Iraq Photos: June 23-29

U.S. troops watch as an Iraqi motorist removes the tint on his car at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, June 23, 2003. American forces began removing car tints as one of the security measures to thwart a spiraling series of guerilla-style attacks perpetrated against patrols and convoys in the capital and neighboring places.

Sen. Joseph Biden, left, D-Del, gestures while walking to the Palestine hotel with Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind, right, and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb (3rd from right) in Baghdad, Iraq, June 23, 2003. The U.S. senators, all on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, praised the civilian administrator, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, for his "remarkable job" in reconstruction and rehabilitation of Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

U.S. military policeman Sgt. David J. Borell from Toledo, Ohio, smokes a cigarette inside a Humvee at the entrance of the U.S. military base in Balad, about 30 miles northwest of Baghdad, June 21, 2003.

A scholar listens to a speaker during a graduation ceremony on religious studies at Hillah, Iraq, June 23, 2003. Eighteen scholars out of a class of 25 were conferred the title of Graduates in Religious Studies by the Religious University of Hillah on Monday in the first graduation ceremony after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.

Children surround a U.S. military Humvee in front of a propane gas station in Baghdad, June 23, 2003.

A security guard stands with a Kalashnikov at the entrance of a Shia Hospital in Baghdad, June 23, 2003. According to hospital officials, U.S. forces allow them to have private armed security. Since Saddam Hussein's regime fell, the city has entered a period of lawlessness and chaos. Before the war, the hospital had three policemen at all times to guard it.

Fifty-year-old Amirah Hassan fills the fuel tank of a car at Hillah, Iraq, June 23, 2003. Amirah, who lost her husband several years back, supports her family of four children with a monthly earning of around $60. She has been working at the gas station for nine years and did not stop working even during the war.

A U.S. soldier checks the radiation level of a canister containing "yellow cake," or uranium oxide, which was looted during the war from the nuclear facility in Tuwaitha, south of Baghdad, and being brought back for safekeeping in the sprawling complex, June 24, 2003.

Ibrahim, 10, looks through the bars of a jail in Fallujah, Iraq, June 24, 2003. Local police detained him for stealing food at a local market the day before.

A man walks by writing on a wall denouncing the use of force to collect weapons from Iraqi homes at Amarah, near Majar al-Kabir, Iraq, June 25, 2003.

A policeman picks up parts of an rocket propelled grenade at the police station in Majar al-Kabir, Iraq, June 25, 2003, where four British soldiers were killed during a 2-hour gun battle.

Iraqis gather near a burnt British army vehicle, June 25, 2003, a day after attackers killed six British soldiers in Amarah, 174 miles south of Baghdad. The incident, which wounded eight other soldiers, was the deadliest confrontation for coalition forces since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Residents gather near burned British vehicles, June 25, 2003.