Lcpl. Jonathan Quintero from Tulari, Calif., from the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, mans his machine gun at a frontline position near a mosque in Fallujah, Iraq, on Thursday, April 22, 2004.
An Iraqi policeman sits on the rubble outside a destroyed police office while British soldiers search the area in the center of Basra, southern Iraq, Thursday, April 22, 2004.
The Iraqi flag flies above a burned-out bus at the scene where several schoolchildren and teachers died during an explosion in the center of Basra, southern Iraq, Wednesday, April 21, 2004.
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Iraqi fireman rush to extinguish a burning minibus at the scene of one of three explosions, which hit the city of Basra, southern Iraq, early Wednesday, April 21, 2004.
A U.S. Blackhawk helicopter flies over Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 21, 2004.
A U.S. Army military police dog barks as MPs control a crowd of Iraqis trying to return to their homes in Fallujah, Iraq, Wednesday, April 21, 2004. The military only allowed about ten families to return Wednesday, turning hundreds of people away at a checkpoint due to sporadic fighting in the city and because many returnees did not have proper documentation.
Iraqi men search through rubble in the center of Basra, southern Iraq, after at least three explosions early Wednesday April 21, 2004. The near simultaneous blasts hit three police stations, killing at least 45 and injuring over 200, a hospital source said.
Iraqi refugees from Fallujah hold up banners as they protest in the center of Baghdad against U.S. Army forces, Wednesday, April 21, 2004. Many Iraqis have been turned away at checkpoints.
As residents try to return to their homes in Fallujah, a girl cries during a melee at a checkpoint on the city's outskirts Tuesday, April 20, 2004. The military agreed to let 50 families a day back into the city, but people kept showing up after that limit was reached. With a ceasefire between U.S. Marines and Iraqi insurgents holding, Fallujans began filtering back into town through checkpoints run by American and Iraqi security forces.
A man tries to get through a checkpoint to return to his home in Fallujah Tuesday, April 20, 2004. With a ceasefire between U.S. Marines and Iraqi insurgents holding, Fallujans began filtering back into town Tuesday through checkpoints run by U.S. and Iraqi security forces.
U.S. Army soldiers man a checkpoint outside Fallujah, Iraq, as people try to enter the city, Tuesday, April 20, 2004. Fallujah's civic leaders joined American officials Monday in calling for insurgents battling Marines here to surrender their heavy weapons in return for a promise not to resume the U.S. offensive against the city, according to a U.S. spokesman.
U.S. military commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, talks to soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 2nd Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, at a U.S. military base outside Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday, April 20, 2004.
An Iraqi man searches through the rubble of his mortar-bombed house in Fallujah, Iraq, Monday, April 19, 2004.
A Marine from the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, looks at a poster of Mecca while knocking down doors during a house-to-house search in Fallujah, Iraq, Monday, April 19, 2004. American officials and civic leaders from Fallujah called on insurgents in Fallujah Monday to turn in their weapons, in the first concrete statement to come out of direct negotiations.
An Iraqi civilian kisses the hand of U.S. Marine Cpl. Joseph Sharp from Peoria, Ill., after Marines from the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, gave him a supply of food and water in Fallujah, Iraq, Monday, April 19, 2004.
Cpl. Charles Williams from Lafayette, Ind, from the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, lights a cigarette while searching buildings in Fallujah, Iraq, on Monday, April 19, 2004.
Iraqis wait in line to be permitted by a U.S Army soldier to cross a checkpoint at the entrance of the embattled Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib, Iraq, Monday, April 19, 2004.
U.S. soldiers scan surrounding buildings in front of the entrance of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad Monday, April 19 , 2004. A mortar shell landed in a garden near the Swedish Embassy, causing an explosion. No one was hurt, Iraqi police said. Police closed off the area on Andalus Square after the attack.
An Iraqi Civil Defense Corps officer, right, scans the buildings through binoculars as a U.S. soldier looks on in front of the entrance of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad Monday, April 19, 2004. A mortar shell landed in a garden near the Swedish Embassy. Police closed off the area on Andalus Square after the attack.
Iraqi Civil Defense Corps officers guard the entrance of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad Monday, April 19, 2004. A mortar shell landed in a garden near the Swedish Embassy.