Iraqi Shiites denounce Sunday's attack on the home of Mohammed Saeed al-Hakim, one of Iraq's most influential clerics, in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2003. Three bodyguards were killed, and members of his family were injured when Al-Hakim's house was bombed. Al-Hakim himself came away from the blast with minimal injuries. Relatives blamed terrorists for the bomb, hidden in a gas cylinder.
U.S. soldiers make way as the car carrying the remains of an U.N Iraqi worker, draped in a UN flag, leaves for funeral services from the bombed U.N. compound in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Aug.25, 2003. On Tuesday Aug 19, a deadly truck bomb exploded near the United Nations building, killing 23 people and injuring 100 others.
A camel trader rides one of the herd while he walks them to a local market, Monday, Aug. 25, 2003, in the town of Al-Kifel, Iraq.
Iraqi workers carry sand bags inside The International Committee of the Red Cross or ICRC office for making it more secure in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 25, 2003. ICRC said on Sunday it was reducing the number of its personnel working in Baghdad after receiving warnings that the organization might be a terror target.
U.S. soldiers stand over two Iraqi men while their family look on during a raid on scores of houses in Khalis, a town about 40 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003. Hundreds of U.S. troops from the 4th Infantry Division were involved in the operation, launched to catch members of a criminal gang operating in the town. U.S. forces accuse the gang of carrying out attacks against American soldiers.
A U.S. soldier searches an Iraqi man during the Khalis raid on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003. Hundreds of U.S. troops from the 4th Infantry Division were involved in the operation to catch members of a criminal gang.
U.S. soldier search an Iraqi home in a raid on Khalis, a town about 40 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003. Hundreds of U.S. troops from the 4th Infantry Division were involved in the operation, launched to catch members of a criminal gang operating in the town.
U.S. troops prepare to enter a house while inhabitants look on during a raid on scores of houses in Khalis, a town about 43 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003. Hundreds of U.S. troops from the 4th Infantry Division were involved in the operation which was launched to catch members of a criminal gang operating in the town. U.S. forces accuse the gang of carrying out attacks against American soldiers.
British soldiers patrol Basra, about 350 miles from Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday evening, Aug. 26, 2003.
Two unidentifed American soldiers question two men at a military checkpoint near Basra, 372 miles south of Baghdag, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003. The military forces in Iraq have stepped up security on all roads with the increase of U.S. soldiers being killed.
An U.S. soldier standing next to an Iraqi national flag is reflected onto a puddle of water during the inauguration of Baghdad's first renovated fire station, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2003.
A herd of camels, Iraqi ships of the desert, roam freely on the highway near Basra, 372 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2003. The U.S. military, for security reasons, have closed large parts of main highways in Iraq, allowing herders to take the animals from place to place with ease.
People sift through the wreckage after a car bomb exploded next to Imam Ali shrine Friday, Aug. 29, 2003, in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq. A massive car bomb exploded after Friday prayers at Iraq's holiest Muslim mosque killing at least 75 people, including Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, one of the country's most important Muslim clerics.
The body of a victim is found in the rubble after a car bomb exploded next to Imam Ali shrine Friday, Aug. 29, 2003, in Najaf, 102 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 75 people, including Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, one of the country's most important Muslim clerics.
A Shiite Muslim man grieves Friday, Aug. 29, 2003, in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, after a bomb exploded at the holiest Shiite Muslim site in Najaf. A massive car bomb exploded after Friday prayers at the Imam Ali mosque, in Najaf,102 miles south of Baghdad, killing at least 75 people, including Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, one of the country's most respected Muslim clerics.
Iraqi protestors carry a banner showing Iraqi Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim as they demonstrate in Baghdad Saturday, Aug. 30, 2003, against a bombing in Najaf that killed the cleric along with as many as 84 others.
Handcuffed Iraqi men sit behind wire fences after they were detained by U.S. Army soldiers from the 4th Battalion, 42 Field Artillery, during a pre-dawn raid in the village of Hamreen, northeastern Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2003.
A U.S. Army soldier from the 4th Battalion, 42 Field Artillery, leads an Iraqi man to questioning during a pre-dawn raid in the village of Hamreen, northeastern Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2003.
A U.S. Army soldier from the 4th Battalion, 42 Field Artillery, stands guard near handcuffed Iraqi detainees during a pre-dawn raid in the village of Hamreen, northeastern Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2003.
Thousands of Shiite Muslims at the Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala, Iraq's second holiest city, on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2003, walk with the symbolic coffin of the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir Al-Hakim. He was killed Friday in a bombing at a mosque in Najaf, 110 miles from Baghdad.