Iraqi detainees pray shortly after their release by U.S Forces in Baqubah, Iraq, Friday, May 14, 2004. More than 300 Iraqi detainees were released from the infamous Abu Ghraib prison on Friday.
Iraqis try to extinguish a fire in the center of Najaf, Iraq, Friday, May 14, 2004, as American tanks charged into the center of this holy city and shelled positions held by fighters loyal to a radical cleric who launched an uprising against the U.S.-led coalition last month.
Shiite Mehdi Army militiamen take position in the center of Najaf, Iraq, Friday, May 14, 2004, as American tanks charged into the center of this holy city and shelled positions held by fighters loyal to a radical cleric who launched an uprising against the U.S.-led coalition last month.
Iraqi boys crowd around a U.S. Marine from the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, during patrols in Kandari, Iraq, Thursday, May 13, 2004.
Iraqis wait outside the prison in Abu Ghraib, on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 13, 2004. Iraqis gather daily outside the prison of Abu Ghraib, demanding to see their relatives after the release of shocking pictures showing prisoners being humiliated by their U.S. captors.
An armed Iraqi fighter takes up position in the center of Karbala, south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 13, 2004. Heavy gunfire and huge explosions resounded in the area Thursday while American forces battled Iraqi militiamen near a gold-domed shrine that is one of the most sacred sites for Shiite Muslims.
An Iraqi boy peers through a shattered window of a car after the driver came under gunfire between U.S. Army forces and Shiite Mehdi Army militiamen in Najaf, Iraq, Thursday, May 13, 2004. The driver of the car was instantly killed, and another person injured, according to local witnesses.
U.S. Marine Cpl. Michael Keith, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, from the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, carries a puppy he found while patroling around a lake in Kandari, Iraq, Thursday, May 13, 2004. The unit adopted the puppy and named him "Killer."
An Iraqi schoolgirl runs past burning tires in the Sadr City suburb of Baghdad, Wednesday, May 12, 2004. Iraqis partly blocked the entrance to the mostly Shiite populated "Sadr City" district of Baghdad, after several days of clashes with U.S. coalition forces.
A video posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004, on an Islamic militant Web site affiliated with al-Qaida shows a group of five men wearing headscarves and black ski masks standing over a bound man in an orange jumpsuit, who identified himself as Nick Berg, a U.S contractor whose body was found on a highway overpass in Baghdad on Saturday. The man at center is seen pulling a knife from under his clothes. See Video
Iraqi gunmen, loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, patrol in the center of Karbala, Iraq, Tuesday, May 11, 2004. Polish Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski announced Monday that the increased activity of insurgents loyal to renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has torpedoed Poland's plans for a partial reduction of its more than 2,000-strong Iraq stablization contingent in Karbala, Iraq.
U.S. Marines from the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, return to their Humvees after patroling in Kandari, Iraq, Tuesday, May 11, 2004.
An Iraqi detainee waits to see a delegation of official visitors at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, Tuesday, May 11, 2004. She later said that half a dozen members of the Iraqi Governing Council and Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, commander of U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, visited her and the other four women in the camp, pledging that they are working to release them soon. Official details were not available on the reasons for the arrest of the five.
A detainee looks out from an outdoor detention center in the Abu Ghraib Prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 10, 2004.
Military policemen from the 428 Company from South Bend, Ind., guard a detainee processing center at the Abu Ghraib Prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 10, 2004.
Iraqis demonstrate in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, Monday, May 10, 2004, after a U.S. aircraft destroyed the Baghdad office of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr early morning Monday. The office, in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, was one of two main al-Sadr offices in the Baghdad area.
An Iraqi fireman screams for help while spraying water over burning cables at an electricity storage plant in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday May 10, 2004. The reason for the blast is still not confirmed.
An Iraqi man waits outside the Abu Ghraib prison, in the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 10, 2004. Hundreds of Iraqis who have relatives being held in there demanded to see them after the release of pictures showing prisoners being humiliated by their U.S. captors.
A U.S. soldier approaches the scene after an SUV carrying two U.S. soldiers met with an accident in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 10, 2004. The soldiers - whose SUV rolled over after a tire burst according to eyewitnesses - appeared unharmed in the accident.
An Iraqi man shows a religious book with a picture of former Shiite leader Mohammed Al-Sadre, father of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, through a destroyed wall of the office of al-Sadr in the Sadr City district in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 10, 2004. U.S. aircraft bombed the Sadr City office of militant Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad early on Monday, witnesses said.