Young Shiite Muslim worshippers flagellate themselves to mark the Muslim festival of Muharram, Feb. 5, 2006, in the holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq.
An Iraqi detainee sits with his head covered by a sand bag while an American soldier covers another detainee's eyes with tape during a raid in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 4, 2006. Men from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division detained ten Iraqis during a series of raids.
American soldiers walk past a pigeon coop as the leave a house during a raid in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006. Men from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division detained ten Iraqis during a series of raids.
Muslim worshippers gather after Friday prayers to burn Danish flags denouncing Denmark for published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, at the revered Abu Hanifa Mosque, Feb. 3, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq.
Wounded in a petrol station explosion Thursday, Mustafa Hamed, 11, is cared for at the Al-Kindi hospital, Feb. 3, 2006, in eastern Baghdad, Iraq.
A US military patrol inspects the damage from a car bomb as Iraqis walk by, Feb. 3, 2006, in eastern Baghdad, Iraq.
A US military patrol inspects the damage from a car bomb, Feb. 3, 2006, in eastern Baghdad, Iraq.
Flames are seen rising behind a petrol station after an explosion in the late afternoon, Feb. 2, 2006, in eastern Baghdad, Iraq.
A local resident inspects the damage from a US military helicopter attack on a home, Feb. 2, 2006, in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq. A U.S. helicopter fired rockets into a crowded Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad after gunmen shot at it, killing a young woman and enraging both residents and Shiite politicians.
The defendant's dock is seen empty moments before the start of a court session that saw former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, his co-defendants, and chosen defense team, not arrive for their trial held under tight security in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Feb. 2, 2006.
Iraqi government officials take away chickens from an elderly woman in hopes to curb the spread of bird flu, Feb. 1, 2006, north of Sulaimaniyah, northern Iraq.
Local Iraqis gather around blood and debris left from an early morning bomb attack, Feb. 1, 2006, in Baghdad. A bomb exploded alongside a group of Iraqi men waiting for work in eastern Baghdad, killing at least eight and wounding more than 50, police officials said.
A wounded man is brought to a hospital after an early morning bomb attack, Feb. 1, 2006, in Baghdad.
An Iraqi woman walks past blood and debris left from an early morning bomb attack, Feb. 1, 2006, in Baghdad.
A U.S. Army soldier videotapes another soldier testing an elderly man for explosive residue during a raid in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Feb. 1, 2006.
An Iraqi man lies on the ground during a raid by U.S. soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Feb. 1, 2006.
Iraqi government workers collect dozens of ducks and chickens in plastic bags destined to be buried alive in a nearby muddy grave, Jan. 31, 2006, in Bingird, Iraq.
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Steve Gilberg of Statesville, North Carolina, examines the damage caused by a laser guided airstrike in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Jan. 30, 2006.
Smoke rises above Ramadi's soccer stadium after U.S. forces called in a laser guided airstrike, in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Jan. 30, 2006.
An Iraqi villager herds his ducks, Jan. 30, 2006, in Raniya, 217 miles north of Baghdad. Battered by rampant violence and political instability, a new threat in Iraq was confirmed: the Middle East's first case of the deadly bird flu virus. Iraqi and U.N. health officials said that 15-year-old girl, who died in this northern Kurdish town, had the H5N1 strain of the disease.