Villas for members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party are shown Sunday, May 4, 2003, in the Tashri quarter of Baghdad, where U.S. forces now live. The Italianate homes and mansions, surrounded by canals and small lakes stocked with carp, were reserved for Saddam's top aides and generals. U.S. troops now occupy the buildings, using them to house troops responsible for the rebuilding of Iraq.
Iraqi children seen through the glass of a vehicle cheer as they stand around an armored vehicle of the Scottish Desert Rats platoon heading out to a night patrol. They are policing the streets of a predominantly shiite slum in Basra, Iraq, on Monday, May 5, 2003. Law and order is slowly returning to the city after it had descended into chaos following the British takeover.
Iraqi workers enter the Civil-Military Operations Center in the Tashri quarter of Baghdad on Sunday, May 4, 2003. Before U.S. troops entered Baghdad on April 7, the Tashri quarter was home to Iraq's political elite, but is now the center for U.S. operations in Baghdad. Before the war, the building was a conference center for the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A child peers into a barber shop open at night as shop owners become more confident about security in the streets of a predominantly shiite slum in Basra, Iraq, on Monday, May 5, 2003. Law and order is slowly returning to the city.
U.S. military vehicles sit Sunday, May 4, 2003, in front a portrait of Saddam Hussein on the side of a mansion in Baghdad's Tashri quarter, once the home of Iraq's political elite. The U.S. military has taken over the Tashri quarter and all of the homes and offices that remained in the quarter.
Iraqis from the Kasnezania mystic order of Islam pray by chanting and moving their bodies rythmically, in the courtyard of a mosque in Baghdad, Monday, May 5, 2003. Practices and traditions by Iraqi religious sects, which were hidden or given a low profile during the Saddam Hussein era, can now be observed freely throughout Iraq.
Iraqi men from the Kasnezania mystic order of Islam, some who twirl their extemely long hair ceremoniously, all pray by chanting and moving their bodies rythmically, in Baghdad Monday, May 5, 2003.
Scottish Desert Rats platoon soldiers inspect a car for arms at an impromptu road checkpoint they set up before heading out for night patrol on the streets of a predominantly shiite slum in Basra, Iraq, Monday, May 5, 2003.
American forces stand guard next to Iraqi prisoners of war waiting to be released at camp Bucca in the southern Iraq town of Um Qasr on Tuesday, May 6, 2003. American forces released 250 Iraqi POW's as they continue to empty out U.S. run detention camps that once held 7,000 men.