A U.S. Army soldier from the Third Armored Cavalry Regimen, Tiger Squadron, Apache Troop, walks past an old wooden door in the historic Sarai district of Tal Afar, Iraq, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, Sept. 11, 2005. Tal Afar, an ancient city in northwestern Iraq, is home to about 300 important archaeological sites with a famous citadel.
An Iraqi man in Baghdad reads a newspaper with an image of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York, with a headline reading: "September 11 casts shedow at the world situation" Sept. 11, 2005.
Pfc. Jose Cevallos, center, of El Monte, Calif., watches for enemies, while Pfc. Larry Cramer of Vestao, N.Y., listens to his radio during a pause in operations in Tal Afar, Iraq, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, Sept. 11, 2005. Both are U.S. Army soldiers from the Third Armored Cavalry Regimen, Tiger Squadron, Apache Troop.
Iraqi and U.S. soldiers search house-to-house for weapons and insurgents in Tal Afar, Iraq, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, Sept. 11, 2005. U.S. and Iraqi troops conducted house-to-house searches and battered down stone walls in the narrow, winding streets of the old city.
A chick sits on the chest of an Iraqi Army soldier from the Third Brigade, and pecks at a carton of cigarettes during a pause in the search for weapons and insurgents in Tal Afar, Iraq, 93 miles east of the Syrian border, Sept. 10, 2005.
U.S. Army Sgt. Allen Durbin declines a bowl of drinking water from an Iraqi woman during searches for weapons and insurgents in Tal Afar, Iraq, 93 miles east of the Syrian border, Sept. 10, 2005.
An Iraqi Shiite imam collects burned pages of a Quran, inside a damaged mosque in Baghdad, Sept. 9, 2005. A bomb detonated in front of Al-Rasoul Al-Adam Shiite mosque in Dora neighborhood, injuring four civilians in a house nearby.
Iraqis attempt to save carpets inside a damaged mosque in Baghdad, Sept. 9, 2005. A bomb detonated in front of Al-Rasoul Al-Adam Shiite mosque in the Dora neighborhood, injuring four civilians in a house nearby.
U.S. Army Capt. Mike Davis, of Worcester, Mass., waves to American soldiers as he passes them in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Sept. 9, 2005, in Tal Afar, Iraq, 93 miles east of the Syrian border.
An Iraqi fireman attempts to extinguish burning trucks in al-Hiqlaniya, near Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, Sept. 8, 2005. A group of gunmen launched an attack on the trucks, which were carrying supplies for the U.S. military.
Iraqi police survey the scene following an explosion in Baghdad, Sept. 8, 2005. A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives-laden black BMW in the center of the capital, targeting a passing convoy of private American security agents. It was the second attack in a week near the heavily fortified Sadir Hotel.
Atheer Adnan, 10, is taken for treatment to a hospital in Baghdad, Sept. 8, 2005. Atheer was wounded when a roadside bomb detonated in the Dora neighborhood, injuring two civilians.
Friends and relatives carry the casket of a victim of the previous night's explosion in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Sept. 8, 2005.
Iraqi police survey the scene after a late-night explosion in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Sept. 7, 2005.
A body is removed from an overturned British diplomatic vehicle in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Sept. 7, 2005. Four people were killed in an attack Wednesday on the British diplomatic convoy, police said.
Pedestrians walk past as the Iraqi police survey the scene after an explosion in the Karradah district in downtown Baghdad, Sept. 7, 2005. A car bomb detonated, killing four civilians and injuring six others.
The mother, center, brother, left, and another relative of inured Iraqi Jafaar Ali, 14, react outside a hospital after an explosion in the Karradah district in downtown Baghdad, Sept. 7, 2005.
Staff Sgt. Charlie Fragozo from Arleta, Calif., of Alpha Company, Task Force 4-64, Armor, shouts at his gunner position on an armored Humvee as he attempts to stop civilian cars (not in picture) along a street during a patrol, Sept. 5, 2005, in Baghdad.
Seen through the window of a Humvee of Alpha Company, Task Force 4-64, Armor, an Iraqi boy chases the vehicle during a patrol along a street, Sept. 5, 2005, in Baghdad.
A U.S military vehicle burns after being caught in the explosion of a car-bomb Sept. 5, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. According to Iraqi police reports, a car bomb exploded as a U.S military convoy was passing by.