Iraq Photos: Dec. 11 -- Dec. 17

An Iraqi policeman searches a driver in central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 15, 2006. The Iraqi government has imposed a ban on all vehicle traffic on Fridays, fearing yet more attacks on worshippers.

A U.S. military Black Hawk helicopter files over the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006. For several months, U.S. and Iraqi officials have been discussing proposals to transfer responsibility of security in cities such as Baghdad from American forces to newly trained Iraqi police and soldiers.

An Iraqi tries to remove a door of a vehicle destroyed in a car bomb blast in Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006. Explosives planted in the car went off while police were trying to defuse them, killing two policemen and wounding four civilians, police said.

Relatives of Iraqi Shiite Amir Mohammed, 37, cry besides a coffin with his body in front of the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006. He was killed in a car bomb that struck a crowd of mostly poor Shiites in central Baghdad's Tayaran square Tuesday. It killed 63 people and wounded more than 200.

Iraqis look at cars destroyed in a car-bomb explosion in the New Baghdad area in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006.

An Iraqi fireman hoses down debris after a car-bomb explosion in the New Baghdad area in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006. Two car bombs went off in a parking lot in the New Baghdad area.

Iraqis grieve after collecting the remains of their dead relatives outside al Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006. At least 66 people were killed or found dead in the Baghdad area and northern Iraq Monday. They included 46 men who were bound, blindfolded and shot to death in the Iraqi capital.

A U.S. military Apache helicopter flies over the 14th of Ramadan mosque in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006, after a car bomb exploded near a crowded bus stop in eastern Baghdad during morning rush hour in a mostly Shiite area.

An Iraqi police officer warns off people at the scene of a car-bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006.

Two Iraqis cry in front of al-Kindi hospital, following two synchronized explosions that occurred in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006. Suspected insurgents set off two bombs in a main square of central Baghdad where scores of Iraqis were waiting for jobs as day laborers. Scores were killed and wounded.

Blindfolded terrorist suspects sit in a truck in Iraqi army base in Baqouba, capital of Diyala province, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Tuesday Dec. 12, 2006. Some 30 people were arrested in a raid on the town of Buhriz, just outside Baqouba.

Iraqi children inspect the wreckage of a car at the site where a suicide bomber detonated a pickup truck packed with explosives among a crowd of casual laborers in downtown Baghdad, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006.

An Iraqi man walks amid the rubble at the site where a suicide bomber detonated a pickup truck packed with explosives among a crowd of casual laborers in downtown Baghdad, Tuesday, Dec, 12, 2006.

A wounded Iraqi rests at a hospital in Baghdad, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006. A suicide bomber detonated a pickup truck packed with explosives in the war-torn capital among a crowd of casual laborers in the busy Tayaran Square in the Rusafa district of the city, in at least the fourth attack on mainly Shiite day laborers in the same spot this year.

Shadows of Iraqi onlookers are cast on the ground at the site where a suicide bomber detonated a pickup truck packed with explosives among a crowd of casual laborers in downtown Baghdad, December 12, 2006.

An F-16 fighter jet is seen dropping flares above central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. Dec. 11, 2006. Three American soldiers were killed and two wounded during a late-night combat patrol Sunday, which raised to 46 the number of U. S. troops who have died this month.

An Iraqi man looks at bodies of two Iraqi police officers at a hospital in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 11, 2006. An armed group attacked a police patrol in central Baqouba, killing 2 officers, seizing a police car and some firearms, according to the police.

Kidnappers captured in an Iraqi army raid sit in the Army headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 11, 2006. Iraqi army troops raided Baghdad's Ghazaliyah neighborhood and captured 8 kidnappers and freed 25 hostages.

Iraqi firefighters hose down damaged cars after a parked car bomb detonated near al-Maamoun College in west Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 11, 2006. One college student was killed and four people, including two policemen, were wounded in the explosion.

Iraqi firefighters douse fire that swept over a car in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, Monday, Dec. 11, 2006 at the site where a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car in front of the residence of Brigadier Aras Namik Kaki, head of the criminal investigations and major crimes department in Kirkuk province, wounding 15 people, including the Brigadier, three children and two women.

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