A broken statue in the likeness of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is seen in a workshop in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 28, 2003. Saddam Hussein's 66th birthday arrived Monday with none of the elaborate fanfare of the past and a spate of rumors that the deposed dictator was still alive.
Iraqi men peer into the front door of an alcohol store in Baghdad Monday, April 28, 2003. Baghdad has gone through a revolution in the past three weeks, casting off decades of censorship and state control with the efficiency of a smart bomb. Banned books, satellite dishes and DVDs are now sold on the street, as are alcohol and women.
Just after sunrise, a U.S. soldier, left, uses his rifle scope to scan the nearest ridge while a member of a tank crew performs his morning duties, near a site containing drums full of an unknown liquid the U.S. Army sees as suspicious, outside Baiji, Iraq, Monday, April 28, 2003. U.S. military chemical weapons experts examined the site, which in preliminary tests pointed to the possible presence of nerve gas.
Iraqis sit on top of a destroyed statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad Monday, April 28, 2003. Saddam Hussein's 66th birthday arrived Monday with none of the elaborate fanfare of the past.
A crowd of Iraqi protesters pray in front of a U.S. military checkpoint outside the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad Monday, April 28, 2003, to call for greater representation in the formation of a new Iraqi government. U.S. administrators of Iraq and delegates from the country's political factions agreed Monday to convene a larger conference within a month to select an interim government for the war-torn nation.
Iraqis discuss prices at a street market in Baghdad, Monday, April 28, 2003. A handgun, because it is easy to conceal, goes for about $300.
Arka Radam mourns, at right, while her niece, Montaha Ali, 12, recovers Sunday, April 26, 2003, inside their Baghdad home. Ali was injured by shrapnel when she and three siblings stumbled onto a cluster bomb yards from their house Saturday. Two of the siblings died in the accident in Baghdad, Iraq.
A crowd of Iraqi protesters gather in front of a U.S. military barbed wire checkpoint outside the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Monday, April 28, 2003, to call for greater representation in the formation of a new Iraqi government. More than 200 delegates from inside and outside Iraq, stressing a theme of unity in a divided land, met Monday behind a wall of U.S. Army tanks guarding Saddam Hussein's showcase convention hall.
Iraqi boys play on top of a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 28, 2003. Saddam Hussein's 66th birthday arrived Monday with none of the elaborate fanfare of the past.
Iraqi men burn a portrait of Saddam Hussein on which they drew horns to depict him as a devil Monday, April 28, 2003, just north of Basrah, Iraq. Monday was Saddam Hussein's 66th birthday.
Iraqis, with a mosque in the background, participate in a demonstration outside the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 28, 2003, to call for greater representation for Shiite Muslims in the formation of a new Iraqi government.
With a defaced portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the background, an Iraqi youth walks past abandoned prison cells at the Abu Ghraib Prison, just west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Monday, April 28, 2003. The bodies of executed prisoners, thought to have been killed in the last days or weeks of Hussein's regime, have been discovered, often bound and shot, buried in shallow makeshift graves inside the compound.
A crowd of Iraqi protesters gather in front of a U.S. tank and barbed wire military checkpoint, bottom right, outside the Palestine hotel in Baghdad, Monday, April 28, 2003, to call for greater representation in the formation of a new Iraqi government.