Iraqi mourners shout as they escort a truck transporting the symbolic coffin for Iraqi Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim during a funeral procession through the streets of Karbala, Monday, Sept. 1, 2003. The cleric was killed, along with dozens of others, when a car bomb was detonated Friday outside the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, 110 miles south of Baghdad.
U.S. Army soldiers Spc. Daniel Andrews of Lynchburg, Va., left, and Pvt. Robert Knott of Fort Hood, Texas, both from Alfa Company-588, swim in an indoor pool at one of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's palaces, now a U.S. Army base, in Tikrit, about 110 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 1, 2003.
Iraqi mourners escort a truck transporting the symbolic coffin for Iraqi Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim during a funeral procession through the streets of Karbala, Monday, Sept. 1, 2003. The cleric was killed, along with dozens of others, Friday, when a car bomb was detonated outside the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, 110 miles south of Baghdad.
A group of Iraqi Shiite Muslim women chant as they wait to see a symbolic coffin for Iraqi Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim in Karbala, Monday, Sept. 1, 2003. The cleric was killed, along with dozens of others, when a car bomb was detonated outside the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, 110 miles south of Baghdad.
An Iraqi policeman, right, and an American Military police officer guard the entrance to Iraqi police headquarters in Baghdad after a car parked outside exploded, injuring a number of bystanders Tuesday Sept. 2, 2003. The Iraqi police said there were also a few U.S. military police in a nearby police academy as trainers for Iraqi police. No Americans were hurt in the incident according to Iraqi police.
An increase of all security around the mosque in Najaf, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003, while waiting for the funeral procession for moderate cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim to arrive at the mosque. A bombing on Friday, Aug. 29, 2003, at a mosque killed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim and at least 124 others.
Thousands of Shiite muslims in Najaf on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003, await the arrival of the ceremonial coffin (center) of the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Mohammed Baqir Al-Hakim, as his funeral procession arrives at the mosque. A bombing on Friday, Aug. 29, 2003, killed Mohammed Baqir Al-Hainkim and many others.
The aftermath of bomb blast outside police headquarters, Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003.
A wounded Iraq police officer is led down the street by fellow police officers outside a police headquarters in Baghdad after a car parked outside the building exploded on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003. No Americans were hurt in the incident according to Iraqi police.
Mourners march during a funeral procession remembering Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim in Dearborn, Mich., Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003. Al-Hakim was the Shiite cleric killed in a car bombing at a mosque last week in Najaf, Iraq.
U.S. Army soldiers from the 720th Military Police Battalion search a house during a joint raid with Iraqi police forces in Tikrit, about 110 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2003. They raided three farmhouses in a search for weapons and opposition suspects.
U.S. Army soldiers with Iraqi police officers, second left, patrol a street in Mosul, 248 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 5, 2003.
Iraqis are searched before entering the Kadhimiya shrine in Baghdad before Friday prayers on Sept. 5, 2003. Security was stepped up across the country following last Friday's car bomb attack in Najaf that killed dozens outside the Imam Ali shrine.
An Iraqi man stands guard as people gather for Friday prayers at Kadhimiya shrine in Baghdad Sept. 5, 2003. Across the country, security was stepped up after last Friday's car bomb attack in Najaf that killed dozens outside the Imam Ali shrine.
Iraqis demonstrate at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 5, 2003. A week after a car bomb assassination of a top Shiite cleric and the killing of nearly 100 other people, thousands of worshippers filled the Imam Ali mosque for a sermon by the slain ayatollah's deputy who called for the faithful to peacefully resist the American occupation.
Iraqi Muslims pray at a mosque in an afternoon prayer service in Mosul, 248 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 5, 2003.
Iraqis arrive for prayers at Baghdad's Kadhimiya shrine under a banner which reads: "The Blood of Martyr al-Hakim. I swear by God I've Won," on Friday, Sept. 5, 2003, as the mourning continues for Iraqi Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim who was killed in a car bomb attack in Najaf on Aug. 29.
A U.S. Hunmvee is on fire after it drove over a roadside bomb in downtwon Mosul, 250 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, September 6, 2003. The driver of the vehicle was slightly injured in the mid-morning attack.
Iraqi men play dominos at an outdoor cafe in an impoverished neighborhood of the northern city of Mosul, 250 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2003.
A group of Iraqi men hold a pro-Saddam rally, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2003, outside the U.S.-led coalition headquarters in Baghdad, demanding they be paid back salaries dating to the U.S. occupation of Baghdad five months ago. A leader was taken inside the headquarters and later emerged to tell the crowd that they had been promised salaries would be paid on Monday morning.