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Paul Bremer, in dark jacket, the new American civilian administrator of Iraq, speaks to the media on arrival at Baghdad airport May 12, 2003. Dentists operate on patients at a dental clinic in Mosul, Iraq on May 12, 2003. U.S. Army officials met with head doctors to find ways they can assist the clinic. A U.S. Navy Seabee ,engineer, entertains a group of Iraqi kids, while other Seabees complete repair work inside a school in An Nasiriyah on May 9, 2003.
U.S soldiers examine a suspected mobile biological weapons facility in Iraq. Residents of Saddam City, a neighborhood of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, clean their streets of garbage and debris on May 14, 2003. Residents decided to change their neighborhoods name to Thawra City. Iraqi girls laugh while playing near U.S. Marines providing security at ceremonies marking the reclamation of a World War I British Army cemetery in Al Kut, south central Iraq, May 8, 2003.
U.S. Navy Seabees ,engineers, refurbish school desks at a school in An Nasiriyah on May 9, 2003. Major General David Petraeus and the new Interim Mayor Ghamin Al Basso cut the ribbon to open the new offices for the Interim Mayor in Mosul, Iraq on May 10, 2003. An Iraqi woman cries next to plastic bags containing remains of bodies pulled from a mass grave in Mahaweel, central Iraq on May 14, 2003.
Newly recovered artifacts are seen at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad May 6. Objects from some of historys earliest civilizations, stolen after the fall of Saddam Hussein, are now being returned A stone sentinel carved 3000 years ago still stands guard at Nimrud, near present day Mosul, Iraq in May, 2003. U.S. soldiers and Iraqi caretakers are ensuring the safety of the historical site. Muzahim Mahmud, left, caretaker of Nimrud, a 3000 year old historical site near Mosul, Iraq, discusses security with U.S. Civil Affairs soldiers.
Youths play soccer behind a destroyed Iraqi gun southeast of Baghdad May 6, 2003. Iraqi woman and child take the first passenger train from Baghdad to Basra, Iraq, since the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime.

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