U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Brigade combat team of 101st Airborne Division talk to local Sheik's during their patrol mission in the town of Owesap some about 12 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007.
A woman injured in a car bomb attack gets treatment at a hospital in Baqouba, the capital of the volatile Diyala province, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007. A suicide car bomber struck near a police station in downtown Baqouba Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring another fourteen.
A man injured in a car bomb attack is rushed into a hospital in Baqouba, the capital of the volatile Diyala province, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007.
U.S. soldier from the 3rd Brigade combat team of 101st Airborne Division gets in the water to cross a canal during a patrol mission in the town of Owesap, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007.
An Iraqi man shops for shoes at a popular outdoor market in central Baghdad, late December 1, 2007. Popular markets and shopping malls stay open until the late hours of the day in the capital as they recently resumed their normal activity with the improvement of the security situation.
An old Iraqi woman looks down as US soldiers from the 1st Battallion, 38 Infantry reagiment strikers brigade deploy during the air assault operation "Rock Hammer 5" aimed at clearing and searching for Al-Qaeda suspects in the village of Sufeit, 20 miles south of Baquba, November 30, 2007.
An Iraqi refugee that has just returned from Syria covers her face with her passport as she waits to collect government aid in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007. About 20 buses carrying hundreds of Iraqi refugees returned to Baghdad from Syria late Wednesday, a move the government hailed as a sign of growing public confidence that Iraq was finally on the road to stability.
An Iraqi police officer inspects a minibus damaged in a bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007. A bomb left in a minibus went off early Thursday morning, killing one person, and injuring another five, police said.
Iraqi refugees, who have just returned from Syria, wait for local transportation in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007. Hundreds of Iraqi refugees boarded buses leaving Syria on Tuesday and headed home to Baghdad, cautiously hoping the improvement in security means they can stay for good.
People wounded in a shooting at a U.S. military roadblock rest inside the al-Kindi hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007. American troops fired on a vehicle trying to drive through a roadblock in Baghdad's northern Shaab neighborhood, killing as many as four passengers, police and hospital officials said.
A Sunni cleric walks across a square in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007. Iraq's top Shiite cleric renewed his call for an end to sectarian violence in the country and for Sunni and Shiite Muslims to unite, according to a Sunni cleric who met him Tuesday in this holy city south of Baghdad.
A U.S. soldier from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Regiment infantry goes down the stairs as he searches an Iraqi house for weapons and suspects during a morning patrol in the streets of Baquba, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007.
An Iraqi woman and her children walk past a U.S. soldier from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Regiment infantry taking a break during a morning patrol in the streets of Baquba, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007.
An Iraqi Shiite woman with a pinned picture of revered Shiite cleric grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, father of radical Shiite Cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, attends a march in Baghdad's Al-Shulaa neighborhood, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007.
U.S. soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Regiment infantry search Iraqi houses for weapons and suspects as part of the operation 'Rock Hammer 5' in the streets of Baquba, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007.
A U.S. soldier from the 3rd Brigade combat team of the 101st Airborne Division searches a house during a patrol mission in the town of Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007.
Followers of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr march during a rally in Baghdad's Amil neighborhood, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007.
U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Brigade combat team of 101st Airborne Division look through scopes on their rifles during a patrol mission in the town of Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007.
A U.S. soldier from the 3rd Brigade combat team of 101st Airborne Division looks at a book he found searching a house during a patrol mission in the town of Youssifiyah, 12 miles, south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007.
A U.S. soldier from the 3rd Brigade combat team of 101st Airborne Division directs a military vehicle as it backs up on a narrow road during a patrol mission in the town of Youssifiyah 12 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007.