Iraq Photos: Nov. 3- Nov. 9

U.S. Army Spc Charlie Wasley, left, and Sgt Larry Chalcraft of the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment fix on the stadium at the Rifles US Base, near the Al-Asad Iraqi village, some 150 miles from Baghdad prior to the ceremony commemorating the 15 soldiers killed Nov. 2 when their CH-47 Chinook helicopter went down.

U.S. soldiers of the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment forming a firing detail stay at attention during a memorial service at the Rifles US Base, near the Al-Asad Iraqi village, some 150 miles from Baghdad, Nov. 6, 2003 commemorating the 15 soldiers killed Nov. 2 when a CH-47 Chinook went down in the Iraqi town of Fallujah.

U.S. Army soldiers set up a checkpoint in the center of Baghdad, Nov. 6, 2003. Two American soldiers were killed in separate attacks near Baghdad and along the Syrian border, the U.S. military said.

U.S. Army Spc. Charlie Wesley of the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment looks at a line of 15 rifles and helmets set up at the stadium in the Rifles US Base, near the Al-Asad Iraqi village, some 150 miles from Baghdad, Nov. 6, 2003 prior to a ceremony commemorating the 15 soldiers killed Nov. 2 when their CH-47 Chinook helicopter went down in Fallujah.

U.S. Army soldiers patrol an area while curious children look on in the outskirts of Fallujah, outside of Baghdad, Iraq Nov 6, 2003. Fallujah is at the heart of a large swath of land north and west of Baghdad that's mainly inhabited by Sunni Arabs, a minority that gave Iraq its political and military elite for nearly a century -- including Saddam Hussein.

An Iraqi police bus blocks the road in Baghdad's suburb of Abu Ghraib, Nov. 6, 2003 as smoke rises after an explosion in the area. They were no immediate reports on causalities.

A U.S. soldier of the 1st Armored Division, 4/1 Field Artillery takes a picture of the al-Rahman mosque in the al-Mansour area of Baghdad, Nov. 5, 2003. Late Nov. 4, mortars where fired into the city's "Green Zone," the highly guarded headquarters area of the U.S.-led occupation, wounding at least three people and shaking downtown Baghdad with explosions.

Locals walk past a U.S. Army tank patrolling the center of Baghdad, Nov. 5, 2003. Mortars where fired late Nov. 4 into the city's "Green Zone," the highly guarded headquarters area of the U.S.-led occupation, wounding at least three people and shaking downtown Baghdad with explosions.

A U.S. Army soldier secures the "Green Zone" in central Baghdad, after mortars where fired into the area late Nov. 4, 2003. The mortars hit the highly guarded headquarters area of the U.S.-led occupation, wounding four people and shaking downtown Baghdad with explosions.

British soldiers remove stones from a street in the center of Basra, southern Iraq, Nov 4, 2003, after Iraqi street cleaners demonstrated, demanding their salaries which were not paid over the last two months.

Iraqi people look at the damage caused by an explosion Monday inside a hotel in Karbala, 65 miles south of Baghdad, that killed at least one person and injured 12, on Nov. 4, 2003. The blast occurred about 100 yards from the gold-domed Imam Hussein shrine.

Iraqi students demonstrate in the center of Baghdad, demanding better working conditions and security Nov. 4, 2003. Iraqi insurgents killed an American soldier in a roadside bombing in Baghdad Nov. 4, and Spain said it was withdrawing much of its diplomatic staff from Iraq for security reasons, the third coalition country to do so in recent weeks.

Sgt. John Davies of the 720th Military Police Battalion, right, searches a truck as Iraqi women look on outside of Tikrit, 120 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Nov. 3, 2003. The battalion, assisted by Iraqi police, was searching for contraband weapons that could be used by guerrillas, a routine operation that has taken on added urgency since insurgents shot down a Chinook helicopter with a missile.

Iraqis pray behind barbed wire in the center of Baghdad, Nov 4, 2003. Iraqi insurgents killed an American soldier in a roadside bombing in Baghdad Nov. 4, and Spain said it was withdrawing much of its diplomatic staff from Iraq for security reasons, the third coalition country to do so in recent weeks.

An Iraqi policeman passes a burning tire as hundreds of policemen demonstrate in the center of Basra, southern Iraq, demanding their salary be paid, Nov. 3, 2003.

British soldiers guard the area where Iraqi policemen demonstrate in the center of Basra, southern Iraq, demanding their salary be paid, Nov. 3, 2003.

U.S. Army soldiers of the 1st Armoured Division, C Company stop cars at a checkpoint east of Baghdad Nov. 3, 2003, a day after gunners brought down a U.S. Army Chinook helicopter, killing 16 and wounding 20 others.

An Iraqi policeman passes a burning tire as hundreds of policemen demonstrate in the center of Basra, southern Iraq, demanding their salary be paid, Nov. 3, 2003.

An Iraqi boy cycles past a burned-out U.S. military vehicle on the outskirts of Baghdad, Nov. 3, 2003. The vehicle was attacked Sunday evening by a rocket, Iraqi police said. They were no reports on casualities.

Iraqi police detain a man at a checkpoint in Basra Oct. 26, 2003. Six months after the war ended, southern Iraq's largest city is enjoying a relative peace that still eludes the violence-stricken central region of Baghdad.