A U.S. Blackhawk helicopter casts a shadow as it flies over central Baghdad, Oct. 6, 2003.
A soldier with the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division observes a street from a roof in downtown Beiji, some 160 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 6, 2003, after a weekend of fighting and riots between pro-Saddam Hussein demonstrators, Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers.
Soldiers of the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division guard the burned mayor's office in downtown Beiji, Iraq, Oct. 6, 2003, after a weekend of fighting and riots between pro-Saddam Hussein demonstrators, Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers.
Iraqi boys shout pro-Saddam's slogans as they drive past a soldier of the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division guarding a street downtown Beiji, Iraq, Oct. 6, 2003.
An abandoned watchtower and lines of barbed wire are seen surrounding Iraq's largest oil refinery in the city of Beiji, Iraq, Oct. 6, 2003, as smoke rises from petroleum gas flare at left. Beiji, population 60,000, is on the road to Mosul. Iraq's third-largest city, it sits in the so-called "Sunni Triangle," a swath of land to the north and west of Baghdad, mainly inhabited by Sunni Muslims.
The sun sets next to Saddam Hussein's former presidential palace in Baghdad at dusk, Oct. 6, 2003. In the background is the partially built Al Rahman Mosque, one of three ordered built by Hussein in the 1990s. If completed, the mosque would be the second largest in Iraq.
American soldiers push back Iraqi men demonstrating in central Baghdad, Oct. 7, 2003. About 2,000 former employees of the Iraqi intelligence service demanded pay and their old jobs back. They were throwing stones at the American soldiers and tried to break through barbed wire near Baghdad's palace.
American Army soldiers arrest an Iraqi man demonstrating in central Baghdad, Oct. 7, 2003. About 2,000 former employees of the Iraqi intelligence service demanded pay and their old jobs back.
Iraqi men throw stones during a demonstration in central Baghdad, Oct. 7, 2003, as 2,000 former employees of the Iraqi intelligence service demanded back pay and their old jobs.
A U.S soldier from the 4th Infantry Division, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment provide cover in front of a Bradley fighting vehicle, Oct. 7, 2003, as troops search a house for an alleged bombmaker in Tikrit. The search proved fruitless. The U.S army has intensified its search for those responsible for a series of deadly bomb attacks against U.S froces in Iraq.
U.S. soldiers ride on Humvees through the grounds of Saddam Hussein's former Republican Palace in Baghdad at sunset, Oct. 8, 2003. The palace is now used as the headquarters of the Coalition Provisional Authority.
An Iraqi policeman gestures as he walks through the blast area after an explosion outside a police station in the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, Oct. 9, 2003. The suicide car bomber killed at least 10 people, police said.
A U.S. Army soldier guards the blast area after an explosion outside a police station in the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, Oct. 9, 2003.
Iraqis walk through the blast area after an explosion outside a police station in the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, Oct. 9, 2003. Sadr City is the largest Shiite Muslim enclave in Baghdad.
U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment check a car during a patrol in Sadr City, Oct. 7, 2003.
U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment meet with an Iraqi policeman at a looted police station in Sadr City, the largest Shiite Muslim enclave in Baghdad, Oct. 7, 2003. The U.S. is helping to rebuild the station, which was looted and burned after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.
U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment patrol in an alley in Sadr City, Oct. 7, 2003. The banner at left announces a memorial service for an Iraqi who died last month.
An Iraqi man watches as fellow Shiites listen to speeches during Friday prayers at the al-Rahman Mosque, Oct. 10, 2003. In a press conference after the prayers the mosque preacher Sheik Ali al-Ibrahimi called on U.S. and British forces to use peaceful means in dealing with Iraqi Shiites.
An armed American rushes to the scene after a huge explosion believed caused by a car bomb rocked central Baghdad near the Baghdad Hotel, which is thought to be an office of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the Iraqi capital, Sunday Oct 12, 2003.
Iraqi's rush to the scene after a huge explosion where a suicide attacker slammed an explosives-rigged car into a barrier outside the Baghdad Hotel, home to many U.S. officials and security agents in the Iraqi capital, Sunday Oct 12, 2003.