A U.S. Army soldier looks through his rifle scope after a roadside bomb struck his convoy in Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 21, 2005.
U.S. soldiers and the Iraqi police secure the area following a car bomb explosion in front of a Shiite mosque in Baghdad,Jan 21, 2005. A car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad where worshippers were celebrating a major Muslim holiday.
Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit escort detainees back to a vehicle after capturing them during a raid in Jabella, Iraq, Jan. 19, 2005.
A coffin of an Iraqi street sweeper killed in a blast, lays on the street as U.S. soldiers patrol the site near the Australian embassy, after an explosion in Baghdad, Jan. 19, 2005.
U.S. soldiers inspect the scene of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Jan. 19, 2005. A wave of car bombings shook the Iraqi capital, as rebels stepped up their offensive to block the Jan. 30 national election.
Iraqis gather at the site after an explosion outside a police station in Baghdad, Jan. 19, 2005.
An elections poster of Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is seen through a windshield of a car damaged in an explosion outside a police station in Baghdad, Jan. 19, 2005.
Australian soldiers secure the site after an explosion in Baghdad, Jan. 19, 2005. A car bomb exploded near the Australian Embassy in central Baghdad.
U.S. Army soldiers temporarily detain Iraqi men in a trucking yard after shots were fired at the Army patrol in Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 18, 2005.
An SUV is seen in flames after a roadside bomb attack, in Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 18, 2005.
The defaced mosaic of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is covered with election posters of "The Islamic Conference of Iraqi Tribes," in Baghdad, Jan. 18, 2005. Iraqi general elections are scheduled for Jan. 30.
A U.S. soldier treats an injured Iraqi at the scene of an explosion in Baghdad, Jan. 18, 2005. A suicide driver detonated a car bomb outside the offices of Iraq's largest Shiite political party, killing at least three other people, police and the U.S. military said.
Iraqi women wait for news about one of their husbands, who was a guard outside the building, following an explosion in Baghdad, Jan. 18, 2005.
Iraqi policemen survey the scene following an explosion in Baghdad, Jan. 18, 2005.
A U.S. soldier surveys the scene following an explosion in Baghdad, Jan. 18, 2005.
An Iraqi man walks past the remains of an old tank and a wall covered with election posters, in Baghdad, Jan. 17, 2005. The election planned for Jan. 30 is the first democratic vote in Iraq since the country was formed in 1932.
U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry soldiers patrol in Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 17, 2005. The Mosul area has emerged as a major flashpoint between U.S. and Iraqi forces and the insurgents, raising fears that the upcoming election cannot be held in much of the city, Iraq's third largest.
Iraqi policemen burn election posters of Interim Prime Minister Allawi as they rally through the streets of Najaf, some 100 miles south of Baghdad, Jan. 17, 2005. Policemen demanded their salaries for the last several months.
U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry soldiers search a house in Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 17, 2005.
A U.S. soldier scans the horizon from the rooftop of an outpost in Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 17, 2005.