Suspects detained in a joint U.S. and Iraqi army raid stand in front of an Iraqi army vehicle in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2007. The joint operation resulted in 36 suspects being detained and terrorist material being seized.
People carry a coffin with the body of their dead relative in front of Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital morgue, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2007. Bombings and shootings killed at least 14 people across Iraq on Sunday, as Iraqi troops waged a fresh battle to oust militias and pacify the capital.
British army soldiers take defensive positions after their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2007.
Iraqis gather around a car destroyed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2007. A parked car bomb targeted the convoy of the head of emergency police in the Iraqi capital, Maj. Gen. Ali al-Yassiri in central Baghdad's Karradah neighborhood, killing one pedestrian and wounding six others, police said.
An Iraqi offers his prayers in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, Friday, Jan. 5, 2007. According to media reports, President Bush is likely to replace top figures responsible for carrying out his military and diplomatic strategies in Iraq as he prepares to outline a new direction for the war that has raged for nearly four years.
An Iraqi boy looks around as people pray in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 5, 2007. According to media reports, U.S. president George W. Bush is likely to replace top figures responsible for carrying out his military and diplomatic strategies in Iraq as he prepares to outline a new direction for the war that has raged for nearly four years.
An Iraqi police officer walks away from a car bomb scene in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007, as morticians cover the body of one of the bomb victims. Two bombs exploded in Baghdad's upscale Mansour neighborhood, killing at least 13 people and wounding 25, police said.
Iraqi firefighters extinguish a flame at the scene of a car bomb in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007.
An Iraqi gets ready to hit a hanged effigy of the executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with his shoe, while a poster picturing the powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hangs beside during a protest in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007. More than 1,500 demonstrators took to the streets in Basra in support of Saddam's execution.
An Iraqi Shiite girl drinks water from a tap in a camp for Baghdad's displaced Shiite families in Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007.
A U. S. military helicopter flies over central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007. An American soldier was killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol south of Baghdad, the U.S. military reported Wednesday.
A U.S. Army soldier inspects a back yard of a house on the outskirts of Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007, during a joint raid with the Iraqi army. 10 suspects were detained and terrorist material and weapons were seized in the raid.
Sunni Arab Iraqis tape portraits of executed former president Saddam Hussein to their taxi, in the Sunni-stronghold of Tikrit, Jan. 3, 2007. Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki wants to punish a senior official who filmed Saddam Hussein's execution, then leaked the footage showing him taunted by Shiite guards, officials said.
Iraqis gather to inspect a vehicle that was destroyed in a bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007. A booby trapped car went off in Baghdad's primarily Shiite Karradah neighborhood, wounding two people and damaging several cars and shops in the area, police said.
An Iraqi youngster grieves during a mourning procession in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City neighborhood, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007. The residents of Sadr City organized the procession for two people killed by unknown gunmen in a Sunni-populated area in central Baghdad.
An Iraqi inspects a house damaged in a roadside bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007. A bomb hidden in a pile of garbage detonated in eastern Baghdad, killing three persons and injuring seven more, police said.
A truck damaged in a roadside bomb blast stands on a street in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007. A bomb hidden in a pile of garbage detonated in eastern Baghdad, killing three persons and injuring seven more, police said.
Iraqis protest against the execution of the country's former president Saddam Hussein in the Sunni stronghold of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007. Sunni Muslims, angered by Saddam's execution and the way his hanging was carried out, have taken to the streets in recent days in mainly peaceful demonstrations in Sunni enclaves across the country.
An Iraqi holds out his hand covered with sheep's blood while protesters carry posters of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Al-Dor, 70 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 1, 2007. More than 1,000 protesters, some of them armed with rifles and RPG launchers, marched the town streets, expressing their anger over the execution of the ousted Iraqi dictator.
A U.S. Army soldier from the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, scans a street in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Jan. 1, 2007.