The Daura refinery outside Baghdad, May 7, 2003. The refinery runs at less than 50 percent of capacity due to problems getting oil from upcountry, creating huge lines at gas stations in the capital city.
A worker checks equipment at the Daura refinery, May 7, 2003.
Chanting in English, "New clean era! New clean figures," some 400 Iraqi doctors and medical personnel stand in front of an U.S. Army checkpoint after they marched through the center of Baghdad, May 7, 2003. Hundreds of Iraqi doctors in white lab coats took to the street, insisting they will not accept the U.S. appointed head of the Health Ministry because of his ties to Saddam's regime.
An Iraqi woman with her child wait outside of the Saudi Field Hospital, run by the Saudi Red Crescent Society, to get medical treatment in Baghdad, Iraq, May 7, 2003. About 1,000 Iraqi people visit the field hospital every day, according to officials.
Suham Jassem and her five-month old nephew, Muhammed Khaled, board a train at Baghdad Central Station, Iraq, May 7, 2003, to leave for the southern city of Basra. A passenger train departed from the Iraqi capital to the southern city for the first time since the start of the U.S.-led invasion.
Iraqis on a train at Baghdad Central Station wait to leave for Basra, May 7, 2003.
Arab Shiite Muslim pilgrims walk toward the resting place of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, seen in background in the holy city of Karbala, May 7, 2003.
Shiite Muslim pilgrims pray in the resting place of Imam Hussein, May 6, 2003.
Shiite Muslims pilgrims pray as a woman walks in the resting place of Imam Hussein, May 6, 2003.
An Iraqi police officer waits to receive his pay from U.S. Marines in Najaf, Iraq, May 5, 2003. Some 613 Iraqi men, most of them Najaf police officers under Saddam, are registered for training by U.S. Marines to form a new, American-watched police force, provided they pass the background check that examines just how close they were to Saddam's fallen regime.
Iraqi police officer Akeel Datihil Merza Alramahi poses for a mug shot taken by a U.S. Marine in Najaf, Iraq, May 5, 2003.
A statue of former Iraqi President Abdel-Rahman Aref is seen at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, Iraq, May 6, 2003, after being recovered. Work has begun on recovering some of civilization's earliest artifacts, items of incalculable value that disappeared in the orgy of looting that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein.
A U.S. Army tank is parked outside the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, May 6, 2003.
American soldiers from the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division wait on a platform in Baghdad for the departure of an Iraqi train on a 10-hour journey with soldiers bound for the northern Iraqi town of Mosul, May 6, 2003. The military paid the Iraqis for the use of the train, and its employees, in what was described as the first real post-Saddam test of the Iraqi rail system.
Mohammad Agha, 22, holds up a DVD of the movie "Iraq and America's fighting," with photos of U.S. President Bush and former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, at a market in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 6, 2003. Music, television, cinema and most forms of entertainment were banned by the Taliban regime which imposed an extremely strict form of Islam on the people of Afghanistan.
Iraqi students talk to each other as they arrive at the Baghdad State University, May 3, 2003. With the fall of Saddam Hussein, some Iraqi women say the future has never looked more hopeful. Others fear that men like the thousands marching outside will bring an extremist state -- one that forces Iraqi women, among the region's most educated, to retreat to their homes.