Iraqi defence minister Sultan Hashim Hamad (L) speaks during news
conference next to Iraqi Information Minister Mohammad Saed El-Sahar in
Baghdad March 23, 2003. Iraqi troops and paramilitary fighters loyal to
President Saddam Hussein held up a U.S. advance toward Baghdad on
Sunday, inflicting casualties and taking U.S. prisoners on the fourth
day of war. Pockets of resistance in southern Iraq continued to pin
down U.S. and British manpower as Western planes returned regularly to
bomb the capital in their efforts to overthrow Saddam. REUTERS/Faleh
Kheiber

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