A driver checks a charred Syrian truck that was damaged by a roadside bomb in Baghdad early Sunday, March 14, 2004. Three U.S. soldiers escorting the convoy of trucks were injured in the attack, witnesses say.
Iraqi Shiite women queue up for a security check while trying to get inside the Kazimiya Shrine to pray on Saturday, March 13, 2004, in Baghdad. Worshippers have to pass through security checks following the suicide attacks last week that left hundreds dead in the worst attacks in the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
U.S. soldiers on a Humvee drive past a banner proclaiming one of the Muslim Shiites' most important saints, Imam Hussein, as they patrol around the Kazimiya Shrine in Baghdad, Saturday, March 13, 2004.
Students from Mosul University, 400 kilometers north of Baghdad, Iraq, shout slogans as they march around their campus Saturday, March 13, 2004, to protest the recently signed new Iraqi interim constitution. The protest was in response to a call by a Shiite leader to boycott classes to protest the constitution.
A Humvee gunner from the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division yells to comrades while fleeing from a stone-throwing mob outside Camp Bonzai in Baghdad, Iraq, March 12, 2004.
The sun sets behind the still unfinnished Al-Rahman Mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, March 12, 2004. The al-Rahman Mosque was being built by Saddam's government and is now the Baghdad office of Hawza al-Ilmiya, the seminary in the southern city of Najaf, which is Iraq's main seat of Shiite religious and political authority. In the foreground is part the former Presidential Palace of Saddam.
An icon of Imam Ali, the most important of Muslim Shiites, is posted outside the Kazimiya Shrine, which is ringed with barbed wire, Friday March 12, 2004, in Baghdad, Iraq. Security has been tightened around the shrine following coordinated attacks 10 days ago, the bloodiest in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The attacks at shrines in Baghdad and in Karbala killed 181 people and injured 573 others.
U.S. troops frisk motorists at a mobile checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, before dawn Friday, March 12, 2004. U.S. troops and Iraqis working for the Coalition forces are the target of almost daily attacks by insurgents.
An Iraqi guard rings the Kazimiya Shrine with concertina wire, as Shiites queue up for a security check for their regular Friday prayers in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 12, 2004. Security has been tightened around the shrine following coordinated attacks 10 days ago, the bloodiest in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Reed Findley, of the Alpha Company, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division based in Fort Hood, Texas, guards the road leading to Kazimiya Shrine in Baghdad, Iraq, March 10, 2004.
Iraqi police inspect the damage to the office of the Shiite Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the largest Shiite political party in Iraq, following an explosion in Baqouba, 34 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, March 10, 2004.
An Iraqi police officer stands next to a bullet-riddled car allegedly used by insurgents in attacking a police station in Mosul, Iraq, March 9, 2004. Four policemen were injured but three of the attackers were killed with police seizing weapons, grenades, RPGs (Rocket Propelled Grenades) and landmines.
Several items, including a rifle, megaphones, wires and an Al-Aalam magazine with the cover photo of Osama bin Laden, are laid on the table, March 9, 2004, after they were seized in an overnight raid of a house in the town of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq.
A U.S. fighting vehicle passes by a truck that was damaged by a roadside bomb, apparently intended for U.S. military convoys, in Baghdad, Iraq, March 9, 2004. The truck driver was killed.
U.S. troops guard the police station in Mosul, north of Baghdad, Iraq, late, March 8, 2004, after it was attacked by insurgents injuring four policemen. The attacks came as the 25-member Iraqi Governing Council signed the historic new Iraqi interim constitution, a key step toward the handover of sovereignty from the U.S.-led occupation authority to Iraqis. Three of the attackers were killed.
U.S. troops comb an area near the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, March 8, 2004, following an attack by insurgents at a passing U.S. military convoy. No one was reported injured in the attack, which occured shortly before the Iraqi Governing Council signed an interim constitution.
Governing Council member Raja Habib Al-Khuzaai signs the new Iraqi interim constitution document, during a ceremony Monday, March 8, 2004, in Baghdad, Iraq. The historic signing came after the council members finally resolved a political impasse sparked by objections from the country's most powerful cleric. The signing was a key step in U.S. plans to hand over power to the Iraqis.
An Iraqi woman wearing the traditional "Posheya" joins other women in a protest at a Baghdad square to celebrate International Women's Day, March 8, 2004, in Iraq.
An Iraqi man hands a piece of burned debris to a U.S. military inspector, who helps examine the site where the night before several rockets were fired into the heavily fortified area known as the "Green Zone," a base for coalition forces and civilian personnel, March 8, 2004, in Baghdad, Iraq. The rockets were apparently fired from a parked SUV, which was then torched, with the culprits fleeing the scene.
U.S. Army soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, of the 1st Cavalry Division search a milk processing plant in Baghdad, Iraq, March 7, 2004. Battalion commander Lt. Col. Tim Ryan told The Associated Press that soldiers were searching for specific suspects sought by the U.S.-led coalition, and had detained five people.