Tikrit, Iraq - Republic of
CHILDS SLEEPS AS US TROOPS CONDUCT HOUSE RAID IN TIKRIT.
A U.S. soldier and Iraqi policeman search a room as an Iraqi child sleeps on
the bed during a joint raid by the 401 Military Police Company of the U.S.
army and the Iraqi police in Tikrit, about 110 miles (180 kilometres)
northwest of Baghdad September 29, 2003. Fifteen houses were searched and
raided in an effort to capture Saddam Hussein loyalists. Four persons were
detained for questioning. Pictures of the Year 2003 Pictures of the
month September 2003 REUTERS/Arko Datta
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