Iraqi police remove a body from the wreckage of a police car that was destroyed when a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb close by, outside the U.S. military Camp Cuervo in Baghdad Sunday, June 13, 2004. It killed 12 people and wounded 13, the military said.
Iraqi mourners throw used rifle cartridges into the air during a funeral procession for Karim Darham, a senior leader of the militia loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. He was killed in early morning clashes between the milita members and U.S. forces in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 13, 2004.
The mother of Samah Hussein cries over his body, as she identifies him lying in a Baghdad, Iraq, morgue after he was killed when a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside the U.S. military Camp Cuervo in Baghdad Sunday, June 13, 2004.
Two contract truck drivers _ Victor Tawfiq Jerges of Egypt, left, and Bulent Yanik of Turkey _ sit in front of men holding them hostage at an undisclosed site in this photo released Saturday, June 12, 2004. An extremist group threatened to kill them Saturday in a statement broadcast Thursday by the Dubai-based Al Arabiya satellite TV station. The statement contained no demands or conditions to avoid the hostages' murders.
An Iraqi policeman walks through a police station that was destroyed in an explosion in Yusufiyah, Iraq, Friday, June 11, 2004. Gunmen stormed the police station south of Baghdad, drove off the poorly armed police and blasted the station in the fourth such attack against Iraqi security installations over the last week, officials and witnesses said.
U.S. soldiers sit on top of an armored vehicle as a gas tanker blazes after a roadside attack on the southern edge of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 11, 2004.
Iraqi police check a blast-damaged police vehicle at a police station that was destroyed in an explosion in Yusufiyah, Iraq, Friday, June 11, 2004. Gunmen stormed the police station south of Baghdad, drove off the poorly armed police and blasted the station in the fourth such attack against Iraqi security installations over the last week, officials and witnesses said.
Mahdi militants prepare to fire their weapons at American positions in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad Thursday, June 10, 2004.
Iraqis gather around a bullet-riddled Iraqi police vehicle outside the Najaf, Iraq, police station Thursday, June 10, 2004. Shiite gunmen raided the police station and held it for two hours in the first outbreak of fighting since an agreement to end weeks of bloody clashes between U.S. troops and militia forces. Six Iraqis were killed and 29 were injured, including eight children, hospital officials said.
A Mahdi militant is shot and killed as he prepared to fire a rocket-propelled grenade at American positions in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad Thursday, June 10, 2004.
A U.S. soldier investigates the remains of a car bomb which exploded on a highway in the Sayediya district of Baghdad, Iraq, as a U.S. patrol passed nearby Friday, June 11, 2004. Two U.S. Humvees were slightly damaged but there was no U.S. confirmation of casualties.
An Iraqi man reads the local newspaper at a newsstand in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday June 10, 2004. The paper displays a photograph of newly appointed Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawer arriving at the G-8 summit.
A U.S. military vehicle passes by a burning truck carrying tires after a roadside attack on the highway outside of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday June 9, 2004.
A U.S. soldier stands guard near unemployed Iraqi protesters holding up a banner of Shiite Muslim figures as they hold a rally outside coalition headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, to call for jobs and denounce the Iraq interim constitution as an instrument of the United States.
An Iraqi man rides his horse cart past a burning truck carrying tires after a roadside attack on the highway outside of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 9, 2004.
Iraqi workers clear a canal of reeds and other vegetation in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 9, 2004. Coalition forces say the canal was being used as cover to hide attackers detonating roadside bombs.
An Iraqi firefighter tries to extinguish a burning truck carrying tires after a roadside attack on the highway outside of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 9, 2004.
Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, center, speaks in front of the al-Doura oil refinery in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 8, 2004. On the far right is Iraqi Oil Minister Thamir Ghadbhan. Allawi and Ghadbhan declared Tuesday that the Iraqi interim government has now assumed full control of the country's oil sector, well ahead of the planned June 30 handover.
Iraqi soldiers guard the site of a car-bomb explosion in Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday June 8, 2004. Two car bombs exploded in separate cities in Iraq Tuesday, killing at least 14 Iraqis and one U.S. soldier. Dozens were wounded, including 10 American soldiers.
Iraqis pick through the rubble of a destroyed police station in the Sadr City district of Baghdad Monday, June 7, 2004.