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A soldier with Charlie Company 2-7 Infantry tasked
with the 3-69 Task Force, waves a victory sign from the upper floor of
one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in Baghdad to other infantry soldiers
as the Task Force takes control of the palace complex, Monday, April
7, 2003 in Baghdad |
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U.S. Army soldiers from A Company, 3rd Battalion,
7th Infantry Regiment, search one of Saddam Hussein's palaces, damaged
after a bombing in Baghdad Monday, April 7, 2003. Coalition soldiers
took over key buildings Monday, as gunfire and explosions thundered in
many parts of the battered Iraqi capital |
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An Iraqi tank, right, is on fire next to a
destroyed Iraqi armored vehicle after being attacked by U.S. military
in Baghdad Sunday, April 6, 2003 |
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Charlie Company Task Force 1-64 of the 3rd ID rolls
into downtown Baghdad on Monday morning, April 7, 2003 |
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U.S. Army Stf. Sgt.
Chad Touchett, center, relaxes with comrades inside the palace.
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U.S. tank guards
the palace. American commanders said that three army battalions would
stay in the city center, and not leave as happened in an initial
lighter raid on Saturday.
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A U.S. Army M-1 Abrams tank crew take a break in
front of a presidential palace near Baghdad's international airport,
Monday. American forces raided three of Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein's palaces in and near the capital, including his main compound
in the center of the city. |
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750
Number of Tomahawk cruise missiles fired in the war so far
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330,000
Number of meals ready to eat (MREs) consumed by coalition troops
daily
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15,000,000
Gallons of fuel the coalition uses daily, equal to fuel used in
Florida daily |
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A U.S. A-10 Warthog turns upside down to avoid Iraqi anti aircraft
fire after dropping bombs over Baghdad April 8, 2003. A U.S. A-10
'Warthog' plane went down near Baghdad Airport on Tuesday but the
pilot was safely rescued |
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Children play on a Destoyed Iraqi tank |
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An Iraqi girl waves an American flag to U.S. Marines
of the15th Expeditionary Unit at the Marines Battalion Combat
Operation Center in Nasiriyah |
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The troops have NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical)
protection suits and respirators and are provided with medication to
inject themselves with if they are exposed to threats such as mustard
gas and the nerve agents sarin and VX |
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The US says a tank fired a single round at a
Baghdad hotel, which injured western journalists, in response to
incoming rifle and rocket fire |
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