Two Iraqi men sit in despair amid homes, shops and restaurants that were destroyed by allied bombing on the Mansour neighborhood earlier Monday. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
Shops and restaurants in the Mansour neighborhood are left in shambles after allied bombing. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
An elderly Iraqi man sits in the rubble of his home after allied bombing flattened residences, shops and restaurants in the Mansour neighborhood, killing at least nine people and injuring many more. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
Bodies lie outside the morgue at Al Kindi Hospital due to a lack of electricity. Hospital workers hoped relatives of the dead would come and take the bodies away. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
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Iraqi firefighters work to recover at least nine people buried and believed killed after allied bombs struck the Mansour neighborhood. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
At the Al Kindi Hospital, a man arrives too late for help and is pronounced dead in the parking lot. Witnesses said he was a civilian struck by allied helicopter fire. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
Medical personnel at Al Kindi Hospital watch U.S. bombers fly slowly overhead and await the injured that will surely arrive after the bombs fall. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
An Iraqi firefighter helps a comrade who was injured at the site of coalition bombing in the Mansour neighborhood. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
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An oil fire burns along the riverbank in Baghdad. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
Smoke fills the sky above one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces in Baghdad. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
GIs capture one of Hussein’s presidential palaces and fire on another in the center of Baghdad. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
