Iraq Photos: November 1

Soldiers from A company in the 1st Battalion Black Watch regiment go on a community patrol near their base at Camp Dogwood, Iraq, Nov., 5, 2004.

British troops detonate a roadside bomb they found near their base in Basra, Iraq, Nov. 5, 2005.

U.S. Marines of the 1st Division prepare their vehicles at a base outside Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 5, 2004. More than 10,000 U.S. troops have taken positions around the rebel-controlled city of Fallujah, bolstering the U.S. Marine units expected to lead a joint Army-Marine assault.

U.S. Marines of the 1st Division prepare their vehicles at a base outside Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 5 , 2004.

U.S. Marines of the 1st Division train next to a wall painting of an Iraqi Army soldier in a former Iraqi army barrack outside Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 4, 2004.

A wounded boy is carried off after he was shot in the leg by American forces in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004. He and a colleague had been throwing stones at a group of U.S. troops, who then shot both of them in the leg, according to an AP photographer at the scene.

People gather around a car damaged when a suicide car bomber set of his explosives against a joint American and Iraqi National Guard convoy in Iskandariya south of Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 4, 2004.

Taxis are for hire in front of demolished buildings in Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 4, 2004. The buildings had been destroyed during the Marine offensive on the city last April. U.S. jets pounded parts of Fallujah, targeting insurgents in a city where American forces were said to be gearing up for a major offensive.

A doctor checks an injured Iraqi National Guard victim of a car bomb explosion at a checkpoint at the entrance of the Baghdad International Airport on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 3, 2004.

American soldiers walk past vehicles damaged in a car bomb explosion at a checkpoint at the entrance of the Baghdad International Airport on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 3, 2004.

U.S. Marines of the 1st Division arrest Iraqi council members following a raid in the Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 2, 2004.

Iraqi children peer from a window as U.S. Marines of the 1st Division raid the house of a city council chairman in the Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 2, 2004.

American and Iraqi forces inspect the scene of a car bomb explosion near an office of the Iraqi Ministry of Education in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 2, 2004.

An Iraqi schoolgirl cries after a car bomb explosion near an office of the Iraqi Ministry of Education in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 2, 2004.

A U.S. Army soldier guards the site of a car bomb explosion near an office of the Iraqi Ministry of Education in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 2, 2004.

U.S. Marines of the 1st Division train in an abandoned primary school outside Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 1, 2004. American forces are preparing for a major assault on Fallujah in an effort to restore control to a swath of Sunni Muslim towns north and west of the capital ahead of crucial national elections due by Jan. 31.

A security guard inspects the car of the deputy governor of Baghdad province, Hatim Kamil, after he was killed by gunmen who opened fire on his car in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 1, 2004, Iraqi authorities said. Two of his bodyguards were also wounded in the attack.

U.S. Marine Sgt. Jeremy Barone of Albany, Calif., with the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, fires his M16 rifle during a gun battle with insurgents, as sporadic fighting continued in Ramadi, Iraq, Nov. 1, 2004.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Drew Pearson of Sacramento, Calif., with the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, aims his machine gun during a gun battle with insurgents, as sporadic fighting continued in Ramadi, Iraq, Nov. 1, 2004.

U.S. Marines of the 1st Division train in an abandoned primary school outside Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 1, 2004. American forces are preparing for a major assault on Fallujah in an effort to restore control to a swath of Sunni Muslim towns north and west of the capital ahead of crucial national elections due by Jan. 31.