Marine Staff Sgt. Brian Flaherty, of New York Delta Company of the Second Tank Battalion, disconnects a fuel bladder from a tank as a sandstorm rages in Iraq, Tuesday, March 25, 2003. Each bladder contains 55 gallons of fuel and will allow a tank to travel about 30 miles.

A military convoy crosses the highway linking to Baghdad while tanks from the marine first tank battalion wait for refueling on their way to the Iraqi capital Baghdad in southern Iraq, Monday, March 24, 2003. U.S. flags fly to mark the escort of civilian trucks.

In this image from video shown on Al-Jazeera television on Monday, March 24, 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Ronald D. Young, Jr., 26, from Georgia, (left) and Chief Warrant Officer David S. Williams, 30, from Florida, are seen. Young and Williams are the two-man crew believed to be aboard an Apache helicopter that was allegedly forced down during heavy fighting Sunday night in central Iraq.

An Iraqi child waves as a convoy of the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, drives through a southern Iraqi town Sunday, March 23, 2003.

An F/A-18C Hornet pilot from VFA-195 Dambusters, who would only identify himself by his call sign "UDA," relates his experiences in action over Iraq after landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Gulf, Monday March 24, 2003. UDA said that he was directed to drop in the area of Al Nazariyeh by U.S. Marines under fire.

He said that he saw civilians and did not drop his ordinance.

Two Iraqi boys beg for military rations and water from a passing U.S. military convoy outside the southern city of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Monday, March 24, 2003.

Sgt. Sirvantis Dennis sleeps on a cot outside his vehicle after working overnight in the 1st Brigade's 3rd Infantry Division tactical operations center Monday, March 24, 2003, in an area south of Baghdad, Iraq.

Constructionman Fred Holland, 22, of Port Leyden, N.Y., and a member of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 74 based in Gulfport, Miss., cleans a 60 mm machinegun atop a Humvee Monday, March 24, 2003, in the Iraqi desert. The Seabees have increased security around their perimeter after hearing word of ambushed soldiers.

A U.S. Marine from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit throws out a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein after removing it from the command office of the Iraqi naval base in Az Zubayar, Sunday, March 23, 2003.