BRITISH 29 COMMANDO REGIMENT ROYAL ARTILLERY OFFICERS ATTEND A PRE-STRIKE BRIEFING IN KUWAIT DESERT, 2003-03-19 (photo)

Officers from British 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery attend a pre-strike briefing from Lieutenant Colonel Simon Wolsey (C) in a disused bunker in the Kuwait desert, March 19, 2003. Their attack plan for the al-Faw peninsular included destruction of military sites and securing of the oil network to prevent an ecological disaster in the northern Gulf. Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair said on March 21, 2003 that the war in Iraq is going well but British forces will meet resistance and victory will not come overnight. Picture taken March 19. REUTERS/Stephen Hird SH/ASA/AA