Photo Diary: Day 20

An Iraqi woman screams upon arriving with her wounded husband and son at al-Kindi hospital Tuesday, April 8, 2003 in Baghdad. Hospitals across the city of 5 million people are filling up with so many casualties that they've stopped counting the number of patients, the International Committee of the Red Cross says.

U.S. Marines from the 3rd Batallion yell to urge infantrymen to rush across the damaged Baghdad Highway Bridge, Monday, April 7, 2003, as they move forward into the city while under fire in the southeastern outskirts of Baghdad.

An Iraqi man lies dead in a guard shack he crawled to after the bus he was riding in came under fire as it entered a military compound that U.S. Marines had recently taken in southeast Baghdad on Tuesday, April 8, 2003.

A large fire burns on the outskirts of Baghdad, April 8, 2003. Smoke from fires burning from bombs and artillery that fell throughout the last few days blocked out the sun at times for miles outside the city limits.

At Basra's Sheraton Hotel, pictured here April 8, 2003, looters loaded sofas into horse-drawn carts, and even wheeled the hotel's grand piano down a street. British troops began a massive effort to distribute water to battle-weary residents but were unable to quell the spate of looting.

A Kurdish fighter on frontlines near the town of Dibagan in Northern Iraq is seen with a flower in the barrel of his automatic rifle, April 8, 2003. Flowers were given to the fighters by the Kurdish Students Union to show gratitude for the war effort.

Iraqis stand near a checkpoint set up by British forces to take back food looted in Basra, April 8, 2003, in order to later distribute it to the population. Residents roamed the streets looting and searching for water and food a day after British forces took control of the town.

Bodies lay on top of each other in the morgue of al-Kindi hospital in Baghdad.

A cache of suspected chemicals in drums, shown in an image from video, is seen April 7, 2003, near Karbala, Iraq.

A ball of fire from a bomb dropped by a coalition airplane rises near the Tigris River in the vincinity of the Iraqi Ministry of Information in downtown Baghdad, April 8, 2003.

A U.S. tank, left, moves his gun turret towards a hotel filled with journalists before firing from a bridge in Baghdad, April 8, 2003. The Palestine hotel took fire Tuesday after U.S. troops said snipers were shooting at them from the building.

Lance Cpl. Eric Garrett, left, of Tulsa, Okla., and Pfc. Kurt Gellert of Atlantic City, N.J., who are combat engineers attached to 3rd Batt., 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, prepare to fire after a military compound that U.S. Marines had recently taken in southeast Baghdad came under a counter attack, April 8, 2003.

Reloading his Iraqi AK-47 rifle during an Army offensive in northern Baghdad, April 7, 2003, is Lt. John Blocher, U.S. Air Force attached to Task Force 2-69 Armor, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, from Fort Benning, Ga. Blocher is to arrange close air support with the 2-69 Armor.

Col. Grimsley, commanding officer of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, and Lt. Col Rock Marcone, commanding officer of the 3-69 Task Force, look over an Iraqi flag taken off a palace after the Task Force took control of the palace complex.

Buildings in the al-Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad lie in ruins, April 7, 2003, after a U.S. warplane dropped four bunker-busting bombs on the site where Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was believed to be meeting with his sons.

Iraqi firemen use water on the crater left by a large bomb in the al-Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad, April 7, 2003.

Iraqi women remove corrugated iron from a former Iraqi army barracks in the village of Dayr, north of Basra, southern Iraq, April 7, 2003.

Charlie Company 2-7 Infantry, Capt. Todd Kelly, 31, from Cary, N.C., tasked to the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 69th Regiment Armor Task Force, talks on the radio in the darkened main hall of the Baghdad Presidential Palace, April, 7, 2003, as he directs troops.

Fires on the southeast side of Baghdad, Iraq, fill the sky with smoke, April 7, 2003.

A U.S. A-10 Warthog jet drops flares as it flies low over the Tigris River and downtown Baghdad, April 8, 2003. Another Warthog was shot down near Baghdad in what was believed to be the first downing of a coalition aircraft by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile. The pilot ejected safely.