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Sgt. 1st Class James MacKenzie plays "Taps" during
the funeral of Army Ranger Capt. Russell B. Rippetoe at Arlington
National Cemetery on Thursday. Rippetoe, 27, of Arvada, Colo., and two
other soldiers were killed April 4 when a car bomb exploded at an
Iraqi checkpoint. |
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Saddam Hussein's presidential yacht, the Al-Mansur,
is adrift on the Shatt al-Arab river in Basra, southern Iraq, on
Thursday. U.S. Navy pilots dropped several 500-pound laser-guided
bombs on the yacht while it lay at anchor in Basra's port. |
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Civilians use a tractor to drag the head of a
decapitated Saddam Hussein statue down a gravel road on the edge of
Basra on Thursday |
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An Iraqi displays Iraqi bank notes he looted from a
bank in downtown Baghdad on Thursday. Looters surged across Baghdad,
and government buildings were set on fire while U.S. troops battled
pockets of resistance around the capital |
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U.S. Army Spc. Dean Bryant, from Oklahoma City,
helps an Iraqi woman who tripped on concertina wire in the streets of
Baghdad on Thursday |
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A US Marine covers the face of Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein's statue with the US flag in Baghdad's al-Fardous square. The
flag was removed shortly afterwards and replaced by the old Iraqi flag |
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Children celebrate on a tank abandoned by fleeing Iraqi troops in the
town of Tuz Khurmatu, south of Kirkuk, in northern Iraq |
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US soldiers of the 1st armored Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division
load a M1-A Abrams tank onboard a Galaxy C-17 cargo plane headed to
Iraq at Ramstein Airbase in western Germany |
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Engracia Sirin Gutierrez, right, sister of Marine Lance Cpl. Jose
Antonio Gutierrez, 28, kisses the US flag during a private official
ceremony for her brother, killed in Iraq March 21 near the Iraqi port
city of Umm Qasr |
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Staff Sgt. Nick Popadich from Indianapolis, Ind., of the 3rd
Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, enjoys a cigar standing on top of his
tank, as he arrives at a main crossroad in downtown Baghdad |
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A boy loots a government store in the Iraqi capital Tuesday, April 8,
2003, as U.S. Army forces look on |
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Carolyn Gross and John Oehlert gaze into each
other's eyes as they listen to their wedding song, "Just Look at Us
Now," on March 31 at the High Street Laundry in Logansport, Ind.
Meanwhile, Maritza Hernandez tends to her laundry in the background.
The couple chose the laundry for their wedding because Gross worked
there. Guests tossed sheets of fabric softener instead of rice |
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Tony Nave, 6, son of U.S. Marine Maj. Kevin G. Nave,
hugs a teddy bear after an April 5 funeral service at St. Patrick
Church in White Lake, Mich. Maj. Nave was killed in action in Iraq on
March 26. |
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Cassandra Stogsdill kisses her day-old baby
daughter, Alexis Jane Denise Stogsdill, in her hospital room at the
W.W. Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah, Okla., on April 3. Cassandra's
husband, Lance Cpl. John Stogsdill, is serving in Iraq with the 2nd
Marine Division, and Cassandra hadn't heard from him for two months. |
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US Marines patrol a street in
Baghdad past a tank proclaiming "We love Bush." US troops moved into
the heart of the Iraqi capital meeting little resistance |
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