode via a remote command device. REUTERS/CENTCOM-Handout NO SALES
Shiite Muslims chant as they march through the streets of Basra, Iraq (news - web sites), Tuesday, April 22, 2003, on the holy day for Imam Hussein. Though the holiday is considered the most important of the year for Shiite Muslims, Tuesday was the first time since the reign of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) that they have marched though the streets of Basra in celebration. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Shiite Muslims chant as they march through the streets of Basra, Iraq (news - web sites), Tuesday, April 22, 2003, on the holy day for Imam Hussein. Though the holiday is considered the most important of the year for Shiite Muslims, Tuesday was the first time since the reign of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) that they have marched though the streets of Basra in celebration. Ali Al-Sustanni, a well-known Imam put under house arrest under Saddam Hussein, appear in photo at top. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Friends and family of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew Aviles gather at St. Patrick Catholic Church for a vigil prayer service Monday, April 21, 2003, in Tampa, Fla. Aviles was killed in the line of duty while serving in Iraq (news - web sites) on April 7. (AP Photo/Jason Behnken, Pool)
U.S. Army Brigadier General Vincent Brooks points to an explosive vest, used by Iraqi suicide bombers, screened during a news conference at the Central Command Center in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, April 22, 2003. Brooks updated the media on the events ongoing in Iraq (news - web sites) following the war. (AP Photo/Richard Lewis)
Iraqi Shiite pilgrims wave a flag which reads 'Imam Hussein is a martyr outside the Imam Hussein holy shrine in Karbala, Iraq (news - web sites) Tuesday April 22, 2003. For the first time in decades, Shiite Muslims in Iraq are able to gather in mass to the Shiite holy city of Karbala to mark the end of the 40-day mourning of the death of one of their most important saints, Imam Hussein. During the rule of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), such rituals were banned. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Iraqi youths gather as U.S. Army's Pfc. Ed Newson, 22, from Atlanta, Ga., stands on the rubbles of a building used to be a post office and a comunication center, which was destroyed during the U.S. bombings, in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Tuesday, April 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
An Iraqi boy runs past a mural on the wall of the 'City Iraqi Family' asylum, depicting Iraqi children with national flags and children holding Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s portrait, in Baghdad, April 22, 2003. The country's largest center for children was looted after the war and has since stopped its work. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
A U.S. soldier is seen reflected on the window of a bus with Iraqi men, stopped at a checkpoint in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Tuesday, April 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
An US female soldier directs Iraqi men off the road linking Basra to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, outside Basra, southern Iraq (news - web sites), Tuesday April 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
Iraqi boys talk to a US Army soldier in front of the entrance of Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital Tuesday April 22 2003. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
A man inspects an emergency room set up in a private house in Baghdad Tuesday April 22 2003 where according to the area's residents, high ranking officials of the Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime were brought for treatments during the US led campaign. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
Iraqi Shiite pilgrims????? walk in the streets of Karbala, Iraq?? (news - web sites) wearing anti-USA slogans on their chests Tuesday April 22, 2003. For the first time in decades, Shiite Muslims in Iraq are able to gather in mass to the Shiite holy city of Karbala to mark the end of the 40-day mourning of the death of one of their most important saints, Imam Hussein. During the rule of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), such rituals were banned. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Retired U.S. general Jay Garner (L), who will oversee the reconstruction of Iraq (news - web sites), and his deputy, British General Tim Cross (C), greet children during a visit to a primary school in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya, April 22, 2003.
A soldier of the Free Iraqi Force (FIF), armed with a Kalashnikov rifle, takes up position on the outskirts of the holy city of Karbala as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Muslim Shiite pilgrims make their way into the city to visit the Imam Hussein mosque.(AFP/Romeo Gacad)
Iraqi Shi'ite men beat their chests and heads as they march around the holy Mosque in the center of Kerbala, April 22, 2003. Countless thousands of Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims, oppressed under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), thronged the holy city of Kerbala on Tuesday, free for the first time in decades to mark one the most sacred moments of their year. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
Television picture shows Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s only surviving son-in-law and a regional commander, Jamal Mustafa Sultan al-Tirkiti, inside the Iraqi National Congress (INC) headquarters in Baghdad, April 21, 2003, bringing to eight the number of 'most wanted' Iraqis in the hands of the United States or allied groups. The Iraqi National Congress said Jamal, No. 40 on the list, had returned from Syria to surrender and would be handed to U.S. forces. The INC spokesman said Jamal had served as Saddam's private secretary until his overthrow. He is also Saddam's only surviving son-in-law. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Courtesy of TVZ
UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, who is to meet with the Security Council in an attempt to remove a hurdle in the way of determining the UN's post-war role in Iraq (news - web sites)(AFP/File/Henny Ray Abrams)
A US soldier looks at the burnt remains of an Iraqi airliner at Baghdad's international airport. Japan has created a fund to assist with the reconstruction of Iraq (news - web sites) after a month long US-led military campaign to oust Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)
A member of the 155th Transportation Company based at Fort Eustis Army Base in Newport News, Va., looks towards waving families as his bus departs, Monday, April 21, 2003, as part of the deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Jason M. Hirschfeld)
Army Pvt. Wendy Branch, right, and her husband, Michael Branch share a kiss, Monday, April, 21, 2003 at Fort Eustis Army Base in Newport News, Va. Branch, a member of the 155th Transportation Company, will deploy along with nearly 200 soldiers, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Jason M. Hirschfeld)
U.S. soldiers arrest weapons dealer at the weapons bazaar in Baghdad, April 21, 2003.The United States pledged to build a new Iraq (news - web sites) from the ashes of war as Shi'ite Muslims protested in the capital and showed their strength in numbers on a pilgrimage outlawed for more than two decades. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
Muhammad Hamza al-Zubaydi, known as Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s 'Shiite Thug', appears on the queen of spades in the set of playing cards issued by the U.S. military authorities to help capture the most wanted leaders of Saddam's former regime. Al-Zubaydi, known as the 'Shiite Thug' for his role in Iraq (news - web sites)'s bloody suppression of the Shiite Muslim uprising of 1991, was arrested Monday, April 21, 2003, the U.S. Central Command said. The government spelling is on card. (AP Photo/Deparment of Defense, HO)
An elegant women's shoe is seen in a closet- room of one of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s palaces, believed to have been used by members of his immediate family in Baghdad, Monday, April 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
U.S. Corporal Matt Sweazy, 25, from Sain Louis, Mo., jokes with his comrades as he tries a fur coat he found in one of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s palaces, believed to have been used by members of his immediate family in Baghdad, Monday, April 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
U.S. Specialist Arandy Abrams, 27, from Mondavi, Wisc., pauses as he enters a room containing kitchen items, at one of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s palaces, believed to had been used by members of his immediate family in Baghdad, Monday, April 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
U.S. Corporal Matt Sweazy, 25 from Saint Louis, Mo., plays the piano in one of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s palaces, believed to had been used by members of his immediate family in Baghdad, Monday, April 21, 2003. The palace was destroyed in the U.S. bombing campaign. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
A book from retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, now a presenter of a TV news network, is seen at one of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s palaces, believed to had been used by members of his immediate family in Baghdad, Monday, April 21, 2003. The palace was destroyed in the U.S. bombing campaign. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
U.S. Cpl. Matt Sweazy, 25 from Saint Louis, Mo., light flares as members of the media, right, go through a room in one of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s palaces, believed to had been used by members of his immediate family in Baghdad, Monday, April 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
A U.S. soldier moves a barbed-wire fence in front of a long line of Iraqi people waiting to apply for a job at a U.S. forces base in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Monday April 21, 2003.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A U.S. soldier gives medication to an Iraqi man for his sick daughter at a makeshift U.S. forces base in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), on Monday April 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
An Iraqi woman peers from the door of a looted shop as a soldier from Bravo Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 187th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division conducts a presence patrol in Baghdad, Monday, April 21, 2003.(AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)
Soldiers from Bravo Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 187th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division burst into a schoolroom during a search in Baghdad, Monday, April 21, 2003. The school was said to contain weapons but none were found. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)
U.S. Army soldiers, backdropped by a defaced portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), man a checkpoint in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad Monday, April 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Soldiers from Bravo Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 187th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division inspect a school building in Baghdad, Monday, April 21, 2003. The school was said to contain weapons but none were found. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)
A U.S. Army special forces soldier looks on behind, as a soldier from the Free Iraqi Forces, or FIF, the military wing of the Iraqi National Congress, or INC, helps provide security in downtown Baghdad, Monday, April 21, 2003. U.S. forces are helping facilitate the FIF as it takes over some security roles in a post-Saddam Iraq (news - web sites). The INC, led by Ahmed Chalabi, is one of the largest Iraqi opposition groups which operated in exile for years during the rule of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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