Iraq Photos: April 5

Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan Millikin, 21, from Reno, Nev., drops a mortar into the tube as he and fellow members of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, battle insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, April 6, 2004. The fighting in Fallujah and neighboring Ramadi, where 12 Marines were killed, was part of an intensified and spreading uprising involving both Sunni and Shiites.

Sunni insurgents guard the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, April 7, 2004.

Sunni insurgents guard the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, April 7 2004.

U.S. Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, take cover during a gunbattle with Iraqi insurgents on the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq, April 6, 2004.

U.S. Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, pause after a gunbattle with Iraqi insurgents on the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq, April 6, 2004.

U.S. Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, patrol on the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq, April 6, 2004.

U.S. Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, take cover during a gunbattle with Iraqi insurgents on the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq, April 6, 2004. Hundreds of U.S. Marines attacked several neighborhoods in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah in order to regain control of the city.

U.S. Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, stand guard at a railway on the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq, April 6, 2004.

U.S. Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, head to an area in Fallujah, Iraq, April 6, 2004, where they later clashed with Iraqi insurgents.

Iraqi gunmen carrying grenade launchers prepare to resist as U.S. marines surround Fallujah, Iraq, April 6, 2004.

U.S. marines block the Baghdad-Jordan highway at the entrance to Fallujah, Iraq, April 6, 2004.

Iraqi men walk past the wreckage of a vehicle that burned following an overnight explosion in the Shiite district of Sadr City, north Bagdhad, Iraq, April 6, 2004. Witnesses say two missiles fired from the air hit the neighborhood, wounding three.

Loyalists of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr check the remains of a U.S. military truck attacked in the district of Shula in western Baghdad, Iraq, April 5, 2004. The top U.S. administrator in Iraq declared the radical Shiite cleric an "outlaw" after his supporters rioted in Baghdad and four other cities in fighting that killed at least 52 Iraqis, eight U.S. troops and a Salvadoran soldier.

U.S. Sgt. Jahmal Guy of Marietta, Ga., with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, rides on a military truck through the town of Fallujah, Iraq, April 5, 2004. Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops in tanks, trucks and other vehicles surrounded the turbulent city of Fallujah ahead of a major operation against insurgents following the grisly slayings of four American security contractors last week.

Iraqi Shiites celebrate burning a U.S army vehicle, raising the remains, on the streets of Sadr City, Baghdad's largest Shiite neighborhood, Iraq, April 5, 2004.

Suhail Abdul Wahid, 40, is comforted by his son at al- Kindy hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, April 5, 2004. Wahid was shot in the hand during an exchange of fire with U.S. troops April 4 in Sadr City, Baghdad's largest Shiite neighborhood.

Iraqi Shiites look at a crushed car, run over by a U.S. Army vehicle, in Sadr City, the largest Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, April 5, 2004.

Iraqi Shiites peer out from a hole caused by a U.S Army tank at Sadr City, the largest Shiite neighborhood, in Baghdad April 5, 2004.

Iraqi Shiites celebrate burning a U.S Army vehicle, raising the remains, in the streets of Sadr City, Baghdad's largest Shiite neighborhood, April 5, 2004.

U.S. Marines pray over a fallen comrade at a first aid point after he died from wounds suffered in fighting in Fallujah, Iraq, Thursday, April 8, 2004.