U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (2nd R) and Suhayba Abdul-Rahman, who lost her husband, all of her five children, and was blinded by a March 1988 chemical gas attack, light candles at a memorial built on a mass grave in the northern Iraq town of Halabja, September 15, 2003. Powell on Monday lit candles for victims of a 1988 chemical weapons attack on Iraqi civilians and told their families such an attack would never happen again.   [Reuters]

Secretary of State Colin Powell meets with families of victims killed in a March 1988 chemical gas attack, at a memorial built on a mass grave in the northern Iraq town of Halabja Sept.15, 2003. Powell lit candles for victims of the attack on Iraqi civilians and told their families such an attack would never happen again.  [Reuters]

US Secretary of State Colin Powell (L) talks with members of the US Air Force at Baghdad International Airport. Powell is the first US secretary of state to visit Iraq in 50 years.  [AP]

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (R) waves to a crowd of military men and women upon arrival at Baghdad International Airport Sept. 15, 2003, alongside U.S. Ambassador to Iraq L. Paul Bremer. On the second day of the first visit to Iraq in 50 years by a U.S. secretary of state, Powell visited the site of the attack which killed some 5,000 Kurdish villagers in Halabja town in the closing months of the war between Iraq and Iran. The aim was to draw attention to human rights abuses under deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and remind the world that Saddam did once have chemical weapons, even if U.S. forces have not found any during five months of occupation.  [Reuters]

US Secretary of State Colin Powell , left, looks on as L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian administrator for Iraq , greets with a kiss Saeed Hussein Al-Sadr, a senior Iraqi Shiite cleric before private talks in Baghdad, Iraq Sept. 14, 2003. [AP]