A woman walks through a room of a house that caught fire after a roadside bomb blast in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007. A roadside bomb missed a passing U.S. military convoy in eastern Baghdad's Baladiyat district on Sunday but killed a 12-year-old girl and wounded four other Iraqis, police said.
A member of an armed group of local citizens passes by as U.S. army soldiers keep watch of detainees in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Azamiyah, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007. U.S. and Iraqi army soldiers, along with an armed group of local citizens, patrolled the streets of the troubled, predominantly Sunni, neighborhood Saturday, detaining several suspects.
A U.S. officer with the 101st Airborne Division patrols the perimeter of the Baiji railway station during a weapon search as the sun rises early Friday, Nov. 9, 2007. American and Iraqi forces have launched a massive assault targeting al Qaeda fighters in four northern provinces of Iraq, the U.S. military said.
Iraqis offer their prayers at the Shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 9, 2007.
A U.S. soldier with the 101st Airborne Division searches an abandoned building at the Baiji railway station early Friday, Nov. 9, 2007.
A man shouts during Friday prayers at the Shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 9, 2007.
Men work in a brick factory on the outskirts of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007. As the ongoing conflict in Iraq often disrupts the country's economy, most manual laborers work long hours and in extreme conditions for low wages.
A worker stacks up bricks in a brick factory on the outskirts of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007.
U.S. Army Spc. Patrick Read, 24, from Medford, Ore., of Demon Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division reacts after coming under fire in western Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007.
Iraqi policemen inspect a crater left by the explosion of a car bomb in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007. Fifteen people were wounded in a suicide car bomb which targeted the headquarters of the Kurdish Democratic Party headed by Iraq's Autonomous Region President Massud Barzani.
A child and a man injured in a suicide truck bomb sit in a hospital in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007. A suicide truck bomb exploded at the office of a Kurdish political party in Kirkuk, injuring at least 13 persons, police said.
A worker in a brick factory pauses as smoke billows from the towering chimneys on the outskirts of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007. As the ongoing conflict in Iraq often disrupts the country's economy, most manual laborers work long hours and in extreme conditions for low wages.
Iraqis pass by a Bradley armored vehicle in Baghdad's Amariyah neighborhood, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007. The speed with which one of Baghdad's most dangerous areas turned into one of its more secure has taken almost everyone, including the U.S. military forces in Amariyah, by surprise.
A boy looks at a U.S. army soldier at a security checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007. Death tolls for Americans and Iraqis have fallen dramatically in recent months, as have the number of bombings, shootings and other violence.
U.S. Army soldiers from Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division search an auto yard after finding explosives in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007. The battalion conducted a search operation in the Nablus area of the northern Iraqi city.
An elderly Iraqi Kurdish man stands in front of a museum, on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007, in Dauhk city, situated close to the Iraqi-Turkish border about 300 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq.
Iraqi displaced women are seen at a camp for displaced people in the holy city of Najaf, central Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007. Iraqis are fleeing their homes in droves and the number of displaced within the war-torn country has reached almost 2.3 million, most of them women and children, the Iraqi Red Crescent said.
A street vendor sells vegetables at an open air market in east Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007.
A Mandaean Sabian priest baptizes a believer on the banks of the Tigris river in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. Mandaeanism is a monotheistic religion whose followers regard John the Baptist as their prophet. The Iraq conflict reduced the number of Mandaeans living in the country to approximately five thousand, as most of them fled to neighboring countries under threat of violence.
A little girl watches as a soldier searches a car at a newly established security checkpoint in Zakho, 300 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007.