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 A US soldier stands near leopards in a private zoo in Baghdad's main presidential palace(AFP/File/Ramzi Haidar)  Havelock animal control officer Terri Morgan gets a kiss from Lupey, right, as she sits atop of Morgan's animal control truck at the home of Trina Sage in Havelock, N.C., Monday, April 14, 2003. Sage serves as a foster mother to Lupey, whose owner a Marine corporal from nearby Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station was deployed overseas. Morgan started 'Operation Semper Fido.' (AP Photo/Randy Davey)  Trina Sage, left, a foster parent to Lupey, center, and Terri Morgan, a police animal control officer, sit together in Sage's front yard in Havelock, N.C., Monday, April 14, 2003. Morgan started a foster parents for animals program called 'Operation Semper Fido' to find homes for pets when the troops started leaving for the war in Iraq (news - web sites). (AP Photo/Randy Davey)  U.S. Army Maj. Thomas Kinton, from Iowa, pets a sick bear in its cage in Baghdad's zoo, Saturday April 19, 2003. As the war in Iraq winds down, attention is turning to one group of forgotten victims: the animals at Baghdad's zoo. Weakened before the war by lack of food and medicine blamed on years of U.N. sanctions, the animals' lives were endangered during the conflict by the placement of an Iraqi gun battery on the zoo's grounds, opening it to destruction by U.S. military attack. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis  A U.S army soldier pets a camel inside the gates of the Iraqi Presidental Palace in Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday April 15, 2003. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)  A shepherd rides his donkey past US soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division patrolling an area in northern Iraq, Monday April 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
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