An Iraqi looter drags an air conditioner through the campus of a college of literature in Basra, Iraq as coalition forces moved to take possession of the city.
A soldier with Charlie Company 2-7 Infantry tasked with the 3-69 Task Force, waves a victory sign from the upper floor of one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in Baghdad to other infantry soldiers as the Task Force takes control of the palace complex, Monday, April 7, 2003 in Baghdad
A soldier with Task Force 2-69 Armor, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Benning, Ga., fires warning shots at an approaching vehicle during a battle in northern Baghdad, Iraq. The driver did not stop but managed to drive through Army vehicles unscathed. Numerous civilians were not so fortunate and were killed when they failed to stop or turn around after soldiers fired warning shots at them.
U.S. Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Regiment smash a gate as they secure positions around a key bridge leading into Baghdad in the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, Monday, April 7, 2003. Two Marines were killed Monday when their Amtrack troop transporter was hit by an artillery shell at a bridge over a canal on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, Lt. Col.B.P. McCoy said Monday.
A U.S. soldier aboard an armored vehicle points a gun at a smoldering Iraqi vehicle in western Baghdad Sunday, April 6, 2003.
An Iraqi man wounded during U.S. attacks on Baghdad is carried out of a car into the Al Kindi hospital emergency room.
U.S. Army soldiers from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, search one of Saddam Hussein's palaces, damaged after a bombing in Baghdad Monday, April 7, 2003. Coalition soldiers took over key buildings Monday, as gunfire and explosions thundered in many parts of the battered Iraqi capital.
U.S. tanks pass by the banks of the Tigris river as they roll into Baghdad, outside Saddam Hussein's presidential palace, Monday April 7, 2003. Coalition soldiers took over key buildings Monday.
U.S. Army soldiers from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, secure one of Saddam Hussein's palaces, damaged after a bombing in Baghdad Monday, April 7, 2003.
A lone Iraqi man sits in front of a poster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein outside the central bus station in downtown Baghdad, Monday, April 7, 2003. U.S. troops seized key buildings in the heart of Baghdad on Monday.
U.S. Army Spc. Harrison Grimes from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, walks past the damaged model of the Saddam Hussein palace he is searching, after a bombing in Baghdad Monday, April 7, 2003.
An Iraqi tank, right, is on fire next to a destroyed Iraqi armored vehicle after being attacked by U.S. military in Baghdad Sunday, April 6, 2003.
U.S. Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Regiment, take positions as they secure a key bridge leading into Baghdad in the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, Monday, April 7, 2003. Two Marines were killed Monday when their Amtrack troop transporter was hit by an artillery shell at a bridge over a canal on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, Lt. Col.B.P. McCoy said Monday.
A British soldier looks out of a building after coming under fire as coalition forces move into Basra, Iraq, to secure the city, Monday, April 7, 2003.
A coalition tank, upper right, seen in an image from video, stands on a road adjacent to the Tigris River near an explosion Monday, April 7, 2003, in Baghdad.
An Iraqi man pushes a cart loaded with his children past a U.S. military checkpoint in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, on Monday, April 7, 2003.
Sgt. Christopher Ferguson of Task Force 2-69 Armor, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Benning, Ga., mans a 50-caliber machine gun during a push forward Monday, April 7, 2003, in northern Baghdad.
Charlie Company Task Force 1-64 of the 3rd ID rolls into downtown Baghdad on Monday morning, April 7, 2003. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Brant Sanderlin)
Charlie Company 1st Sgt. Jose Mercado looks at a statue of Saddam Hussein that his company destroyed only minutes before, in downtown Baghdad, Monday, April 7, 2003.
U.S. Army Stf. Sgt. Chad Touchett, center, relaxes with comrades from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, following a search in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces damaged after a bombing, in Baghdad Monday, April 7, 2003.