Iraqis gather around a burning vehicle after an engagement involving a U.S. helicopter, in which one woman and two children were killed, and many others injured, according to witnesses in Mosul, Iraq, March 13, 2005.
A local man looks on at the scene of an oil pipeline fire, caused when insurgents blew up the pipeline, near Samarra 60 miles north of Baghdad in Iraq Saturday, March 12, 2005.
Relatives search through dozens of bodies in the hope of finding their loved ones at the morgue of the main hospital in Mosul, Iraq, March 11, 2005, after a suicide bomber blew himself up during a funeral being held in the courtyard of a Shiite mosque and killed 47 people and injured over 100, in the northern town.
The scene after a suicide bomber blew himself up during a funeral being held in the courtyard of a Shiite mosque and killed at least 36 people and injured 25, according to witnesses and hospital officials, in the northern town of Mosul in Iraq, March 10, 2005.
People at the scene help to carry away the dead after a suicide bomber blew himself up during a funeral being held in the courtyard of a Shiite mosque and killed at least 36 people and injured 25, according to witnesses and hospital officials, in the northern town of Mosul in Iraq, March 10, 2005.
Kadim Abeis wails in grief as he clutches the shoe of his dead brother Col. Ahmed Abeis, after gunmen in two cars opened fire on a vehicle carrying Col. Abeis, the head of a police station in central Baghdad, killing him and two of his guards in the Saidiyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, March 10, 2005.
A police officer from the intelligence department of the Basra police, left, leads three men who were arrested for dressing up as Iraqi soldiers, setting up a fake checkpoint, and then robbing those who stopped, in the southern town of Basra, Iraq, March 10, 2005.
An insurgent carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher takes up position in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 70 miles west of Baghdad in Iraq, March 9, 2005. Iraqi soldiers sealed off the roads leading to Ramadi on Wednesday and insurgents roamed the city streets, causing shops to close and the streets to empty of civilians fearing possible clashes.
A man shouts across the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq, March 9, 2005.
A U.S. soldier attends the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq, March 9, 2005.
An injured woman shouts for her daughter as she runs from the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn in central Baghdad, Iraq, March 9, 2005. The blast shook buildings and covered the area with acrid black smoke. Volleys of automatic weapons fire could be heard before and after the blast, which occurred a few blocks from Firdous Square, the roundabout in central Baghdad where Iraqis toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003.
An injured man is rushed from the scene after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq, March 9, 2005.
A Iraqi soldier stands by the crater after a garbage truck exploded at dawn near a hotel used by western contractors in central Baghdad, Iraq, March 9, 2005.
An unidentified uncle of Deputy Head of Hay Alfurat Hospital Abbas Jassim, who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen, sheds a tear at his funeral in western Baghdad, Iraq, March 8, 2005.
A neighbor, who did not wish to give his name, peers in through the window of the car belonging to the Deputy Head of Hay Alfurat Hospital Abbas Jassim who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in western Baghdad, Iraq, March 8, 2005.
Al-Mustansiriyah University students protest against what they claim was the arrest of a female clerk in the university on Monday by U.S. Forces, outside the university buildings in the al-Mustansiriyah area of Baghdad, March 8, 2005.
Iraqi women attend a rally calling for women's liberation, a secular Iraq without Islamic government, and the end of US occupation, in central Baghdad, Iraq on International Women's Day, March 8, 2005.
Local residents look at the scene after a roadside bomb exploded near a convoy of Iraqi soldiers, killing two people and wounding four according to police officials, in the al-Kadraa district of Baghdad, Iraq, March 7, 2005.
Children play by a burning truck that was carrying goods for a nearby American base and came under attack by unknown gunmen who then set it on fire in the northern town of Mosul in Iraq, March 7, 2005.
An injured man is carried into hospital after insurgents launched a series of apparently coordinated attacks in and around the city of Baqouba that killed seven soldiers and five police according to a medic at Baqouba's main hospital, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad in Iraq, March 7, 2005. The assaults included a car bomb, three roadside bombs and small arms attacks at three checkpoints, a police official said.