U.S. Army soldiers from the 588th Engineering Battalion wait at a staging area to board a Blackhawk helicopter for a pre-dawn raid in northeastern Iraq, early Aug. 11, 2003. U.S. soldiers piled out of Blackhawks to raid a remote village near the Iranian border, which they believed one of Iraq's top fugitives had used as base to plot guerrilla attacks on U.S. forces.
U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha company of the 8th Infantry Regiment's 2nd Battalion rest in the shade of an armored medics' vehicle after a pre-dawn raid in the village of Ain Lalin, Iraq, Aug. 11, 2003.
AK-47 assault rifles sit on a Humvee after 67th Armored Regiment's 3rd Battalion seized them from passing cars at a checkpoint following a pre-dawn raid in the village of Ain Lalin, Iraq, Aug. 11, 2003.
A U.S. Army soldier from the 588th Engineering Battalion takes position during a pre-dawn raid in the village of Ain Lalin, Iraq, early Aug. 11, 2003.
U.S. Army soldiers Cpl. Bernard Kintoki, left, and Spc. Aloysius Goodshield of South Dakota, from the 588th Engineering Battalion, take position during a pre-dawn raid in the village of Ain Lalin, Iraq, early Aug. 11, 2003. U.S. soldiers piled out of Blackhawks to raid the remote village near the Iranian border.
A money changer waits for customers at his stall on a street in Basra, southern Iraq, Aug. 12, 2003. Basra residents rioted over the weekend to protest fuel, electricity and water shortages in the southern Iraqi city.
A U.S. soldier directs an Iraq worker, at right, as he puts up barbed wire, during the setting up of a new U.S. army base on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Aug.13, 2003.
U.S. army soldiers from C company, 4th Infantry Division, 3rd Brigade, stand guard at a petrol pump station as vehicles line up to fill up with petrol on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 13, 2003.
A small group of dozens of Iraqis shout anti-American slogans after claiming that U.S. forces attacked them in the Al-Sadr City district in Baghdad, Iraq, on Aug. 13, 2003. According to the protesters, a U.S. military helicopter overflew a tower where religious flags were flying and tried to take down a flag and later opened fire on the people.
A young Iraqi boy plays on the launcher of an Iraqi missile, Aug. 14, 2003, in Baghdad.
An Iraqi prays Friday at the poorest district of Baghdad, Iraq, known as Al Sadr City, Aug. 15, 2003. Tens of thousands of Shiite Muslims gathered to hear their religious leaders speak about the apology that the U.S. forces delivered after an incident Wednesday in which a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter appeared to have purposely blown down a Shiite religious banner.
A young Iraqi woman looks out from the broken window of Baghdad-Mosul train at Baghdad central railway station in Iraq, Aug. 14, 2003. Once a busy route, few Iraqis now take the train from Baghdad to Mosul because of the deteriorating condition of the cars, most of which are not air-conditioned, and travel at dismal speeds.
An Iraqi woman loads her luggage on to Baghdad-Mosul train at Baghdad central railway station, Aug. 14, 2003. Once a busy route, few Iraqis now take the train from Baghdad to Mosul because of the deteriorating condition of the cars, most of which are not air-conditioned, and travel at dismal speeds.
An Iraqi man takes his horse out of the river after giving it a wash in the Tigris River, in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 16, 2003.
An Iraqi policeman stands guard as smoke billows out from the already looted and burned Ministry of Information building in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Aug.17, 2003. The cause of fire was not known.
A U.S. army soldier from 233 Military Police or M.P. tells young Iraqi boys to stay away as his colleagues overpower a car thief, popularly known as Ali Baba, in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 16, 2003.
A U.S. soldier with the 3rd Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, carries out a reconnaissance mission in an abandoned Iraqi military camp in Baqouba, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2003. U.S. troops in the area have been regularly ambushed by assailants detonating roadside bombs and firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles.
Gaida Ali, 13, an Iraqi girl recovers at the Italian Red Cross hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Aug. 17, 2003.Ali lost her one eye as some unknown person shot her while she was going to buy bread for the family.
Iraqi firefighters chat at the scene of the second blaze next to the damaged oil pipeline near the northern Iraqi town of Baiji, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2003. Two ferocious blazes raged out of control along the pipeline that exports Iraq's oil to the north. The fires on the 600-mile pipeline stretching from northern Kirkuk to Turkey, 125 miles northeast of Baghdad, were within miles of each other.
An Iraqi worker climbs down a date palm tree after picking its fruits on one of the private farms in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday Aug. 17, 2003. An estimated 10 percent of the Iraqi workforce depends on dates for living, whether by farming or by processing and packaging the fruit. The date palms tower as majestically as ever, but the clusters of gold-and-brown fruit are only a third of their normal size. The reason is the U.S.-led invasion.