02-05 May 2003

In this handout photo from the U.S. Army Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus, 101st Airborne Division commander, left, congratulates Ghanim al-Boso, right, the newly elected interim mayor of Mosul and the Nineveh Province, at the old Baath Party social club Monday May 5, 2003 in Mosul, Iraq. With American backing, about 230 electors from the city's main families and ethnic groups voted for retired army Gen. al-Boso, an Arab, as mayor and 23 delegates to the 32-member city council. At center is Mohammed Rashib, province chief justice. AP Photo/U.S. Army, James Matise, HO

In this handout photo from the U.S. Army, soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division and local election judges escort a ballot box filled with votes during the city's interim election convention at the former Baath Party Social Club Monday May 5, 2003 in Mosul, Iraq. With American backing, about 230 electors from the city's main families and ethnic groups voted for mayor and 23 delegates to the 32-member city council. The head of the city's eight main offices such as the chief of police and the head of the education department will automatically serve on the council. AP Photo/ U.S. Army, James Matise, HO

Pfc. Terrance Scott of Company A, 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 327 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) surveys the scene during a security halt in the Iraqi town of al-Hawd. Tuesday, May 6, 2003. AP Photo/Pfc. Thomas Day, 40th Public Affairs Detachment

A soldier from the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division sleeps on an Iraqi train while listening to a CD player, shortly before the train was to depart Baghdad on a ten hour journey with soldiers bound for the northern Iraqi town of Mosul Tuesday, May 6, 2003. The military paid the Iraqis for the use of the train, and it's employees, in what was described as the first real post-Saddam test of the Iraqi rail system. AP Photos/Brennan Linsley

American soldiers from the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division play cards on an Iraqi train shortly before it was to depart on a ten hour journey with soldiers bound for the northern Iraqi town of Mosul, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday,May 6, 2003. The military paid the Iraqis for the use of the train, and it's employees, in what was described as the first real post-Saddam test of the Iraqi rail system. AP Photos/Brennan Linsley

An American officer with the 101st Airborne Division sleeps on a train shortly before it departs on a 10-hour journey from Baghdad to Mosul on Tuesday. Brennan Linsley / AP photo

American soldiers with the Army's 101st Airborne Division wait on a platform in Baghdad for the departure of an Iraqi train. Brennan Linsley / AP photo

American soldiers from the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division wait on a platform for the departure of an Iraqi train, before it was to leave on a ten hour journey with soldiers bound for the northern Iraqi town of Mosul, in Baghdad, Tuesday May 6, 2003. The military paid the Iraqis for the use of the train, and it's employees, in what was described as the first real post-Saddam test of the Iraqi rail system. AP Photos/Brennan Linsley

Capt. Greg Worley questions a man about a siphon hose, a standard tool of the black market gas station, as soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) break up such a fuel point in Mosul on Friday. Rob Curtis / Military Times staff

Sgt. Daniel Wiser, 25, of Waukesha, Wis., yells to his section to move it back to the landing zone as he talks to the Blackhawk pilots before reboarding the plane as soldiers inspect vehicles in Mosul on Wednesday. Rob Curtis / Military Times staff

Sgt. Daniel Wiser, 25, of Waukesha, Wis., talks to his commander, who is overhead in a helicopter, while Spc. David Gamboa, 20, of Compton, Calif., watches the crowds in Mosul on Wednesday. Rob Curtis / Military Times staff


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