An Iraqi Civil Defense Corps soldier raises his weapon on patrol in Kharma, Iraq, near Fallujah, Saturday May 22, 2004. ICDC soldiers are training and patroling with U.S. Marines from the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment.
U.S Army soldiers secure the area where a car bomb exploded in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 22, 2004. A car bomb exploded Saturday in front of the home of a senior Iraqi security official, killing at least five people and destroying several vehicles on an east Baghdad street, the U.S. military and Iraqi police said.
An Iraqi armed militiaman takes up position in the center of Najaf, Iraq, Friday, May, 21, 2004, after American tanks charged into the center of the city.
Iraqi Mahdi Nawaf shows photographs of dead family members during a funeral ceremony in Ramadi, 68 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 20, 2004. Mahdi said they were were killed Wednesday, when a U.S. helicopter fired on a wedding party in the remote desert near the border with Syria, killing more than 40 people.
Iraqi mourners carry the coffins of Hussein Ali and his brother Muhannad along the streets of Baghdad, Iraq, during their funeral procession, Thursday, May 20, 2004. Ali and Muhannad were among the 4O people who were killed when a U.S. helicopter fired on the wedding party in a remote desert area near the border with Syria.
Iraqis demonstrate with banners showing prisoner abuse outside the heavily guarded "Green Zone" in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 19, 2004, as the arraignments began for soldiers charged with abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib. On Wednesday, three soldiers deferred their pleas, and Spc. Jeremy Sivits pleaded guilty to four counts of abuse.
U.S. Army soldiers secure the area after a car explosion, center, in Sadr City, a suburb of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 19, 2004. It damaged a U.S. Army convoy passing by.
Former Iraqi detainee in the Abu Ghraib prison, Saddam Saleh, 29, demonstrates with a banner reading "Where is the freedom" outside the heavily guarded "Green Zone" in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 19, 2004, as the arraignments began inside the "Green Zone" for three soldiers charged with abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Iraqi women wait to be checked by a U.S. Marine as they wait outside the prison in Abu Ghraib, on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, to see their relatives inside the prison, Thursday, May 20, 2004.
Smoke and flames billow over central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 19, 2004, after a strong blast was heard near the U.S.-controlled "Green Zone" headquarters of the U.S.-run occupation.
U.S. soldiers from the Army's 1st Cavalry Division guard weapons voluntarily surrendered Tuesday, May 18, 2004, by residents of the restive Baghdad district of Sadr City, Iraq, under a "buyback" program. Sadr City, a mainly poor and Shiite area that's home to some 2 million Iraqis, has since last month witnessed heavy fighting between militiamen loyal to a radical cleric and U.S. forces.
U.S. soldiers hold their weapon at ready as they secure a building with Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, Monday, May 17, 2004. Security concerns and outrage at the treatment of Iraqi prisoners at the jail west of Baghdad have piled the pressure on the coalition forces.
An U.S. soldier walks between cells containing Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, Monday, May 17, 2004. Security concerns and outrage at the treatment of Iraqi prisoners at the jail west of Baghdad, have piled the pressure on coalition forces.
An Iraqi police officer secures the spot after U.S. Army soldiers fired several shots from their military convoy as a local taxi tried to overtake them in the center of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 18, 2004. The taxi driver was brought in critical condition to a nearby hospital.
A U.S. Army soldier secures the area after finding an improvised explosive device (IED) in the center of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 17, 2004. The Army used red smoke to warn people from approaching the area. A roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent exploded near a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad, the U.S. military said Monday. It was the first confirmed finding of any of the banned weapons upon which the United States based its case for the Iraq war.
A militiaman takes a lunch break in the center of Karbala, 68 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 17, 2004, during a lull in fighting between coalition forces and local militiamen in this holy Iraqi city.
U.S. Army soldiers secure the area after the head of the Iraqi Governing Council was killed in a car bombing near a U.S. checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 17, 2004. Izzadine Saleem was among four Iraqis killed in the blast.
U.S. Army soldiers secure the area after the head of the Iraqi Governing Council was killed in a car bombing near a U.S. checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 17, 2004. Izzadine Saleem was among four Iraqis killed in the blast.
A U.S. soldier looks at burning wreckage in central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 17, 2004, after a car bomb killed the head of the Iraqi Governing Council, in this image made from TV. An Iraqi official said three other people also were killed.
Smoke billows over central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 17, 2004, after a blast was heard near the U.S.-controlled green zone headquarters.