An Iraqi policeman stands at the scene of a fatal drive-by shooting in the Amiriyah area of Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 20, 2005. Officials said unidentified foreign security forces shot at the car, killing a woman and injuring another person traveling with her in the car.
The shattered and blood-spattered windscreen of a car shot at by unidentified foreign security forces is seen in the Amiriyah area of Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 20, 2005.
An unidentified woman waits in shock at al-Yarmouk Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 19, 2005, for her baby to be treated after being injured in a suicide bomb attack. The attack targeted a tent erected for a funeral on the day of Ashoura, the holiest day in the Shiite Muslim calendar.
A young boy standing outside a building damaged by the blast appears to be comforted at the scene of an explosion near an Ashoura procession in the Shiite Ash Shulah district northwest of the city center in Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 18, 2005.
Capt. Brian Westerfield of the U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, walks away from a car that was set on fire by U.S. troops in Mosul, Iraq, Feb 18, 2005, after a cache of insurgent weapons was found inside.
Locals start to sweep up at the scene following a bomb-blast at the al-Khadimain mosque in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 18, 2005. Three explosions aimed at Shiite worshipers ripped through Baghdad during prayers.
Men alleged to be insurgents are paraded by police along with the weapons that were captured from them in Karbala, Iraq, Feb. 18, 2005, as security was stepped up on the eve of Ashoura, the holiest day of the Shiite Muslim calendar.
Locals look on as a U.S. Humvee waits at the scene of a suicide bomb-blast at the al-Khadimain mosque in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 18, 2005.
Officers from U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, and a masked Iraqi interpreter working with the Army, question an Iraqi boy while investigating a series of roadside bombs in Mosul, Iraq, Feb. 17, 2005. One bomb was detonated as a U.S. Army convoy passed Thursday, and several others were located. There were no casualties.
Soldiers from the U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, raid a building in Mosul, Iraq, Feb. 17, 2005. The troops were searching for a suspected insurgent weapons provider.
Soldiers of the U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, gather around the crater left by a roadside bomb attack on a U.S. Army convoy in Mosul, Iraq, Feb. 17, 2005.
A local resident looks back at the scene of an overnight bomb attack on a U.S. convoy of armored vehicles on the outskirts of Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 70 miles west of Baghdad, Feb. 17, 2005.
Shiite followers stroll outside the holy shrine of Imam Abbas in Karbala, Iraq, Feb. 16, 2005, in the lead-up to the day of Ashoura, the 10th day of the month of Muharram, which started last week. Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, was beheaded in Karbala in 680 AD in a battle over the line of succession to the Prophet Mohammed, and the event is celebrated by Shiites today as the festival of Ashoura.
Shiite followers parade to commemorate the death of Imam Hussein in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq , Feb. 16, 2005.
A young man chants in support of insurgents, saying "Long life, Saddam Hussein" at the scene of a car bombing which struck a convoy of Stryker combat vehicles from the U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, injuring four soldiers, in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul, Feb. 16, 2005. The vehicle pictured was not part of the convoy but was struck by the blast from the suicide-bomber's vehicle.
Iraqi police guard the shrine of Imam Hussein, below a poster of top Shiite cleric Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, top-left, amid increased security in Karbala, Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2005, in the lead-up to the day of Ashoura, the 10th day of the month of Muharram, which started last Thursday.
U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers secure the scene after insurgents set fire to a truckload of communications cable in Mosul, Iraq Tuesday, Feb 15, 2005.
Smoke obscures the sun and the sky above a still-burning oil pipeline, after insurgents blew it up at the North Oil Company's Al-Dibbis oil field near Kirkuk, in the northern Kurdish area of Iraq, Feb. 14, 2005. The pipeline supplied oil for internal use and the damage will hamper the country's oil production, officials said. (AP Photo/Sasa Kralj)
U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers detain an Iraqi man while searching for insurgents in Mosul, Iraq, Feb. 14, 2005. At least nine insurgents were killed in a running gun battle with U.S. forces in Mosul.
An oil pipeline burns after insurgents blew it up at the North Oil Company's Al-Dibbis oil field near Kirkuk, in the northern Kurdish area of Iraq Monday, Feb. 14, 2005. The pipeline supplied oil for internal use and the damage will hamper the country's oil production, officials said.