Relatives of Ahmed Salem, a cameraman of the Al-Sharqiya television station, mourn over his body during his funeral in Irbil, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. Four employees of the Al-Sharqiya station were abducted and killed Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
An Iraqi boy talks to a soldier after taking a shower under a sewage pipe near the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. Five people died in the latest cholera outbreak in Iraq.
People inspect damage after Friday's car bombing in Dujail, 50 miles miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. On Friday, a car bomb ripped through a crowded commercial district in Dujail.
Iraqi boy drinks from a broken pipe in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008.
A British soldier stands guard after a roadside bomb explosion in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. The bomb targeted a joint Iraqi and British military patrol.
A U.S. Army soldier at a ceremony to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. terrorist attacks at Camp Liberty in Baghdad on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008.
Shiite Muslim Awekening council member Abu Ahmed al-Sudani, in charge of the Sabaa al-Bour area north of Baghdad sits with Sunni Muslim Awakening members during a meeting with the Iraqi military and government representatives in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008. Awakening council members are former insurgents who sided with the US miltary to fight Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Iraqi soldier stands at a site of a bomb blast in in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. Two bombs exploded an hour apart late Wednesday in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, killing at least two people and wounding 15 others, including women and children, police and hospital officials said.
An Iraqi newborn, who health officials suspect is infected with cholera, is seen at a hospital in Hashimiyah, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. Iraqi officials say the number of people killed by a cholera outbreak in Iraq has risen to two and that the waterborne disease has infected at least 90 people.
Iraqi policemen walk by weapons confiscated in recent raids, at the 7th Iraq police brigade headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. Over 700 Kalashikov type rifles and dozens of handguns and RPGs were captured.
Akram Obeid is embraced by his family after being released from U.S. custody in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. U.S. troops released 18 Iraqis who were detained at Camp Bucca to the Dora neighborhood Wednesday, including Akram Obeid, who spent 13 months at the facility.
The Iraqi flag is raised as the 34th Armored Brigade of the 9th Iraqi Army Division takes over a base used by soldiers from the Georgian army in Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008.
An Iraqi Army soldier speaks to a woman as troops visit recently resettled Shiite families in the Ghazaliyah neighborhood in west Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. Iraqi troops visited the area to register families as part of its effort to resettle people displaced by sectarian violence.
An Iraqi woman peers out at an Iraqi Army soldier as troops visit displaced Shiite families in the Shula neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. Iraqi troops visited the area to register families as part of its effort to resettle people displaced by sectarian violence.
An Iraqi man examines the remains of a car belonging to the al-Arabiya television station, on which a bomb was found and detonated in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008. The bomb was found on the car after it was sent to pick up the Baghdad correspondent of the Arab satellite television station at his home Tuesday morning. Police detonated the device, destroying the car but causing no casualties.
An Iraqi boy examines the remains of a car belonging to the al-Arabiya television station, on which a bomb was found and detonated in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008. The bomb was found on the car after it was sent to pick up the Baghdad correspondent of the Arab satellite television station at his home Tuesday morning. Police detonated the device, destroying the car but causing no casualties.
A family is seen outside their home, constructed with mud and tin cans, in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Sept. 8, 2008.
An Iraqi boy and girl carry eggs away from the distribution of food aid to widows and orphans of violence in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq Monday, Sept. 8, 2008.
A woman and two boys carry boxes of food donated by the Iraqi Red Crescent Society in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Sept. 8, 2008.