Private security guards attached to the Iraqi health minister demonstrate outside the health ministry office against the arrest of their colleagues in Baghdad Aug. 13, 2006. Iraq's health minister Ali al-Shemari, who is aligned with a powerful Shiite militia, claimed that U.S. forces arrested seven of his personal guards in a surprise pre-dawn raid on his office.
An Iraqi man carries his daughter, injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast, back home after treatment at a hospital in Baghdad Aug. 12, 2006.
A burnt poster of Iraq president Jalal Talabani lies in his ransacked Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party office, in Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, Aug. 11, 2006.
Locals clean the area in front of Imam Ali mosque, which contains the tomb of Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali, after a suicide bomber attack, in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Aug. 10, 2006.
An Iraqi man mourns over the body of his relative, killed in a suicide bomber attack in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Aug. 10, 2006.
People salvage their belongings from damaged houses in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Aug. 9, 2006.
Smoke billows after a bomb blast in a market in Baghdad Aug. 8, 2006. Two roadside bombs exploded in the main Shurja market in central Baghdad within minutes of each other, killing 10 people and injuring 50, said police.
Iraqis inspect the destruction at the Shiite mosque Husseiniya, which was targeted by a powerful mortar shell according to a statement from the Baquba city police directorate, in the restive city north of Baghdad, Aug. 9, 2006.
An Iraqi boy with his mother looks at the damaged mosque and houses in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Aug. 9, 2006.
Iraqi prisoners kiss the ground after being released by the authorities in Baghdad Aug. 9, 2006. Iraqi and U.S. authorities released 186 prisoners as they continued to whittle down the number of inmates, after their cases were reviewed by a committee.
Iraqi Shiite Muslims pray on the birth anniversary of Imam Ali, cousin of prophet Mohammed, at the holy Shrine of Imam Ali, in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 8, 2006.
Sandals of Iraqi victims lay at the site where two roadside bombs exploded in Baghdad, August 8, 2006.
Smoke billows after a bomb blast in a market in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. Two roadside bombs exploded in the main Shurja market in central Baghdad within minutes of each other, killing 10 people and injuring 50, said police. Meanwhile, Iraq's prime minister sharply criticized a U.S.-Iraqi attack on a Shiite militia stronghold in Baghdad, exposing a rift with his American partners on security tactics.
An Iraqi man mourns the death of his relative, killed in a bomb blast in Baghdad, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. Three bombs exploded in quick succession near the Interior Ministry building in central Baghdad.
An Iraqi looks at the site of a suicide bomber attack in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, 80 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006. A suicide bomber targeting mourners at a funeral detonated an explosive belt Sunday night, killing at least 10 and injuring at least 18, police said.
An Iraqi woman looks at the bullet-ridden windscreen of a vehicle, after a gun battle, in Baghdad's Sadr City, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006.
An Iraqi woman walks past a burnt vehicle after a gun battle in Baghdad's Sadr City, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006.
Iraqi children walk past the bullet-ridden windscreen of a vehicle, after a gun battle in Baghdad's Sadr City, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006.
Iraqi's look at the severely damaged building of a provincial headquarters of a police force destroyed in a suicide truck blast in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006.
An Iraqi mother consoles her daughter, who was injured when a suicide truck rammed into the provincial headquarters of a police force in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006.