Posters for upcoming elections are printed in a printing shop in Baghdad, Jan. 9, 2005.
Residents gather around a house reduced to a pile of rubble, in the village of Aitha, Iraq, south of Mosul, Jan. 8, 2005. An explosion at a house killed 14 people and wounded five, and the owner blamed a U.S. air attack. A U.S. military spokesman said the Americans were compiling information on the incident and would have a statement later.
Friends and relatives of the high ranking Iraqi police officer Maj. Gen. Aboud al-Lahabi carry his coffin during his funeral procession in Baghdad, Jan. 8, 2005. Gen. al-Lahabi was killed in his house while resisting unidentified gunmen who were attempting to kidnap him.
U.S. soldiers, with the 169th Infantry National Guard Unit, take part in recovery efforts, Jan. 7, 2005, at the scene of a roadside bomb that killed seven U.S. soldiers.
Residents of the Iraqi city of Fallujah rally in the nearby village of Naimiyah, Jan. 7, 2005. Hundreds of refugees from the destroyed city demonstrated after Friday prayers demanding that U.S. troops and Iraqi National Guards leave the city.
Iraqi policemen Laith Salih Mehdi arrives at Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital for treatment, Jan. 7, 2005, after being wounded while guarding the police academy in Hilla, south of Baghdad. Latih was transfered to Baghdad by a U.S. military helicopter.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., greets soldiers from Task Force Olympia (TFO) in Mosul, Iraq, Jan 6, 2005. Kerry was in the region to meet with local government officials and have dinner with TFO soldiers.
A former Iraqi army officer during Saddam Hussein's regime, Maj. Faisal Mohammed, who lost his leg during the war, walks past a British military vehicle in the southern city of Basra, Jan. 6, 2005.
Members of the Iraqi National Guard secure the war veterans building in Basra, Jan 6, 2005.
Iraqi policemen inspect a vehicle that was damaged in a car bomb attack the previous day in Hillah, some 60 miles south of Baghdad, Jan. 6, 2005.
An Iraqi woman walks past the poster reading 'no for dictatorship, yes for Iraqi unity' and containing an image of the Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in Baghdad, Jan. 6, 2005.
An Iraqi boy reacts after seeing his sister and both his parents killed in their car, in Ramadi, 60 miles west of Baghdad, Jan. 5, 2005.
U.S. soldiers and and members of the Iraqi National Guard inspect the scene of a car bomb blast in western Baghdad's district of Amrea, Jan. 5, 2005.
This is a still taken from a video supplied by an Iraqi insurgent group calling itself "Omar ibn Alkhatab brigade attached to the Islamic Anger Brigades" in Iraq, which the insurgents claim shows a stationary vehicle exploding as an American convoy passes on the northern outskirts of Baghdad, Jan. 3, 2005. There was no confirmation of casualties from the U.S. military. The AP is unable to authenticate the image taken from this footage.
Iraqis are seen through the bullet-riddled windscreen of a vehicle that was carrying some of the bodyguards of the governor of the Baghdad province, Ali al-Haidari in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Hurriyah, Jan. 4, 2005.
An injured Iraqi police officer is taken to the hospital after a suicide driver rammed a truck at an Iraqi police checkpoint in western Baghdad, Jan. 4, 2005. A truck packed with explosives detonated near an Iraqi National Guard barracks in western Baghdad.
Iraqis gather near the bullet-riddled vehicle that was carrying some of the bodyguards of the governor of the Baghdad province, Ali al-Haidari, in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Hurriyah, Jan. 4, 2005.
U.S. soldiers secure the main Green Zone checkpoint after a car bombing, in Baghdad, Jan. 3, 2005. The incident occurred at the U.S.-manned checkpoint to the Green Zone, the heavily fortified area that houses the U.S. Embassy and Iraqi government offices, U.S. Embassy spokesman Bob Callahan said. U.S. troops surrounded a burning SUV at the scene.
Iraqi and American security forces inspect the site of an explosion at a check-point in western Baghdad, Jan. 3, 2005.
An injured Iraqi woman is rushed to the hospital after being wounded in an explosion in central Baghdad, Jan. 3, 2005.