Operation Iraqi Freedom

NAV2003040901-AL NAJAF, Iraq, April 8 (UPI)-- U.S. Marine Corps Major Chris Hughes shares some time with an Iraqi girl during an effort to distribute food and water to Iraqi citizens in need near Al Najaf in Iraq on April 8, 2003. The U.S. military is working with international relief organizations to help provide food and medicine for the Iraqi people in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. jg/Arlo K. Abrahamson/U.S. Navy UPI.