An elderly Iraqi man is searched by a U. S. Marine at a checkpoint on the bridge leading into Tikrit, Iraq Tuesday April 15, 2003. U.S. Marines started allowing residents to return to the city.
A U.S. Marine stands in a doorway after searching one of the houses of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's family in Owja , Iraq. The village, which is just outside Tikrit, is the Iraqi presidents birthplace.
A U.S. soldier guards an Iraqi man who was caught looting an office building in central Baghdad Tuesday, April 15, 2003. The looted items were taken from the man and he was released.
U.S. Army PFC. Nicholas Myhre holds back a camel as military traffic passes into the presidential palace complex in Baghdad Tuesday, April 15, 2003. The young male camel, which tank crews from A Company, 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, unknowingly named Josephine, approached them early that morning and stayed.
A soldier of the U. S. 4th Infantry Division climbs down his armored vehicle to change money from a local boy in southern Iraq, Tuesday, April 15, 2003. The U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division rumbled into southern Iraq on Monday to reinforce the war effort.
A soldier of the U. S. 4th Infantry Division stands guard as Iraqis joining a Muslim holy celebration walk past in southern Iraq, Tuesday, April 15, 2003. The U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division rumbled into southern Iraq on Monday to reinforce the war effort.
A soldier of the U. S. 4th Infantry Division replies from his vehicle with a thumbs up as pedestrians wave at him in southern Iraq, Tuesday, April 15, 2003. The U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division rumbled into southern Iraq on Monday to reinforce the war effort.
A U.S. soldier with the 101st Airborne Division does his laundry during a moment of "down time" in Karbala, some 40 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 14, 2003. Clean clothes, showers, hot food and mail are the main things soldiers say they are lacking in the field.
An Iraqi man mimics Saddam Hussein Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at the place where his statue once stood in the center of Qurna, Iraq, before it was pulled down by locals.
Iraqi volunteer police officers, left and right, hold handguns as U.S. soldiers detain suspected Iraqi looters at the central bank of Baghdad late Monday April 14, 2003. The U.S. military and Iraqi police have begun a joint force operation to try to return order to the capital city. Bottom right lies the body of an unidentified Iraqi man, suspected of looting, who was shot and killed during the operation.
Iraqi citizens return looted goods to a mosque in Baghdad Monday, April 14, 2003.
A camel watches as U.S. army military traffic passes into the presidential palace complex in Baghdad Tuesday, April 15, 2003. The young male camel, which tank crews from A Company, 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, unknowingly named Josephine, approached them early that morning and stayed.
U.S. Army Pvt. Servando Diaz, right, provides cover as an Iraqi civilian enters a former Iraqi secret police house to open it for American troops searching for weapons in Baghdad Tuesday, April 15, 2003. They found ammunition and anit-Semitic literature.
People watch as others set fire to a statue depicting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Monday, April 14, 2003.