A policeman stands by a car that was involved in a car bomb explosion that killed at least 20 and wounded 36 others in Kirkuk, Iraq, Sept. 4, 2004.
Insurgents cheer and gesture victory signs at Tal Afar, near Mosul, northern Iraq, Sept. 5, 2004.
U.S. Abrams tanks patrol in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 4, 2004.
Fire fighters try to contain a fire in an oil pipeline near the northern town of Riyadh, about 40 miles southwest of Kirkuk, Sept. 4, 2004, after it was attacked by saboteurs. The line links fields near Kirkuk with the oil refinery of Beiji.
Women from "Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq" call on US troops to leave Iraq, during a demonstration in Baghdad, Sept. 4, 2004. They also demanded that the fundamentalist separatist organizations working out of Iraq should stop their disruptive activities and leave Iraq.
An U.S. soldier stands guard near a damaged car after an explosion targetting an U.S. patrol in the Karradah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 4, 2004.
Unidentified women grieve after a car bomb explosion killed at least 20 and wounded 36 others in Kirkuk, Iraq, Sept. 4, 2004. A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside the police academy.
Firefighters try to contain an oil pipeline fire at Hartha, 19 miles north of Basra, Iraq, Sept. 4, 2004.
Neighbors look at the damage caused to a residence in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 3, 2004, after mortar shells landed on it Thursday night. No one was injured in the attack that also destroyed a pharmacy in the adjoining Ibn al-Haitham hospital.
People look at a destroyed police car in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 2, 2004. The car came under grenade attack and one policeman was injured.
Fire rages in an oil pipeline near the northern town of Riyadh, about 40 miles southwest of Kirkuk, Iraq after it was attacked by saboteurs, Sept. 2, 2004. The line links fields near Kirkuk with the oil refinery of Beiji.
Local residents stand near destroyed cars that were hit in an U.S. airstrike in Fallujah, Iraq, Sept. 2, 2004. 17 people, including 3 children were killed according to hospital officials. The U.S. military said the strike hit a reputed safehouse used by followers of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
A young boy walks inside a large crater with household materials like sleeping mats strewn around in Fallujah, Iraq, Sept. 2, 2004, after an U.S. airstrike.
U.S. soldiers keep guard after several mortar rounds exploded near the convention center where delegates to Iraq's new National Council met inside the heavily guarded Green Zone, Iraq, Sept. 1, 2004.
Children walk on a main street filled with garbage and stagnant water caused by a lack of maintenance due to months of sporadic fighting between U.S. soldiers and militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 31, 2004.
Police officers deploy in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad for the first time after three weeks of clashes as a truce was declared between U.S. soldiers and militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 31, 2004.
Children look at damages done to a shop front in the last few days of sporadic gunfights between U.S. soldiers and militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr at Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 30, 2004.
Iraqi men walk past a mural on the blast wall that surrounds the French Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 30, 2004.
Iraqi soldiers keep guard in Najaf, Iraq, Aug. 30, 2004. After last Friday's peace deal between rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and U.S. soldiers in Najaf, the situation is slowly getting back to normal.
Children play near homes adorned with posters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, as relative calm, brought by cease-fire negotiations between coalition soldiers and militia loyal to al-Sadr, returns to the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 30, 2004.