Shot gun canisters are seen strewn in the grounds of the Sunni Muslim Umm al-Qura mosque in west Baghdad, January 8, 2006. According to the guardians of the mosque, US and Iraqi troops carried out a joint raid on the mosque and its offices which belong to the Muslim Scholar's Association, causing some damage.
Iraqi soldiers inspect the wreckage of a suicide car bomb, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006, in east Baghdad, Iraq. The lone bomber targeted an Iraq soldier patrol, killing himself and injuring 3 soldiers.
An Iraqi police officer secures the site of a car bomb explosion on January 8, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. A car bomb targeted an official motorcade killing two and injuring five in central Baghdad. (Photo by Wathiq Khuzaie /Getty Images)
A woman mourns over the coffin of a victim of Thursday's Shiite shrine bombing during a burial service, Jan. 6, 2006, in the holy city of Najaf, 102 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq. A suicide bomber detonated his explosives, killed 63 people and injured 120, near the holy Shiite Imam Hussein shrine in the central Iraqi city of Karbala.
An Iraqi woman walks past old election posters plastered to along a street prior to the 15th December national elections, in central Baghdad January 9, 2006. Talks are underway to form a government that bridges Iraq's sectarian divide, with the United States and Britain reaching out to the minority Sunni Arabs who cried foul following recent elections.
Angry Shiites chant slogans during a march denouncing the recent attacks against Shiites after Friday prayers, Jan. 6, 2006, in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq.
Relatives indentify an infant victim in a suicide bomb attack, outside of the hospital in Karbala, Iraq, Jan. 5, 2006, in Karbala, Iraq. The bomber detonated his explosives near the holy Shiite Imam Hussein shrine in central Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad.
Bodies lie in the street after suicide bomb attack in Karbala Iraq in this image taken from TV, Jan. 5, 2006. The suicide blast near the Imam Hussein shrine in central Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, killed at least 49 people and injured 52.
Iraqi police investigators inspect the charred wreckage of a suicide car bombing, Jan. 5, 2006, in central Baghdad, Iraq. The suicide car bomber was targeting an Iraqi army patrol but missed, injuring three civilians and killing himself in the al-Kailani district of central Baghdad police said.
An Iraqi soldier steps on the debris of a car bomb that detonated in the Kazemiya district of Baghdad close to the civil affairs offices, January 4, 2006.
Iraqi soldiers secure the area as others inspect the scene of a car bomb that detonated in the Kazemiya district of Baghdad close to the civil affairs offices, January 4, 2006.
Iraqi soldiers step up security checks at a road block, Jan 4, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. Roadblocks went up across Baghdad as police searched for the sister of Interior Minister Bayan Jabr, who was kidnapped. Gunmen killed one of her bodyguards and seriously wounded another in the abduction.
An Iraqi soldier leads grieving relatives as they carry the coffin of a victim from a bomb attack targeting a funeral service, outside of the Muqdadiyah hospital morgue, in Muqdadiyah, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 4, 2006.
Iraqi police retrieve personal articles from victims of a roadside bomb, Jan. 4, 2006, in Kirkuk, Iraq. The roadside bomb appeared to be targeting a U.S. patrol in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, hitting a civilian car instead, killing three passengers local police said.
Relatives mourn at the site where unidentified gunmen opened fire on a civilian car carrying five passengers, killing two and wounding three others, in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 3, 2006.
Iraqi soldiers with the 2nd army brigade cross Tigris river with some of the 40 people they detained during an early morning raid on a village near Baqouba, Iraq, Jan. 2, 2006. The U.S. army provided air support during the raid.
The face of a boy is reflected on a car whose driver was targeted in an attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 2, 2006. In a separate attack a convoy carrying Turkey's ambassador to Iraq was machine gunned Monday as it sped through western Baghdad, damaging some of vehicles but causing no injuries, the embassy said.
Iraqi police officers run towards a disabled U.S. army flatbed truck, following a bomb attack in Tikirit, Iraq, Jan. 2, 2006. A car bomb exploded around noon targeting a U.S. military convoy wounding two civilians, damaging the truck and three civilian vehicles, police said.
An Iraqi tank with the 2nd Army Brigade takes up a position near a village north of Baqouba, Iraq, Jan. 2, 2006, where 40 people were detained during an early morning raid. The U.S. army provided air support during the raid.
American soldiers secure the area where five police recruits were killed, Jan. 2, 2006, after a suicide car bomb slammed into the bus they were traveling in, near Baqouba, Iraq. Thirteen people were wounded. The police bus had been traveling to a training center in northern Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, police said.