An Iraqi girl washes her hands in the camp for displaced people in the Shuala suburb in western Baghdad, April 30, 2006.
A U.S. Marine pays respects to Lance Cpl. Stephen J. Perez, of San Antonio, Texas, who was killed in a mortar attack on April 13, 2006, at Camp Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, April 28, 2006. At least 2,397 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
An Iraqi mother kisses her son who was wounded in a mortar attack, April 28, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. At least 10 people were wounded, mostly children, when a mortar hit a house in western Baghdad.
Armed Iraqi men guard the funeral procession of the sister of Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who was shot dead along with her bodyguard, April 27, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. Mayson Ahmed Bakir al-Hashimi, 60, a sister of Iraq's new Sunni Arab vice president was killed in a drive-by shooting, one day after her brother called for the Sunni-dominated insurgency to be crushed by force.
An Iraqi man weeps for a child who was killed in a suicide bomb attack on a Baqouba restaurant, April 27, 2006, in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq.
A U.S. Marine crosses a footbridge while patrolling in Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, April 26, 2006.
Iraqi men are silhouetted by a car's headlights in Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, April 25, 2006. In Baghdad, a bomb hidden in a minibus exploded near the offices of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, killing two Iraqi civilians and wounding three.
A U.S. military policeman secures the scene of a bomb explosion in Sadr City, April 25, 2006 in Baghdad. A bomb hidden in a minibus exploded near the offices of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in eastern Baghdad, killing two Iraqi civilians and wounding three, police said.
This is an image made from video originally posted, April 25, 2006 on the Internet showing al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. In the rare video, al-Zarqawi accused the West and the United States of waging a "crusader" war against Islam but said Muslim holy warriors were standing firm. This image was provided via the IntelCenter, which is a private contractor working for intelligence agencies.
U.S. Marine Cpl. Daniel Spall, of Indianapolis, Ind., leads a patrol in Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, April 25, 2006.
U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Russ Damis, of Paramus, N.J., rests during his patrol, in the kitchen of an Iraqi house, while a woman who lives there walks by, in Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, April 25, 2006.
Iraqis stand in front of a vegetable stall as a U.S. Marine patrol passes in Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, April 24, 2006.
A sand storm masks Iraqi soldiers as they march during a ceremony in which the 8th Iraqi Army assumed roughly 28,824 square kilometers of operational area in the Najaf Province of Iraq, from the U.S. 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, April 24, 2006. Najaf is about 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq.
An Iraqi girl sits in her mother's arms while family members are searched by a U.S. Marine at a checkpoint in Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, April 24, 2006.
An Iraqi man collapses against a wall in grief at a hospital in Baghdad after learning that a friend was killed by a car bomb explosion at Mustasiriya University, April 24, 2006.
U.S. Marine Cpl. Richard Forrest Risner, of Tomball, Texas, reads a map while on patrol in Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, April 24, 2006.
Iraqi firemen work to extinguish the burning wreckage of a car bomb, April 24, 2006 in Baghdad.
A session of the Saddam Hussein trial begins in Baghdad on Monday, April 24 2006. (1st row L to R) Mohammed Azawi Ali; Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid; Saddam Hussein; (2nd row L to R) Awad Hamed Al-Bandar; Mizhar Abdullah Ruwayyid; (3rd row L to R), Barzan Ibrahim; Ali Dayim Ali and Taha Yassin Ramadan as they appear during their trial which is being held under tight security in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.
An Iraqi boy walks by the wreckage caused by two car bombs which exploded, April 24, 2006 near Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.
An Iraqi soldier secures the scene of a car bomb, April 24, 2006, in Baghdad.