U.S. troops examine a Humvee vehicle destroyed in a fatal blast near the restive central Iraq (news - web sites) town of Fallujah, September 14, 2003. Sheikh Khaled Saleh, a fiery Iraqi Sunni Muslim cleric, says the young angry men battling U.S. troops in Fallujah are holy warriors who look to Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) as their mentor. 'Although unorganized and without leadership, the Iraqi resistance is a ball of fire in America's face that will bring its end in Iraq,' said the 53-year-old cleric, whose sermons draw thousands in the main Badawi mosque, one of over 70 mosques in the center of Fallujah. Photo by Akram Saleh/Reuters
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Up to 2,000 foreign fighters bent on harming Americans and other coalition soldiers in Iraq (news - web sites) may have flocked to the Middle East country following its invasion by the United States and Britain
Dr. Rice - "I guess our troop will have 2,000 more targets to take out."
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A U.S.-trained Iraqi police instructor demonstrates how to search suspects in a bomb loaded vehicle during a training course for a U.S.-backed, 400-strong police force set up to protect an important Shiite Muslim shrine in Najaf, Iraq (news - web sites) Wednesday Sept. 17, 2003. The building of the force, officially called the 'Shrine Police Force,' was accelerated after the assassination on Aug. 29 of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim outside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf.
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Two U.S.-trained Iraqi police instructors demonstrate how to search suspects for weapons during a training course for a U.S.-backed, 400-strong police force set up to protect an important Shiite Muslim shrine in Najaf, Iraq (news - web sites) Wednesday Sept. 17, 2003. The building of the force, officially called the 'Shrine Police Force,' was accelerated after the assassination on Aug. 29 of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim outside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf.
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Two U.S.-trained Iraqi police instructors demonstrate how things can go wrong when searching for car bombs during a training course for a U.S.-backed, 400-strong police force set up to protect an important Shiite Muslim shrine in Najaf, Iraq (news - web sites) Wednesday Sept. 17, 2003. The building of the force, officially called the 'Shrine Police Force,' was accelerated after the assassination on Aug. 29 of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim outside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf
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New Iraqi soldiers listen to an Iraqi instructor during a course at a military camp in Mosul, 400 kms, 250 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2003
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Joshua Legaspi, 4, of Ewa Beach on Oahu whispers to his father Ryan Legaspi, 27, as his mother Rowena looks on at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, September 16, 2003 . Legaspi and 22 other Marines from 4th Force Reconnaissance Company were activated to serve during the war, along with 28 Marines from 3rd Radio Battalion who all returned after being deployed for more than seven months in Iraq