A boy offers a package of cigarettes to a passing US Army convoy in the desert in the south of Iraq after US troops crossed the Kuwait Iraq border in the early hours of March 21, 2003. US and British ground forces poured into Iraq on Friday meeting pockets of resistance as thousands of tanks and armored vehicles set off for a dash to Baghdad across the desert wilderness. [Reuters]
 
 
 

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