An Iraqi woman arrives for a town meeting in Beijia vilage in Arab Jabour with U.S. soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008.
Iraqis attend a town meeting in Beijia village in Arab Jabour with U.S. soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment south of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008.
An Iraqi woman buys tomatoes in the market in Abu Dashir, an eastern suburb of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008.
U.S. Army Pfc. Matthew Workman, 21, from Germantown, Ohio, digs a latrine as his comrade waits to use it at a house occupied by Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, in Arab Jabour during Operation Coliseum, south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008.
Iraqi firefighters and residents of Mosul inspect the site Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008, where an explosion on Wednesday collapsed a three-story apartment building and ravaged adjacent houses just minutes after the Iraqi army arrived to investigate tips about a weapons cache in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq.
Iraqis work on the new Iraqi flag outside their office in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan 24, 2008. The Iraqi parliament has decided that the new flag will no longer carry three stars, and Saddam Hussein's handwritten praise to God will be replaced by another style of writing.
An Iraqi national policeman takes tea during his tour through the city of Madain, about 14 miles southeast of Baghdad, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. Iraqi and American troops as well as Awakening militia members started inspecting areas cleaned of terrorists in the Madain area.
An Iraqi man sells fish in a market in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, Jan 23 2008.
Iraqi men warm up on a small fire as they are in line waiting with others to fill up containers with petrol for heating, in the center of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. Most of them have been in line for three days now, waiting to buy rationed fuel.
U.S. Army Pfc. Matthew Fazio, right, 25, bundles up against the bitter cold as soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, occupy a house in Arab Jabour during Operation Coliseum, south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.
U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, gather around a fire to fight off the bitter cold in Arab Jabour during Operation Coliseum, south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.
An Iraqi woman gestures as she reacts to her plight after waiting three days in a line to fill up her containers with gas for heating, in the center of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.
An Iraqi Shiite woman gestures as she follows a procession showing the burial for Imam Hussein in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesady, Jan. 22, 2008.
U.S. Army Pfc. Matthew Fazio, right, 25, bundles up against the bitter cold as soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment occupy a house in Arab Jabour during Operation Coliseum south of Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.
An Iraqi Shiite girl fans herself as she follows a procession showing the burial for Imam Hussein, in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008.
U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, set out to search Arab Jabour during Operation Coliseum south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Jan. 21, 2008.
U.S. Army Capt. Neil Hollenbeck, commander of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, center, briefs his colleagues on the next day's mission as they occupy a house in Arab Jabour during Operation Coliseum, south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Jan. 21, 2008.
Iraqi policemen show their skills during an opening ceremony for a new police station in Abu Disher, in southern Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008.
Ayad, left, and Ahmed, brothers of killed Iraqi Jawad Abdulkarim, embrace each other as Jawad's coffin is being prepared for his funeral procession in Amil, a neighborhood in western Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008.
Iraqi policemen march with the Iraqi countrymen during their graduation ceremony at the town camp in Numaniyah, 80 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008.