Iraqi mourners carry the coffin of Sheik Dhamer al-Dhari, a Sunni Muslim cleric who was killed the day before, during his funeral in Baghdad Sunday, Feb. 22, 2004. The killing of al-Dhari, gunned down Saturday night as he was leaving his mosque, is seen as another sign of growing tensions between different religious and political groups in Iraq.
A veiled Iraqi policewoman, employed to provide security at the front door to the hospital in Fallujah, Iraq, sits next to two assult rifles at her desk Sunday, Feb. 22, 2004. Security has been enforced around the police stations and public buildings in the so-called Sunni Triangle area of Iraq after last weekend's attacks in Fallujah that left 25 Iraqis dead.
Iraqi Dhia al-Hariri looks out the door of a prison cell Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004, which was built inside his family home by Saddam Hussein's regime while he was outside the country living in exile. Al-Hariri returned to Iraq after decades in exile to reclaim his father's beloved home, only to find it turned into a house of horrors.
Iraqi Dhia al-Hariri points at a etching on the wall of a prison cell Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004, which was built inside his family home by Saddam Hussein's regime while he was outside the country living in exile.
Iraqi Ali Kassem lies in a hospital bed in Baghdad after a roadside bomb exploded near his car. The bomb apparently was intended to strike against a U.S. military convoy which passed by moments earlier Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004.
Iraqis look over the remains of a civilian car which was attacked near Haswa, 25 miles south of Baghdad, Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004. Insurgents fired on a U.S. military convoy, killing an Iraqi translator and wounding four American soldiers, the U.S. command in Baghdad said.
An Iraqi walks past pro-election posters and photos of Iraq's top shiite cleric Ayatollah al-Sistani, Friday, Feb. 20, 2004. Iraqi politicians gave mixed reviews Friday to a U.N. recommendation against early elections but said they would await the details before deciding how best to form a new government to take power from the U.S.-led coalition after June 30.
An armed Iraqi security guard stands on a rooftop, overlooking a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, during a gathering of clerics and tribal elders to call for unity among Sunni and Shiite muslims and to discuss the future of Iraqi governance, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004.
U.S. soldiers interrogate detainees during a joint night raid by U.S. troops and Iraqi police in Baquoba, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004. Twenty-two people were arrested in the raid, with U.S. forces claiming that seven of those arrested were linked to Al-Qaida.
A U.S. soldier guards detainees sitting in the back of a truck, following a joint raid by U.S. troops and Iraqi police in Baquoba, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004.
Mirzal Hashim Mohammed, left, who owns a vast piece of land where the Japanese Self-Defense Forces are constructing their camp, holds his prayers beads during an interview in Samawa, 230 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004.
Iraqi boys and an Iraqi policeman remove furniture from an explosion site after two explosives-laden trucks were detonated outside a Polish military camp in Hillah, south of Baghdad, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004.
An Iraqi man looks out from a destroyed room in one of three buildings badly damaged when two explosives-laden trucks were detonated outside a Polish military camp in Hillah, south of Baghdad,Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004.
U.S. military vehicles block a highway as a U.S. soldier collects evidence at the scene of a roadside bombing in Baghdad Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004.
A U.S. Army helicopter gunner surveys the countryside of Iraq for possible threats in a helicopter convoy transporting L. Paul Bremer, U.S. top administrator in Iraq, to Baghdad from Karbala Feb. 16, 2004.
Hooded and handcuffed prisoners, accused of the murder of Iraqi Governing Council member Aquila al-Hashimi, are led down the stairs by Iraqi police at Baghdad's main police academy, Feb. 16, 2004. Hashemi was shot by gunmen in front of her Baghdad home Sept. 20, 2003.
U.S. Military Police arrive to secure the Khadimiya primary school compound in Baghdad, Iraq, after schoolchildren, playing during their recess period, accidentally detonated a grenade, Feb. 16, 2004, which killed one child and wounded four others.
U.S. Military Police chase away Iraqi onlookers, as they secure the Khadimiya primary school compound in Baghdad, Iraq, after schoolchildren, playing during their recess period, accidentally detonated a grenade, Feb. 16, 2004. One child was killed and four others were wounded.
Iraqi school children walk past barbed wire on their way to school in Baghdad, Iraq on Feb. 16, 2004, the second day after classes opened for this school year. Throughout Iraq, about 4 million students trooped to schools, which were disrupted last year due to the war.
An armed Iraqi police officer stands guard during an investigation at the site of explosion at a CD shop in Samawah, 230 miles southeast of Baghdad, Feb. 17, 2004. Police said the cause of the explosion was TNT.