04-14-2003 Monday

04-14-2003 Monday

Coalition news
A U.S. Marine psyops officer attached to the British 1st Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, distributes newspapers to Iraqis near al Qurna on Monday. The daily Arabic language broadsheet is being produced by coalition forces. This edition features a large picture of the Baghdad statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein being toppled.

Hot confrontation
A U.S. Marine threatens a looter with his sidearm while shouting at him in Baghdad on Monday. Iraqi police and U.S. troops began jointly patrolling the Iraqi capital on Mond 535f56f ay.

In Saddam country
Marines wave U.S. and Iraqi flags Monday in front of al-Faruq Palace in the city of Tikrit, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's hometown, after taking control of most of the city.

Firefight's aftermath
A coalition soldier escorts a man, center, who was captured during a firefight outside the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad on Monday.

Waiting for wounded
U.S. Navy corpsmen wait for another helicopter of wounded at a field hospital at Camp Chesty, a Marine logistics base and medical facility in central Iraq.

Dust to dust ...
Relatives recover the body of one of nine Iraqi soldiers killed Monday in Hilla, south of Baghdad. The soldiers were killed when their truck came under a U.S. missile attack during fighting between coalition forces and soldiers loyal to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, according to Iraqi witnesses.

Securing Tikrit
U.S. Marines break open a gate on a door to a building while looking for resistance as they secure an area Monday in Tikrit, Iraq.

Mail call
U.S. Marines from Task Force Tarawa read letters from home that arrived Monday near Kut, Iraq.

Bath party
U.S. Marines from Task Force Tarawa take a makeshift shower Monday near Kut, Iraq. As the operation in Iraq begins to shift from fighting to humanitarian aid and keeping order, the Marines of Task Force Tarawa are awaiting their next mission.

Sign of normalcy
Lt. Col. Jeffrey Sanderson, commander of Task Force 2-69 Armor of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division, gets a haircut from Maythem Abid Mohammed at the Kathema Barber Shop in central Baghdad on Monday. Sanderson made the visit to encourage Iraqi businesses to resume operation. He paid the going rate for a haircut: about $1 U.S.

Hamas weighs in
A Palestinian Hamas activist holds an Iraqi flag during a demonstration against the U.S. occupation of Iraq, in the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday. Hundreds of women took part in the demonstration.

Show of support
Louis J. D'Ambrosio, a Korean War veteran, cheers during a rally in support of U.S. troops in Iraq on Monday in Philadelphia. Participants celebrated the release of seven U.S. soldiers who had been held captive by the Iraqi regime.

In mourning
Widow Jill Keihl waits for the flag draped on her husband's casket to be presented to her during a funeral service in Center Point, Texas, on Monday. People turned out in force to honor Army Spc. James Keihl, killed in an ambush on members of the 507th Maintenance Company outside Nasiriyah, Iraq.

Stamping out resistance
U.S. soldiers detain a group of men in the back of an armored personnel carrier after arresting them for driving a vehicle filled with weapons and allegedly attempting to ambush U.S. troops in Baghdad on Monday. U.S. soldiers and locals said the men were non-Iraqi Arab fighters.

A mother's grief
Rafaela Tejada, center, is comforted by her husband, Julio Cesar Tejada, left, and other family members as she leaves the funeral for her son, Marine Staff Sgt. Riayan Tejada, at St. Elizabeth's Church in New York City on Monday. Riayan Tejada was killed in action April 11 in Iraq.

School in shambles
Students clean up damage caused by looters at the Saddam High School in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Monday. Classes had to be suspended at this and other Iraqi schools where looting took place. Click "Play" to learn more about the rebuilding process from Iraq's postwar civil administrator, retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Jay Garner.

Heated dialogue
An Iraqi makes a point with U.S. Marines on patrol in Baghdad, Iraq's al-Mansour district Monday. Marines stepped up patrols in the city in response to looting and violence that spread after coalition forces ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime.