Soldiers from 40 Commando of the Queens Dragoon Guards fire at Iraqi positions in the Date Groves, south of Basra in southern Iraq, Sunday, March 30, 2003.
An Iraqi family leaves Basra in southern Iraq in this photo made available Sunday, March 30, 2003, while a British soldier looks on.
Iraqi militia surrender as 40 Commando Royal Marines move into Abu Al Khasib, a suburb of Basra in southern Iraq.
A gas mask is seen at an Iraqi training facility at an Iraqi naval port north of Umm Qasr, Sunday March 30, 2003. British troops south of the city Basra found the stash of Iraqi training equipment for nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, including a Geiger counter, nerve gas simulators, gas masks and protective suits on Saturday, according to British press reports.
An Iraqi man walks past a huge mural of Saddam Hussein which has recently been defaced by local residents Sunday, March 30, 2003 in Umm Qasr, Iraq's major port city.
In a time lapse exposure, a U.S. F/A-18 Hornet takes off for a mission over Iraq from the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the eastern Mediterranean. The squadrons of the carrier group are continuing flight operations this weekend over Iraq in support of "Operation Iraqi Freedom."
Soldiers serving with the Number 2 Company, the 1st Battalion, The Irish Guards, look to one of their commanders, in an armored personnel carrier, for the location of the Iraqi firing positions, on the outskirts of Basra.
Iraqis drive by a house reportedly destroyed in an overnight missile attack in Baghdad, Sunday, March 30, 2003. U.S. warplanes continued their missions over Iraq with bombs and strafing fire Sunday, in a thunderous prelude to a ground assault.
Iraqis look at a crater made after a home was reportedly destroyed in an overnight missile attack in Baghdad, Sunday, March 30, 2003.
British soldiers of 3rd Platoon Ist Company of the Irish Guards, left, escort of a group of Iraqi men before checking their identities. The men, leaving the city of Basra, were subsequently released.
A postcard of Saddam Hussein is seen taped to the window of a bus used by the press as it drives past the smoke from burning oil, after a reported overnight missile attack in Bagdhad, Sunday, March 30, 2003.
An F-14 Tomcat is reflected in a puddle at the fantail of the USS Harry S. Truman upon its return from a strike against Iraq Sunday, March 30, 2003. The aircraft carrier is conducting missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
A British soldier checks a young Iraqi boy who fled with his parents, on the outskirts of Basra, southern Iraq, Sunday, March 30, 2003.
An Iraqi woman carries her young child on the outskirts of Basra, as she flees with others from the southern Iraqi town Sunday, March 30, 2003.
An RAF loadmaster in a Puma helicopter aims his general purpose machine gun at an Iraqi truck as soldiers of the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment carry out vehicle searches for weapons in southern Iraq Sunday, March 30, 2003. Paratroopers patrol the skies and are able to drop a platoon of men onto the road or desert track ahead of a car to facilitate the random stops.
A flight deck crewmember flashes a sign with the weight of an of F/A-18C Hornet prior to launch on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Gulf, Sunday, March 30, 2003. Planes from the ship continued to fly missions over Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Picture released Sunday, March 30, 2003, of families continuing to leave Basra in southern Iraq, across one of town's bridges manned by British soldiers.
A British soldier with the Desert Rats walks past ruined buildings in Mushirij, south west of Basra in southern Iraq, in this photo made available Sunday, March 30, 2003.
U.S. Marine of the 3rd battalion, 4th regiment, Lance Cpl. Alfred Brooks from Tampa, Fla., looks at a medical helicopter flying over his fighting hole near the city of Ad Diwaniyah in south central Iraq, Sunday, March 30, 2003.
An unidentified U.S. paratrooper from the 173rd Airborne Division stationed near the Harir airfield, 45 miles northeast of the Kurdish city of Irbil in northern Iraq, is shown Sunday, March 30, 2003. The paratroopers parachuted into the Kurdish-controlled territory early Thursday, where they linked up with Kurdish fighters.