Iraqi women arrive at the scene after a U.S. Army convoy was attacked by a car bomb in the western part of Baghdad, Iraq, May 1, 2005. Insurgents launched a third straight day of stepped-up attacks in Iraq, including ambushes, car bombs and shootings.
A man looks to his wife, hiding inside their house, while he smokes a cigarette outside, where the family was sleeping when soldiers from the Iraqi Army's 204 Battalion came upon them and searched the house for weapons, May 1, 2005, in Udaim, 67 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. Over 500 Iraqi and American soldiers raided the village of Udaim, detaining 16 people and seizing weapons and bombs.
A U.S. Army soldier from the Third Infantry Division gives the thumbs up to Iraqi boys near Baqouba, 35 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, April 30, 2005. Soldiers were in the area to check on an irrigation pumping station.
Iraqi men rush to the scene after a car bomb exploded outside a building holding a meeting of senior Sunni leaders from the Council on National Dialogue, in Baghdad, Iraq, April 30, 2005.
Iraqi Staff Brig. Jalil, right, commander of the Iraqi army, passes by dead Iraqi soldiers as he arrives to the Al Numan hospital after car bomb explosions in Baghdad, Iraq, April 29, 2005. A series of attacks, including car bombs and a mortar round, hit Baghdad's Azamiyah section, officials said.
Iraqi soldiers examine wreckage of cars that were destroyed in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, April 29, 2005.
Iraqi soldiers examine the wreckage of a car that was destroyed in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, April 29, 2005.
Soldiers from the 42nd Infantry Division play basketball at a military base in Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, April 28, 2005.
U.S. Army Sgt Diana Parenti, 163 InBn, from Redding Calif., checks an Iraqi boy before entering an improvised clinic in a school building in the village of Ald Ali near Al Hawija, 150 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, April 28, 2005.
U.S. Army Infantry Battalion soldiers from Montana ascend to the roof of a building to look for suspicious gunmen as part of a neighborhood search, in Hawija, 150 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, April 27, 2005. They found neither weapons nor gunmen on the roof.
An Iraqi girl is surrounded by U.S. soldiers in front of her house in Hawija, 150 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 27, 2005. The U.S. Army Infantry Battalion from Montana joined with the Iraqi Army to search houses in Hawija.
Iraqi police inspect the site where Brig. Gen. Jihad Luaibi, supervisor of the Iraq Civil Defense of the interior ministry, was attacked in Baghdad, Iraq, April 27, 2005. Luaibi was seriously injured in the attack, his two bodyguards died.
An Iraqi woman with a child peers through a shattered window of a destroyed car in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, April 26, 2005, after a roadside bomb exploded, destroying a civilian car. One Iraqi civilian was injured in the blast.
A dust storm, similar to special effects on the big screen, is seen bellowing across the western desert, near Al Asad, Iraq, April 26. The storm was spawned near the border of Syria and Jordan. Weather forecasters here described the dust storm as a downburst. The ensuing storm increased energy as the winds pushed over the desert, which created a wall of dirt. Weather officials said that a downburst this strong is extremely rare for this region of Iraq. The storm passed over in about 45 minutes, leaving a heavy sheet of dust in its wake. Forecasters say the wall of dust may have reached 4,000 to 5,000 feet.
Iraqis grieve for fishermen killed last week in Najaf, Iraq, April 25, 2005. The bodies were found dead, blindfolded and apparently executed, along a wall in Haditha last week.
A shepherd watches as oil burns from damaged oil infrastructure in Bay Hassam, 19 miles west of Kirkuk, Iraq, April, 25, 2005. Insurgents used explosives to set fire to oil pumps used for domestic supplies, an official at Northern Oil Company said.
Iraqi police secure the scene in Baghdad, Iraq, April 25, 2005, after two suicide car bombs exploded in quick succession Sunday night near a market in a Shiite-dominated Baghdad neighborhood.
Oil burns from damaged oil infrastructure in Bay Hassam, 19 miles west of Kirkuk, Iraq, April, 25, 2005. Insurgents used explosives to set fire to oil pumps used for domestic supplies, an official at Northern Oil Company said.
Iraqi men carry the coffin of Abdul Ameer al Saaidi through the streets of the al-Shoulah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, April 25, 2005. Saaidi was killed April 24, when two suicide car bombs exploded in quick succession near a market in a Shiite-dominated Baghdad neighborhood.
A man watches while oil burns from damaged oil infrastructure in Bay Hassam, 19 miles west of Kirkuk, Iraq, April, 25, 2005. Insurgents used explosives to set fire to oil pumps used for domestic supplies, an official at Northern Oil Company said.