British soldier Adi Yates, 23, from Aberdeen, Scotland, of 23 Pioneer Regiment, patrols in Umm Qasar, Iraq, May 15, 2003.
A U.S. soldier takes a detainee to a temporary camp after an early morning raid near Tikrit, Iraq, May 15, 2003. At least one person belonging to a list of 55 most wanted Iraqis was apprehended, along with several members of Iraqi secret service and military. Nearly 270 people were initially detained in the raid, many of whom were later released.
U.S. soldiers check a farm during a raid near Tikrit, Iraq, May 15, 2003.
Detainees are held for interrogation at a temporary camp after a raid near Tikrit, Iraq, May 15, 2003.
Villagers are taken as detainees during a raid near Tikrit, Iraq, May 15, 2003.
A U.S. soldier takes a detainee during a raid near Tikrit, Iraq, May 15, 2003.
Three Iraqi Shiites pray in front of the shrine of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammed, in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq, May 15, 2003.
L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civil administrator in Iraq, accompanied by an Iraqi doctor, right, looks at a premature baby at Al Mansur Children Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, May 15, 2003. Bremer visited the hospital to meet with Iraqi doctors.
Murthada, a seven-day-old Iraqi premature baby boy, lies in a hospital bed at Al Mansur Children Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, May 15, 2003. L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civil administrator in Iraq, visited the hospital to meet with Iraqi doctors.
An Iraqi man holds an identity card found in one of the plastic bags containing remains of bodies that were being pulled from a mass grave in Mahaweel, south of Baghdad, May 15, 2003. It appeared the victim was not related to the man checking the card. Villagers dug up the remains of more than 3,000 people they suspect were killed during the 1991 Shiite revolt against Saddam.
Iraqi Shiites pray at the shrine of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammed, in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq, May 15, 2003.
A veiled Iraqi female employee adjusts the books at the library of literature faculty ahead its reopening after war at the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, May 15, 2003.
An Iraqi woman named Shokriyah offers cold water to the people under the scathing sun of the holy city of Karbala, Iraq, May 15, 2003.
An Iraqi man displays a machine gun as another one looks around at the situation in a gun market in Baghdad, May 9, 2003. Massive arms caches abandoned by Iraqi forces and cleaned out by scavengers have put automatic weapons in the hands of anyone who covets one, endangering any return to peace and stability in Iraq.
An Iraqi boy looks at a revolver in a gun market in Baghdad, May 11, 2003. In a city bursting with AK-47s, submachine guns and Browning 9mms, U.S. forces are struggling to restore security, one gun at a time. Terrified residents say the weapons are their only protection against robbers, looters and arsonists who have run wild since Saddam Hussein was overthrown.