A U.S. soldier from 1-8, 3rd Brigade, of the 4th Infantry Division uses a sledge hammer to break the padlock of a store in the industrial zone of Samarra, Iraq, on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003. U.S. forces launched a major sweep in the town of Samarra, breaking down doors and searching shops for guerrilla leaders in an effort to stamp out the insurgency in the area, which has seen a number of ambushes on U.S. forces.
U.S. Army troops patrol the streets of Samarra Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003. U.S. forces launched a major sweep in the town of Samarra, breaking down doors and searching shops for guerrilla leaders in an effort to stamp out the insurgency in the area, which has seen a number of ambushes on U.S. forces.
Residents of Baghdad gather around the wreckage of a small bus at the scene of an explosion in Baghdad, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003. A truck loaded with explosives rammed into the bus and exploded near a police station, killing at least 10 people.
Supporters of Saddam Hussein chant anti-US slogans in Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003.
A U.S. soldier inspects burned-out cars, destroyed in the blast of a truck bombing in Baghdad, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003. A truck loaded with explosive rammed into a small bus and exploded near a police station, killing at least 10 people.
Mourners chant anti-American slogans during the funeral procession for Iraqi Shamil Nafe, 30, along the streets of Baghdad's Adhamiya area, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003. Nafe was killed by the U.S forces the previous day when a demontration supporting former captured Iraqi President Saddam Hussein took place in Adhamiya and ended with clashes with the U.S forces.
An unidentified gunner operates a machine gun on a U.S. Army helicopter patrolling the area of Adwar, some 10 miles from Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 15, 2003. A 600-strong U.S. combat team captured the former Iraqi leader in the village of Adwar on Saturday.
Mourners carry the body of Iraqi Shamil Nafe, 30, along the streets of Baghdad's Adhamiya area during his funeral procession, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003. Nafe was killed by U.S forces Monday when a demonstration supporting captured former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein took place in Adhamiya and ended in clashes with the U.S forces.
Members of pro-Iranian al-Da'wa party celebrate the capture of the ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in Basra Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003. Over Saddam's picture is written; The Fall of the Devil" and at the bottom it reads " The Hero of Dark Holes."
Iraqis loot a U.S. Army supply train near Fallujah after it came under attack Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003.
An American soldier from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Regiment, (1-22) of the 4th Infantry Division secures an area near the government building in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003. Three U.S. soldiers were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
Iraqis stand next to a Toyota Land Cruiser that a suicide bomber detonated next to the gate of a police station in Baghdad's northern Husainiyah district, Monday, Dec. 15, 2003. Eight policemen were killed in the attack.
An unidentified U.S soldier looks at Iraqis gathering at the scene where seven Iraqi police officers were wounded when a car bomb exploded in the western Ameriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Dec. 15, 2003. Eight others were killed in a separate attack in a northern suburb.
People stand outside the police station where a suicide bomber killed eight Iraqi policemen in Baghdad's northern Husainiyah district, Monday, Dec. 15, 2003.
On Monday Dec. 15, 2003, a U.S. soldier from the 4th Infantry Division guards the room were Saddam Hussein lived before he hid in his spider hole, prior to his Dec. 13 capture on a farm near Tikrit, northern Iraq.
Dirty dishes sit atop a makeshift sink and a stove on Monday, Dec. 15, 2003, in a hut where former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was living before hiding in his spider hole, in Ad Dwar, just southeast of Tikrit, Iraq. Saddam was found hidden in the hole, just meters away from the kitchen, by U.S. troops from the 4th Infantry Division.
U.S. soldiers demonstrate the removal of the cover of the spider hole used by Saddam Hussein before he was captured last Saturday, on a farm near Tikrit, northern Iraq.
A U.S. soldier demonstrates access to the spider hole used by Saddam Hussein before he was captured on Dec. 13, 2003, on a farm near Tikrit, northern Iraq.
A U.S. soldier stands Monday Dec. 15, 2003, at the entrance of the farm where Saddam Hussein was living before he was captured on a farm near Tikrit, northern Iraq, The blue letter on left is not an arabic letter; a U.S. army officer said that it could be a code.
U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer walks through the streets of Basra, Iraq, during a visit Friday, Dec. 19, 2003. Bremer escaped a rebel ambush on his convoy two weeks ago, authorities said Friday. Nobody was injured in the attack on Bremer's convoy on Dec. 6, the same day as a visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a spokesman said.