An Iraqi policeman monitors the scene after a car bomb exploded in front of a hospital in the mostly Shiite town of Musayyib, about 35 miles south of Baghdad, Feb. 12, 2005. The attack came a day after 23 people were killed in two attacks aimed at the Shiite community.
Two children peer through the window to look at the blood-soaked front cabin of a car hit by the blast from the car bomb in Musayyib, Feb. 12, 2005.
An Iraqi tank driver watches an American jet fighter roar overhead, Feb. 11, 2005, at a joint U.S.-Iraqi military base at Taji, outside of Baghdad, as U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, center, speaks with senior Iraqi officers about 1st Mechanized Brigade, one of the country's new military forces.
An Iraqi boy walks past U.S. Army soldiers on patrol in Mosul, Feb. 11, 2005. Earlier Friday, Rumsfeld addressed commanders and troops at a U.S. military airfield in Mosul.
Two boys look at the scene of a shooting in a bakery in Baghdad, Feb. 11, 2005. Masked gunmen opened fire on a crowd at the bakery in the New Baghdad area Friday, killing 11 people, police and witnesses said.
A team of Iraqi Emergency Response Unit troopers jog away from a firing range outside of Baghdad,Feb. 11, 2005. U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld watched the troopers demonstrate their weapons and combat training.
A man grieves at the scene of a shooting at a bakery in the New Baghdad area of the Iraqi capital, Feb. 11, 2005.
Wearing a black veil, the aunt of a man killed by an early morning car bombing in Tahrir square in central Baghdad grieves over his body in the al-Kindi hospital in Baghdad, Feb. 10, 2005.
A procession of drummers is reflected in a poster of Imam Ali, cousin of the Prophet Mohammed, in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Feb. 10, 2005, ahead of the Shiite celebrations of Ashoura. Imam Hussein was beheaded 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.
The scene of an early morning car bomb explosion is seen in Tahrir square in central Baghdad, Feb. 10, 2005. At least four people were killed, police and witnesses said.
A man looks at the scene of an early morning car bomb which exploded in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, Feb. 10, 2005, killing at least four people, police and witnesses said.
A U.S. Army Stryker combat vehicle drives through falling snow at Forward Operating Base Marez in the northern city of Mosul, Feb. 9, 2005.
Soliders of U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, raid a building while searching for insurgent weapons in Mosul, Feb. 9, 2005.
The flak jacket of a dead police officer, shredded by shrapnel, lies on the ground outside a morgue, after a blast shook an Iraqi army recruiting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 8, 2005. Police and hospital officials said up to 14 people were killed.
Hospital workers bring a body into the al-Yarmouk hospital after a blast shook an Iraqi army recruiting center in Baghdad, Feb. 8, 2005. Police and hospital officials said up to 14 people were killed.
Children walk to school on the first day of school following the spring break, past graffiti in support of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, in the Sadr City area of western Baghdad, Feb. 7, 2005.
A flock of pigeons flies past the Shiite holy shrine of Imam Ali, cousin of the Prophet Mohammed, in Najaf, Feb. 7, 2005. Shiites are expected to win the majority of the votes in the recent general election.
Children gather around soldiers of U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, on patrol in Mosul, Feb. 7, 2005. In another section of Mosul, a suicide bomber killed 12 policemen guarding a hospital and wounded four others Monday, hospital officials said.
Residents look through the windows of a van destroyed during an overnight patrol by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers in the Sadr City area of western Baghdad, Feb. 7, 2005. According to eyewitnesses, an Iraqi man was shot by U.S. or Iraqi forces during the incident.