U.S. soldiers frisk Iraqi men who tried to loot one of the palaces of ousted President Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, May 8, 2003.
Medical supplies are unloaded from a Belgian Air Force plane at Baghdad airport, Iraq, Thursday, May 8, 2003. The shipment of oral rehydration salts, back fever injections and humanitarian aid will help restock hospitals hit by widespread looting. The supplies are from UNICEF and the European Community Humanitarian Office.
While an Arab man walks by, Shiite Muslim pilgrims pray in the resting place of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, in the holy city of Karbala, 2003.
Medical supplies from UNICEF and various governments are loaded onto trucks after their arrival at Baghdad airport, Iraq, Thursday, May 8, 2003. The shipment will help restock hospitals hit by widespread looting.
U.S. soldiers come into one of the palaces of ousted President Saddam Hussein in search of Iraqi men who tried to loot in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, May 8, 2003. Saddam Hussein's bust is on the top of the palace at the background.
Iraqis push a car toward a Baghdad gas station, where scores of cars have lined up, May 8, 2003. Although Iraq is known for its oil and has the world's second largest proven reserves, residents in this chaotic capital are spending long hours every day in a frustrating search for fuel.
A combat camera team from the 3rd Infantry Division interviews soldiers along a highway near Baghdad where C Company, 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, defeated an armored Iraqi army unit during earlier fighting, May 8, 2003. The team has started interviewing commanders and soldiers about the Iraqi campaign, not just for historical purposes, but also to record lessons learned from the war.
Former Iraqi Brig. Gen. Najib al-Salhi, head of the Iraqi opposition party Free Officers Movement, speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, May 8, 2003. Having just returned from London, Al-Salhi said he was ready to take part in an interim Iraqi government.
On May 7, 2003, the Pentagon said it was doing tests on a suspected mobile biological weapons trailer that was recovered in Iraq in late April. The trailer, seen here being examined by a mobile exploitation team, could be the elusive "smoking gun" regarding Iraq's alleged banned weapons program.
A woman and her child wait for their turn to get cooking gas in Tikrit, Iraq, May 7, 2003.
Hosin Jasem Mohamed al-Jbouri, right, the newly appointed governor of Salah ad-Din province, talks to Colonel Donald Campbell of 4th Infantry Division, center, in Tikrit, Iraq, May 7, 2003. Al-Jbouri is a longtime Iraqi military officer who fought the United States during the Gulf War.