US Special forces run through the gutted interior of Baghdad's Central Bank complex as they search the area for bank robbers and looters. Baghdad's banking district remains one of the last centers of attraction for looters attempting to cart of millions remaining in the vaults of the capital's institutions.
Five year-old Iraqi boy Ali Mustafa tries is comforted by his mother Mona Hassan, 37, at Baghdad's Saddam hospital, Thursday April 17, 2003. Ali and his four brothers were injured were injured by an unexploded cluster bomb they found in the garden of their home. The others suffered facial and hand injuries.
A medical worker holds a photograph given to him by an unidentified man, right, who came to Baghdad looking for his missing relative. Arab volunteers were buried in this mass grave by U.S. marines after they entered the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on April 9. Iraqis are removing the bodies so that they be burried in local cemetries.
U.S. Marines OED of Task Force Tarawa watch their controlled explosion of a Al-Samoud missile on a roadside, Thursday, April 17, 2003, on the city limits of Kut, 160 kms. (100 miles) south of Baghdad.
U.S. troops take cover as shots are heard from a park near al-Rasheed hotel in Baghdad.
U.S. special forces make arrests of suspected bank robbers inside the gutted interior of an bank in Baghdad's banking district, April 17, 2003.
A U.S. army transport helicopter flies over the Republican Presidential Palace grounds as smoke rises over the center of Baghdad, April 17, 2003.
A soldier from the United States 173rd Airborne stands guard at one of the refineries at the Baba Gurgur oil field in Kirkuk, Iraq, April 17, 2003. Local officials say they can have the facility operating soon, but looting seriously hampered employees' ability to come back to work.
U.S. special forces enter a bank in Baghdad's banking district as they patrol the area for bank robbers and looters, April 17, 2003. Baghdad's banking district remains one of the last centers of attraction for looters attempting to cart off millions remaining in the vaults of the capital's institutions.
Members of 1st Battalion Light Infantry, attached to 16 Air Assault Brigade, patrol villages south of Al Amarah, southeastern Iraq, April 16, 2003.
Personnel from 3 Parachute Regiment, 16 Air Assault Brigade, patrol villages south of Al Amarah, southeastern Iraq, April 16, 2003.
Gen. Tommy Franks, top center, and other component commanders meet with the media during an impromptu news conference while Franks visited a palace of Saddam Hussein near Baghdad, April 16, 2003. Franks, director of the U.S.-led assault on Iraq that efficiently deposed of Hussein, made his first visit to Baghdad to take a first-hand look at the work of his troops and offer them his congratulations.
Street lights go on in the Republican Presidential palace grounds as smoke rises over the center of Baghdad, April 16, 2003.
Shia Arab Sadi Qader Muhamad weeps as she stands in front of her home, which was occupied by Kurds in recent days in Kirkuk, Iraq, April 16, 2003. Despite Kurdish assurances that the return of displaced Kurds will be orderly and legal, some are taking the law into their own hands.
At Saddam Childrens Parc Nurse Villa hospital in Baghdad, Husham Ahmed, 12, is admitted for severe burns to his face and chest after unexploded munitions went off, April 16, 2003. Children like Husham played at the site where munitions had been disposed of, in the Hayil Amil City neighborhood in Baghdad.
While U.S. military personnel clear a school, a U.S. Marine guards the door next to a discarded portrait of Saddam Hussein, April 16, 2003, in Kut, south of Baghdad.
A U.S. helicopter flies over Iraqis waiting for the road to be cleared, as in the background a huge pile of smoke billows from the Al-Rasheed Iraqi military camp where U.S forces were exploding ordnance, north of Baghdad, April 16, 2003.
Marine Cpl. Gunner Schmitt, 23, from Janesville, Wis., and a puppy that the Marines had named Willie, both take an afternoon nap on the porch of an office building in an abandoned industrial complex where the Camp Pendleton 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, have been living for the past five days in Baghdad, April 16, 2003. The puppy belongs to the population of stray dogs that also live in the complex.
Lighted by the tail light of a Bradley fighting vehicle and a full moon, U.S. Army Spc. Juan Herrera, 20, from San Antonio, Texas secures a road as two squads of soldiers from A Company 4th Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment search through a hospital in Baghdad, April 16, 2003. They found the hospital empty, looted and burned.