A liquor store employee inspects a vehicle damaged when unknown assailants attacked a liquor store in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 11, 2004. Liquor stores and DVD shops have been especially targeted recently by Islamic extremists.
An American soldier hands out "hearts and minds candy" to an Iraqi boy in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 11, 2004.
A group of pro-Saddam demonstrators marches through the streets of Baqouba Sunday, July 11, 2004. They called for Saddam's release from prison. The sign on left reads in Arabic, "Saddam is the dignity of our country."
Iraqi militants loyal to the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and local children chant in the street after prayers in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 9, 2004.
U.S. soldiers take to the street near Martyrs' Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 7, 2004. At least four people were killed and 20 others injured in running gun battles between U.S.-backed Iraqi National Guards and masked insurgents.
An Iraqi woman and man sit on the stairs outside their apartment as U.S. soldiers carry out house-to-house searches near Martyrs' Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday July 7, 2004. At least four people were killed and 20 others injured in running gun battles between U.S.-backed Iraqi National Guard and masked insurgents.
U.S. soldiers kick down a door as they carry out house-to-house searches near Martyrs' Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 7, 2004. At least four people were killed and 20 others injured in running gun battles between U.S.-backed Iraqi National Guard and masked insurgents.
Iraqi police work to successfully defuse a car bomb that was discovered near the Al-Iman Mosque, a Shiite mosque in the Karada neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 7, 2004.
A bystander complains to an American soldier at the scene of a car bomb that exploded Tuesday, July 6, 2004, in Khalis, Iraq, northeast of Baghdad. It killed 13 people who were attending a wake for the victims of a previous attack.
An American soldier guards a street corner after four mortar rounds struck a neighborhood near the headquarters of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's political party in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 7, 2004. Six people were wounded, an Interior Ministry official said. The attacks in central Baghdad also hit near a home used by Allawi, the official said on condition of anonymity. Allawi was not present at the home at the time, the official said.
Children gathering shrapnel trophies are seen through damage caused by a rocket which landed in the Al-Daura residential area of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 7, 2004. Three civilians were injured in the blast.
American soldiers detain a group of Iraqis in their Bradley fighting vehicle during heavy fighting between Iraqi security forces and insurgents in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 7, 2004.
A girl points to an American soldier's sunglasses while at his outpost, guarding the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 6, 2004.
A woman leads her fodder-laden donkey home after collecting the feed from the grounds of an abandoned Iraqi military base in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 6, 2004.
Destroyed vehicle is photographed after a coalition airstrike on apparent militant safe house, in Fallujah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 6, 2004.
A Fallujah resident looks into a bomb crater after U.S forces dropped bombs on a purported militant safe house in Fallujah, Iraq, Monday, July 5, 2004, killing at least 10 people, according to officials. The attack was the fifth airstrike in the past two weeks in the area where the U.S. military says Jordanian militant Abu Musab Zarqawi's network has safe houses.
A U.S. Army soldier patrols through the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad Monday, July 5, 2004. The militant Shiite Muqtada al-Sadr pledged Sunday to resist "oppression and occupation" and called the new interim Iraqi government "illegitimate." Previously, Al-Sadr had made conciliatory statements to the new government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a fellow Shiite. Men in background poster are unidentified.
An Iraqi brick maker carries some of the handmade product for delivery at an outdoor factory in Hillah, Iraq, Monday, July 5, 2004. The family of brickmakers said they are having a tough time keeping up with demand, because of a hotel building boom in Karbala, which has an increasing number of tourists from Iran to Shiite holy sites.
Kurds demonstrate in Halabja, Iraq, Monday, July 5, 2004, demanding that Saddam and one of his key lieutenants, Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as "Chemical Ali," be put to death for the gas attack that killed 5,000 people on March 16, 1988. Carrying photos of their slain loved ones, the marchers said they want Saddam to be tried and executed in their town.
Fallujah residents look under rubble after U.S forces dropped bombs on a purported militant safe house in Fallujah, Iraq, Monday, July 5, 2004, killing at least 10 people, according to unidentified officials. The attack was the fifth air strike in the past two weeks in the area where the U.S. military says Jordanian militant Abu Musab Zarqawi's network has safe houses.