Members of the U.S. Army's 720th Military Police Battalion guard a man as Iraqi police, not seen, question him, Monday, Sept 29, 2003, during an early morning raid in Tikrit. Iraqi security forces, backed up by U.S. military police, carried out their largest-ever joint raid Monday in an effort to stop a spate of deadly attacks against Americans and to break the resistance movement. The man was not detained.
Iraqi police officers try to break down a door of a house, Monday, Sept 29, 2003, during an early morning raid in Tikrit in conjunction with the U.S. Army's 720th Military Police Battalion. Iraqi security forces, backed up by U.S. military police, carried out their largest-ever joint raid Monday in an effort to halt a spate of deadly attacks against American forces.
An Iraqi policeman controls traffic near a sign on a street in Mosul, 250 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 29, 2003.
British soldiers are watched by Iraqis as they carry out a building inspection during a patrol in Basra, in southern Iraq Monday Sept 29, 2003.
Iraqis run through the neighborhood of al-Qurtan in the Iraqi town of Khaldiyah Monday Sept. 29, 2003 as U.S. troops withdrew from the area after a firefight backed by U.S. attack aircraft, helicopters and tanks. One American soldier was killed and three others wounded in two roadside bombings, one prompting the firefight.
U.S. soldiers transport Iraqi prisoners from the scene of a firefight in Khaldiyah Monday Sept. 29, 2003 after a firefight backed by U.S. attack aircraft, helicopters and tanks. One American soldier was killed and three others wounded in two roadside bombings, one prompting the firefight.
Former Iraqi Defense Ministry workers protest outside Saddam Hussein's presidential palace, now a headquarters of the Coalition Provisional Authority, in Baghdad Tuesday Sept 30, 2003. The workers were demanding back jobs they lost when Saddam's regime fell.
An Iraqi man is reflected in one of 12 rear-view mirrors on his bicycle, on a street in Baghdad Tuesday Sept. 30, 2003. The man's bike was rigged with multiple mirrors, a battery powered sound system, electric horn, and colorful decorations.
Soldiers with 110th Cavalry, 4th Infantry Division in Tarsaq, a few kilometers from the Iranian border, unload Iranian pilgrims, Saturday, Sept 27, 2003 who were collected while attempting to cross the border illegally. U.S soldiers have since the end of August, detained and repatriated more than 14,000 Iranian pilgrims who have tried to illegally cross into Iraq at a spot about 75 miles east of Baghdad.
Iraqi men hurl stones and burn cars as a group of unemployed men demonstrating for jobs stormed a police station in downtown Baghdad, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2003. Iraqi police opened fire to disperse the crowd and at least one demonstrator was injured. Demonstrators say that the police were demanding bribes in return for hiring them for promised police jobs.
A soldier of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division walks through steam as he patrols a street with Iraqi boys looking on in Mosul, 250 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday. Oct. 1, 2003.
A U.S. soldier kisses an Iraqi police chief on the cheeks in a typical Iraqi greeting as U.S. troops arrive to reinforce Iraqi police to stop a riot in central Baghdad, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2003. Iraqi police opened fire to disperse the crowd of unemployed protestors who hurled stones and burned cars. At least one demonstrator was injured.
A U.S. Apache helicopter circles the Ali Kazem al-Bayai mosque in Baghdad after U.S. soldiers fired shots in the air to disperse Shiite protesters who threw rocks at them during a demonstration Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2003. The Shiites, who were demanding an apology for the detention Tuesday of their preacher Moayed al-Khazraji, took over a police station during the protest.
Former members of the Iraqi secret service, who have been unemployed since the arrival of the U.S. military in Iraq, block traffic with burning tires and trees as they demand jobs in front of one of the U.S. headquarters in central Baghdad, Thursday Oct. 2, 2003.
Soldiers of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, 320th Battalion Field Artillery, is seen holding his machine gun as he and his comrades block a road 62 miles south of Mosul, northern Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2003, after an operation searching for weapons in a nearby village.
U.S. soldiers search the street opposite the mayor's office in Fallujah, Iraq, after coming under fire from attackers Thursday Oct. 2, 2003. One man was killed in the incident northwest of Baghdad, and at least four peoples were injured in the crossfire. U.S. officers said the man killed was an attacker, but hospital officials said he was a bystander.
U.S. Army Sgt. Timothy Bonnette of the Bravo Company, 2-502 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, uses his night-vision equipment to observe a territory during a night patrol mission in Mosul, 250 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, late Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003.
A soldier of U.S. Army Bravo Company, 2-502 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, walks past an open gate as Iraqi boy looks at him during a night patrol mission in Mosul, 250 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, late Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003.
A group of former Iraqi soldiers, demonstrating over rumors their pay would be cut off, are pushed away by American Army soldiers in the western part of Baghdad on Sunday Oct. 5, 2003. On Saturday, a group of former Iraqi soldiers clashed with coalition troops in Baghdad and in the southern city of Basra in riots that left two Iraqis dead and dozens injured.
U.S. soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division, 1st Brigade, 22nd Infantry Regiment, keep guard after they detained two Iraqi men suspected of being arms and explosive dealers, Sunday, Oct 5, 2003, during a raid in Tikrit. U.S soldiers on Sunday raided the home of a suspected weapons dealer and discovered materials used to build the roadside bombs used against American soldiers.