Images on the Road to Baghdad
Photos from Andy Nelson of The Christian Science Monitor

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Paintings of Saddam Hussein set ablaze south of Baghdad, April 5, 2003. Photo courtesy Andy Nelson, The Christian Science Monitor  View a photo gallery of Andy Nelson's images from Baghdad

April 9, 2003 -- Andy Nelson, staff photographer for The Christian Science Monitor, is traveling with the 1st Marine Division, which has been moving deeper into the center of Baghdad.

Nelson's photos speak of the rapid advance of American troops into the heart of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party power center -- and the chaos that often follows in the vacuum left when authority figures and structures are removed.








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