A young supporter of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr displays his portrait as he emulates a fighter by wearing a mask, during Friday prayers at Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 24, 2004.
U.S. soldiers come out after checking a house near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, after mortars exploded near it, Sept. 24, 2004.
Policemen and private guards stand near a burning oil pipeline after suspected insurgents blew it up at Angour, 50 miles east of Fallujah, Iraq, Sept. 23, 2004. Insurgents waging a 17-month campaign have repeatedly targeted Iraq's crucial oil infrastructure.
A U.S. Army soldier watches from a rooftop over the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 23, 2004. Sporadic fighting continued in the district.
A U.S. Army soldier fights from a rooftop stronghold during a battle with insurgents in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 23, 2004.
Two U.S. military Humvees burn after a car bomb exploded in al Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 22, 2004. Eyewitnesses said that U.S. soldiers were injured in the attack.
A U.S. soldier stands near wrecked cars after a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside a photocopy shop in Al-Jamiyah, Baghdad, where Iraqi National Guard applicants were readying their papers before heading to a nearby recruiting center, Sept. 22, 2004.
A volunteer looks for dead bodies under the wreckage of the copy shop, Sept. 22, 2004.
A dead body is removed from the site, Sept. 22, 2004.
A supporter of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr keeps watch for U.S. soldiers in Sadr City, Baghdad, Wednesday Sept. 22, 2004. Behind the fighter is a portrait of al-Sadr.
U.S. soldiers walk past a wrecked civilian car after a car bomb explosion that destroyed two Humvees in Baghdad, Sept. 21, 2004.
Sattar al-Mujammai looks at a damaged vehicle after a roadside bomb explosion in Baqouba, Sept. 21. 2004.
A hostage said to be Eugene Armstrong is seen in this video posted on the Internet by an Islamist Web site on Sept. 18, 2004. A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said on Monday Sept. 20, 2004 it had beheaded an American hostage, identified as Armstrong, and posted a video of the killing on an Islamist site.
Local residents complain as their homes incurred small damage after a controlled explosion of a car bomb in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 21, 2004.
U.S. soldiers and Iraqi policemen investigate a car-bomb explosion that killed three in Mosul, Monday Sept. 20, 2004.
U.S. soldiers ask questions about the death of Sheik Mohammed Jadoa al-Janabi at the mosque where he used to preach, after he was killed in Baghdad's predominantly Shiite al-Baya neighborhood, Sept. 20, 2004. Al-Janabi was killed in his home near the mosque.
Mahmoud Ghalib consoles Nawal al-Zeidi, sister of Sheik Hazem al-Zeidi, as the sheik's body is taken for burial at Sadr City, Baghdad, Sept. 20, 2004.
Iraqi policemen stand near bodies of two men found blindfolded, with hands tied at their backs and shot to death, in the outskirts of Baghdad, Sept. 20, 2004.
Smoke rises during U.S. air strike of Iraqi insurgent targets, Fallujah, Sept. 20, 2004.
Local children check out a crater caused by a roadside bomb in Haifa street, Baghdad, Sept. 20, 2004. No one was reported injured in the explosion.