Iraqis queue up for water handed out by US soldiers in the southern Iraqi
town of Umm Qasr March 25, 2003. Warplanes hammered elite Republican Guards
defending Baghdad on Tuesday as U.S. armoured columns, slowed by blinding
sandstorms, closed in for the decisive battle for the Iraqi capital.
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IRAQ SOUTH HUMANITARIAN