The question of the day is whether Saddam Hussein was in the bunker struck by U.S. bombs during the first night of the war. At left is a photo of person purported to be Saddam as he appeared on Iraqi TV Wednesday night. At right is a photo of Hussein as he appeared several weeks ago during an interview with CBS News Correspondent Dan Rather.
U.S. soldiers wear their gas masks as they head to the Iraqi border in a convoy through the desert in northern Kuwait, Thursday, March 20, 2003. After the first bombs and cruise missiles fell on Baghdad early Thursday, reports said at least three missiles were fired by Iraq into Kuwait and that U.S. and British troops were preparing for combat.
U.S. soldiers scale a 15-foot wall of sand to keep watch for Iraqi troops Thursday, March 20, 2003 on the Kuwait/Iraq border. The hole in the burm will be used as a path for U.S. forces as they make their way to Baghdad.
A U.S. soldier keeps watch as a Kuwaiti backhoe breaks through a 15-foot wall of sand on the Iraqi border to create a path for armed forces vehicles Thursday, March 20, 2003 in the northern Kuwaiti desert. Iraq reportedly fired a Scud missile towards Kuwait City, which was shot down by a Patriot missile.
Soldiers examine the area near a crater after a Patriot missile intercepted a Scud missile in Kuwait, Thursday, March 20, 2003.
Camp New Jersey, Kuwait -- Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander, 101st Airborne Division, (Air Assault) listens as Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace, 5th Corps commander speaks to people following a Scud drill Thursday afternoon March 20, 2003.
Marines of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5, deploy Friday March 21, 2003 in the area of an oil pumping station early Friday morning in southern Iraq.
U.S. Marines help an Iraqi soldier with water from a canteen in southern Iraq, on Friday. Some 200 Iraqi soldiers surrendered to the U.S. 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit just after an hour after it crossed the border into Iraq from northern Kuwait.
Marine Lance Cpl. William McNeal of Florida secures the perimeter of the Second Tank Battalion just west of Basra, Iraq, after traveling 12 hours into Iraq. In the background are remains of old tanks and shell casings from a prior conflict.
Unidentified Iraqi's surrender to British Royal Marines in southern Iraq Friday March 21, 2003 in this television image. U.S. troops advanced through the deserts of southern Iraq in armored convoys Friday after launching the war's ground assault, meeting resistance from Iraqi forces in some areas and soldiers surrendering in others.