9 April 2003

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	Lauryn Sanders, 8, places flowers on the casket of her brother, U.S. Army Cpl. Greg Sanders, as Greg's mother, Leslie, and his sister Clare, 10, watch following the graveside service for Sanders on Monday. The 19-year-old was killed in combat in Iraq
	U.S. Marines from the 3rd Batallion yell to urge infantrymen to rush across the damaged Baghdad Highway Bridge, Monday, April 7, 2003, as they move forward into the city while under fire in the southeastern outskirts of Baghdad
	At Basra's Sheraton Hotel, pictured here April 8, 2003, looters loaded sofas into horse-drawn carts, and even wheeled the hotel's grand piano down a street. British troops began a massive effort to distribute water to battle-weary residents but were unable to quell the spate of looting
	A U.S. tank, left, moves his gun turret towards a hotel filled with journalists before firing from a bridge in Baghdad, April 8, 2003. The Palestine hotel took fire Tuesday after U.S. troops said snipers were shooting at them from the building
	Buildings in the al-Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad lie in ruins, April 7, 2003, after a U.S. warplane dropped four bunker-busting bombs on the site where Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was believed to be meeting with his sons
	U.S. Marines with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marines Division, race toward a vehicle that came under fire as it entered a military compound that Marines had taken in southeast Baghdad on April 8
	Tanks advance toward central Baghdad across one of the city's main bridges
	Marines sit atop amphibious assualt vehicles crossing the Diyala River on their way into Baghdad.
	A man carries a bathtub he took from an abandoned building
	Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, seen in an image from video, speaks to reporters Monday morning, in downtown Baghdad, and denies that coalition forces had advanced to the city center
	A U.S. Army convoy moves on a highway in Bagdad, Iraq, Sunday
	The portrait of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is enscribed with a love note painted by a passing American soldier as troops advanced through Baghdad's outer suburbs Saturday
	An M1A1 Abrams tank from the 3rd Battalion of the 69th Armor Task Force pushes north kicking up some dust in the western Iraq desert on Tuesday
	A British Challanger 2 tank is seen in Basra, Iraq
	U.S. Army Major General Raymond T. Odierno, the Commander for the 4th Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse, speaks to members of the media as motorized pieces of his mechanized units are unloaded from the U.S. Navy ship Cape Victory Thursday at the Kuwait City port
	Jesse Salaiz of Killeen, Texas, cleans his gun as his unit waits for their luggage after arrival in Kuwait City, Wednesday
	A soldier rests while waiting for luggage after arriving in Kuwait City, Wednesday. The first 5, 000 troops of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division have arrived in Kuwait.
	Soldiers in the 4th Infantry Division inventory nerve gas antidote injections they will carry with them as they deploy to Southwest Asia from Fort Hood, Texas, Tuesday
	Robert Gray Army Airfield personnel at Fort Hood, Texas, load an AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter into a C5-A military transport plane Monday. Six helicopters will be loaded and sent to Kuwait to replace those destroyed in the war in Iraq
	A mural depicts planes crashing into a building behind two U.S. Marines from Task Force Tarawa as they search for Iraqi troops at an Iraqi military headquarters March 26, 2003 in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah
	A U.S. Marine amored assault vehicle from Task Force Tarawa flies the American flag during a gun battle Sunday in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah
	Bullet holes riddle the windshield of a U.S. Marine humvee from Task Force Tarawa Sunday in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. The Marines suffered a number of deaths and casualties during gun battles throughout the city
	Jill Fluker, second from left, and her husband, James, left, gather during a rally, they helped organize, to support the war in Iraq
	A member of the Iraqi Republican Guard sits behind barbed wire at an abandoned Iraqi military base under the control of U.S. Marines in the suburbs of Baghdad on Tuesday
	Master Sgt. Jaime Ramirez of Edinburg, Texas, takes time out to get a shave at camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait, Monday April 7, 2003. Hundreds of soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division are waiting in different camps in Kuwait to be deployed into Iraq
	An Iraqi military vehicle explodes after it was destroyed by an Abrams tank Monday, April 7, 2003, during a push forward in northern Baghdad