Nearly 300 Shiite residents of Baghdad's southern Saydiyah district, whom sectarian violence drove from their houses, take to the streets of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007, demanding the government offer protection for them to return.
Soad Ali weeps at the bedside of her husband, Hassan Jabir, 37, as he recovers from gunshot wounds in a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007. Jabir, a lawyer, says he was in his car in the Mansour neighborhood when guards in a U.S. State Department convoy opened fire, shooting him four times.
A U.S. Army medic from the 28th Combat Support Hospital awaits helicopter ambulances carrying American wounded Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq. The hospital, located in Baghdad's Green Zone, receives many of the nearly 30,000 U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq. More than 3,700 Americans have died so far in the Iraq war.
An Iraqi man attends Friday prayer in Kufa, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, Sept. 21, 2007.
U.S. soldiers equipped with night-vision goggles wait for an airlift next to a burning al Qaeda hideout, near Iskandaria, south of Baghdad early Friday, Sept. 21, 2007.
A boy peers into a damaged vehicle after an overnight raid in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007.
An Iraqi man is seen in a hospital after being treated for his wounds from a car bomb attack at an Iraqi troop checkpoint at the entrance of Sadr City, the capital's largest Shiite neighborhood, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007.
An Iraqi soldier is seen through a broken car windshield at the site of a car bomb attack at an Iraqi troop checkpoint at the entrance of Sadr City, the capital's largest Shiite neighborhood, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007.
Hussam Hassan, left, and his brother, Ahmed Hassan, right, inspect their father's car in a car park in Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. the car was destroyed in a shooting incident in Baghdad by Blackwater security guards four days ago.
A U.S. Army soldier watches Iraqi detainees at the Camp Cropper detention center Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007, in Baghdad, Iraq. U.S. forces have a total of about 25,000 detainees in several centers in Iraq, up from only about 14,000 before the American troops surge this year.
Members of a private security company pose on the rooftop of a house in Baghdad, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. Iraq declared it will review the operations of all security firms working in the war-ravaged country following a deadly shootout involving private US contractor Blackwater.
A young boy cries as his mother consoles him after U.S soldiers detained a family member during operation Saber Hammer 3 on the outskirts of Muqdadiyah, Iraq, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. The operation targets insurgents on the outskirts of Muqdadiyah.
Iraqi men watch an oil spill burn in the Tigris River in Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. The spill reached Tikrit after a bomb went off under the pipeline in the northern city of Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, setting off a fire and causing huge quantities of crude oil to spill into the Tigris River, a police official said.
Iraqis mill around the remains of a vehicle after a parked car bomb exploded near a popular market in the Ur neighborhood in northern Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007, killing six people and wounding 12 others, a police office said. A series of bombings ripped through other parts of Baghdad, killing at least 12 and wounding nearly 40, police said.
An injured child is treated in a hospital after a parked car bomb exploded, killing six people and wounding 12 others, near a popular market in the Ur neighborhood in northern Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007.
A U.S. Army soldier stands near a vehicle damaged after a parked car bomb detonated at a parking lot in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007, killing seven people and wounding 23. Around the Iraqi capital, at least 12 people were killed and 37 wounded in incidents that included another car bombing and two roadside bombings, police said. (
An Iraqi man grieves outside a morgue after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car near a busy market in the Shiite area of Jamila, killing three people and wounding 10, in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007. Police said the blast appeared to target a police patrol along Jamila's main street.
An Iraqi soldier looks at a suspected Iraqi insurgent lies handcuffed after he was detained for possessing weapons during operation Saberhammer 3 on the outskirts of Muqdadiyah, Iraq, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007. The operation targets insurgents in the outskirts of Muqdadiyah.
An injured Iraqi man crouches in a hospital, after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car near a busy market in the Shiite area of Jamila, killing three people and wounding 10, eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007. Police said the blast appeared to target a police patrol along Jamila's main street.
The wreckage of a car bomb is seen after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car near a busy market in the Shiite area of Jamila, killing three people and wounding 10, eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007.