A woman stands at her home that was hit in a mortar attack the night before, in northeast Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 18, 2008. Sadr City hospital officials said five children died when at least three mortars landed in the area.
Nadim Jabbar holds the body of his two-year-old son Abbas, who was killed in a mortar attack the night before, at their home in northeast Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 18, 2008. Sadr City hospital officials said four other children died when at least three mortars landed in the area.
Iraqi soldiers stand guard at the scene where a parked car bomb blew up and hit an Iraqi army patrol in Zayouna area in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 18, 2008. Two soldiers died in the blast, four were wounded. Two civilians were also hurt in the blast, police said.
People clear burned stalls at a market in the al-Amil neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 18, 2008. The US military detonated explosives planted in a trash can which set the market on fire, Iraqi police said.
Iraqi government forces roll into the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad Saturday, May 17, 2008. Sadr City appeared to be calm Saturday after weeks of bloody clashes between the US forces and Mahdi army fighters.
The brother of Talib Saddam leans on a car in which his brother was killed in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 15, 2008. Talib was killed during overnight clashes between U.S. forces and militants in the enclave.
A shop owner takes a break cleaning his burned stall at a market in the al-Amil neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 18, 2008. The US military detonated explosives planted in a trash can which set the market on fire, Iraqi police said.
U.S. Army Maj. James Turley from the 3rd Battalion, 1st Mechanized National Police Division, is silhouetted as he passes a window at a patrol base in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 15, 2008.
A woman reacts at a market following a fire in the area in the neighborhood of New Baghdad, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. The market caught fire when clashes erupted between U.S. forces and militants early Wednesday.
Iraqis walk through a burned market in the neighborhood of New Baghdad in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. The market caught fire when clashes erupted between U.S. forces and militants early Wednesday.
A relative of Hadi Shabit, 23, cries during his funeral in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Shabit was killed in Tuesday's clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City.
A U.S. Army soldier from the 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division runs to take cover behind an armored vehicle during a patrol in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
A U.S. Army soldier from the 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division runs to take cover behind an armored vehicle during a patrol in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
A man reads a book in an underground tunnel in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. The tunnels and cellars in Najaf that stretch out from the city center for miles were used for centuries as a hiding place from invaders, storage for food or shelter from the summer heat.
Iraqis check the damage after an air strike in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. A fragile cease-fire failed to stop fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City where the latest clashes between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces killed 11 men and wounded 19, Iraqi hospital officials said Tuesday.
A man checks the damage to his house after an air strike in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May, 13, 2008.
U.S. Army soldier from the 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division and an Iraqi soldier aim their guns during a patrol in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 12, 2008.
U.S. Army soldiers from the 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division use smoke to take cover from snipers as they make their way to their vehicles from a patrol base in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 12, 2008. At the Patrol base an Iraqi soldier was seriously injured by a sniper shot earlier on Monday.
Residents react as a U.S. Army soldier from the 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division runs past their house during a patrol in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 12, 2008.
A U.S. Army soldier from the 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division takes up a position in front of a patrol base in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 12, 2008.