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The reason for the start of the military operation in Iraq was the assumption that Saddam Hussein possesses weapons mass destruction, but later it turned out that Iraq did not have such weapons. Recall that the first bombs fell in the center of Baghdad, where the government buildings and the palaces of Saddam Hussein were located. But the dictator managed to escape from the city. Three weeks later american Tanks entered Baghdad and an interim administration was appointed. And on May 1, 2003, President Bush announced the end of hostilities ...
1. 20-year-old Corporal 8 of the 1 Division of the Marine Corps Division James Blake Miller from Kentucky, smoking a cigarette. Miller became known as the “Marlboro Cowboy” because of his media photography from the Iraq war. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
2. Smoke covers the presidential palace in Baghdad 21 March 2003, after a massive American air raid on the Iraqi capital. (AFP PHOTO / Ramzi HAIDAR)
3. An Iraqi girl crying as the British tank Challenger crushes the Baath party headquarters (Odd Anderson / AFP / Getty Images)
4. 21 March 2003, South of Iraq. US Marines from the 15 Expeditionary Unit are discharging an Iraqi soldier with water from a flask. About 200, Iraqi soldiers surrendered to this unit just an hour after it entered Iraqi territory from northern Kuwait. (AP Photo / Itsuo Inouye)
5. 24 March 2003. Somewhere in Iraq. Infantrymen from the 3 Brigade of the 3 Infantry Corps, jump off the Bradley transporter and surround the unknown, who behaved suspiciously. An AK-47 machine gun and cartridges for him were found in his car. (AP Photo / The Dallas Morning News, David Leeson)
6. Iraqi prisoners of war. According to US Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, in the first 6 days of the war with Iraq, the American and British armies captured more than 3500 Iraqis. It is not clear where prisoners of war were kept — in temporary camps created by the advancing Allied forces, or, as the command says, in more centralized locations. In the photo, Iraqi related prisoners are sitting in a barbed wire pen awaiting interrogation after a battle with a 1-64 squad of 3 Infantry Division, 23 March 2003 (Brant Sanderlin / Cox News Service)
7. Junior Corporal Stephen Plumer of Arvada (PCs) reads a letter from his mother. This is the first letter he received since his squad moved from Kuwait a week ago. With a letter, his mother sent him a box of sweets and a small American flag. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
8. 4 April 2003 Mr. Lieutenant Jeffrey Goodman and Jr. Corporal Jorge Sánchez drag off a wounded civilian from his burning vehicle during the 2 Tank Battalion offensive in Baghdad. The civilian was wounded by accidentally falling into the thick of battle. (AP Photo, Cheryl Diaz Meyer, Dallas Morning News)
9. 4 April 2003 d. When approaching a roadblock, a resident of Karbala raises his shirt to show that he is not hiding a weapon. (AP Photo, Dallas Morning News, David Leeson)
10. The soldiers of the 3-7 of the expedition groups of the 3 Division (USA) bow their heads in prayer during the service. American troops captured and held an international airport near Baghdad, while Allied forces stormed the capital.
11. A British paratrooper talks to an Iraqi girl, standing at his post on the main street of Basra. At that time, coalition forces took control of most of this country's second largest city. (Hyoung Chang / The Denver Post)
12. American marines burn a portrait of Saddam Hussein. (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)
13. US Army Sergeant Chad Tachette, from the 7 infantry company 3 Battalion, in the center, relaxes in the company of his comrades in arms after being searched in one of the palaces of Saddam Hussein, partially destroyed by bombing. (AP Photo / John Moore)
14. 7 April, 2003. The marines from the 3 Battalion urge the hurried infantry to force the destroyed bridge under fire from the south-eastern outskirts of Baghdad. (AP Photo / Boston Herald, Kuni Takahashi)
15. Baghdad, 8 APR 2003. Wounded Iraqi asking for mercy. On him and his companions opened fire after they did not stop the car on demand as they approached the coalition forces tank. He and his companion in the background received several bullets, but remained alive and received medical assistance; two other men in the car are killed. (Brant Sanderlin / The Atlanta Journal-Consitution via Cox News Service)
16. Corporal Edward Chin from New York, the 4 Company of the 3 Battalion, the marine corps, catches a star-and-white flag on the head of the statue of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the center of Baghdad, before throwing down the monument, April 9, 2003. Laurent Rebours)
17. 10 April 2003, Baghdad. Relatives mourn the death of three relatives. These three - a father, his teenage son, and another relative - were shot by American soldiers on the evening of April 9, allegedly after the car in which they were driving did not stop at the request in front of the building occupied by the US military. Relatives of the victims continued to wait for their return and did not know what had happened, until the next day other family members towed the car with their bodies straight to their home. (AP Photo / Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times)
18. US marines 24-th Expeditionary detachment are on duty during the operation. (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)
19. Three Iraqi soldiers are sitting with bags on their heads in anticipation of interrogation. (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)
20. Marines arrest an Iraqi prisoner after a fight in the main square of Tikrit. This city lies in 175 km north of Baghdad, the Americans occupied it almost without resistance. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro / Getty Images)
21. Welcome home, neighbor! Jerry Churchill runs with the American flag to greet his neighbor, Lieutenant Colonel Pete Burne, who has just returned home to Parker, from the Iraq war, where he was a pilot on the F-16. Before the war, Byrne was a pilot of American Airlines (American Airlines), but was mobilized in early February by 2003. Now he, along with other 15 pilots, has returned to his homeland, to the air base at Buckley. Jerry's children are friends and often play with Burne’s two sons. DENVER POST PHOTO BY CYRUS MCCRIMMON
22. A woman cries for her missing son while American soldiers look for his remains in a mass grave. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)
23. Lieutenant Andrew Carrigan from Boston (pc. Mass.), Corporal Dervik Sieong from Wauso (pc. Wisconsin), and junior sergeant Stephen Payne from Jolo (Z. Virginia) from the 101 air regiment, do not let themselves get bored on Halloween by arranging a race on donkeys (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
24. Iraqi boy Ayad Alim Brissam Karim shows his photo before it happened. American helicopters fired rockets across the field where he was playing at that moment, as a result he lost his sight and suffered burns (Mauricio Lima / AFP / Getty Images)
25. 31 March 2004. An Iraqi teenager shows a flyer that read “Fallujah, American Cemetery” in broken English, standing near a burning car in the rebellious city of Fallujah 50 km west of Baghdad. The enraged locals, armed with shovels, disfigured two charred corpses - presumably invaders caught up in a raid of rebels. Residents of the city announced that he would become the cemetery of the American occupation forces. AFP PHOTO / Karim SAHIB
26. In this photo, edited by the Washington Post and published on 6 in May of 2004, the junior sergeant of the US Army Lindy Inglend, from the 372 company of the military police, mocks a prisoner of war in Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. (AP Photo / The Washington Post)
27. 2 November 2004 The Marines from the 1 Division are rounding up the house of the chairman of the city council in the Baghdad district of Abu Ghraib. During the raid, soldiers arrested Chairman Nasar-wa-Sulaan, Taha Rashid and other council members. US troops are preparing for a big attack on Felluja, intending to regain lost control over a number of Sunni settlements north-west of Baghdad on the eve of the general elections of the people to be held on January 31. (AP Photo / Anja Niedringhaus)
28. 14 November 2004. A Marine from the 1 Division carries his lucky talisman in a backpack behind his back. His detachment is moving further and further to the western part of Felluji. (AP Photo / Anja Niedringhaus)
29. Five-year-old Samar Hassan cries for parents killed by Americans from the 25 Infantry Division. Soldiers patrolling the street opened fire on the car in which the Samar family was driving when they unexpectedly and unintentionally jumped at them in the twilight (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)
30. David Stibbs, stepfather of the fallen junior Corporal Ivenor S. Herrera, cries over the stepson's helmet. Herrera was killed in Iraq last week during a bomb blast. (Preston Utley / Vail Daily)
31. 30 December 2006. In this video, shown by Iraqi state television, the guards of Saddam Hussein with masks on their faces put a noose around the neck of the deposed dictator. In a few seconds, Hussein will be executed. Before execution, he refused to put a bag on his head, and squeezed the Quran until he reached the scaffold at the predawn hour. So compatriots avenged the tyrant over a quarter of a century of brutal rule, costing the lives of thousands of people, and drawing Iraq into devastating wars with Iran and the United States. (AP Photo / IRAQI TV, HO)
32. Baghdad, February 2007. An American soldier from the 10 Mountain Division is grimacing with pain when orderlies treat his bullet wound in his leg. (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)
33. An American soldier and an Iraqi translator buy cheese at a local store. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
34. During the patrol, the marines try to catch the calf that was untied. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
35. Mary McHugh mourns her dead fiancé, Sergeant James Reagan. A paratrooper Regan died in Iraq from an improvised explosive device explosion in February of this year. The 60 Sector — a new area of a large cemetery in Washington — became the last refuge of hundreds of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (John Moore / Getty Images)
36. Adria Castillo hugs his father, Sergeant Guillermo Castillo. Guillermo crippled an improvised explosive device. Twenty US military were awarded the Purple Heart medal for wounds during the war on terror (Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images)
37. An Iraqi woman shouts “Don't shoot!” To American soldiers who have detained her son and husband, who are suspected of wanting to blow up their convoy. (Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty Images)
38. 11 November, 2008. Newly elected President Obama hugs Iraqi war veteran Tammy Duckworth during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Soldiers Memorial in Chicago. (AP Photo / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
1. 20-year-old Corporal 8 of the 1 Division of the Marine Corps Division James Blake Miller from Kentucky, smoking a cigarette. Miller became known as the “Marlboro Cowboy” because of his media photography from the Iraq war. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
2. Smoke covers the presidential palace in Baghdad 21 March 2003, after a massive American air raid on the Iraqi capital. (AFP PHOTO / Ramzi HAIDAR)
3. An Iraqi girl crying as the British tank Challenger crushes the Baath party headquarters (Odd Anderson / AFP / Getty Images)
4. 21 March 2003, South of Iraq. US Marines from the 15 Expeditionary Unit are discharging an Iraqi soldier with water from a flask. About 200, Iraqi soldiers surrendered to this unit just an hour after it entered Iraqi territory from northern Kuwait. (AP Photo / Itsuo Inouye)
5. 24 March 2003. Somewhere in Iraq. Infantrymen from the 3 Brigade of the 3 Infantry Corps, jump off the Bradley transporter and surround the unknown, who behaved suspiciously. An AK-47 machine gun and cartridges for him were found in his car. (AP Photo / The Dallas Morning News, David Leeson)
6. Iraqi prisoners of war. According to US Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, in the first 6 days of the war with Iraq, the American and British armies captured more than 3500 Iraqis. It is not clear where prisoners of war were kept — in temporary camps created by the advancing Allied forces, or, as the command says, in more centralized locations. In the photo, Iraqi related prisoners are sitting in a barbed wire pen awaiting interrogation after a battle with a 1-64 squad of 3 Infantry Division, 23 March 2003 (Brant Sanderlin / Cox News Service)
7. Junior Corporal Stephen Plumer of Arvada (PCs) reads a letter from his mother. This is the first letter he received since his squad moved from Kuwait a week ago. With a letter, his mother sent him a box of sweets and a small American flag. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
8. 4 April 2003 Mr. Lieutenant Jeffrey Goodman and Jr. Corporal Jorge Sánchez drag off a wounded civilian from his burning vehicle during the 2 Tank Battalion offensive in Baghdad. The civilian was wounded by accidentally falling into the thick of battle. (AP Photo, Cheryl Diaz Meyer, Dallas Morning News)
9. 4 April 2003 d. When approaching a roadblock, a resident of Karbala raises his shirt to show that he is not hiding a weapon. (AP Photo, Dallas Morning News, David Leeson)
10. The soldiers of the 3-7 of the expedition groups of the 3 Division (USA) bow their heads in prayer during the service. American troops captured and held an international airport near Baghdad, while Allied forces stormed the capital.
11. A British paratrooper talks to an Iraqi girl, standing at his post on the main street of Basra. At that time, coalition forces took control of most of this country's second largest city. (Hyoung Chang / The Denver Post)
12. American marines burn a portrait of Saddam Hussein. (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)
13. US Army Sergeant Chad Tachette, from the 7 infantry company 3 Battalion, in the center, relaxes in the company of his comrades in arms after being searched in one of the palaces of Saddam Hussein, partially destroyed by bombing. (AP Photo / John Moore)
14. 7 April, 2003. The marines from the 3 Battalion urge the hurried infantry to force the destroyed bridge under fire from the south-eastern outskirts of Baghdad. (AP Photo / Boston Herald, Kuni Takahashi)
15. Baghdad, 8 APR 2003. Wounded Iraqi asking for mercy. On him and his companions opened fire after they did not stop the car on demand as they approached the coalition forces tank. He and his companion in the background received several bullets, but remained alive and received medical assistance; two other men in the car are killed. (Brant Sanderlin / The Atlanta Journal-Consitution via Cox News Service)
16. Corporal Edward Chin from New York, the 4 Company of the 3 Battalion, the marine corps, catches a star-and-white flag on the head of the statue of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the center of Baghdad, before throwing down the monument, April 9, 2003. Laurent Rebours)
17. 10 April 2003, Baghdad. Relatives mourn the death of three relatives. These three - a father, his teenage son, and another relative - were shot by American soldiers on the evening of April 9, allegedly after the car in which they were driving did not stop at the request in front of the building occupied by the US military. Relatives of the victims continued to wait for their return and did not know what had happened, until the next day other family members towed the car with their bodies straight to their home. (AP Photo / Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times)
18. US marines 24-th Expeditionary detachment are on duty during the operation. (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)
19. Three Iraqi soldiers are sitting with bags on their heads in anticipation of interrogation. (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)
20. Marines arrest an Iraqi prisoner after a fight in the main square of Tikrit. This city lies in 175 km north of Baghdad, the Americans occupied it almost without resistance. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro / Getty Images)
21. Welcome home, neighbor! Jerry Churchill runs with the American flag to greet his neighbor, Lieutenant Colonel Pete Burne, who has just returned home to Parker, from the Iraq war, where he was a pilot on the F-16. Before the war, Byrne was a pilot of American Airlines (American Airlines), but was mobilized in early February by 2003. Now he, along with other 15 pilots, has returned to his homeland, to the air base at Buckley. Jerry's children are friends and often play with Burne’s two sons. DENVER POST PHOTO BY CYRUS MCCRIMMON
22. A woman cries for her missing son while American soldiers look for his remains in a mass grave. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)
23. Lieutenant Andrew Carrigan from Boston (pc. Mass.), Corporal Dervik Sieong from Wauso (pc. Wisconsin), and junior sergeant Stephen Payne from Jolo (Z. Virginia) from the 101 air regiment, do not let themselves get bored on Halloween by arranging a race on donkeys (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
24. Iraqi boy Ayad Alim Brissam Karim shows his photo before it happened. American helicopters fired rockets across the field where he was playing at that moment, as a result he lost his sight and suffered burns (Mauricio Lima / AFP / Getty Images)
25. 31 March 2004. An Iraqi teenager shows a flyer that read “Fallujah, American Cemetery” in broken English, standing near a burning car in the rebellious city of Fallujah 50 km west of Baghdad. The enraged locals, armed with shovels, disfigured two charred corpses - presumably invaders caught up in a raid of rebels. Residents of the city announced that he would become the cemetery of the American occupation forces. AFP PHOTO / Karim SAHIB
26. In this photo, edited by the Washington Post and published on 6 in May of 2004, the junior sergeant of the US Army Lindy Inglend, from the 372 company of the military police, mocks a prisoner of war in Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. (AP Photo / The Washington Post)
27. 2 November 2004 The Marines from the 1 Division are rounding up the house of the chairman of the city council in the Baghdad district of Abu Ghraib. During the raid, soldiers arrested Chairman Nasar-wa-Sulaan, Taha Rashid and other council members. US troops are preparing for a big attack on Felluja, intending to regain lost control over a number of Sunni settlements north-west of Baghdad on the eve of the general elections of the people to be held on January 31. (AP Photo / Anja Niedringhaus)
28. 14 November 2004. A Marine from the 1 Division carries his lucky talisman in a backpack behind his back. His detachment is moving further and further to the western part of Felluji. (AP Photo / Anja Niedringhaus)
29. Five-year-old Samar Hassan cries for parents killed by Americans from the 25 Infantry Division. Soldiers patrolling the street opened fire on the car in which the Samar family was driving when they unexpectedly and unintentionally jumped at them in the twilight (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)
30. David Stibbs, stepfather of the fallen junior Corporal Ivenor S. Herrera, cries over the stepson's helmet. Herrera was killed in Iraq last week during a bomb blast. (Preston Utley / Vail Daily)
31. 30 December 2006. In this video, shown by Iraqi state television, the guards of Saddam Hussein with masks on their faces put a noose around the neck of the deposed dictator. In a few seconds, Hussein will be executed. Before execution, he refused to put a bag on his head, and squeezed the Quran until he reached the scaffold at the predawn hour. So compatriots avenged the tyrant over a quarter of a century of brutal rule, costing the lives of thousands of people, and drawing Iraq into devastating wars with Iran and the United States. (AP Photo / IRAQI TV, HO)
32. Baghdad, February 2007. An American soldier from the 10 Mountain Division is grimacing with pain when orderlies treat his bullet wound in his leg. (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)
33. An American soldier and an Iraqi translator buy cheese at a local store. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
34. During the patrol, the marines try to catch the calf that was untied. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
35. Mary McHugh mourns her dead fiancé, Sergeant James Reagan. A paratrooper Regan died in Iraq from an improvised explosive device explosion in February of this year. The 60 Sector — a new area of a large cemetery in Washington — became the last refuge of hundreds of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (John Moore / Getty Images)
36. Adria Castillo hugs his father, Sergeant Guillermo Castillo. Guillermo crippled an improvised explosive device. Twenty US military were awarded the Purple Heart medal for wounds during the war on terror (Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images)
37. An Iraqi woman shouts “Don't shoot!” To American soldiers who have detained her son and husband, who are suspected of wanting to blow up their convoy. (Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty Images)
38. 11 November, 2008. Newly elected President Obama hugs Iraqi war veteran Tammy Duckworth during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Soldiers Memorial in Chicago. (AP Photo / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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