Iraqi army and local police secure the scene after a car bomb exploded in Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 24, 2005. The bomb exploded outside a police academy in Saddam Hussein's hometown and another one went off moments later as authorities rushed to the scene.
Friends and relatives bury slain Associated Press Television News (APTN) cameraman Saleh Ibrahim at a cemetery in Mosul, northern Iraq, April 24, 2005. Saleh Ibrahim was killed Saturday when gunfire broke out after an explosion in the northern city.
A man attends to his daughter, injured in a car bomb explosion, at the al-Hakim Local Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, April 24, 2005.
Iraqi police and a British soldier, right, seal off a street after a car bomb exploded near the Sayed Jabir mosque in Abu al-Khasib, Iraq, 14 miles south of the southern city of Basra, April 23, 2005. Two charred bodies were pulled from the destroyed car and two Iraqis were injured, said police Col. Karim al-Zeidi. It wasn't immediately clear whether the vehicle had been carrying the bomb.
U.S. soldiers secure a road leading to the Baghdad airport highway after a car bomb exploded in the Hai Al-Furaat area of Baghdad, Iraq, April 23, 2005.
Iraqi women grieve during the funeral ceremony for 12 Iraqis killed in Friday's mosque attack in Baghdad after the bodies arrived for burial to the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, April 23, 2005.
Iraqis inspect the site of a car bombing at the Al-Subeih Shiite mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, April 22, 2005. The explosion killed eight people and wounded 20, police said. The blast happened during mid-day prayers, in the capital's eastern New Baghdad neighborhood.
Iraqis inspect the site of a car bombing at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, April 22, 2005.
A wrecked vehicle is seen following a bomb blast outside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, April 22, 2005.
An Iraqi policeman inspects a destroyed police car after it was hit by a roadside bomb in Basra, southern Iraq, April 22, 2005. Four policeman were injured in the attack.
An Iraqi man gestures over corpses that were brought in from the town of Suwayrah to be buried in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, April 21, 2005. They were some of the more than 50 bodies of men and children fished out of the Tigris river on April 20, 2005.
This image from television shows the crash site of a commercial helicopter contracted by the U.S. Defense Department which was shot down by missile fire north of the Iraqi capital, April 21, 2005. The crash killed at least six Americans and three Bulgarians, officials said. The six Americans worked for security contractor Blackwater USA, the U.S. Embassy said.
Dead bodies lie along a wall in Haditha, Iraq, April 20, 2005. The Iraqi defense ministry identified the 19 bullet-riddled bodies as fishermen and not soldiers, as initially rumored. Haditha residents heard gunshots and rushed to the soccer stadium, where they said they found the bodies slumped against a bloodstained wall. All appeared to have been gunned down, witnesses said.
A U.S. Army soldier passes by destroyed Army vehicles after a car bomb exploded near a U.S. convoy in an area of western Baghdad, Iraq, where the notorious Abu Ghraib prison is located, setting a U.S. Army convoy on fire, April 20, 2005. No casualities were reported.
Relatives mourn over the body of Iraqi Army soldier Raed Ali Mohammed, 22, at al-Ramadi Hospital in Ramadi, Iraq, April 19, 2005. Mohammed was shot to death by insurgents at a checkpoint in Ramadi.
Ahmed Ali Mohammed, right, hugs the body of his brother Raed Ali Mohammed, 22, an Iraqi Army soldier, at al-Ramadi Hospital in Ramadi, Iraq, April 19, 2005.
Relatives look into the car of Maj. Gen. Adnan al-Qaraghulli, a senior Iraqi Defense Ministry adviser, in Baghdad, Iraq, April 19, 2005. Gunmen ambushed al-Qaraghulli's car he drove home, killing him and his son, the Interior Ministry said.
A U.S. Army soldier walks near Shiite protesters in Baghdad, Iraq, April 18, 2005. The demonstrators were demanding an end to the U.S. military presence in Iraq.
Iraqi police officers assigned to protecting oil production and distribution watch a pipeline fire from across the Tigris River, following an explosion near Beiji, Iraq, April 18, 2005. The Beiji refinery is the largest in Iraq.
Shiite women protest against the U.S. military presence in Iraq during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, April 18, 2005. One woman holds a photo of Shiite Ayatollah Mahmoud al-Hassani, who called for the protest.