At day's end, an Iraqi Bedouin nomadic herder stops to watch a passing combine harvester driven by a Kurdish farmer in Makhmur, northern Iraq, Tuesday, May 13, 2003. Thousands of Kurdish farmers forced off their land by Saddam Hussein's so-called "Arabization" program, have returned to their land for the harvest, now that the era of Saddam's persecution of the Kurds has ended.
A human skull sits on the ground as villagers pull body after body from a mass grave in central Iraq, Wednesday, May 14, 2003, exhuming the remains of up to 3,000 people they suspect were killed during the 1991 Shiite revolt against Saddam Hussein's regime. Uncounted bodies remained unearthed at the site.
A British Black Watch soldier hands a weapon to an Iraqi guard, as a newly formed Iraqi police security force begins duty in the Basra Oil refinery in southern Iraq, Wednesday, May 14, 2003. British officials predict that oil production will be back to 100 percent by the end of this month as they handed over the security of the Basra oil refinery to the first batch of Iraqi servicemen trained by the British.
An Iraqi street vendor sells posters of the Shiite saints outside the Shiite Muslim holy shrine of Kadhimiya in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 13, 2003. Posters of Shiite saints were banned during the rule of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who is a Sunni Muslim.
A woman holds a picture of a missing relative during the exhumation of bodies at a mass grave in Hillah, Iraq.
An Iraqi Sunni Muslim boy lights candles in the traditional Iraqi way of celebrating Prophet Muhammad's birthday, at the Abu Hanifah mosque in Baghdad, Wednesday, May 13, 2003.
Human remains discovered in mass graves, Hillah, Iraq.
Traffic goes through the Old city in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad Tuesday, May 13, 2003.
Workers uncover human remains in mass grave, Hillah, Iraq.
Following instructions from Islamic preachers, a young resident of Saddam City, a neighborhood of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, helps clean the streets from garbage and debris, Wednesday, May 14, 2003. Residents also decided to change their neighborhood's name to Thawra City, which means revolution.
Decomposed body found in mass grave, Hillah, Iraq.
An Iraqi oil worker tends to his work at the Basra Oil refinery in southern Iraq Wednesday May 14, 2003.
A human skull and other body remains sit on the ground after they were pulled from a mass grave in Mahaweel, central Iraq, Wednesday, May 14, 2003. Villagers dug up the remains of up to 3,000 people they suspect were killed during the 1991 Shiite revolt against Saddam Hussein's regime.
A British engineer aids local Iraqi oil workers contain a gasoline leak in the Basra Oil refinery in southern Iraq Wednesday, May 14, 2003.