 |
Soldiers from a coalition supply base at Jalibah,
Iraq, watch March 31 as U.S. Marine CH46 "Sea Knight" helicopters fly
past carrying food and other supplies. Monday marked the first
occasion on which large amounts of U.S. government humanitarian aid
arrived in central Iraq. |
|
 |
Smoke billows on the horizon beyond the unknown
soldier's mosque in downtown Baghdad on April 1 from the oil trenches
lighted by Iraqis to hamper the visibility of coalition bombers
targeting the capital. |
|
 |
A view of strikes by U.S. warplanes in the Domis
area between Dohuk and Mosul in northern Iraq on Wednesday. Some 50 to
60 aircraft struck targets in support of ground troops in the region
in missions that began Tuesday afternoon and ended Wednesday morning. |
|
 |
U.S. Marine Cpl. Joseph Ellis of Hickory, N.C., and
Task Force Tarawa places sandbags on his Humvee as parakeets used to
detect chemical weapons sit on the hood Wednesday in the southern
Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. |
|
 |
Units from the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division
fire missiles at the Iraqi Republican Guard near Karbala, central
Iraq, early Wednesday. |
|
 |
Flight deck crew watch a F/A-18 Hornet being
launched from the flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman for a strike
operation over Iraq early Wednesday. |
|
 |
A cellular phone in the West Bank town of Hebron on
Wednesday displays a mobile message with the image of Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein saying, in Arabic: "God saves my soul for you, God
destroys America." |
|
 |
Jesse Salaiz of Killeen, Texas, cleans his gun after
arrival in Kuwait City on Wednesday. The first 5,000 troops of the
U.S. Army's 30,000-strong 4th Infantry Division have arrived in Kuwait
and could be on the ground in Iraq "in a matter of weeks," according
to the division's assistant commander, Brig. Gen. Stephen Speakes. |
|
 |
A tank crew with Task Force 2-69 Armor, 3rd Brigade
Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, from Fort Benning, Ga., waits for
the midnight seige of Karbala to begin |
|
 |
U.S. Army 3rd infantry division launches missiles
to pound Iraq's Republican Guard in the suburbs of Karbala, south of
Baghdad in central Iraq |
|
 |
The first 5, 000 troops of the U.S. Army's 4th
Infantry Division have arrived in Kuwait |
|
 |
Two U.S. Navy F-18 speed after refueling from a
KC-10 plane over northern Iraq |
|
 |
A rocket marks the beginning of the midnight seige
of Karbala, Iraq, Tuesday, April 1, 2003, by soldiers with Task Force
2-69 Armor, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort
Benning, Ga. The seige began with heavy bombing by artillery, F-15 and
A-10 planes and the MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System). Troops from
2-69 were engaged in heavy fighting until dawn April 2 |
|
 |
A soldier from the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne
Division, looks at a pile of Iraqi weapons Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at
a military school his unit captured on Monday in An Najaf in central
Iraq |
|
 |
Lance Cpl. Graeme Church, 27, from Middlesborough,
sits on the head of a 17-foot tall statue of Saddam Hussein |
|
 |
Marine Corps reservist Stephen
Funk, center, walks with his mother, Gloria Pacis, left, and sister,
Caitlin Funk, right, to turn himself in at his reserve unit in San
Jose, Calif., Tuesday April 1, 2003. The 20-year-old Marine reservist
who got called to active duty refuses to serve in the Iraqi conflict,
claiming conscientious objector status
OK, what was he doing in the
Marines then, taking the free college money? What a traitor. |
|
 |
U.S. Army tanks with the 3rd
Infantry Division Task Force 1-64 move north near Karbala in central
Iraq |
|
 |
British Marines of 539 Assault
Squadron, part of the 3 Commando Brigade, use hovercraft to patrol in
the Shatt al Basra, south of Basra |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
