A boy stands near a car destroyed in a car bomb explosion in central Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007. A parked car bomb exploded near an intersection in Mansour, an upscale neighborhood of Baghdad that has been the scene of repeated bombings and kidnappings, killing two people and wounding three, police said.
An Iraqi man watches as soldiers from C. Co., 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, second Infantry Division rest in his garage after searching a neighborhood of auto repair garages in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007. The area was suspected to have been used to build car bombs.
Iraqis gather at the scene of a car bomb blast in central Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007. A car packed with explosives blew up in Baghdad's Shiite Karradah neighborhood, the latest in a series of bombings to hit the area, killing at least five bystanders and wounding 10, including three policemen, police said.
An Iraqi man watches Army Spc. Christopher Harland, 21, from Wildmar, Calif., of C. Co., 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, second Infantry Division search his auto repair garage in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007.
Artillery shells that were used to make a car bomb lay gathered by Iraqi police near the scene of a car bomb blast in central Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007.
An Iraqi army soldier guards the entrance to a Sunni mosque in Baghdad's volatile Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007. Iraqi commanders are urging the Americans to go after Sunni targets as the first focus of the military push to secure Baghdad, displaying a sectarian tilt that is delaying full implementation of the plan to drive gunmen from the streets, U.S. officers say.
Iraqi girls watch Friday prayers in Baghdad's volatile Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 9, 2007.
The brother of Sadiq Ahmed, a victim of a car bomb attack, cries over his coffin in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 9, 2007. Nearly all Shiite Muslims in Iraq request to be buried in Wadi al-Salaam, or The Valley of Peace, one of the largest cemeteries in the world, located in Najaf.
An Iraqi army soldier checks identification papers of a driver at a vehicle checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 9, 2007. Iraqi forces intensified their patrols and put up new checkpoints on the streets of Baghdad, as the long awaited new security operation which will involve about 90,000 Iraqi and American troops and is seen by many as a last chance to curb Iraq's sectarian war is under way in Baghdad.
Soldiers of the U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division raise their rifles after coming under fire from a sniper February 8, 2007 in the violent Gazaliyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.
A U.S. Army CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter files over Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007. A Sea Knight helicopter went down northwest of Baghdad Wednesday, the U.S. military said, the fifth helicopter lost in Iraq in just over two weeks.
A soldier from Delta Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, searches a home near Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007.
An Iraqi carries Narjis Ibrahim, 8, inside Baghdad's al-Kindi hospital in Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007. Narjis was injured when two mortar shells slammed into northeastern Baghdad's Rashidiya neighborhood, killing one person and wounding another seven, police said.
A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter flies over Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone in Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007. The U.S. military said it was investigating reports that an aircraft went down Wednesday, five days after a U.S. Army helicopter crashed in a hail of gunfire north of Baghdad. It was the fourth helicopter lost in Iraq in a two-week span.
An Iraqi army soldier controls traffic at a vehicle checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007.
An Iraqi boy injured in a car-bomb explosion receives medical care in a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007. A parked car bomb went off Tuesday afternoon in eastern Baghdad, killing five people and wounding another 12, police said.
An Iraqi soldier mans a machine gun as he controls a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007.
Jassim Abdul Rahman carries his daughter Mariam as he walks over the rubble of his destroyed house in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007. A mortar round landed on the home in central Baghdad Sunday morning, killing his wife Nihad Hameed.
Blindfolded terrorist suspects sit in an Iraqi army base in Baqouba, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007. Seventeeen wanted terrorists and 20 suspects were apprehended in a joint U.S. and Iraqi army raid that took place on the outskirts of the neighboring town of Muqdadiyah Monday morning.
An Iraqi security guard passes a car destroyed in a car-bomb blast in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007. Two people were killed and another 10 wounded in the explosion in a mainly Christian enclave in southeast Baghdad, police said.