Destruction in Baghdad

Staffers at Nour Hospital in Baghdad wheel out Muslim Naama, 19, after surgery to remove shrapnel lodged in his abdomen as a result of the marketplace blast. “I don’t remember so many injured people, so much blood everywhere, in this hospital before,” a doctor said. “Even doctors and nurses were shocked.”  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

The body of a young boy lies in a casket outside Nour Hospital before being taken to a mosque. Residents were at the market to buy food, meet with neighbors and try to live a somewhat normal life despite a U.S.-led bombing campaign elsewhere in Baghdad.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

A man mourns the loss of a relative who was killed at the outdoor market.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Elsewhere in Baghdad, an Iraqi boy waits for his grandfather after an American bomb landed a block away.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Mourners grieve over victims of an explosion in a working-class neighborhood.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Saddam Tower, one of the main centers of telecommunication in Baghdad, was damaged by U.S. bombing in recent days.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Residents move through their apartment building one block from where bombs damaged telecommunication buildings in Baghdad.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Saddam Tower, one of the main centers of telecommunication in Baghdad, was damaged by U.S. bombing in recent days.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

A large crater was left in the middle of the road next to one of the main telecommunication buildings in central Baghdad, a target of U.S bombing.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Spectators look at the bomb damage done to one of the main communication buildings in central Baghdad.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Two police officers guard one of the main communication buildings gutted by a bomb that struck early Friday morning.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)