Iraqis inspect the wreckage of two cars at the site of a mortar-shell attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 25, 2005. A mortar round hit a housing complex in the Salihyaa district, wounding two civilians and damaging two cars.
A U.S. Air Force airman adjusts his stocking, hung inside a C-130 cargo plane, in Iraq, Dec. 25, 2005. Approximately 160,000 American troops spent Christmas in Iraq this year.
Worshippers attending Mass are seen through a stained glass window at the Syrian Catholic Church in Baghdad, Iraq, on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2005. Iraq has a small minority of Christians who make up an estimated 3 percent of the 26 million total population.
U.S. soldiers secure the area around an Abrams tank which caught fire after a U.S. convoy was targeted by a roadside bomb in the center of Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 25, 2005, according to Iraqi police.
A member of an Iraqi volunteer group, Santa Claus Family, dances as he delivers presents to an Iraqi man from the town of Hamdaniyeh, near Mosul, northern Iraq, on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24. 2005.
An Iraqi Christian woman holds a rosary during Christmas Eve communion at the Virgin Mary Catholic Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2005. Baghdad's tiny Christian community celebrated a somber Christmas Eve, with a few dozen Catholics holding Mass in the early afternoon to avoid traveling after dark, one of the most dangerous times in the Iraqi capital. An 11 p.m. curfew also bans all traffic.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, center, serves Christmas dinner to soldiers in Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2005. Rumsfeld is in Iraq to thank the troops for their service.
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. April Payne, of San Antonio, Texas, peeks into her stocking a day ahead of Christmas, at the Air Force Theater Hospital where she works in Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 24, 2005. Approximately 160,000 American troops will spend Christmas in Iraq this year.
Released by Xinhua News Agency on Saturday, Dec. 24, 2005, this photo shows a gas station on fire in the west of Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 23, 2005. Two gunmen attacked fuel tanks of the gas station, causing the explosion and big fire.
The barrel of a Kalashnikov automatic rifle rests on the ledge of a roof in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 23, 2005, as several hundred thousand people rallied after noon prayers, with many carrying banners denouncing last week's elections. Large demonstrations broke out across the country to protest what many say were unfair parliamentary elections.
A demonstrator screams slogans in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 23, 2005, as several hundred thousand people rallied after noon prayers, with many carrying banners denouncing last week's elections.
Saddam Hussein addresses the court as his co-defendants sit during their trial in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 22, 2005. Saddam insisted at his trial that he had been beaten by his American captors, calling Washington's denials of abuse lies.
An Iraqi woman reacts while she watches a TV live brodcast of Iraqi former leader Saddam Hussein's trial, with a picture of prominent Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the background, in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 21, 2005.
A truck burns after the convoy carrying U.S. army supplies in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 20, 2005, was attacked.
An Iraqi hospital worker moves a body from the back of a truck toward the morgue in Fallujah, Iraq, Dec. 20, 2005.
A woman watches Iraqi police conduct a raid in her apartment building in Baquoba, 35 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 19, 2005.
Rescue workers and bystanders are seen through the wreckage of a car at the scene of a suicide car bomb in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 19, 2005.
Employees of a hospital react at the scene of a suicide car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 19, 2005.
Rescue workers and a bystander inspect the scene of a suicide car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 19, 2005. The bomb detonated outside a children's hospital in the western part of the city killing at least two people and wounding 11, including seven policemen, officials said. Police believe the bomb had been targeting a passing convoy carrying a police colonel, who was among the injured.
A wounded man is carried from the scene of a suicide car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 19, 2005. The bomb detonated outside a children's hospital in the western part of the city killing at least two people and wounding 11, including seven policemen, officials said. Police believe the bomb had been targeting a passing convoy carrying a police colonel, who was among the injured.