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20 March 2005.
See also Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone.
1,571 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm
See also DoD tally: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf
Photo captions by Associated Press. | |
A few hundred peace activists march In Philadelphia Sunday, March 20, 2005, to mark the second anniverary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Holding the banner, second from right, is Michael Berg, whose businessman son, Nicholas, was slain in Iraq, and who said the pain over his son's beheading nearly 11 months ago has not lessened. (AP Photo/George Widman) |
Walter Ducharmarme, of Cambridge, Mass., stands beside a row of symbolic coffins as demonstrators gather on Boston Commmon, Sunday, March 20, 2005, to mark the second anniversary of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds) |
Rodney Sutton applauds during a peace rally, held to mark the second anniversary of the war in Iraq, Sunday, March 20, 2005, at City-County Plaza in Asheville, N.C. (AP Photo/Asheville Citizen-Times, John Fletcher) |
Insurgent weapons are displayed after they were recovered by Iraqi security forces in Najaf, Iraq, Sunday, March 20, 2005. Insurgents targeted Iraqi and U.S. forces with gunfire, suicide attacks and mortar rounds Sunday, leaving at least six people dead, including a top anti-corruption official and a U.S. soldier, as the conflict passed the second anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion.(AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) |
Holding torches, some 2,000 people form the sign of peace during an antiwar and anti-violence rally in the Heroes Square in central Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday evening, March 20, 2005. The rally was organized by the Humanist Movement of Hungary to mark the second anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. In the background the Millenium Memorial, left, and the Gallery of Arts, right, are seen. (AP Photo/MTI, Zsolt Szigetvary) |
British soldiers patrol in the southern city of Basra, Iraq, Sunday, March 20, 2005. Earlier Sunday, attackers targeted a police patrol with a roadside bomb in Basra, killing one civilian and injuring an Iraqi policeman.(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) |
An Iraqi girl lights a candle during Palm Sunday services at the al-Najat Syrian Orthodox Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 20, 2005. Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, leading up to Good Friday, which for Christians marks the crucifixion of Jesus, and Easter Sunday, celebrating the resurrection.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) |
Demonstrators, including Shalom Keller, second from left, a veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Army's 101st Airborne Division, briefly block the entrance to an Armed Forces recruiting office near Boston Common, Sunday, March 20, 2005, in Boston to mark the second anniversary of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds) |
A British soldier patrols in the southern city of Basra, Iraq, Sunday, March 20, 2005. Insurgents targeted Iraqi and U.S. security forces with gunfire, suicide attacks and mortar rounds Sunday, killing six people _ including a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi corruption official _ as the conflict moved into its third year since the U.S.-led invasion.(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) |
Iraqi Police officer Abdul-Rahman Khalaf is treated for injuries resulting from a gun battle that wounded three policemen and a trio of attackers in Samarra, Iraq, Sunday, March 20, 2005. The assailants opened fire on police who were recovering the body of another policeman who was shot dead while walking to work earlier Sunday.(AP Photo/Hameed Rashid) |
An Iraqi woman and children walk past U.S. Army soldiers in a Bradley fighting vehicle in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 20, 2005. Insurgents targeted Iraqi and U.S. security forces with gunfire, suicide attacks and mortar rounds Sunday, leaving at least six people dead, including a top anti-corruption official and a U.S. soldier, as the conflict moved into its third year since the U.S.-led invasion.(AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi) |
An Iraqi woman washes laundry in a creek that runs from the Tigris River to an impoverished area in southern Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 19, 2005. The community has no municipal water supply.(AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi) |
A demonstrator holds anti-U.S. banner Sunday, March 20, 2005, in downtown Cairo, Egypt, where thousands of protestors gathered to mark the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) |
Iraqi farmer Najam Abd Ali is treated at Yarmouk Hospital for wounds suffered when insurgents lobbed mortar fire into a neighborhood just outside the walls of an Iraqi army base in the town of Mahmoudiyah, south of Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, March 20, 2005, killing one civilian and injuring two. Insurgents targeted Iraqi and U.S. security forces with gunfire, suicide attacks and mortar rounds Sunday, leaving at least six people dead, including a top anti-corruption official and a U.S. soldier, as the conflict moved into |
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld speaks to reporters outside of ABC studios after an interview Sunday, March 20, 2005, in Washington. Rumsfeld spoke about Iraq, Afghanistan, terrorism, and other defense issues. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) |
A woman who lives nearby, walks through the rubble of a local government building that was destroyed by a bomb which was detonated overnight in the Saydiya section of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 20, 2005. Local residents said insurgents had threatened several times to destroy the building, which was still under construction at the time of the blast. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) |
An Iraqi man walks through the scene after a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a government compound in Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, March 20, 2005, killing himself and Walid Kashmoula, the head of the Iraqi police anti-corruption department, officials said. Three others were injured. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ibrahim) |
Iraqi Police escort Ramzy Hashim, arrested March 5 and suspected of involvement in the 2003 assassination of Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, after questioning in Najaf, Iraq, Sunday, March 20, 2005. Police say Hashim confessed to involvement in the Aug. 29, 2003, attack outside a Najaf mosque that killed more than 85 people, including al-Hakim, brother of current United Iraqi Alliance leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim.. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) |
U.S. Army soldiers secure the area around an overturned Humvee on the highway to the airport in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, March 20, 2005. Witnesses said it was hit by a roadside bomb, but U.S. military officials were not immediately available to comment. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) |
Iraqis gather around a damaged car after gunfire and a related collision damaged several vehicles in Basra, Iraq, Sunday, March 20, 2005. Witnesses said the shots were fired by a security convoy in unmarked vehicles.(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) |
A student participates in a rally to mark the second anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, at the Maronia Park in Seoul Sunday, March 20, 2005. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday extolled the virtues of free and open societies at a news conference in Seoul, after security guards wrestled a man to ground as he loudly called for American intervention to free communist North Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) |
Reg Keys gestures at a press conference in London Sunday March 20, 2005. Keys' 20-year-old son Lance Corporal Tom Keys, a Royal Military Policeman, was killed fighting in Iraq for the British army, one of six Red Caps killed by an Iraqi mob as they manned a small police station on June 24, 2003. Keys, 52, said Sunday he is to stand as an independent candidate when a General Election is called in the Prime Minister's Sedgefield constituency to continue his campaign for "justice" after the death of his son. (AP Photo/PA, Kirsty Wigglesworth) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES ** |
Iraqis gather around damaged vehicles after a collision followed gunfire in Basra, Iraq, Sunday, March 20, 2005. Witnesses said the shots were fired by a security convoy in unmarked vehicles.(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) |
A Filipino boy stands beside placards with slogans on during a rally against the US led war on Iraq near the US embassy in Manila on Sunday March 20, 2005. Protesters were decrying the war in Iraq some two years after U.S. troops led the invasion that later toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) |
A Muslim protester wears mask of U.S. President George W. Bush displays thumbs down sign as he protests outside the U.S. embassy in Kuala Lumpur Sunday, March 20, 2005. Some 400 people staged a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday to mark the second anniversary of the war in Iraq, but police forced the protesters to disperse. (AP Photo/Teh Eng Koon) |
Jim Simmons takes part in a candlelight vigil on the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, on the steps of the Lancaster Pa., courthouse, Saturday March 19, 2005. The protesters stood silent for the hour-long vigil except for singing songs for peace. (AP Photo/Sunday News, Vinny Tennis ) |
Ceaser Sangalang, foreground left, protests with others against Israel's occupation of Palestine as they joined a larger protest against the U.S. presence in Iraq, Saturday, March 19, 2005, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jakub Mosur) |
Moses Beachy, left, reads the lyrics to a hymm prior to singing with the dozens of anti-war activists during a candlelight vigil marking the second anniversary of the start of the Iraq war Saturday, March 19, 2005, at the Elkhart County Courthouse in Goshen, Ind. (AP Photo/The Truth, Jennifer Shephard) |
Anti-war protestors march south on Fifth Avenue in Seattle, Saturday, March 19, 2005. Hundreds of protesters braved a steady rain Saturday, decrying the war in Iraq two years after U.S. troops led the invasion that later toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. (AP Photo/Seattle Times, Alan Berner) |
Laura Braly, right, stands behind a cardboard peace sign and Julie Parker, left, holds up a doll representing an Iraqi baby while at Global Day of Protest, an anti-war rally marking the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, at the foot of the Bridge of Lions in St. Augustine, Fla., Saturday, March 19, 2005. (AP Photo/St. Augustine Record, Madelyn Troyanek) |
Anita Hamlin, of Sherman Oaks, Calif., and Stephan Frank Gary, of Van Nuys, Calif., participate in a march and protest of the war in Iraq Saturday, March 19, 2005, in the Hollywood section of Loa Angeles. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Daily News, David Sprague) |
San Francisco police arrest demonstrators for blocking an intersection and refusing to obey a traffic officer at the end of a protest against the U.S. presence in Iraq, Saturday, March 19, 2005. Thousands marched and held a rally to mark the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Jakub Mosur) |
Demonstrators protest marking the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq outside of the US embassy in Mexico City March 19, 2005. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **EFE OUT** |
Kyle McGuire, left, defends President Bush's policies, arguing with anti-war protester Patrick Popvitch, right, at a protest opposing the war in Iraq, in San Francisco, Saturday, March 19, 2005. Thousands marched and held a rally to mark the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Jakub Mosur) |
Hundreds of people participate in an anti-war march, Saturday, March 19, 2005, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, joining thousands who marched across the U.S. to commemorate the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion in Iraq. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Daily News, David Sprague) |
Vickie Castro, of Corona, Calif., holds a picture of her son, Spc. Jonathan Castro, who was killed in Iraq on Dec. 21, 2004 by a suicide bomber; during a anti-war protest, Saturday, March 19, 2005, in Los Angeles. Anti-war activists marched in the streets of American cities big and small Saturday, stopping traffic and lying down alongside flag-draped cardboard coffins to mark the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/ Los Angeles Daily News, David Sprague) |
Fernando Suarez del Solar speaks at the "Eyes Wide Open" traveling exhibition on display Saturday, March 19, 2005, in the Westwood section of Los Angeles. Suarez del Solar's son Lance Cpl. Jesus Suarez del Solar, 20, was killed during the March 2003 Iraq invasion. The traveling exhibition is a reminder of the U.S. troops lost in Iraq. (AP Photo/Phil McCarten) |
Jordan Peelman,18, left, and Candice Jones,19, participate in an anti-war rally in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, Saturday, March 19, 2005, marking the second anniverary of the U.S. invasion in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Enquirer, Tony Jones) |
Spc. George Perez, 21, center, of the 82nd Airborne Division, checks the straps of his parachute as he prepares to jump with his prosthetic leg on Saturday, March 19, 2005, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Perez lost his left leg in Iraq in 2003 when his humvee was hit by a roadside bomb. He has returned to the military after a year of medical disability with a prosthetic leg and is scheduled to depart for Afghanistan in the spring. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis) |
In honor of Global Day of Protest, an anti-war rally marking the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, a procession of protesters makes its way down St. George Street in St. Augustine, Fla., Saturday, March 19, 2005. (AP Photo/St. Augustine Record, Madelyn Troyanek) |
Army veteran Bill Mitchell, of Atascadero, Calif., speaks at a peace rally and march in San Luis Obispo, Calif., Saturday, March 19, 2005, as thousands of anti-war protesters took to the streets around the U.S. to commemorate the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Mitchell's son, Army Sgt. Mike Mitchell, 25, was killed last April in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Tribune, David Middlecamp) |
Unidentified participants in an anti-war protest in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, March 19, 2005, observe a moment of silence. Anti-war activists marched in the streets of American cities big and small Saturday, stopping traffic and lying down alongside flag-draped cardboard coffins to mark the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) |
Hundreds march during an anti-war rally marking the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, in Pittsburgh, Pa. Saturday, March 19, 2005. (AP Photo/Dave Miller) |
Anti-war protestors, background, and members of a counter-protest group, foreground, who support the war effort, gather around the Freedom Torch on Biscayne Boulevard, Saturday, March 19, 2005, in downtown Miami, on the anniversary of the beginning of the U.S. war in Iraq. (AP Photo/El Nuevo, Pedro Portal) |
Steve Liechty, from Durham, N.C., carries a mock coffin during an anti-war march, Saturday, March 19, 2005, in Fayetteville, N.C., as thousands of anti-war protesters took to the streets around the U.S. to commemorate the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Marc Hall) |
An anti-war protester, at left, is escorted away from a group of counter demonstrators by a Fayetteville Police officer after he confronted them during a demonstration, Saturday afternoon, March 19, 2005, in Fayetteville, N.C. Anti-war activists marched in the streets of American cities big and small Saturday, stopping traffic and lying down alongside flag-draped cardboard coffins to mark the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, David Smith) |
An antiwar protester holds up a poster during a demonstration in Houston, Saturday, March 19, 2005, marking the second anniversary of the the start of the Iraq War. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Steve Ueckert) |
Anti-war protesters march Saturday, March 19, 2005, in Cottage Grove, Ore. About 230 people gathered in this small Willamette Valley town Saturday to mark the second anniversary of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) |
An effigy of US President George W. Bush is seen during an anti-war protest in downtown Sao Paulo for the second anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion on Iraq, Brazil, on Saturday, March 19, 2005. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini) **EFE OUT** |
People listen as the names of U.S. servicemen killed in Iraq are read, Saturday morning, March 19, 2005, during a peace rally at Monument Square in Racine, Wis., held to mark the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Journal Times, Gregory Shaver) |
An anti-war protester wears a mask with a written message around her face as she marches to mark the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq Saturday, March 19, 2005, in Chicago. Thousands of anti-war activists marched in protest of the war and held a rally in Chicago's Federal Plaza. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) |
Chicago police, most dressed in riot gear, stage at the corner of Oak Street and Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago on Saturday, March 19, 2005, in preparation for an anti-war march to mark the second anniversary of the war in Iraq. Organizers of the protest were denied a permit to march down Michigan Avenue, prompting the police response. Police say two protesters were arrested. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) |
A man is arrested after blocking traffic along with other anti-war demonstrators in Times Square in New York Saturday, March 19, 2005. Hundreds of anti-war protesters, some carrying cardboard coffins draped in American flags, marked the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq on Saturday by gathering at armed forces recruiting stations and demanding that U.S. troops be brought home. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) |
John Bitzec, right, holds an anti-war sign while other protesters stage a "die-in" in front of Boardwalk Hall in at Atlantic City, N.J. Saturday, March, 19, 2005, as thousands of anti-war protesters took to the streets around the U.S. to commemorate the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price) |
A police officer watches as a crowd of demonstrators march past in Madrid Saturday March 19, 2005, marking the second anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Mariana Eliano) ** EFE OUT ** |
U.S.Army 42nd Infantry Division, Task Force Liberty soldiers dismount a machine gun from their vehicle at Forward Operating Base Danger after a mission in Tikrit, Iraq, Saturday, March 19, 2005. This weekend marks the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Sasa Kralj) |
Anti-war protesters shout slogans in front of Italian Premier's office, Palazzo Chigi, in downtown Rome, Saturday, March 19, 2005, during a demonstration to mark the second anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Demonstrations were also kicking off in other cities around Europe. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito) |
U.S. Army 42nd Infantry Division, Task Force Liberty SGT Pete Row Fairfield, Conncticut plays his trumpet during practice for an Easter concert with his unit's band at Forward Operating Base Danger in Tikrit, Iraq, Saturday, March 19, 2005. This weekend marks the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Sasa Kralj) |
Hundreds of anti-war protesters march in downtown Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday, March 19, 2005 to mark the second anniversary of U.S. led invasion on Iraq. Poland, a staunch Washington ally, commands a multinational force in central Iraq and contributes some 1,700 troops of its own. ( AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) |
In this photo released by the U.S. Army Saturday, March 19, 2005 an Iraqi Army Company D, 604th Battalion officer, left, demonstrates proper personnel search procedures on one of his soldiers during a training exercise in Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wedn |
A woman protestor pretending to be injured lies on the ground as other protesters look on during a demonstration outside the US Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday March 19, 2005. Greek and Turkish Cypriot organisations and activists demonstrated together against the U.S. led invasion Iraq. The woman clashed with another protestor who represented the U.S. in a mock fight. (AP Photos/Philippos Christou) |
Children of Iraqi-born Swede Minas Ibrahim al-Yousifi celebrate in their home in Joenkoeping, Sweden Saturday March 19, 2005. Minas Ibrahim al-Yousifi, reportedly the leader of the Christian Democratic Party in Iraq, was recently released without ransom after one month in captivity in Iraq. From left Ronak, Avin and Vivianne. (AP Photo/Pressens Bild/Leif Ljung) ** SWEDEN OUT ** |
A U.S. military Blackhawk helicopter flies over Tikrit, Iraq Saturday, March 19, 2005. This weekend marks the second anniversary of the U.S. -led invasion of Iraq. Tikrit was the home town of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/Sasa Kralj) |
Anti-war protestor Gary Fisher, from Lancaster northern England, with a home-made, 'blood' splattered U.S. flag as he joined others marching through London, Saturday March 19, 2005, marking the second anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/PA, Fiona Hanson) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES ** |
Pro-Chechen demonstrators hold a poster of the late Chechen rebel leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev and a banner that reads: "The best American is a dead American", center, during an anti-war protest in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, March 19, 2005. Thousands of Turkish anti-war protesters gathered in Istanbul's Kadikoy square for a march marking the second anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer) |
A demonstrator dressed to represent death with the mask of US President George Bush is seen outside the US Embassy in Athens as police officers look on, Saturday, March 19, 2005. About 3,000 protestors marched through Athens to mark the second anniversary of the U.S. led invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) |
Mourners carry the body of Dashti Talabani draped with the irai Kurdistan flag, an Iraqi Police officer and cousin of leading Kurdish politician Jalal Talabani, head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, killed in Kirkuk, Iraq Saturday, March 19, 2005. Talabani was among three police officers killed when a roadside bomb hit hundreds of mourners and security forces during the funeral procession for yet another policeman who was killed in an automatic-weapons attack earlier Saturday. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed) |
Protesters march toward Denmark's Foreign Ministry during a peace protest in Copenhagen, Denmark, Saturday March 19, 2005. About 5,000 protestors marched Saturday on the 2nd anniversary of the onset of the US-led invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/John McConnico) |
Amy Carlson, Leavenworth, Wash., holds candles with about 70 other war protesters at Memorial Park in Wenatchee Friday night, March 18, 2005. The group, members of the Wenatchee Valley Fellowship of Reconciliation, met for prayer, singing and poem reading on the eve of the 2nd anniversary of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Wenatchee World, Don Seabrook) |
Activists of Social Forum, a Pakistani non-governmental organization, chant anti U.S. slogans during a protest against U.S. occupation of Iraq, Saturday, March 19, 2005 in Lahore, Pakistan. Activists held a protest rally to mark the second anniversary of the war on Iraq. (AP Photo/K. M. Chaudhry) |
Anti-war protesters wave black flags during a rally in downtown Sofia, Bulgaria, Saturday, March 19, 2005. Hundreds of Bulgarians gathered in front of the National theatre to mark the second anniversary of US-led invasion in Iraq. (AP Photo/Dimitar Deinov) |
** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** A Danish soldier takes photograph for identification purposes of the bodies of three men discovered bound and murdered in Hartha, near Basra, Iraq Thursday, March 17, 2005. A woman was also found murdered nearby. The identities of the four was unclear. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) |
Robert Arciola, father of Michael Arciola embraces the flag that was on his son's casket during funeral services, Friday, March 18, 2005 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Arciola, 20, of Elmsford, N.Y., died Feb. 15 in Ramadi, Iraq, from small arms fire. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari) |
Staff Sgt. Paul Stokes, 44, of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., kisses his daughter, Andrea, 5, at the National Guard Armory in Newburgh, N.Y., Friday, March 18, 2005, after returning from a tour of nearly 15 months in Iraq. Stokes, along with members of the Battery B, 1st Battalion 258th Field Artillery unit, trained Iraqi citizens to become police officers. (AP Photo/Poughkeepsie Journal, Spencer Ainsley) ** MANDATORY CREDIT ** |
Spc. Rocky Payne, a Utah-based Army soldier shown in this undated family photo, was killed in Baghdad, Wednesday, March 16, 2005, when his vehicle was hit by an explosive device, family members said. Payne, 26, of Howell, Utah, a former Marine, was serving his second tour in Iraq with the Army. He was assigned to the 497th Transportation Company, based in Fort Lewis, Wash. (AP Photo/Family photo via the Salt Lake Tribune) |
U.S. Army soldiers patrol in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Iraq Friday, March 18, 2005.This weekend marks the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) |
Spc. Stuart Wilf practiced heavy metal in his bunk room, which was protected by sandbags. He wore a headset so he would not disturb his bunk mates. (AP Photo/Mandatory Credit: James Nachtwey/VII)
Location BAGHDAD, Iraq |
One of the dilemmas faced by American troops in battling the insurgency in Iraq is that in order to search for weapons and money being used by the insurgents, U.S. Army forces must enter peoples ' homes, often creating fear and resentment among the very people whose support they need. PFC Joshua Linton searched an Iraqi home. (AP Photo/Mandatory Credit: James Nachtwey/VII)
Location BAGHDAD, Iraq |
Iraqis who were arrested for selling gasoline illegally on the black market were taken to an Iraqi police station to be jailed. Before the prisoners were turned over to the Iraqi authorities, they were guarded by Sgt. Michael Houghson. (AP Photo/Mandatory Credit: James Nachtwey/VII)
Location BAGHDAD, Iraq |
Sgt. Michael Houghson took up a defensive position after several shots were fired near his platoon. The platoon was patrolling near Abu Hanifa mosque, the principal Sunni Mosque in Baghdad, the last place Saddam Hussein was seen in public and still a district hostile to U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Mandatory Credit: James Nachtwey/VII)
Location BAGHDAD, Iraq |
An Iraqi woman watches U.S. soldiers guarding a visit by Iraqi doctors to a school in Baghdad, Iraq Friday, March 18, 2005. This weekend marks the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.(AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi) |
** FILE ** In this undated photo provided by Elk Grove Village (Ill.) High School, Army Spc. Adriana Salem is shown. Salem, 21, died March 4, 2005, when a vehicle she was riding in rolled over in Remagen, Iraq. Salem was assigned to the Fort Stewart, Ga.-based 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Forward Support Battalion, Division Support Command. (AP Photo/Elk Grove Village (Ill.) High School, via the Chicago Sun Times) |
** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY MARCH 21 ** Sgt. Chris Leverkuhn, an Army reservist from Logansport, Ind., works on his amputated leg at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, Wednesday, March 3, 2005. Leverkuhn, 21, had his right leg amputated just above the knee after an improvised bomb exploded under the floorboard of the fuel tanker he was riding in outside Ramadi, Iraq, Jan. 2, 2004. (AP Photo/Joe Mitchell) |
** EMBARGOED: NOT FOR PUBLICATION BEFORE 0001 GMT FRIDAY MARCH 18, 2005 ** Private Johnson Gideon Beharry from 1st Battalion the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, at the Ministry of Defence in London, Thursday, March 17, 2005. Beharry, 25, who was born on the Caribbean island of Grenada, and who single-handedly saved 30 colleagues as he guided them through an enemy ambush in Iraq, was awarded the first Victoria Cross in over two decades on Thursday. He was struck by bullet fire and under constant attack as he guided a Warrior armoured convoy through the flashpoint town of Al Amarah last May. In background an enlarged image of the VC. (AP Photo / John Stillwell, PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT ** |