Staff Sgt. Tommy Vaughn III of Ceres, Calif., patrols near Abu Ghraib, Iraq, April 2, 2006. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw made a surprise visit to Iraq to press politicians to speed up the formation of the government.
An Iraqi boy washes his shoes in a street flooded on a rare rainy day, April 2, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq.
An elderly man walks away as U.S. Marines speak to his wife near the Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad, Iraq, April 1, 2006. Elsewhere, gunmen attacked a minibus carrying Shiites northeast of Baghdad, killing six men and wounding one woman, and at least 19 others were killed, many in drive-by shootings.
An Iraqi resident of a Christian neighborhood holds up a crucifix to inspect it for damage at the site of an early morning mortar attack which killed three women and injured three others, March 31, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. A mortar round slammed into a street in northeastern Baghdad, as Iraqi leaders trying to form a national unity government were expected to resume talks.
Residents of a Christian neighborhood look at the damage from an early morning mortar attack which killed three women and injured three others, March 31, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq.
An Iraqi man weeps after seeing the body of a lawyer who was killed by unknown gunmen in a drive-by shooting in Baqouba, March 30, 2006.
An Iraqi man attends a Friday prayer service near the site of a U.S.-backed raid on a building Iraqis say was the al-Mustafa mosque, with the U.S. maintaining that no mosques were entered, March 31, 2006 in Baghdad. The raid sparked anger among Shiite political groups and resulted in a day-long boycott of talks on forming a unity government for Iraq.
American reporter Jill Carroll speaks during an interview with APTV after her release, March 30, 2006, in Baghdad. Carroll was set free nearly three months after she was kidnapped in a bloody ambush that killed her translator.
Smoke rises from a pipeline explosion, March 31, 2006 in Baghdad. Insurgents set off explosives underneath an oil pipeline on the outskirts of Baghdad. There were no casualties reported, and the extent of the damage was not known police said.
Iraqis are seen through a shattered truck at the site of a roadside bomb, March 30, 2006, in Baghdad. The explosion injured a truck driver delivering fuel to a neighborhood in central Baghdad.
Masked Iraqi men parade through the streets to mark the anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad's death, March 29, 2006, in Najaf, about 100 miles south of Baghdad. Iraqi politicians continued talks on security powers for the prime minister's office after a one-day boycott by Shiite leaders.
An Iraqi man gestures at the site of a minibus explosion, March 29, 2006, in Baghdad. A bomb hidden in a plastic bag on a minibus exploded at the entrance of the Kamaliyah neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, seriously wounding the driver and five others, including two passersby.
An Iraqi man walks past the bodies of the employees of a trading company after an attack killed eight of the company's employees, March 29, 2006, in Baghdad.
An Iraqi policeman helps a man clear out a house hit in a mortar attack, March 28, 2006, in Baquoba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.
A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter prepares to land at the heavily fortified green zone, in Baghdad, Iraq, March, 27, 2006. New violence flared in northern Iraq with 40 dead in a suicide bombing, while Shiite leaders cut off political talks and denounced the United States over a weekend raid that they said killed worshipers in a mosque.
An Iraqi woman looks through a shattered window at the wreckage of a building hit Monday evening by a rocket attack, March 28, 2006, in Baghdad.
Amir Fadlil, 5, a victim of a rocket attack, is treated for his wounds at a Baghdad hospital, March 28, 2006. A rocket hit a building in southeast Baghdad that housed the headquarters of the Shiite Fadhila party, killing seven people and wounding at least 35, including children, police said.
An Iraqi police car is seen burning after it was hit in a roadside bombing in the northern city of Mosul, March 27, 2006. Many people were feared killed in another explosion at a recruitment center for security forces north of Baghdad, an interior ministry official said.
Iraqi policemen secure the site where a roadside bomb targeted a police car in the northern city of Mosul, March 27, 2006.
A woman who lost 10 relatives to continuing sectarian violence looks at the remains of one of her relatives in a coffin loaded on a blood-spattered van outside Baghdad, Iraq, March 27, 2006. Thirty victims of sectarian violence, most of them beheaded, were found dumped on a village road north of Baghdad.