Iraq Photos: June 21

A U.S. soldier directs a group of Iraqi soldiers in a joint patrol along the Tigris River in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 25, 2004. With a sovereign government in place next week, Iraq begins an 18-month march toward democratic rule.

An Iraqi detainee awaits medical attention from American military medics inside the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 24, 2004. A U.S. soldier said the detainee had been injured when the roadside bomb he was setting for an American convoy exploded prematurely.

U.S. Army military police Maj. Gary Link walks through "death row" used during Saddam's regime at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq ,Thursday, June 24, 2004.

Iraqi police walk through the courtyard of a destroyed police station in Ramadi, Iraq, after a militant attack Thursday, June 24, 2004. Militants launched coordinated attacks against police and government facilities across Sunni Muslim-dominated areas of central and northern Iraq, killing at least 23 people, including three U.S. soldiers, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

An Iraqi man looks at the damage to a vehicle in a parking lot that was hit in overnight air strikes by the U.S. mlitary in Fallujah, Iraq, Wednesday, June 23, 2004. U.S. forces launched an air strike targeting militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi after his group beheaded a South Korean hostage.

An Iraqi detainee asks a military policeman to light his cigarette while in his outdoor cell at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 22, 2004.

U.S. Army military policeman from the 301st MP Company from Puerto Rico carry an injured Iraqi detainee during an hour of family visitation inside the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq ,Wednesday, June 23, 2004.

A U.S. Army soldier gestures from his Humvee to other U.S. soldiers in a Bradley fighting vehicle leaving Camp Victory, near the Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 22, 2004.

The sun rises on the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 22, 2004. On Monday a judge declared the notorious prison a crime scene and forbade its destruction, as had been previously offered by President Bush.

Iraqi security men guard the area around a crude oil pipeline fire at Al-Mishahdah, 31 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 22, 2004, after an overnight explosion. No details were immediately available on the cause of the blast.

A U.S. soldier guards the area around charred cars after an explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 22, 2004. The explosion, in the Amiriya residential neighborhood of Baghdad, killed two and wounded three others, witnesses said. U.S. troops sealed off the area after the late afternoon explosion, but neither American nor Iraqi security forces were in the area at the time of the blast, witnesses said.

A U.S. military helicopter, carrying Iraq's U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer, flies over Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 21, 2004, and in front of a partially constructed mosque. Formerly known as Saddam's Great Mosque, it has been left unfinished since the U.S. military invasion of Iraq.

A soldier with the Iraqi Civil Defense Forces mans a checkpoint as a U.S. tank passes by in the background in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 22, 2004.

An Iraqi man runs past Iraqi soldiers after he was released from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 22, 2004. One of the defendants in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal case, Staff Sgt. Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick II, opted to go forward with his pretrial hearing Tuesday even though his civilian lawyer will not be present at the session in Iraq, the military said.

This is a frame from a videotape, delivered to Associated Press Television News, showing the bodies of U.S. service members, still in uniform, after four were killed in the Sunni Muslim city of Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, June 21, 2004. Residents said the Americans were killed in an ambush with Iraqi resistance fighters but no further details were available. There was no comment from the U.S. military command.

U.S. Army military policeman Sgt. Jose Leon from Puerto Rico handles an Iraqi detainee who was caught receiving a hidden note from a family member during a family visitation to the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 21, 2004. A military judge on Monday declared the prison a crime scene that cannot be demolished as President Bush had offered.

Iraqi men check the damage to a liquor store in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 21, 2004, after an explosion in front of the store.

A U.S. Army soldier photographs a Humvee containing an estimated 20,000 rounds of recovered Iraqi ammunition at Camp Victory, near Abu Ghraib, on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 21, 2004. Tool marks on some of the ammunition, recovered after squatters were driven from a building in Abu Ghraib, suggested that it was being dismantled to make improvised explosive devices.

A crowd of Iraqis gather to watch as a U.S. armored vehicle is stuck in sewage after it slipped into a ditch during a patrol in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 21, 2004.