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A U.S. soldier from the 4th Division pulls an Iraqi man out of his car at a checkpoint in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, July 26, 2003. U.S. troops in Tikrit are bracing for more bloodshed in retaliation for the killing of the former Iraqi leader's sons. | ||
George Kazour, left, a U.S. Army translator, and Major Josslyn Aberle, of the Army's 4th Infantry Division, chat in front of a government building in Baquba,Iraq , 60 kilometers north of Baghdad on July 12, 2003. Base leaders say they use Lebanese-American Kazour more as an adviser rather than a translator. ``He can give us a sense of mood or and attitude,'' says Maj. Jim Brogan. ``We're struggling not only with communicating with Iraqis, but in understanding their ways. | ||
Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division carry away the head of the toppled 30-foot statue of Saddam Hussein | ||
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division poses for a photograph on the toppled 30-foot statue of Saddam Hussein on horseback, in Tikrit, 180 km (110 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq | ||
U.S. Army Spc. Patrick Hodgins from Spring, TX., with the 4th Infantry Division 1st Battalion 12th Infantry Regiment lifts money and documents found in the home of Fadhil Salfeege al-Azawi, the uncle of Saddam Hussein in Mashahdah, 45 kilometers, 28 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, July 17, 2003. Although al-Azawi had been previously detained, soldiers searched the house in a dawn raid Thursday and in a hidden closet in the bedroom found rocket propelled grenades, machine guns, a sniper rifle, dynamite, along with about $10,000 worth of Iraqi Dinars. | ||
U.S. Army soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division 1st Battalion 12th Infantry Regiment search a field at the home of Fadhil Salfeege al-Azawi, the uncle of Saddam Hussein in Mashahdah, 45 kilometers, 28 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, July 17, 2003. | ||