Engineer Ali Hussein steps around crude oil that has leaked from a pipe at the K-1 pumping station near the Babagurgur oil fields in Kirkuk, Iraq, Wednesday, April 23, 2003. Workers at the station, which controls the pipeline to Turkey, are trying to get the faciltiy back to operating status.
Iraqi women wait in line to apply for auxiliary nursing jobs as Saudi Arabian soldiers stand guard in Baghdad, Wednesday, April 23, 2003. A battalion of Saudi military arrived in Baghdad, escorting a mobile hospital which will treat emergencies as a part of Saudi Arabia humanitarian help to Iraq. The hospital should be fully functional in a day or two.
An Iraqi Shiite pilgrim kisses another who slashed open his head with a sword as they march and chant in front of Imam Hussein holy shrine in Karbala, Iraq, on Wednesday, April 23, 2003. For the first time in decades, Shiite Muslims in Iraq are able to gather en masse at the Shiite holy city of Karbala to mark the end of the 40-day mourning of the death of one of their most important saints.
A worker is reflected in crude oil that has leaked from a pipe at the K-1 pumping station near the Babagurgur oil fields in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Wednesday, April 23, 2003. Workers at the station, which controls the pipeline to Turkey, are trying to get the facility back to operating status.
Graves marked with numbers fill a cemetery for Iraqi political prisoners who Iraqis say were executed over the years by the Saddam Hussein regime, in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, Wednesday, April 22, 2003. A grim legacy of the regime was being dug out of shallow graves on the grounds of the prison, where several bodies have been found buried face down, hands bound behind their backs and gunshot wounds to the head.
A local Iraqi man chants during a standoff with U.S. Marines, Wednesday, April 23, 2003, in Kut, 100 miles south of Baghdad. Dozens of protesters blocked U.S. Marines trying to cross the main bridge over the Tigris River Wednesday in a more than four-hour standoff sparked by the detentions of two local men by U.S. forces.
U.S. Marine Jack Kandel, of Newport News, Va, 28 Echo Company in Task Force Tarawa has an afternoon shave in front of a bullet-riddled portrait of Saddam Hussein, Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at his base camp in Kut.
An Iraqi Shiite sheik looks at the throngs of Iraqi Shiite pilgrims celebrating inside the Imam Hussein holy shrine in Karbala, Iraq, on Wednesday, April 23, 2003.
Engineer Ali Hussein is reflected as he steps around crude oil that leaked from a pipe at the K-1 pumping station near the Babagurgur Oil Fields in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Wednesday April 23, 2003.
Workers talk as they stand next to an oil pipe at the K-1 pumping station near the Babagurgur oil fields in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Wednesday, April 23, 2003.
Iraqi missiles, eight in all, sit in carrying containers, where they were apparently left by Iraqi forces, inside Baghdad's Abu Graibe cemetery, Wednesday, April 23, 2003.
Royal Air Force Senior Air Craftsman Matt Lee, of Manchester, England, uses binoculars to scan the horizon from a machine gun nest at a Gas Oil Separation Plant (GOSP) in the Rumeila Oil Fields, near Basra, Iraq, Wednesday, April 23, 2003.
Engineer Ali Hussein steps around crude oil that has leaked from a pipe at the K-1 pumping station near the Babagurgur oil fields in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Wednesday April 23, 2003.
Iraqi Shiite pilgrims cheer out as they enter the grounds of the Abu Fadel Al-Abbas shrine in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala on Wednesday, April 23, 2003. Over a million Shiites have crowded into this holy city over the past few days for a festival mourning the martyred grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. During the rule of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein such rituals were banned.