A plume of smoke is seen beyond the 14th of Ramadan mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, May 29, 2005 after what is believed to have been an explosion took place in the Zayounah street area.
U.S. Marine Cpl. Justin Molgaard, of Carlsbad, N.M., pushes a curtain out of the way as he walks onto the roof of a house in Haditha, Iraq, May 27, 2005. The house belongs to a former General in Saddam Hussein's army.
U.S. Marines take cover in the back of an open truck during a firefight in Haditha, Iraq, May 26, 2005.
Funeralgoers are seen through the front windscreen of a van in which three Iraqis were killed and three others wounded when they were shot at by U.S. troops, in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, May 27, 2005. The victims were mainly young secondhand goods vendors and included two brothers.
An Iraqi man offers a lantern to U.S. Marines searching his house for weapons, in Haditha, Iraq, May 26, 2005.
Onlookers observe the scene of a car bombing near an Iraqi police patrol in Baghdad, May 26, 2005. The bomb struck in northern Baghdad's popular Shula district as people headed to work.
A U.S. soldier removes a hat and cardboard box from a damaged SUV, after a roadside bomb detonated next to an American military convoy, in eastern Baghdad, May 26, 2005.
A U.S. Marine writes an identification number on the forehead of an Iraqi man detained during a search in Haditha, Iraq, May 25, 2005. About 1,000 U.S. Marines, sailors and soldiers encircled Haditha, in the troubled Anbar province, launching the second major operation in this vast western region in less than a month.
A U.S. soldier walks past the scene of a suicide car bombing in Baghdad's southern neighborhood of Dora, May 25, 2005. The explosion missed a U.S. military convoy that was passing in the area, but killed one civilian and left four wounded.
A U.S. soldier, left, exits a military ambulance after carrying a colleague on board, in Baghdad, Iraq, May 24, 2005. A bomb-rigged car detonated next to a convoy of U.S. soldiers by the al-Dora bridge in Baghdad, killing three of the soldiers, a U.S. military spokesman reports.
Hafiz Abdullah, 38, is kissed by his mother at Baghdad's al-Wasiti hospital after being injured in a car bombing near a school, May 24, 2005. At least six people were killed in the attack near Dijlah Junior High School for Girls in Alwiyah, near eastern Baghdad's well-known Withaq Square, a Christian neighborhood.
Um Ahmed reacts after her husband was injured and her house and car damaged in a car bombing near a junior high school for girls in eastern Baghdad, May 24, 2005.
A U.S. armored vehicle passes the scene of a car bombing that struck near Dijlah Junior High School for Girls in Alwiyah, near eastern Baghdad's well-known Withaq Square, May 24, 2005.
Residents observe the scene at dawn following a nighttime car bombing outside the Abul-Fadl Abbas Shiite mosque, in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, May 24, 2005.
Women grieve as they comfort a small boy whose mother was killed near the Abul-Fadl Abbas Shiite mosque, in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, May 24, 2005. The mosque was the target of a car bombing at about the time worshippers would have been arriving for sunset prayers.
The brothers of a restaurant worker, center right, comfort each other at the scene of a lunchtime car bombing outside a restaurant popular with police officers, in the Talibia area of northern Baghdad, Iraq, May 23, 2005. The attack killed at least eight people and injured more than 80.
The site of a car bombing outside the Habayibna restaurant, in the Talibia area of Baghdad, Iraq, May 23, 2005.
Rescuers attempt to clear the scene following a deadly car bombing outside a restaurant in the Talibia area of northern Baghdad, Iraq, May 23, 2005.
A man cries out over his brother's body at Yarmouk hospital, in Baghdad's Mansour district, May 23, 2005. The man's brother, a driver for Maj. Gen. Wael al-Rubaei, director of the National Security Ministry's operations room, and al-Rubaei were assassinated by two carloads of gunmen in a drive-by shooting on their way to work. State employees and security forces have been prime targets of insurgents bent on disrupting the U.S.-backed Iraqi government.
Residents look through holes in a U.S. armored vehicle which was hit by a roadside bomb, in the al-Tamim area of Ramadi, Iraq, May 23, 2005. Three U.S. soldiers were wounded in the blast.