Residents inspect the site of the previous day's attack in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 3, 3006. A triple car bombing struck a food market in a predominantly Shiite area in central Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 51 people a day after a U.S.-Iraqi raid against Sunni insurgents in a nearby neighborhood.
Detained suspected militants are guarded at an Iraqi Army base in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2006. Hundreds of suspected militants have been arrested in the area during joint U.S.-Iraqi military raids.
Iraqi women react at the site of the previous day's attack in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 3, 3006. A triple car bombing struck a food market in a predominantly Shiite area in central Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 51 people a day after a U.S.-Iraqi raid against Sunni insurgents in a nearby neighborhood.
An Iraqi man injured in an explosion is treated at a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006. A triple car bombing struck a food market in a predominantly Shiite area in central Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 51 people a day after a U.S.-Iraqi raid against Sunni insurgents in a nearby neighborhood.
Lt. Richard Jahelka, of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, aims at possible insurgents from the roof of a U.S. outpost in central Ramadi, a dangerous city choked with insurgents and the capital of the volatile province of al-Anbar, west of Baghdad, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006. Jahelka is part of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, temporarily deployed from its ships in the Persian Gulf to provide reinforcements in Anbar.
Shiite Muslims take part in Friday prayers in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 1, 2006.
Saddam Hussein sits in court during his genocide trial in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. The chief judge ejected one of Saddam Hussein's defense lawyers for "insulting the court" on Wednesday in the former Iraqi leader's trial for genocide in a military offensive against Kurds in the 1980s.
Iraqi security forces stand guard at the entrance of the Sunni Muslim endowment offices in the southern city of Basra, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. Gunmen killed a top official from the religious umbrella body in Basra, according to Iraqi police. Gunmen shot dead Naser Gitani, assistant director of the organization in the southern city, along with six of his bodyguards, according to police.
U.S. soldiers secure the site following a car bomb explosion in Mosul, northern Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006.
A woman carries an injured child in the Kindi hospital, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006. The child was injured and her parents and a brother were killed when a roadside bomb went off.
Iraqi firefighters spray a vehicle that caught fire following an explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006. A parked car exploded and struck a police patrol, killing one policeman and wounding four people, two policemen and two civilians, police said.
An Iraqi dances atop of a burnt military ambulance as others inspect it, in Buhriz, a former Saddam stronghold about 35 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006.
Blindfolded detainees are held at the Iraqi Army base in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006. Fierce fighting between Iraqi security forces and Sunni-Arab insurgents raged for a second day in Diyala province, resulting in 17 insurgents being killed, 15 detained 20 civilians kidnapped, three bodies found, one U.S. Marine killed and two wounded.
Iraqi police and civilians walk past a site of an explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006. Two car bombs outside one of Baghdad's main hospitals killed four people and injured at least seven others, Iraqi security officials said.
Iraqi security forces inspect a damaged vehicle following assassination attempt on Gov. Abdul Rahman Mustafa and his bodyguards, in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006. The Iraqi governor survived an assassination attempt when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the official's convoy.
Friends and relatives cover coffins with flags as they prepare for the funeral procession for victims of the previous day's attack in Shiite slum of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 27, 2006. Ten civilians were shot and killed Sunday by U.S. soldiers in the nearby suburb of Husseiniya, police and witnesses said.
Sun sets as a U.S. military helicopter and a flock of birds fly over Baghdad's protected Green Zone, Monday, Nov. 27, 2006.
An Iraqi woman walks past the site of Sunday's mortar attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 27, 2006. Two mortar attacks killed four civilians and injured five, police said.
Saddam Hussein sits in court as Hussein Rashid Mohammed, back left, and Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, back right, look on during their trial Monday, Nov. 27, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq, after a 19-day break. Saddam and his co-defendants have pleaded innocent to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their role in the military offensive against the Kurds, known as Operation Anfal.
Mourners take part in the funeral procession for victims of the previous day's attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 27, 2006. Two mortar attacks killed four civilians and injured five, police said.