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Back to School Courtesy of the US.
 Iraqi students walk near a tank with their mother to the first day of school in the capital, Baghdad October 1, 2003. Schools across the country are in various states of disrepair and most are still waiting for new textbooks and stationery to arrive. Locals, aid agencies and the U.S.-led authorities in Iraq have refurbished many schools, restoring water and electrity and repairing furniture. But many are still not ready to welcome students, and hope to reopen on Saturday, the first day of the week in Muslim Iraq. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh  Iraqi students attend classes on the first day of school in the capital Baghdad, October 1, 2003. Schools across the country are in various states of disrepair and most are still waiting for new textbooks and stationery to arrive. Locals, aid agencies and the U.S.-led authorities in Iraq have refurbished many schools, restoring water and electrity and repairing furniture. But many are still not ready to welcome students, and hope to reopen on Saturday, the first day of the week in Muslim Iraq. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh  From the classroom : Iraqi school children watch US soldiers from their classroom during the opening ceremony of Dufuf al-Neil Elementary School in Baghdad. (AFP/Marwan Naamani)  A US soldier greets Iraqi schoolchildren during the opening ceremony of the Dufuf al-Neil school in Baghdad. The opening of the school marks the first day of the new school year in the Iraqi capital.(AFP/Marwan Naamani)  Iraqi girls watch US soldiers from their classroom during the opening ceremony of the Dufuf al-Neil elementary school in Baghdad.(AFP/Marwan Naamani)  Iraqi children receive pencils and crayons from a US soldier during the opening ceremony of Dufuf al-Neil Elementary School in Baghdad(AFP/Marwan Naamani)  Iraqi students queue for schoolbooks, which now have no pictures of Saddam Hussein inside, as they attend their first week of the new school year in the capital Baghdad October 5, 2003. The new academic year officially kicked off in Iraq on Wednesday but some schools across the country were still struggling to find the textbooks, pens and furniture they need to teach their eager students. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz  Iraqi students look through schoolbooks which now have no pictures of Saddam Hussein inside, as they attend their first week of the new school year in the capital Baghdad October 5, 2003.  Iraqi boys wave to U.S. soldiers during a visit to the Al-Fathilia school on the outskirts of Baghdad Wednesday Oct. 15, 2003. The U.S. 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion rebuilt the school, which had been looted after being used as a Baath Party headquarters during the war. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)  Pen pal : A US soldier distributes pens to Iraqi schoolboys at the newly opened al-Taakhi elementary school in Baghdad. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)  Iraqi boys wave with school books as U.S. Army soldiers secure the area during an opening ceremony of Baghdad's Al Shaima school, in the eastern part of the capital, Saturday, Oct 25, 2003. Coalition authorities on Saturday announced plans to lift the curfew and reopen a major bridge in Baghdad to ease conditions for Iraqis ahead of Ramadan, despite continued violence. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)  Iraqi school girls wait at the gate of Baghdad's Al Shaima school shortly before a reopening ceremony with U.S. Army soldiers, in the eastern part of the capital, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2003. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)  Iraqi students laugh as a U.S. soldier sings and dances during the opening of a new school in Baghdad, October 25, 2003. (Nikola Solic/Reuters)
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