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COVER: A member of a six-person cell, photographed in Baghdad Sept. 20, 2003. The man, holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, declined to give his name but said his group was prepared to use force to persuade the U.S. to leave Iraq. Photograph for TIME by Yuri Kozyrev...
What has happened to him since? Yuri Kozyrev, the photographer who took the picture, and TIME correspondent Alex Perry went to the al Kindi hospital last week to check on Ali, but it was closed. Looting and disorder in Baghdad had forced doctors to move Ali and other critically injured patients. Our journalists found him at a hospital in Saddam City, a neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, where they were able to talk with him. Rasping through singed lungs, Ali, 12, indicated that he may have surviving family members. He said his parents are divorced and his father and stepmother...
...Saddam's fate is not known, Kozyrev reports, nor that of his sons. Wild rumors that circulated in the neighborhood afterwards had Saddam climbing into a tank or firing mortar shells at American positions following the strike, but nobody is setting much store by those accounts...
...disappearance of the government minders had been an omen for the journalists at the Palestine Hotel, the peril came from an unexpected quarter - U.S. tanks deployed on the opposite bank of the Tigris River. Kozyrev called again Tuesday afternoon, Baghdad time, so shaken he was barely able to speak. One of the U.S. tanks across the river fired a shell into the hotel, killing two journalists. Others were wounded and taken to hospital. (The commander of U.S. 3rd Infantry forces inside Baghdad reportedly said the tank fired a single round after U.S. troops came under fire from the hotel...
...Kozyrev reports that U.S. forces have begun advancing slowly and cautiously. Although there are no longer many Iraqi troops in evidence, their concern is to avoid attacks by Iraqi irregulars of the Fedayeen Saddam. Says Kozyrev, "Whoever is left is not likely to surrender...