Iraq Photos: March 9 -- March 15

U.S. Army soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment bow their heads in prayer after a Purple Heart ceremony for three soldiers at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 15, 2009.

A boy watches Iraqi policemen leave his home during a joint search operation with U.S. troops in southwestern Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 14, 2009. U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces are making a renewed push in the Sunni-dominated city of about 2 million to deny safe haven for insurgents and restore basic services.

Iraqi National police Col. Moslet Ahmed Attiya paints over graffiti promoting the Islamic Army in Iraq during a joint search operation with U.S. troops in southwestern Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, March 14, 2009.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jason Earhart, left, 30, from Spokane, Wash., Sgt. 1st Class Gregory Herrera, center, 32, from Constantinople, Texas, and Pfc. Bryan Geiger, 22, from Mesa, Ariz., right, are seen after being awarded the Purple Heart at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 15, 2009.

Iraqis pray under the portrait of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 13, 2009.

Iraqi Army soldiers look at a book of Arabic phrases as U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Williams, 37, assigned to Delta Co., 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, looks for help in communicating in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 13, 2009.

An Iraqi Army soldier a U.S. Army soldiers from Delta Co., 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment stand guard during a joint patrol in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 13, 2009.

Iraqis hold up a photograph of a former Iraqi Interior Minister Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan, Saddam Hussein's half-brother, as they protest his death sentence verdict in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, Iraq, Thursday, March 12, 2009.

Family members of Haidar Hashim, the Baghdadiya television station cameraman who was killed in a suicide bombing attack in Abu Ghraib, carry his coffin during his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 11, 2009.

Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali", top, left, stands in a court in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 11, 2009, and is convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in the 1992 execution of 42 merchants accused of price gouging while Iraq was under U.N. sanctions.

Relatives of the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at then-President George W. Bush reacts after Muntadhar al-Zeidi was convicted of assaulting a foreign leader and sentenced to three years in prison in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 12, 2009.

Iraqi school children salute as a national flag is hoisted before the classes in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 12, 2009.

Saad Jabbar works at a store he inherited from his father Jabbar Nadir al-Saidi in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 11, 2009.

Family members of Suhaib Adnan, the Baghdadiya television station correspondent who was killed in a suicide bombing attack in Abu Ghraib, mourn over his coffin during his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 11, 2009.

Iraqi woman, a neighbor of Haidar Hashim, the Baghdadiya television station cameraman who was killed in a suicide bombing attack in Abu Ghraib, wails during his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 11, 2009.

Iraqi police stand around a vehicle destroyed in a parked car bomb blast in the town of al-Hamadaniya, about 25 miles north of Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, March 10, 2009.

Ibrahim Shallal, 32, an Iraqiya Satellite Channel correspondent, is rushed into a hospital after he was wounded in a suicide bombing attack in Abu Ghraib, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 10, 2009.

Supporters of Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the journalist who threw his shoes at then-President George W. Bush, demonstrate in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 10, 2009.

An Iraqi woman is treated after she was wounded in a suicide bombing attack in Abu Ghraib, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 10, 2009.

Hiba Mohammed, an 8-year-old Iraqi girl, is comforted by her mother at a hospital in Baghdad, after she was wounded in a suicide bombing attack in Abu Ghraib, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 10, 2009.