A U.S. ammunition vehicle explodes inside the main U.S. military base in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 11, 2003. The cause of the explosion is unknown. No soldiers were reported injured or killed.
U.S. troops line up to buy hamburgers at Iraq's first Burger King outlet at Baghdad International Airport on Tuesday, June 10, 2003, in Iraq.
U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division patrol Fallujah, 30 miles west of Baghdad, on Monday, June 9, 2003. U.S. soldiers have been attacked several times in the past few weeks in Fallujah, the most openly volatile city in Iraq.
Former Iraqi Army soldiers gesture at U.S. troops who are blocking their protest outside the Presidential Palace (now the U.S. Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Services) in Baghdad to demand the restoration of the dissolved Iraqi Army, Monday, June 9, 2003. The army was dissolved by the new U.S. administration in Iraq to pave the way for the formation of the new Iraqi Corps.
U.S. soldiers lead suspected Iraqi looters, including a donkey allegedly used for transport, to the Presidential Palace, a U.S. Army base now, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 8, 2003. Two months after U.S. tanks rolled into Baghdad, marking the end of Saddam Hussein's regime and the beginning of a U.S.-led occupation, security is sketchy, basic services are still hobbled and the salaries of many civil servants remain unpaid.
U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division patrol Fallujah, 30 miles west of Baghdad, on Monday, June 9, 2003. The soldiers have been attacked several times in the past few weeks in Fallujah, the most openly volatile city in Iraq.
Hiam, 55, left, sells candy with her grandchildren inside the Tuwaitha nuclear facility, 30 miles east of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 8, 2003. Hiam and her 18-member family are among those who moved into the compound after the war, when it was left unguarded by U.S. troops. Many of these families, including Hiam's, used uranium storage barrels to store drinking water.
U.S. soldiers from the 1st Armored Division guard suspected looters who tried to pillage a PVC pipe factory in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday June 8, 2003. Fallujah, a Sunni Muslim stronghold, has been the scene of almost constant clashes since U.S. troops shot dead 18 demonstrators and wounded 78 others in two confrontations last April.
People looking for relatives executed during Saddam Hussein's rule, dig at a suspected mass grave site in Salman Pak, 18 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday June 8, 2003.
Leaders of the Islamic University prepare to meet with Paul Bremer, U.S. civil administrator for Iraq, Sunday June 8, 2003, in Hilla, Iraq. Bremer is on a regional tour that also included attending an agricultural meeting, meeting with the local tribe leaders, and talking with the interim governor of Karbala.
Copies of the book named "Under the Ashes of the Stormy War" by Iraqi author Alaa el-din al-Mudarisin are displayed at Baghdad' s book market, Iraq, Sunday, June 8, 2003. Iraq's first homegrown book about the war that changed it forever is a 124-page hodgepodge of anti-American tirades and wartime rumors.
Destroyed Iraqi tanks and armored vehicles are at a wreckage dump outside of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 8, 2003. The vehicles were removed from the streets of the capital by U.S. troops. Iraqi doctors and scientists are worried that birth defects and childhood cancers could surge in the aftermath of the latest conflict as it did after mildly radioactive munitions were first used in the 1991 Gulf War.
A man searching for his relative executed during Saddam Hussein's rule, points at the place he wants to dig next at a suspected mass grave site in Salman Pak, 18 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday June 8, 2003.
Two armed Iraqis stand on guard while Paul Bremer, U.S. civil administrator for Iraq, not shown, meets Karbala Interim Governor Ali Kamuna, not shown, Sunday June 8, 2003, in Karbala, Iraq. Bremer is on a regional tour that also includes attending an agricultural meeting, talking with local tribe leaders, and visiting the Hilla Islamic University.