A man stands among the carnage after a pickup truck loaded with artillery shells exploded in the town of Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, 20 miles south of Baghdad, Sunday, April 8, 2007. At least 15 people were killed in the attack.
An Iraqi soldier leads arrested wounded al-Qaida members in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 8, 2007. U.S. troops discovered an al-Qaida field hospital near the town of Muqdadiyah, northeast of Baqouba, and arrested eight wounded people.
Iraqi Christians celebrate Easter in a Chaldean church in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 8, 2007. It is unclear how many of the prewar 1.4 million Christians still remain in Iraq.
Iraqis gather around a car-bomb wreck in Sadr City in Baghdad, Saturday, April 7, 2007. At least three civilians were killed and six were injured in the blast.
British soldiers patrol the town of Basra, Iraq, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Saturday, April 7, 2007. Four British soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in the southern Iraqi city of Basra Thursday, bringing the total number of U.K. troops killed in operations in Iraq to 140.
Sabah Abdullah carries a portrait of his 18-year-old daughter, Sabrin, who was killed in a car bombing in 2006 outside her university, during a protest in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 7, 2007. Some 1,500 people demanded that the government make the streets of Baghdad safer.
An Iraqi municipality worker cleans the garden which surrounds the "freedom" sculpture April 7, 2007. It replaced the statue of executed leader Saddam Hussein, toppled April 9, 2003, in Baghdad's al-Firdos Square.
Iraqis inspect a blast scene where a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq suicide bomber smashed a truck loaded with TNT and toxic chlorine gas into a police checkpoint in Ramadi, Iraq, Friday, April 6, 2007, killing at least 27 people. It was the ninth such attack since the group's first known use of a chemical weapon in January.
An Iraqi policeman stands guard during a Good Friday service in the Chaldean church in central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 6, 2007.
An Iraqi holds a British soldier's helmet after a road side bomb on a British patrol in Basra, Iraq, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Thursday, April 5, 2007. Four British soldiers and a Kuwaiti interpreter were killed Thursday in an ambush in southern Iraq, the British military said.
Workers try to fix damage on oil pipeline caused by planted explosives near the city of Safwan, Iraq, near the border with Kuwait, Thursday, April 5, 2007. A bomb struck the oil pipeline Thursday, cutting off supplies and causing a huge fire, an official said.
A man looks at cars burning after a parked car bomb exploded in front of a TV station, Baghdad TV, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 5, 2007. At least six of the station's guards were wounded in the attack.
A man places and Iraqi flag in Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 4, 2007. Radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to put up Iraqi flags at his strongholds in the run up for the planned massive protest in the holy cities of Kufa and Najaf on April 9, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to the American forces.
People search for bodies in the rubble of a house destroyed in an air strike in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Wednesday, April 4, 2007. U.S. forces who came under attack by gunmen in the area responded with air strikes that hit four houses from were they were taking fire Tuesday night. 12 civilians died in the bombing and 15 were wounded, according to medical staff of the Ramadi hospital.
An Iraqi soldier stands guard at a checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 4, 2007. Citing improved security in the capital, the Iraqi government said Tuesday it was shortening the Baghdad curfew by two hours and would allow citizens to be on the streets until 10 p.m.
An Iraqi boy cleans a framed picture of Shiite firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr April 3, 2007, at one of Sadr's offices which was raided by U.S. troops in Baghdad's al-Hurriyah neighborhood, according to residents. U.S. air strikes killed six suspected militants and destroyed two buildings used to manufacture and store explosives in separate raids in Iraq, the U.S. military reported today.
U.S. soldiers patrol an area in Baghdad, Tuesday, April 3, 2007. Insurgents killed four more U.S. troops in Iraq as warplanes destroyed two bomb factories in a bid to cut insurgent supply lines into Baghdad, where bombings continue to defy an armed crackdown.
Iraqis gather at a bombing site in the religiously mixed Baiyaa neighborhood, in western Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 2, 2007. A parked car exploded in a garage near a governmental property registration agency in western Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 10, police said.
Injured Iraqi girls cry at a hospital in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Monday, April 2, 2007. A suicide truck bomber targeted a police station in the oil-rich northern city on Monday, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens, including many children from a nearby school, police said.
An Iraqi walks past burning tires as another behind him carries a sign that reads, "No to occupation" during an anti-U.S. protest in the northern outskirts of Baghdad's impoverished district of Sadr City, April 2, 2007. The demonstrators demanded the permanent presence of an Iraqi Army post in the area as well as the non-interference of U.S. forces in the region.