Iraqi civilians gather around a piece of munition that landed in the southwest Baghdad neighborhood of Zafaraniyah on April 26, 2003. The U.S. army claims attackers fired into an ammunition dump guarded by coalition forces on Baghdad's outskirts early that day, the U.S. military said, setting off thunderous explosions that killed at least six Iraqi civilians and wounded four.
Iraqi Munthir Sabir, who lost six members of his immediate family when an American ammunition dump exploded April 26, 2003 walks in the ruins of his destroyed home. Unknown attackers fired flares at an Ameican ammunition dump on Baghdad's outskirts, American soldiers said, setting off explosions.
An Iraqi man comforts an unidentified friend whose home was destroyed when an American ammunition dump exploded April 26, 2003, on the fringes of Baghdad.
Islamic fundamentalists hold a special prayer for the dead in the wake of a large explosion which occured at an American military ammunition dump in a residential neighborhood in Baghdad on April 26, 2003. The explosion killed at least six people.
Iraqis stand by the rubble of several destroyed homes in the southwest Baghdad neighborhood of Zafaraniyah on April 26, 2003.
Iraqi mourners, leading a procession with coffins carrying the dead, protest in front of American soldiers guarding a site where an American ammunition dump exploded and killed at least six on April 26, 2003. The sign on right, in Arabic, reads "The Americans are killing Iraqis with Saddam's gun."
An Iraqi man passes pieces of bone to another, who adds it to skull places on a clean cloth, as they exhume the remains of a body, at a cemetery for politcal victims of Saddam Hussein's regime, in Abu Ghraib, outside Baghdad, on April 26, 2003. Hundreds are buried there in numbered graves, in a secret cemetery made off limits by Hussein's regime.
A U.S. soldier holds a suspected Iraqi associate of Saddam Hussein's son Odai at gunpoint against a wall, during a raid in Baghdad on April 26, 2003. Several suspected Baath Party agents, who many Iraqis say have close ties with Odai Hussein, were arrested by American forces who responded to a tip.
Iraqi women carry humanitarian aid food and drinking water collected from the United States Army on April 26, 2003 to their homes inside a village near An Nasiriyah, Iraq. The Army distrubuted food and drinking water for the 606 residents of the village as part of a humanitarian aid effort being conducted throughout the country.
Iraqi Shiite Abd Alsada Kazem holds a portrait of Imam Ali in front of part of his house that he destroyed before moving his family of seventeen, in Al Nasser, north of Kirkuk, Iraq on April 25, 2003. Kazem, who moved to the village as part of Saddam Hussein's prograem to move Arabs to northern Iraq, is being forcibly evicted by Kurds who have returned to reclaim the land.