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Friday's mission for the soldiers of the U.S. 3rd Infantry
Division, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry: Secure Saddam International
Airport. A major complex just 12 miles from downtown Baghdad, troops
went in prepared for heavy resistance |
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At dawn, the soldiers began their assault amid palm trees and
manicured flower beds outside the airport's VIP terminal
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As U.S. soldiers advanced on the VIP terminal, they encountered
sporadic light arms fire, but not the stiff resistance they had feared |
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Inside the airport's main terminal. U.S. troops spent Friday combing
the complex to flush out Iraqi fighters |
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A Bradley fighting vehicle stands guard on the tarmac following an
allied advance |
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A gunner with the
Third Infantry Division watched as squads secured the main terminal of
Baghdad's airport.
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An M1-A1 Abrams
tank from Marine Task Force Tarawa in the southern Iraqi city of
Nasiriya on Wednesday. The city, which was the scene of one of the
bloodiest battles in the war, remains quiet as the Marines gain
further control over the area. |
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Ammunition for a
machine gun at a defensive position in Nasiriya. |
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An army vehicle from the 3rd Infantry Division moves
past a burned out plane early Friday on a runway at Saddam
International Airport |
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A man and child walk on a road near the entrance of the besieged city
of Basra as oil fires burn in the distance in Iraq |
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A thunderstorm surrounded the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in the Persian
Gulf |
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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 |
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A U.S. Army mechanic from the 4th Battalion 64 Armored
Regiment sledge-hammers a mosaic of Saddam Hussein |
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A US Army M1 Abrams tank guards the runway of
Baghdad's captured international airport |
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A British tank, seen in this image from video, gets
ready to topple a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein |
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A British tank, not seen in this image from video,
topples a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein |
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An demonstration version of an undated Central Command
handout image shows an instructional leaflet on how to surrender to
Coalition Forces |
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Iraqi Kurd children walk up to a bombed Iraqi
military truck in a former Iraqi miltary outpost south of Irbil on
Saturday. |
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Lt. Jeffrey Goodman, left, and Lance Cpl. Jorge
Sanchez, drag a wounded civilian away from his burning vehicle during
an advance on Baghdad by the 2nd Tank Battalion |
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A semi-trailer truck full of ammunition is exploded
by the Marines of the Second Tank Battalion during an advance on the
outskirts of Baghdad |
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Members of the British A company Mortar Platoon, 1
Parachute Regiment fire their mortar, as they prepare a defensive
position just outside Basra, southern Iraq. |
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On the road north towards Baghdad, an Iraqi T-55
tank destroyed by a U.S.Marine M1A1 tank burns |
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The Iraqi family that provided vital information in
the rescue of POW Army Private First Class Jessica Lynch rest at Camp
Liberty, Iraq, Thursday, April 3, 2003. The family was welcomed by
Marines who greeted them with food, clothing and an American flag |
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The nose of an F/A-18C Hornet displays symbols of
the amount and variety of bombs dropped during Operation Iraqi Freedom
aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Gulf. Jet number 313
has droppped five laser guided and four JDAM bombs as well as a JSOW
AGM-154 |
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Fires from secondary explosions of an Iraqi SA-6
surface to air missile burn on the outskirts of Karbala, Iraq.
Missiles on board the SA-6 "cooked off" and ignited causing a large
explosion which threw debris for hundreds of meters in every direction |
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Secondary explosions from a destroyed Iraqi SA-6
surface to air missile shoot across the sky on the outskirts of
Karbala, Iraq. Ordnance on board the SA-6 "cooked off" and ignited
causing a large explosion which threw debris for hundreds of yards in
every direction |
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