Huge columns of smoke can be seen above the southern horizon of Baghdad Saturday, March 22, 2003. Sporadic explosions were heard in the capital Saturday.
An Iraqi soldier lies dead in a trench after combat with British troops in the Al Faw peninsular, southern Iraq, Saturday, March 22, 2003. Royal Marines from 40 and 42 Commando had secured much of the Al Faw peninsular Saturday. The United States continued its aerial assault on military targets in Baghdad and other cities Saturday, while invading troops were advancing into southern Iraq.
Columns of smoke rise in the horizon of Iraq's capital city Baghdad Saturday March 22, 2003 following US-led forces bombardments.
U.S. Marines from the 3rd Batt., 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, escort surrendered Iraqi soldiers near Az Bayr, Iraq on Saturday, March 22, 2003.
A U.S. Marine from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit is silhouetted in the sunset in a section of southern Iraq's desert Saturday, March 22, 2003.
A wounded child, seen in this image from video, cries in a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 22, 2003. Iraqi officials led a media tour to the hospital, claiming the people were injured in U.S. air strikes.
The trace of a Tomahawk missile launched from the deck of the USS John McCain DDG 56 destroyer shines past a twin 50 mm machine gun, in the northern Gulf waters Saturday, March 22, 2003. The United States continued its aerial assault on military targets in Baghdad and other cities Saturday, while invading troops were advancing into southern Iraq.
A dead Iraqi soldier is covered by a blanket on a road in the Al Faw peninsula where British Marines from 40 and 42 commandos are operating, Saturday March 22, 2003.
A U.S. military convoy passes burning oil pipelines heading toward Baghdad, near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Saturday, March 22, 2003. American and British troops encountered little resistance as they seized Iraq's only port city Umm Qasr and moved to secure oil fields.
A Jordanian worker sets up a tent at a refugee camp for possible Iraqi refugees near the far eastern Jordanian town of Al- Ruweishid, some 50 kilometers from the Jordanian-Iraqi border Saturday, March 22, 2003. Thousands of refugees are expected to flee into neighboring countries following the US-led military strikes on Iraq.
U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Charles Burgin, of Columbus, Miss., looks in a room at the headquarters of the 51st Iraqi Mechanized Infantry Division where a picture of a young Saddam Hussein hangs, at center. Burgin is a member of India Co., 3rd Batt., 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, which took control of the headquarters on Friday.
Spc. Zachary Martindale, of the U.S. Army A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment, stands in the sands of southern Iraq Saturday, March 22, 2003. U.S. and British forces advanced toward Basra, southern Iraq's largest city, Saturday while air strikes pounded far-flung targets across the country.
Cpl. Eric Thompson, 22, from Indianda, Iowa, of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, takes a lunch break as he keeps watch from his position in southern Iraq Saturday, March, 22, 2003.
Iraqi officials look through the rubble of the Kharrada tourist complex along the banks of the Tigris river Saturday March 22, 2003 after it was destroyed in overnight U.S.-led bombing raids.
An Iraqi girl sits in front of an emergency room window as a worker pushes an empty wheelchair in a local hospital in Baghdad March 22, 2003.
Crew members gather around F/A-18 Hornets on the USS Harry S. Truman before the launch of a second strike against Iraq on Saturday, March 22, 2003. The Truman launched two waves of strikes as the air war continues while American-led ground forces advance on Baghdad.
Soldiers of the Heavy Machine Gun Platoon of the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment of the British Army move across a landscape of burning oil wells Saturday March 22, 2003 as they proceed through a breach in the Iraqi border defences made earlier in the night by US forces.
Sgt Adam Davison, of the 3/4 Lima company, 1st Platoon, from Bremerton, Wa., tries to secure a farming area near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Saturday, March 22, 2003.
Members of India Co., 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division confront an Iraqi soldiers who surrendered after a gunfight at the headquarters of the Iraqi 51st and 32nd mechanized infantry divisions near Az Bayer.
U.S. Marines of Lima Company, 1st Platoon, move into firing position as they get ready to secure a field in southern Iraq near Basra, Saturday, March 22, 2003.