Images Of War: Damage

A portrait of Saddam Hussein still hangs on the burning Ministry of Transport and Communication building in Baghdad Wednesday, April 9, 2003. Thousands went on a looting rampage as U.S. troops moved into the Iraqi capital.

A dove lies dead Thursday, March 27, 2003 outside the charred remains of a building that was struck by artillery shells and missiles Wednesday in the Al Usfiya farming complex some 10 miles south of Baghad. Iraq's health minister Thursday said 36 civilians were killed and 215 wounded in U.S. airstrikes on Baghdad a day earlier.

Secondary explosions from a destroyed Iraqi SA-6 surface to air missile shoot across the sky on the outskirts of Karbala, Iraq, Thursday, April 3, 2003. Missiles on board the SA-6 "cooked off" and ignited causing a large explosion which threw debris for hundreds of yards in every direction.

Vehicles drive towards a cloud of black smoke in Baghdad, Monday March 24, 2003. Oil fires ring the city as a defense against incoming U.S. missiles and bombs.

Two Iraqi children look through their window in New Baghdad, a suburb of Baghdad, Monday, March 24, 2003.

A man paddles near Saddam Hussein's presidential yacht, the "Al-Mansur," seen adrift on the Shatt al-Arab river in Basra, southern Iraq, in this image from video Thursday, April 10, 2003.

The British commander of the 1st Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Lt. Col. David Patterson inspects a burning oil supply as the Desert Rats enter Basra, Thursday April 3, 2003.

A bombed out plane shows the aftermath of overnight fighting for control of Saddam International Airport early Friday, April 4, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq.

In this image from video, an Iraqi firefighter walks through a damaged area in Baghdad, after a night of coalition attacks.

An arms cache discovered on the outskirts of Abu Al Khasib, Thursday, April 3 2003, containing more than two hundred rocket propelled grenades, is destroyed by members of 49 Field Squadron Royal Engineers, an explosive ordinance disposal unit, using plastic explosive.

An oil pipe fire burns south of Basra, Wednesday April 2, 2003. Members of 32 Royal Engineers, attached to 7 Armed Brigade, helped Iraqi oil workers try to extinguish the fire using a combat tractor to pour tons of sand on the burning oil. This allowed workers to get close enough to use hoses to spray foam on the oil and cut off the valve to stop its flow.

Columns of smoke rise in the horizon of Iraq's capital city Baghdad Saturday March 22, 2003 following US-led forces bombardments.

Iraqi officials look at the damage done to a buiding by US-led bombing in the city of Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, Saturday, March 22, 2003.

Thick smoke fills the sky from an oil well fire in Iraq in this image from television, Friday, March 21, 2003. Iraqi troops set fire to 30 of the hundreds of oil wells in the region, British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon said.

This satellite photo of Baghdad, Iraq, taken Thursday, March 27, 2003 shows oil trenches burning in the northeast of the city.

In this image from video, a body is covered next to a destroyed car in Baghdad Wednesday, March 26, 2003.

An oil fire blackens the sky south of Basra in southern Iraq, following a night of coalition artillery and tank assaults on Iraqi defense positions outside the city, Friday, March 28, 2003.

An U.S. military handout photograph shows what military officials describe as workers putting out an oil well fire in Iraq.

Smoke from oil fires covers the landscape at sunset in a location south of Basra, Iraq Saturday April 5, 2003.