©Kael Alford/Panos Pictures..IRAQ Baghdad 17/4/2003..US Marines search journalists on entering the Palestine Hotel perimeter. Only journalists, their assistants and hotel staff are allowed inside the fortified hotel grounds. The hotel was home to most of the foreign press corps in Baghdad..US and British troops invaded Iraq on 20th March with the aim of overthrowing the regime of Saddam Hussein. By the 9th April American troops were in central Baghdad and the regime had collapsed ending nearly 25 years of Ba'athist rule.