Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment pose next to a mural of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein found after taking control of a hospital allegedly used for military purposes by Iraqi forces at the outskirts of the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah 25 March 2003. Several platoons took part on this operation with no reported loss of lives. More than 100 Iraqi bodies littered the road north from Nasiriyah where US marines headed toward Baghdad after fierce fighting in this southern city, an AFP correspondent reported.