Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division (Task Force Ironhorse) fire mortar from the military base in Tikrit, 120 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 26, 2003.
U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division soldiers look at burning Black Hawk helicopter, background, in Tikrit, 120 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2003. The U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter was shot down by ground fire near Tikrit, a center of Iraq's anti-U.S. insurgency, U.S. officials said.
U.S. Army soldiers secure the area around the Al Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad after eight rockets struck the hotel early Oct 26, 2003, where U.S. military and civilian employees stay.
Iraqi men stand next to a hole caused by an overnight attack in Baghdad's Ad-Doura neighborhood, Oct. 24, 2003. At least two Iraqis were killed and seven wounded when rockets fell here, residents said. The rockets smashed into several stalls in the Ad-Doura market and caused slight damage to the Ad-Doura power plant about 200 yards away.
Iraqi shiites worship during Friday prayers in Sadr City, the largest Shiite Muslim enclave in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 24, 2003.
A U.S. Army soldier from Alpha company, 1-22 infantry regiment, 4th Infantry Division, shakes hands with an Iraqi boy as he patrols a street of Tikrit, 120 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 24, 2003.
An Iraqi woman gestures as she tells U.S. Army soldiers that her son was playing with fireworks in a street of Tikrit, 120 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 24, 2003. Soldiers from Alpha company, 1-22 infantry regiment, 4th Infantry Division, were on patrol when they were alerted by the sound of gunfire.
Iraqis look at a car in which U.S. soldiers found explosives which had been rigged by a Syrian man, in Baghdad Thursday Oct. 23, 2003. An improvised roadside bomb was also found outside a nearby school a few hours later. Both were detonated by explosives experts.
An Iraqi boy stands next to the remains of a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) after it was fired towards a shop in the center of Baghdad, Oct. 23, 2003. Iraqi police also found two cars packed with explosives in the Iraqi capital and arrested a Syrian who confessed to having rigged them, Iraqi officials said.
An Iraqi woman holds a baby as soldiers of U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division search her yard for weapons in the village of Hamra, about 10 miles northeast of Tikrit, Iraq, Oct. 22, 2003. During raids near Saddam Hussein's hometown, U.S. soldiers detained several suspects believed to be involved in deadly attacks on American troops and uncovered a weapons cache buried in the farming community.
Iraqis celebrate next to a burning U.S. Army vehicle in the western end of Fallujah, outside Baghdad, Oct. 22, 2003. Witnesses said four Americans were carried away on stretchers in an attack on a three-vehicle convoy, but there was no comment from U.S. officials.
A soldier of the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division checks a bag on the head of one of the detained Iraqi men as they sit in the truck in the village of Hamra, about 10 miles northeast of Tikrit, Iraq, Oct. 20, 2003.
Iraqis celebrate next to a burning U.S. Army vehicle in the western end of Fallujah, outside Baghdad, Oct. 22, 2003. Witnesses said four Americans were carried away on stretchers in an attack on a three-vehicle convoy, but there was no comment from U.S. officials.
An Iraqi woman cries as she looks at her relative being detained by soldiers of U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division during a weapons-search operation in the village of Hamra, about 10 miles northeast of Tikrit, Iraq, Oct. 22, 2003.
U.S. Army soldiers secure the area after a roadside bomb exploded in a tunnel in the heart of the Iraqi capital Baghdad as a U.S. military convoy passed by, Oct. 22, 2003. A U.S. Army officer said two soldiers were slightly injured.
An Iraqi man is welcomed by his relatives after returning to the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Oct 21, 2003. About 650 Iraqis left a refugee camp in northern Saudi Arabia, where they had lived for the past 12 years. Several groups of Iraqis have returned home since U.S.-led forces ousted President Saddam Hussein's regime in April, including 450 people last month.
A U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division soldier stands behind two satelite dishes near a TV and radio retransmitting tower in Tikrit, 120 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 21, 2003. The transmitter will carry the radio and television signal from the U.S.-backed media network in the Iraqi capital across the northern Salah Ad Din province of 1 million people.
Iraqi security guards arrest a man, center, after accusing him of firing rounds out of his car at the Baghdad University, Oct. 21, 2003.
British soldiers stop an Iraqi man from greeting his relative after Iraqi refugees returned back to the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Oct. 21, 2003. About 650 Iraqis left a refugee camp in northern Saudi Arabia where they have lived for the last 12 years. Several groups of Iraqis have returned home since U.S.-led forces ousted President Saddam Hussein's regime in April, including 450 people last month.
U.S. Army soldiers secure the area after assailants ambushed a U.S. Army foot patrol outside Fallujah, Oct. 20, 2003. One American soldier and two civilians where killed and five others wounded in the second day of attacks. The patrol, from the 82nd Airborne Division, was first hit by an exploding homemade bomb, and then by small-arms fire, the military said.