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A British Household Cavalry regiment sentry keeps watch across the southern Iraq border behind destroyed oil pumps from the last Gulf conflict, in the Kuwaiti desert Thursday, March 20, 2003. Key parts of the southern oil fields and major terminals on the Gulf have been secured, and U.S. officials said only nine of Iraq's 500 fields have been sabotaged. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/POOL/Bruce Adams)