Year End Iraq 2003

Capt. Kristo Miettinen, of the 401st Civil Affairs Battalion watches President Bush address the nation on the possible war with Iraq in Rochester, N.Y., March 17, 2003.

U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit help an Iraqi soldier with water from a canteen in southern Iraq, March 21, 2003.

Iraqi Information Minister Mohamed Said Al-Sahaf holds up part of a missile that reportedly hit a residential area in Baghdad, March 26, 2003. At right is a portrait of Saddam Hussein.

Smoke bellows from a large explosion that rocked Baghdad, Iraq during air raids, March 31, 2003.

Capt. Chris Carter, commander of A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment, calls in an armored ambulance for an injured woman who was caught in the crossfire with Iraqi forces over the Euphrates River when the U.S. Army siezed a bridge in Al Hindiyah, Iraq, March 31, 2003.

U.S. Army soldiers from the A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, cover up during an intense sandstorm which slowed U.S. military progress near Karbala, Iraq, March 25, 2003.

An Iraqi civilian sits blindfolded after being detained by United States Marines at a forward camp in central Iraq, April 3, 2003.

A U.S. Army vehicle from the 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment, smashes a mosaic of Saddam Hussein outside the Iraqi Republican Guard Medina Division headquarters south of Baghdad, April 5, 2003.

U.S. Army Stf. Sgt. Chad Touchett, center, relaxes with comrades from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, following a search in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces damaged after a bombing in Baghdad, April 7, 2003.

An Iraqi woman screams upon arriving with her wounded husband and son at Baghdad's al-Kindi hospital, April 8, 2003.

U.S. Marines with India Co., 3rd Batt., 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, provide cover fire as other Marines advance on the headquarters of the Fedayeen in Baghdad, April 9, 2003.

Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad, April 9, 2003.

U.S. Army Spc. John Dresel, from Oxford, Conn., is kissed by an Iraqi child in Baghdad, April 9, 2003. The soldiers from the A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment had taken over a section of northern Baghdad with a warm welcome from many residents, but also under sporadic rocket and small arms fire.

A human skull sits in a plastic bag after being pulled from a mass grave in Mahaweel, 60 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, May 16, 2003. Villagers dug up the remains of more than 3,000 people they suspect were killed during the 1991 Shiite revolt against Saddam Hussein's regime.

This is a U.S. military photo released in Baghdad, Iraq on July 24, 2003, of the body of Saddam Hussein's son Qusai who was killed July 22 by U.S. forces in a raid on a house in the town of Mosul, northern Iraq.

L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian administrator for Iraq sits in front of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers at the graduation ceremony for the first group of soldiers in the new Iraqi army, at Kir Kush, Iraq, Oct. 4, 2003.

An Iraqi woman reacts while passing by the International Red Cross building in Baghdad, that was destroyed by a bomb, Oct. 28, 2003.

An Italian Army soldier gesture next to the barracks building which was destroyed by a car bomb, at the headquarters of Italy's paramilitary police in Nasiriyah, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2003. Eighteen Italians were killed in the attack.

U.S. President George W. Bush carries a platter of turkey and fixings as he visits U.S. troops for Thanksgiving in Baghdad, Nov. 27, 2003.

In this image released by the U.S. Army, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is shown in custody after he was arrested near his Tikrit home, Dec. 13, 2003.

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