U.S. Army soldiers make radio contact after arriving by helicopter at night at an undisclosed location south of Baghdad, Iraq, where they believed a top leader of the insurgency and close associate of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was hiding, June 5, 2005. Although the insurgent leader was not found, Americans and soldiers from the Iraqi Intervention Force detained 15 people.
Iraqi policemen inspect a bombing site after a suicide car bomber attacked a police patrol in western Baghdad's Amil neighborhood, June 4, 2005, seriously wounding two policemen and setting two vehicles ablaze. Eight people died Friday from insurgent attacks around the country, bringing to at least 830 the number killed since the Shiite-led government took office April 28.
An Iraqi army officer stands next to a captured suspected Jordanian militant in Baghdad, June 4, 2005. Iraqi Army's al-Muhtana brigade arrested 19 suspected militants in raids in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib and Sabi al-Bour neighborhoods.
A boy lies in Balad, Iraq, hospital after he was wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a Sufi religious ceremony, June 3, 2005.
An Iraqi policeman has his weapon ready after a car bomb detonated in Baghdad, Iraq, June 3, 2005. At least 825 people, including U.S. forces, have been killed since the new Shiite-led government was announced April 28.
Edris Abbas cries at the spot where a suicide car bomber struck and killed his brother and eight other worshippers in Yethrib, June 3, 2005. A suicide car bomber targeted a gathering of followers of the mystic Islamic Sufi movement in Yethrib, a remote village near Balad, north of Baghdad.
Iraqi police and U.S. forces block traffic after a car bomb detonated in Baghdad, June 3, 2005.
A bodyguard of Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister, Rowsch Nouri Shaways, cries next to his comrade and relative's body in Tuz Khormato, some 55 miles south of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, June 2, 2005.
People check the aftermath of a car-bomb explosion in the town of Khalis, some 30 miles, north of Baqouba, June 2, 2005.
A shop owner cleans debris after a motorcycle rigged with explosives, seen in front, detonated in Mosul, June 2, 2005.
An Iraqi policeman stands at the site of a car bomb explosion in Tuz Khormato, some 55 miles south of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, Iraq, June 2, 2005. At least 12 people were killed in a massive explosion targeting the town's Baghdad Restaurant, where bodyguards of Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister, Rowsch Nouri Shaways, were eating.
People check the aftermath of a car-bomb explosion in the town of Khalis, some 30 miles north of Baqouba, June 2, 2005.
A suspected militant is placed under arrest during a raid in a town of al-Hartha, some 20 miles north of Basra, Iraq, June 1, 2005.
Fireman hose down a car damaged in an explosion after a suicide bomber targeting American forces exploded his vehicle near the heavily guarded main checkpoint to Baghdad International Airport, June 1, 2005.
Iraqi security officers guard suspected militants arrested during a raid in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib suburb, June 1, 2005.
Iraqi kids in Baghdad play with toy guns as Operation Lightning, a large-scale anti-insurgent campaign, enters its third day, May 31, 2005. The operation, which will see more than 40,000 Iraqi security forces deployed to the capital's streets, aims at ridding Baghdad of militants.
Iraqi soldiers stand by the scene of a suicide car bomb attack at an army checkpoint near Buhriz, Iraq, May 31, 2005, killing at least two soldiers and wounding nine others, according to police.
People cry during a funeral for people killed in Hillah the day before, in Najaf, Iraq, May 31, 2005.
Mohsen Abdul-Hamid, center, walks out from his house with bodyguards to speak to the media after being released from detention, in Baghdad's western Khadra district, May 30, 2005. Abdul-Hamid, the head of the Iraqi Islamic Party, Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political party, was taken into detention by U.S. troops in the early morning, but was later released after they said he was held by mistake.
Iraqi soldiers from the Interior Ministry's elite Wolf Brigade detain a suspect during a raid on a house in the al-Azamiyah area of Baghdad, Iraq, May 30, 2005.