A child rides by the head of a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein taken down from Firdo(Paradise) Square on a central Baghdad street Thursday, April 10, 2003.
11th Engineer Battalion, Alpha Company, soldiers - tasked to the 3-69 Task Force in Iraq - wrap explosives around nearly 308 anti-tank mines in order to dentonate and destroy them after the Task Force encountered and cleared a mine field stretching for nearly a mile along sections of north and south Highway 8 in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 10, 2003.
Two Iraqi women carry furniture away from an Iraqi government office building on fire in downtown Baghdad Friday, April 11, 2003. Widespread looting continues in the Iraqi capital.
Cpl. Ramiro T. Gonzalez, team leader with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, watches over a group of Iraqi men in a compound near central Iraq, Wednesday, April 9, 2003. Gonzalez, from Oxnard, Calif., provided cover for his fire team as they chased looters out of the compound.
Airwing maintenance personnel test the engine of an F-18/F Super Hornet on the the flight deck of the USS Nimitz on Friday, April 11, 2003. The San Diego-based 1,100-foot, nuclear-powered Nimitz-class carrier relieved aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln of duty in the Iraq war this week.
An Iraqi woman kisses Cpl. Cortney Davis at a Marine checkpoint in northern Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 10, 2003.
An Iraqi munition storehouse in Baghdad explodes Thursday, April 10, 2003.
A truck loaded with furniture looted from one of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces rides past a destroyed communication center in Baghdad Friday, April 11, 2003.
A U.S.-trained Free Iraqi Forces soldier waves a flag from a U.S. Army truck as they pass through the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah Friday, April 11, 2003. Some of the roughly 150 Iraqi soldiers in a column of about 30 vehicles said they were heading to Baghdad to help U.S. troops.
A blast rises over the trees and over Highway 8, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 10, 2003, as the 11th Engineer Battalion, Alpha Company, soldiers tasked to the 3-69 Task Force in Iraq detonate and destroy nearly 308 anti-tank mines after the task force encountered and cleared a mine field along sections of Highway 8.
Iraqi defectors walk down the main road from the city at sunset just outside of Kirkuk, Northern Iraq, Thursday April 10, 2003.
A U.S.-trained Free Iraqi Forces soldier gives a thumbs-up from a U.S. Army truck as they pass through the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah Friday, April 11, 2003. Some of the roughly 150 Iraqi soldiers in a column of about 30 vehicles said they were heading to Baghdad to help U.S. troops.
The shadow of a Kurdish fighter holding a weapon is cast on a truck bearing the emblem of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Friday, April 11, 2003, near Mosul, northern Iraq. Kurdish military leaders said Friday that remnants of Saddam Hussein's forces had offered to surrender if they were granted amnesty and if coalition bombing stopped. The emblem reads: Kurdistan Democratic Party, Peace, Freedom, Democracy.
A U.S. soldier is silhouetted against the setting sun in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Thursday, April 10, 2003.
A section of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad is deserted Friday, April 11, 2003. In Baghdad, where regime control collapsed Wednesday, looting continued unabated for a third straight day Friday. In parts of the capital, Marines were starting to enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew.