Smoke rises after a mini bus blew up in central Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Jan 21, 2007. A bomb struck a small bus headed to a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad on Sunday, killing six passengers and wounding 10, police said.
A man checks debris after a car bomb parked opposite to a restaurant exploded in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007. Six people were wounded in the blast.
Iraqi fire fighters hose a mini bus after it blew up in central Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Jan. 21, 2007. A bomb struck a small bus headed to a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad on Sunday, killing six passengers and wounding 10, police said.
Iraqi police stand around the lifeless body of a man who they say was a foreign militant from Afghanistan, in front of Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan 20, 2007. The man was killed during clashes with Iraqi police at Baghdad's troublesome neighborhood of Dora.
The sun sets behind heavily fortified Green Zone that houses the U.S. Embassy and Iraqi government offices in Baghdad Jan. 19, 2007. U.S. and Iraqi forces are gearing up for a major neighborhood-by-neighborhood sweep aimed at quelling the spiraling violence in the capital.
A man prays at the Imam Ali shrine in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Jan. 18, 2007.
People stand in front of a building and a mosque damaged in a blast in central Baghdad during morning rush hour Jan. 18, 2007. A parked car bomb that targeted a police patrol killed two and wounded two officers. Two civilians were killed and nine wounded in the blast as well.
People pass the damaged offices of a bank in al-Mashtal in eastern Baghdad Jan. 18, 2007, after a parked car bomb exploded.
Relatives cry after collecting the bodies of their loved ones from al-Kindi hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007. Twin car bombs tore through a leading Baghdad university Tuesday as students left classes in the deadliest attack in Iraq in nearly two months killing at least 70 students.
Workers remove a car destroyed outside Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007, where 70 students were killed and 133 were wounded in twin car bomb blasts Tuesday.
A wounded student rests at al-Kindi hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007. Twin car bombs tore through a leading Baghdad university as students left classes in the deadliest attack in Iraq in nearly two months killing at least 70 students.
An Iraqi army soldier mans a checkpoint outside Baghdad's Mustansiryah University, Wednesday, January 17, 2007, a day after it was targeted by twin bombings. Seventy people, including students and teachers, were killed in the most devastating Iraq attack this year as a suicide bomber and a car bomb wreaked havoc outside the university.
Bystanders and a firefighter carry the body of a victim outside Al-Mustansriya University in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007.
People stand by a police officer's car destroyed after explosives were planted in Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. One woman was hurt in the blast.
People remove the top of a van that exploded after a bomb was planted in Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. Two passengers were killed in the blast and ten others were injured, police said.
A woman walks through a pool of blood at Bab al-Sheik market in central Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. Two bombs were detonated five minutes apart Tuesday in a used motorcycle marketplace in central Baghdad, killing at least 15 people and wounding 74 others, police said.
A man kisses the grave of Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, who had been executed along with Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief, Monday in Baghdad, at daybreak Tuesday Jan 16, 2007, in Ouja, 70 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq.
People carry the coffins of Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court who were executed at dawn Monday in Baghdad, in Ouja, 70 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Jan. 15, 2007.
A predominantly Kurdish Iraq Army 1st Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 4th Division prepare to leave their camp in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad, Monday Jan. 15, 2007. A predominantly Kurdish battalion based in this northern city started moving to Baghdad Monday where it's members will undergo military training before taking part in a major security plan that aims to pacify the Iraqi capital.
Iraqi Shiites celebrate the executions of two of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants, his half brother and the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Monday Jan. 15, 2007. Framed photograph show Shiite religious leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.