Iraq Photos: Oct. 23 -- Oct. 29

Iraqi police protect the area near the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Oct 28. 2006.

A man kisses the tomb of Muslim ibn Aqeel, a cousin and supporter of Imam Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of the 7th century Prophet Muhammad and the first Imam of the Shiites, in Kufa, Iraq, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Oct. 27, 2006.

Soldiers from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team greet a young Iraqi boy in central Baghdad's Karradah district, Oct. 27, 2006. U.S. and Iraqi forces threw a security cordon around Karradah and continued to search for a missing officer of Iraqi descent.

Residents look for survivors in a house hit in a U.S. air strike, Oct. 27, 2006, in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad. The airstrike that killed three and wounded 3 more followed a clash between U.S. troops and gunmen, according to witnesses.

An Iraqi boy herds his sheep through central Baghdad, Oct. 27, 2006.

An Iraqi police officer mans a machine gun near Imam Ali Mosque, which was briefly closed to the public in Najaf, Oct. 26, 2006.

Seen through the cracked windshield of a damaged car, Iraqi men gather at the scene of a roadside bomb that injured two people in the Karada neighborhood in central Baghdad, Oct. 25, 2006.

An Iraqi man shows neighbors the damage done to his house following a pre-dawn gun battle in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City neighborhood, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006.

Rainbow rises over the 14th of Ramadan Mosque in central Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2006. Several mortar rounds were launched at the fortified Green Zone where U.S. forces are headquartered and U.S. jets and helicopter gun ships fired back and heavy clouds of black smoke could be seen rising from the area around Haifa Street, just blocks from the Green Zone.

Mother clutches her eldest son during a funeral for another son in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Oct. 25, 2006. The man was killed in a U.S. air strike during a U.S. and Iraqi forces raid to seeking to capture a top militia commander directing widespread death squad activity throughout eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.

Relatives pray over coffins of four men killed in joint U.S. and Iraqi forces raid in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Oct. 25, 2006.

An Iraqi child investigates a damaged house, after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Oct. 25, 2006.

An Iraqi boy plays with a toy gun at a park in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City neighborhood, Oct. 24, 2006. American forces are searching for a comrade who went missing in Baghdad, the military said, as violence raged on through the end of the Ramadan holiday.

Iraqis check damage done after a roadside bomb exploded targeting a police patrol in eastern Baghdad, Oct. 24, 2006. There were no injuries in the blast, police said.

Iraqi shopkeepers clear debris after a bomb hidden in a plastic bag exploded at Baghdad's al-Sadriya market, Oct. 24, 2006.

Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a chief of a feared militia, the Mahdi Army, prays with his followers after Eid al-Fitr prayer in Najaf, Oct. 24, 2006.

Iraqi soldiers check a man for weapons in Amarah, 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, Oct. 24, 2006. At least two more policemen were murdered in the southern Iraqi city of Amarah, where militiamen loyal to an anti-American cleric have been hunting down officers from a rival group in an ominous new outbreak of Shiite-on-Shiite revenge attacks.

Four year old Iraqi Christian girl Jwan Androws, rests in Baghdad's al-Kindi hospital, Oct. 23, 2006. Jwan was injured when a suicide bomber detonated his vest among shoppers on Baghdad's Palestine Street, killing her mother instantly while her father was seriously injured.

An injured man looks at a house destroyed in a U.S, air strike, in Ramadi, Iraq, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Oct. 23, 2006.

An Iraqi woman holds up the shoes of her relative who was killed in a car bomb blast that targeted a police patrol at the al-Nahdha intersection in central Baghdad, Oct. 23, 2006.

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