RETIRED U.S. GENERAL GARNER AND BRITISH GENERAL TIME CROSS VISIT CHILDREN IN SULAIMANIYA, 2003-04-22 (photo)

Retired U.S. general Jay Garner (L) who will oversee the reconstruction of Iraq, and his deputy British General Tim Cross (C) greet children during a visit to a primary school in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya 22 April 2003. Garner was welcomed to the Kurdish-run north on Tuesday with cheers, hugs and a shower of petals 12 years after helping the Kurds break free from Saddam Hussein. Garner told an emotional crowd of Kurdish leaders and students that their self-governed region was a model for Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam. REUTERS/Odd Andersen/POOL oa/shj/AA