A dervish holds fire in his mouth, seen as a way of achieving meditative ecstasy, during a devotion at a religious meeting place in Irbil, in Kurdish northern Iraq, May 22, 2005. Such old forms of mystical Islam are still practiced regularly all over Iraqi Kurdistan.
Homeless widow Selma Abid holds her unidentified son in the old military camp in which they live, 5 miles south of the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, May 22, 2005. Bill Taylor, director of the U.S.-led Iraq Reconstruction Management Office, said that insurgents targeting infrastructure projects vital to Iraq's reconstruction have delayed U.S.-led rebuilding efforts and raised the cost of doing business in this war-ravaged country.
A man looks at the wreckage from a car bombing near a U.S. military combat patrol that was close to an Iraqi police station in Tikrit, Iraq, May 22, 2005.
Shiite demonstrators in Najaf, Iraq, burn U.S. flags as they heed a call by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to protest raids against holy places and also a now-discredited report of the desecration of a Quran in Guantanamo Bay, May 20, 2005.
Onlookers observe the scene of a car bombing outside the Imam al-Mahdi mosque, in Baghdad's Saadiya neighborhood, in Baghdad, Iraq, May 20, 2005.
Iraqi firefighters tend to the scene after a roadside bomb blast on a highway in southeastern Baghdad's Ghadir area that destroyed a 5-ton U.S. military logistics truck and wounded an unspecified number of American soldiers, May 20, 2005.
Onlookers observe the scene of a car bombing outside the Imam al-Mahdi mosque, in Baghdad's Saadiya neighborhood, in Baghdad, Iraq, May 20, 2005.
A girl walks amid the wreckage from a car bombing that struck on a side street near the airport road, in Baghdad, Iraq, May 19, 2005. Two Iraqi civilians were injured in the blast.
A boy on a bicycle looks at the mangled wreckage of a vehicle after a car bombing on a side street near the airport road in Baghdad, Iraq, May 19, 2005.
Pfc. Jurell Snyder, of San Jose, Calif., searches a house in the Tamim section of Ramadi, Iraq, May 19, 2005. Soldiers searched for weapons in this city, located on the principal highway connecting Syria, an alleged source for insurgents.
Sgt. Douglas Bartow, of Oshkosh, Wis., shows Sgt. Nicholas Radde, of La Crosse, Wis., a handgun he found while searching a house in the Tamim section of Ramadi, Iraq, May 19, 2005. Soldiers searched for weapons in this city, located on the principal highway connecting Baghdad with Syria, an alleged source of foreign insurgents.
Raiid Ahmed looks up through a hole in the floor of his house where a mortar landed after coming through the roof, wounding his mother, in the Palestine street area of Baghdad, May 19, 2005.
U.S. and Iraqi security forces tend to the scene after a roadside bomb attack that killed two Iraqi policemen, according to police, in the city of Baqouba, Iraq, May 19, 2005.
A man clears wreckage after a car bomb detonated in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, May 18, 2005. The car, parked in central Baqouba, blew up as a three-car police convoy drove by, damaging all the vehicles, according to police.
People clear away debris at the damaged Imam Ali Bin Abi Talib mosque in the Azamiyah area of Baghdad, Iraq, May 18, 2005, after it was hit by a car bomb blast.
Residents observe the scene of a car bomb that exploded near a crowded market in a mostly Shiite part of southern Baghdad, May 17, 2005. Two car bombs exploded minutes apart, killing nine soldiers, wounding five others and causing an unspecified number of civilian casualties, according to a senior police official.
A horse-drawn carriage arrives to remove wreckage from the scene of a car bomb explosion near a crowded market in a mostly Shiite Abu Dshir area of Baghdad, May 17, 2005. It caused numerous civilian casualties.
An unidentified woman grieves outside the morgue containing the bodies of 13 men who were blindfolded, bound and shot multiple times in the head, in Baghdad's Sadr City district, May 16, 2005.
Jassim Flayih cries over the coffin of his cousin, Wadah al-Dulaimi, during his funeral in Baghdad's Sadr City district, May 16, 2005. Al-Dulaimi was one of 13 men found blindfolded, bound and shot multiple times in the head.
A coffin containing one of the 13 men found shot dead execution style is taken away from the morgue, in Baghdad's Sadr City district, May 16, 2005.