A U.S. soldier stands guard near a destroyed Humvee after a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near it in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 12, 2004. The crater made by the impact of the explosion is visible on the left. U.S. casualties were not known although at least three civilians in a nearby car died.
People cheer as they climb up on a burning U.S. Bradley Fighting Vehicle at Haifa Street in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 12, 2004. Fighting broke out early in the morning between U.S. troops and insurgents and lasted for nearly 90 minutes as U.S. soldiers fired from positions behind walls and trees along Haifa Street.
An Iraqi soldier asks supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to calm down as they gather to show support for al-Sadr in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 10, 2004. Altercations broke out after some of the supporters challenged the soldiers for supporting the U.S. Army.
A Shiite woman holds up a portrait of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr among others, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 10, 2004. Thousands of Shiite people congregated from all over the city in Baghdad's Kadhamiya district, to show their support for al-Sadr.
Ahmed Tarish, left, and his brother, Fadhil Tarish, cry after they lost two sisters and their mother to an U.S. airstrike in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 9, 2004.
Local residents stand by a track of a U.S. Abrams tank at Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 9, 2004. U.S. forces left the track behind after the damaged tank had to be recovered with a Hercules recovery vehicle.
Children sit on the roof of their damaged home after an air raid in Fallujah, Iraq, Sept. 9, 2004. American warplanes fired missiles on a building used by an al-Qaida-linked militant group in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah.
Thick smoke rises after a U.S. airstrike in Fallujah, Iraq, Sept. 8, 2004. U.S. jets fired several missiles into Fallujah in retaliation for militant attacks on Marine positions outside the city that killed seven Marines.
Residents of Sadr City are seen collecting their belongings through a gaping hole made by an exploding shell as they prepare to leave for a safer place in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 8, 2004.
U.S. soldiers block a road to search cars in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 8, 2004. A spate of recent attacks, including a suicide car bombing, pushed the number of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq campaign this week past 1,000.
Smoke rises after an airstrike on Fallujah, Iraq, Sept. 8, 2004. U.S. warplanes launched strikes in the insurgent-held city on Wednesday, hitting at suspected militant hideouts used to plan attacks on American forces, the U.S. military said.
A U.S. soldier keeps guard outside the office of "Un Ponte Per Baghdad" (A Bridge to Baghdad), in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 8, 2004. Two Italian aid workers, Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, and two Iraqis, Raad Ali Aziz and Mahnaz Bassam, were kidnapped by armed gunmen from the office.
A supporter of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is framed by his weapon in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 7, 2004.
A fireman hoses down a burning U.S. Army transport truck after it was attacked by insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 7, 2004. No casualty figures were available from the attack.
Policemen stand by a civilian car that was damaged after a roadside bomb, targeting Baghdad's Governor Ali al-Haidri's convoy, went off in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 7, 2004. Al-Haidri survived the attempt but the explosion killed at least one person and injured several others.
Children take scrap metal from the site of a car bomb explosion in Mosul, Iraq, Sept. 6, 2004. An U.S. armored vehicle was reportedly damaged in the blast and at least six civilians were reported injured.
A supporter of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr checks his RPG launcher before beginning a patrol of al-Sadr's militia-controlled territory in Sadr City, Iraq, Sept. 6, 2004.
Workers lay a new natural gas pipeline after the existing one was targeted by saboteurs near Kirkuk in northern Iraq, Sept. 6, 2004. The pipeline connects the Janbour fields with the Beiji electricity station.
U.S. soldiers keep guard as Iraqi citizens demonstrate against the rising insurgency in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 6, 2004. Around 500 people gathered outside the heavily secured Green Zone, which houses Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's office, asking for better law and order enforcement and freedom for common people.
A Mahdi Army militiaman softens tar on the road to lay down cables for an improvised explosive device in Sadr City, Iraq, Sept. 6, 2004.