Iraqi Kurdish men rest under a Kurdish flag by the Dukan river during the Nowruz celebrations in Dukan, near the city of Suleymaniyah, in Kurdish dominated northern Iraq, Sunday March 21, 2004. Nowruz, the Farsi-language word for "new year, is an ancient Persian festival, celebrated on the first day of spring in countries including Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iran. The festival is mainly a Kurdish event in Iraq and Turkey.
An Iraqi man removes glass from a car window near the site of a mortar attack in the Mansour district, west Baghdad, Sunday, March 21, 2004. Two mortar rounds landed in the headquarters compound of the U.S.-led coalition Sunday. A third struck nearby, killing an Iraqi civilian and wounding 10.
Members of the ICDC, Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, secure the area near the village of Galebiya, north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 20, 2004, after a truck carrying U.S. military vehicles was attacked by a roadside bomb.
U.S. troops secure the area of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan office in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul Saturday, March 20, 2004, after five mortar shells were fired at the building, missing it and killing a driver on a nearby street, a party official said.
Shiite worshippers pray in the Kazimiya Shrine in Baghdad, Iraq, for the traditional Friday noon prayer, March 19, 2004.
An Iraqi woman tries to stop U.S. soldiers from arresting her son in Baghdad Friday, March 19, 2004. Soldiers arrived after gunfire was reported in the area.
Shiite worshippers pray in the Kazimiya Shrine in Baghdad, Iraq, for the traditional Friday noon prayer, March 19, 2004.
Iraqi firefighters work at the site of a car bomb that exploded Thursday, March 18, 2004, in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, as a British military patrol passed by, killing five Iraqi bystanders in the latest in a series of bombing and shooting attacks targeting civilians.
Ishaq, an Iraqi Christian, weeps as the coffin containing the remains of his daughter Ban is placed on top a car outside Baghdad's morgue Thursday, March 18, 2004. Ban is one of the victims of an explosion that tore apart a five-story hotel in the heart of Baghdad on Wednesday night, killing 27 people.
U.S soldiers cut open a locked door in Baghdad, Wednesday, March 17, 2004, during a joint U.S and Iraqi military forces operation launched to weed out insurgents and seize illegal weapons, with troops, helicopters and armored vehicles in a suspected arms market.
U.S. troops and Iraqi rescue workers are seen outside the five-story Jabal Lebanon Hotel in central Baghdad, which was destroyed in deadly car bombing, March 17, 2004. At least 27 people were killed in the attack.
Fires burn at the scene of the hotel explosion in Baghdad, March 17, 2004.
A tank drives by the scene of the hotel explosion in Baghdad, March 17, 2004.
An Iraqi woman leans out of her window near the site of an explosion that wounded five in Baghdad, March 17, 2004. One U.S. soldier was injured when a bomb hidden in a garbage container exploded near a U.S. military vehicle.
Mourners shout during the funeral procession for 2-year-old Walid Saad, March 17 2004. Saad died in an explosion in a crowded residential area of Baghdad the day earlier. Several others were wounded in the blast, which U.S. military officials blamed on rockets fired by Iraqi guerillas.
U.S. soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division salute the flag after the changeover ceremony in one of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's palaces, now a U.S. army base, in Tikrit, about 110 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, March 16, 2004.
A U.S. military patrol sets a checkpoint in downtown Baghdad, March 16, 2004. Coalition forces have stepped up security as the first anniversary of the Iraq war nears.
An Iraqi soldier from the new Iraqi army keeps watch on a group of former Iraqi army officers from Al Qadisiyah district, Baghdad, demonstrating near the coalition forces headquarters, March 15, 2004, asking for payment of their pension or employment.
Dumoa Sadiq Jafar, 12, joins other children and artists, March 15, 2004, in a memorial rally for victims of the Karbala and Kazimia bombings outside the Kazimia shrine in Baghdad.
An Iraqi man, holding a picture of Ayatollah Ali Sistani - a top Shiite cleric in Iraq, shouts slogans asking for a directly elected Iraqi legislature, during a protest in Baghdad, March 15, 2004.