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A building explodes in a
presidential palace compound in Baghdad during air strikes March 21, 2003.
Amnesty International says it is seeking urgent details from the United
States of measures taken to avoid civilian casualties during ferocious
bombing of Baghdad overnight. |
An assault convoy of trucks
and armored vehicles of the 101st Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade Combat
Team prepare to cross into Iraq, March 21, 2003. U.S.-led forces have
captured the southern Iraqi town of Nassiriya, U.S. military spokesman
Stuart Upton told Reuters on Saturday. The town is a key crossing point on
the Euphrates river about 200 miles southeast of the capital, Baghdad.
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An oil well burns somewhere in
the Iraqi desert in this image from television, Saturday, March 22, 2003 |
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Four US soldiers were killed
when their two Humvee vehicles came under attack in central Iraq |
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Columns of smoke rise in
Baghdad |
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A U.S. Marine in Iraq displays his choice of hobbies on
the back of his assault pack while helping to guard Iraqi prisoners. |
Marines of India Company sit before a dinner of chicken
and rice that was interrupted by a poison-gas drill lasting a half-hour. As
diplomatic maneuvering over Iraq continues, U.S. forces in Kuwait can do
little except wait and review the lessons of training. |
A Kuwaiti official walks by an oil storage tank partially
melted during the 1990 Iraq invasion. Journalists visited the Burgan
Oilfield to view war damage that crippled the nation's economy. |
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M-1 A1 Main Battle Tanks with the U.S. 15th Marine
Expeditionary Unit standby in the Kuwait desert near the border with Iraq |
The first F-117 Stealth fighter/bomber lands at an
undisclosed location after a mission over Iraq Thursday, March 20, 2003. |
Launch From The USS Constellation
Two U.S. Marines F/A-18 Hornets launch from the flight deck of the USS
Constellation as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Persian Gulf.
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Iraqi soldiers standing together with their arms raised
are silhouetted in a sky covered with black smoke as they surrender to U.S.
Marines from the15th Marine Expeditionary Unit in southern Iraq |
British soldiers of 1st Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment
fire a 51mm illumination round during patrol at an RAF base |
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fuel tanker convoys through the dust with elements of the 3rd Infantry
Division just after crossing the border into southern Iraq. |
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Seen through the periscope of the firing submarine, a
Royal Navy Tomahawk Land Attack Missile is launched at a target in Iraq on
March 20, 2003. |
Bomber from Britain
With anti-war grafitti seen on an official warning sign |
A U.S. tank speeds down a road as the oil fields of Basra
burn in the background late Saturday. |
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