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Trucks carry Marine landing and assault vehicles north on Highway 80 from Kuwait City enroute to bases in the Kuwaiti desert Feb. 21, 2003.
David P. Gilkey / Detroit Free Press / MCT
A Kurdish peshmerga fighter returns fire with a heavy machine gun Feb. 24, 2003 in Gomalar, Iraq. The small village changed hands between the Kurdish peshmerga and Ansar Al-Islam several times.
Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT
Vehicles from Fort Benning, Ga., cross into the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait at the onset of the invasion March 19, 2003.
David P. Gilkey / Detroit Free Press / MCT
Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division search an Iraqi border post that was hit with artillery just hours before, March 20, 2003.
David P. Gilkey / Detroit Free Press / MCT
An Iraqi civilian surrenders to British Royal Military Police north of Safwan in southern Iraq, March 23, 2003.
Pauline Lubens / San Jose Mercury News / MCT
British Royal Military Police tend the wounds of an Iraqi civilian who said she was wounded by coalition gunfire on the road to Um Qasr, March 22, 2003.
Pauline Lubens / San Jose Mercury News / MCT
Spec. David Beebe of the 3rd Infantry Division tries to makes his way through a massive dust storm that blanketed Objective Raiders, a staging area for the U.S. Army in Iraq, March 25, 2003.
David P. Gilkey / Detroit Free Press / MCT
Soldiers kick a door in while searching a group of buildings near Al Najaf, Iraq, March 27, 2003
David P. Gilkey / Detroit Free Press / MCT
Soldiers stop and search a local Iraqi man outside of his home near An Najaf, Iraq, March 27, 2003. U.S. Army troops came under both direct and indirect fire all day, prompting the search of the area.
David P. Gilkey / Detroit Free Press / MCT
Against a backdrop of smoke from oil fires, Iraqi civilians crowd the road south of Basra, Iraq, as fighting between U.S.-led forces and Iraqis for control of the city continued, March 28, 2003.
Pauline Lubens / San Jose Mercury News / MCT
A U.S. Special Forces sniper fires a 50-caliber rifle at Ansar Al-Islam fighters high in the mountains above Khormal, Iraq, March 29, 2003.
Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT
Five-year-old Muhammed was caught in crossfire near Nasiriyah. Only he, his younger sister and father survived out of a family of 15. He was treated for burns and gunshot wounds at a hospital March 29, 2003.
Jim Barcus / Kansas City Star / MCT
An Iraqi girl cries as she flees a British checkpoint March 30, 2003, outside Basra, after shots were fired toward a crowd by Iraqi soldiers about a half mile away.
Pauline Lubens / San Jose Mercury News / MCT
Soldiers with the 3rd Infantry Division take cover as a firefight breaks out in a village across the Euphrates River as the U.S. Army continued its push north in Iraq, April 2, 2003.
David P. Gilkey / Detroit Free Press / MCT
Bradley Fighting Vehicles make their way across a dam at the Karbala Gap outside of the town as the U.S. Army continued its push north in Iraq, April 2, 2003.
David P. Gilkey / Detroit Free Press / MCT
Sgt. Roy Lewis atop his Bradley fighting vehicle while on the tarmac at Saddam International Airport during the battle for the airport, April 4, 2003.
David P. Gilkey / Detroit Free Press / MCT
A Bradley fighting vehicle drives on the tarmac at Saddam International Airport while taking fire from Iraqi forces during the battle for the airport, April 4, 2003.
David P. Gilkey / Detroit Free Press / MCT
Soldiers take up a defensive position along a wall outside of the VIP terminal at Saddam International Airport while trying to clear the building under fire from Iraqi forces during the battle for the airport, April 4, 2003.
David P. Gilkey / Detroit Free Press
Fadil Bugdadi, 34, stands on top of a statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad, April 10, 2003. Looting was widespread across the city as local government control failed and fighting between coalition forces and local militias continued.
Retired Lt. Col. Joe Rippetoe and his wife, Rita, accept a flag that covered the casket of their son, Capt. Russell Rippetoe, during his funeral April 10, 2003, at Arlington National Cemetery. Rippetoe was killed in Iraq when a car bomb exploded at a checkpoint.
Chuck Kennedy / MCT
Spec. Anthony Reviere carries an Iraqi woman to safety after she fell and fainted in the crowd of retired workers gathered at Sahat Al Shauhad, "Martyrs Square," to receive pension payments, May 20, 2003.
Carl Juste / Miami Herald / MCT
Lt. Rebecca Elliott calms a young Iraqi girl after she was nearly trampled by the large crowd of retired workers gathered at Sahat Al Shauhad, "Martyrs Square," to receive pension payments, May 20, 2003.
Carl Juste / Miami Herald / MCT
Relatives mourn Saber Mozan Medhoush, whose body was found in a mass grave of 120 in Al-Karkh, about 20 miles north of Baghdad, June 4, 2003. Mozan, 22, who was a member of the Communist Party, was taken from his home in 1986, put in jail and eventually taken out and shot in the head by the Iraqi military under orders from Saddam Hussein.
Peter Tobia / Philadelphia Inquirer / MCT
U.S. soldiers evacuate a wounded comrade to a waiting truck and medical helicopter, Aug. 7, 2003, after a U.S. Humvee was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades.
Len Vaughn-Lahman / San Jose Mecury News / MCT
U.S. soldiers peer down Dec. 15, 2003, into a tunnel leading to the underground bunker where Saddam Hussein was discovered near Tikrit, Iraq.
Chip Somodevilla / Detroit Free Press / MCT
Pfc. Eric Ayon attempts to start a Humvee after an ambush in Ramadi that killed seven Marines, April 6, 2004. Ayon died three days later at the same intersection.
David Swanson / Philadelphia Inquirer / MCT
A U.S. Marine carries the body of a fellow Marine killed in action April 6, 2004, in Ramadi. A dead Iraqi is in the background.
David Swanson / Philadelphia Inquirer / MCT
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