Iraqis check two cars that were destroyed after an U.S. tank drove over them, in central Baghdad, Dec. 12, 2004.
Twenty-two-year-old Hassan Kadim waits for further medical attention in Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital, Dec. 12, 2004, after he was wounded during clashes between U.S. forces and insurgents in Yusufiyah, six miles south of Baghdad.
An Iraqi woman passes election campaign posters in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 11, 2004. The commission organizing elections extended the deadline for filing candidates' lists for five days after several parties requested more time to prepare their slates.
A firefighter hoses what is left of a car bomb that exploded as a U.S. military convoy passed, Dec. 11, 2004, in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, wounding no American forces, the military said.
Although wounded, Staff Sgt. Shannon Kay of 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, fires on an enemy position after being attacked with a car bomb, Dec. 11, 2004, in Mosul, Iraq.
An Iraqi policeman stands near the body of an insurgent in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 10, 2004. The militant was killed along with one comrade while firing mortar rounds towards al-Muthana airport which houses an American base in the city's western district of Ali al-Saleh.
Iraqi men pray at Sunni Ibrahim al-Khalil Mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 10, 2004.
Iraqi police officers stand near the covered bodies of two dead insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 10, 2004.
Iraqi people gather near the remains of a car bomb in Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 9, 2004. A car bomb exploded in a crowded market in this northern city and caused Iraqi casualties, the police and U.S. military said.
A man cheers next to burning pickup trucks of Iraqi National Guard in Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 9 2004, after they were hit by a roadside bomb.
People walk past a poster of Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 8, 2004. Al-Sistani issued a fatwa, or religious rulling, in mid-October to encourage people to vote in Iraq's upcoming elections.
A Palestinian Red Crescent worker pauses in the agency's pharmacy in Baghdad, Dec. 8, 2004. U.S. forces raided Palestinian Red Crescent offices and arrested 10 people.
An Iraqi and his son stand outside their shop in Baghdad's Kadesia district as a U.S. soldier walks past, Dec 8, 2004. U.S. troops searched houses in the neighborhood for weapons.
Iraqi Brig. Gen. Ali al-Moussawi, right, questions members of a ship's crew who were arrested near the Abu Feloos port, south of Basra, Dec. 7, 2004. Iraqi border guards stopped a Ghanian-flagged ship was carrying 1,950 tons of smuggled crude oil and arrested its crew, a border commander said.
A U.S. military helicopter lands at Baghdad's heavily protected Green Zone at sunset, Dec. 7, 2004.
Two Iraqi police patrol cars burn after they were attacked by insurgents in Ramadi, Iraq, Dec. 7 2004.
U.S. troops inspect a shop in Baghdad that was destroyed by an explosion, Dec. 7, 2004. The shop, close to Baghdad's dangerous airport highway, was bombed after the owner refused to cooperate with insurgents, according to neighbors.
U.S. troops inspect the site where they have detonated an abandoned car packed with explosives in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 6, 2004.
Iraqi women pass U.S. soldiers who guard Iraqi Red Crescent offices in Baghdad, Dec. 6 2004.
Medics treat Iraqi policeman Ahmed Ali in a Baqouba, Iraq, hospital, Dec. 6, 2004. He was one of several people wounded when a gunman tried to assasinate an Iraqi police colonel in Baqouba.