U.S. soldiers guard their position at the mayor's office in Fallujah, Iraq, on Wednesday, April 30, 2003, minutes after soldiers in a convoy opened fire on anti-American protestors.
Mike Cabrera, 36, a flight deck chief, practices his golf swing on his off-time on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, April 30, 2003, as it steams toward San Diego. President Bush will address the nation Thursday evening from the deck of an aircraft carrier. He is expected to tell Americans that the major combat in Iraq has ended, his spokesman said.
Pigeons fly as Shiite Muslims sit in the resting place of Imam Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet, in holy city of Najaf during an annual pilgrimage that Saddam Hussein had repressed for decades, on Thursday, May, 1, 2003. The pilgrimage to Najaf is to mark the death of Prophet Mohammed and that of the Shiite saint Jaafar Sadeq.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, left, walks besides Kuwait's Defense Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al Sabah before his departure from Kuwait International Airport on Thursday, May 1, 2003.
A woman leaves a tent used as a triage area at a temporary hospital in Baghdad, April 30, 2003. The temporary hospital with 600 staff and 35 doctors was set up by the Saudi Army and the Saudi Red Crescent Society. The hospital treats more than 1,000 patients a day for war-related trauma and chronic health issues. Around 100 of the serious patients have been transferred to hospitals in Saudi Arabia.
This shows a damaged room in Al Kamalia Hospital for Infectious Diseases, in Mosul, Iraq, on Thursday, May 1, 2003. It was looted and had all its medical supplies stolen or destroyed. Doctors from the 431st Civil Affairs Battalion and 101st Airborne Division, (Air Assault) are working together to get the hospital operational.
An Iraqi Kurdish shepherd boy plays with a goat from his small herd, as the goat nibbles on the boy's ear, in a field outside the Kurdish village of Armawan, near Salahaddin, northern Iraq, on Wednesday, April 30, 2003. Drastic changes have rocked Iraq in the past weeks, but how this will touch rural Kurdish village life remains to be seen.
Pigeons fly near the resting place of Imam Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet, in the holy city of Najaf , as pilgrims gather for an annual pilgrimage that Saddam Hussein had repressed for decades, on Thursday May, 1, 2003.
Soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division arrest one of the two sons of a man identified as a prominent Ba'ath Party member in Tikrit, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2003. Heavily armed troops of the 4th Infantry Division raided a house in Saddam Hussein's hometown late Wednesday and arrested a local Baath Party official accused of trying to run a "shadow regime" opposing the Americans.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (center) signs a Baghdad road sign at the request of a U.S. soldier in Baghdad, Wednesday, April 30 2003, during his visit with U.S. troops at the international airport.
Chris Goidich, from Costa Mesa, Ariz., PR3 Parachute Rigger, looks out Wednesday, April 30, 2003, next to an F/A-18 aircraft, on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as it steams toward San Diego. President Bush will address the nation Thursday evening from deck of on an aircraft carrier.
Iraqi Kurdish women carry sacks filled with grass for animal feed home from the fields in the village of Armawan, near Salahaddin, northern Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2003. Iraq has seen drastic changes in the past weeks, but how those changes will affect Kurdish village life remains to be seen.
Pigeons fly as a Shiite Muslim man prays in the resting place of Imam Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet, in the holy city of Najaf during an annual pilgrimage on Thursday, May, 1, 2003. The pilgrimage to Najaf is to mark the death of Prophet Mohammed and the Shiite saint Jaafar Sadeq.