Iraqi soldier Wsam Abdul Wahab, 24, receives treatment for his wounds after his wedding party was attacked by unknown gunmen, killing his wife Saly Salam, 22, and wounding two others, Friday, July 22, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. Gunmen fired on the car carrying the newlyweds who were married on Thursday, and their families, killing the bride while wounding her mother, groom and driver in the southern Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, according to police and medical officials. At the time the picture was taken, Wahab did not know the fate of his wife.
Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari gives a speech Friday, July 22, 2005, during a luncheon in Baghdad, Iraq, to mourn with the families of the victims of last week's attack that killed 18 children. The luncheon and talks were offered as emotional and financial support to the families who lost their children when a car bomb exploded next to them as they were receiving candy from U.S. troops in a Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Baghdad.
Accompanied by a portrait, the coffin of Ali Hussein, one of 10 killed in a suicide bomber's attack on a military recruitment center in Baghdad on Wednesday, is returned to his home town for funeral services in Najaf, about 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 21, 2005. The suicide bomb went off outside the recruiting center, killing at least 10 people.
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, in this photo released by the Iraqi Special Tribunal, meets with Judge Munir Haddad at an initial appearance for crimes against Shiite Faili Kurds, Thursday, July 21, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. Saddam complained that he has not been allowed sufficient access to his lawyer. Saddam and three other top officials are accused of involvement in the July 1982 massacre of an estimated 150 Shiites in the town of Dujail, in retaliation for a failed assassination attempt on him.
Algerian embassy employees stand at the gate to the embassy, just after two diplomats and their driver were kidnapped Thursday, 21 July 2005, in an upscale neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. The three were kidnapped in daylight near the embassy. A total of 49 countries or entities have some form of diplomatic representation in Iraq, including 18 Arab or non-Arab Muslim countries, according to Iraq's Foreign Ministry.
Iraqis attempt to purchase ice at inflated prices during electricity shortages, as temperatures rose to 117 degrees Fahrenheit Thursday, July 21, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq.
One of the two daughters of Jalil Shaalan, a security guard at a local school, reacts after her father was gunned down in front of them at the school compound in the Amarayah district of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 21, 2005. According to the Associated Press's count, more than 1,600 people have been killed in an increasing level of violence since April 28, when al-Jaafari announced his Shiite-led government.
A mother holds photographs of her two slain children at the site where they and 16 others were killed last week, Wednesday, July 20, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. The previous week, a suicide car bomb exploded next to U.S. troops handing out candy and toys, killing 18 children and teenagers. Wednesday the Iraqi government called for a nationwide three-minute moment of silence in memory of the victims.
Children wave Iraqi flags during three minutes of silence held in commemoration of the children killed in last week's attack Wednesday, July 20, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. Exactly one week before, a suicide car bomb exploded next to U.S. troops handing out candy and toys, killing 18 children and teenagers.
Friends and relatives stand around the displayed coffins of Mijbil Issa, a member of the constitution drafting Committee; Dhamin Hussein al-Obeidi, a commitee adviser; and their bodyguard during a prayer service at the Um al-Qra mosque, Wednesday, July 20, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. The three died in a hail of gunfire from two vehicles as they left a restaurant in Baghdad's Karradah district, police said.
Iraqi military recruits speak with police as they get care at the Yarmouk hospital for burns sustained in a suicide bomber's attack on a military recruitment center, Wednesday, July 20, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. The suicide attacker detonated an explosives belt outside the recruiting center, killing at least 10 people, police and army officials said.
President Jalal Talabani, left, meets with Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi Tuesday, July 19, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. Talabani predicted Tuesday that Iraq's new constitution could be completed by the end of July, if a deal can be worked out with critics ahead of the Aug.15 deadline for the draft constitution.
Tribal leaders from Iraq's outlying provinces listen to Sunni leaders of the Iraqi Islamic Party during a special meeting at the party headquarters, Tuesday, July 19, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. The meeting was to mobilize the people of the provinces to participate in the political processes of the upcoming elections .
An Iraqi boy fans flames while grilling fish in a main intersection in the noon heat Tuesday, July 19, 2005, in downtown Baghdad, Iraq.
The bodies of Sunni Muslim National Dialogue Council member Iraqi Mijbil and two unidentified others are loaded onto a police truck after the three were gunned down in the Karradah area of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday afternoon, July 19, 2005. Appointed to a committee to draft Iraq's constitution, Issa was leaving a committee meeting at Baghdad's Convention Center on the edge of the heavily fortified Green Zone, home to U.S. embassy and Iraqi government offices.
U.S. Army Capt. Mark Ivezaj, of B Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment (3-21), shouts orders to his men after killing a suspected insurgent during a fire fight in the city of Rawah, 175 miles northwest of Baghdad, Tuesday, July 19, 2005. Two people were killed during the battle and three suspected insurgents were detained for questioning. The unit, part of the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (SBCT), has undergone intense attacks since its arrival over the weekend.
Sgt. Bushra Jabar, 34, of the Iraqi Army's First Brigade, First Battalion, patrols along Haifa Street in Central Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 12, 2005. Jabar says she is the only female soldier who regularly patrols in the Haifa Street area of Baghdad, once the city's most violent neighborhood.
On Monday, July 18, 2005, in Baghdad,local Iraqi women comment on a display of images taken by local and foreign photojournalists of events in Iraq since the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein began two years ago.
An Iraqi shopkeeper reads a newspaper story with images of Saddam Hussein and Iraq Special Tribunal's chief justice Raid Juhi Monday, July 18, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. Juhi announced that the investigation into the July 8, 1982, massacre in Dujail, had been completed and the case was referred to the courts for trial. The date for the trial of Saddam and three others was to be determined in "the coming days," Juhi said. The majority of Iraqis eagerly welcome the criminal procedures by the tribunal.
Relatives of a popular university professor mourn over his body during the funeral Monday, July 18, 2005, in the southern city of Basra, Iraq. Alaa Dawoud Salman, history professor at Basra University, was shot dead late Sunday in the central neighborhood of Ashar, said his relatives and colleagues who attended the funeral. Salman was a Sunni Muslim and a former member of Saddam Hussein's Baath party. Attacks against university professors were common after Saddam's overthrow because many of them had close ties to his regime.