4-15-2003 Tuesday

4-15-2003 Tuesday

Home from the sea
Family members of sailors from the nuclear attack submarine USS Boise react as they see their loved ones disembark at the Norfolk Naval Station in Norfolk, Va., on Tuesday after the sub returned to port with its 138-person crew. The boat was 12312j99m deployed in mid-February in support of the U.S. operation in Iraq. While deployed in the Mediterranean and Red seas, the Boise launched Tomahawk cruise missiles into Iraq.

Joe-sephine's view
A camel watches as U.S. Army traffic passes into the presidential palace complex in Baghdad on Tuesday. The young male camel, which tank crews from A Company 4th Battalion 64 Armor Regiment unwittingly named Josephine, approached them early that morning and stayed.

Honoring the fallen
U.S. Marine Brig. Gen. Mastin Robeson, right, comforts Charlene Stroud, the mother of Lance Cpl. Brian Anderson, after giving her the flag that draped Anderson's coffin at a graveside service in Durham, N.C., Tuesday. Anderson, who was stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C., died in an accident near Nasiriyah, Iraq.

Hail to the chief
An Iraqi man mimics Saddam Hussein on Tuesday on the pedestal where the Iraqi president's statue once stood in the center of Qurna, Iraq, before it was pulled down by locals.

Tanks for the memories
Lt. Col. Phillip DeCamp, commander of the U.S. Army's 4th Battalion 64 Armor Regiment, holds Drkam Saba, 4, while leading his outfit on a search for weapons in Baghdad on Tuesday.

Angry at America
Iraqi protesters shout anti-U.S. slogans during a demonstration in Baghdad on Tuesday. Anti-American protests intensified in the capital and southern Iraq as coalition forces struggled with the delicate task of rebuilding the country.

Taking pains
Ali Ismaell Abbas winces as he is tended to by medical personnel after arriving Tuesday at the Saud A. Albabtain Center for Burns and Plastic Surgery in Kuwait City. Abbas lost both of his arms and was severely burned during an airstrike in Baghdad that killed his parents.

Heading home
Iraqi citizens use a truck for transport as they attempt to return to their homes Tuesday in Basra, Iraq. As life in the war-torn nation begins to return to normal, hundreds of Basra citizens who left the city looking for safety are going back.