Iraq Photos: Oct. 1 -- Oct. 7

An Iraqi child looks inside a minibus, full of blood, after a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol exploded, killing three people and wounding four others, in the Shiite-dominated neighborhood of Baladiyat in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007.

An Iraqi police officer holds his weapon as Iraqi medical workers protest in Baghdad's Sadr City, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007. Medical staff were demanding better pay and working conditions for those working in conflict areas, as well as denouncing accidental shootings of staff members by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers.

An Iraqi prisoner looks on at the main department of the national police prison, in Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007. On the first Saturday of every month prisoners, the majority awaiting their trial, are allowed to meet their relatives.

Iraqis stand near the wreckage of a damaged car, after a car bomb exploded in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007. The bomb went off next to a police patrol, injuring four policemen, police said.

U.S. soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat team return from detonating a sizable cache of buried weapons in Arab Jabour, a suburb south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007.

U.S. soldiers of Alpha Company, 1/38 Infantry Regiment prepare for a mission outside Baquba, northeast of Baghdad Friday, Oct. 5, 2007.

An Iraqi orphan child waits to receive a present in the Yarmouk neighborhood in western Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, Oct. 5, 2007. Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi gave presents to about 100 children who lost parents to sectarian violence in Iraq.

U.S. soldiers from Alpha Company, 1/38 Infantry Regiment, patrol an area in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007. U.S. forces in Iraq have released a total of 707 detainees in the first three weeks of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, the military said. "The detainees were no longer determined a security threat and were released," a statement said.

Iraqi national police, right, on a blue truck and in white vehicles seen in background, with U.S. military vehicles, left, patrol the airport road during a joint operation in western Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007.

A U.S. soldier gives candy to an Iraqi boy during a joint operation with Iraqi national police in the Khadra neighborhood of western Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007.

A fireman tries to extinguish a fire after a parked car bomb exploded in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Kamsara, Iraq, on Thursday, Oct, 4, 2007. Two civilians were killed and 11 were injured at the blast, police said.

Iraqi Shiite Muslims pray on the death anniversary of Imam Ali, cousin and son-in-law of prophet Mohammed, at the holy Shrine of Imam Ali, in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, late Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007.

Iraqi Shiite Muslims carry a representation of the casket of Imam Ali and his sword, during a religious ceremony to mark the anniversary of the death of Imam Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammad, in Tehran on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007. More than 100,000 Iraqis most of them Shiite Muslims live in Iran.

A U.S. soldier stands guard in front of the armored car that was carrying Poland's ambassador Edward Pietrzyk when his convoy was attacked in Baghdad's al-Arasat neighborhood, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007.

Passers-by inspect damaged cars in Karradah, central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007, after a car bomb exploded.

Hana'a Sabti cries in front of the bodies of her dead relatives at the hospital in Baqouba, capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007. Hana'a lost her two brothers, Kadim and Sattar Sabti and her niece when unknown gunmen killed them in their house in Baqouba on Monday, Oct. 1, 2007.

U.S. Army helicopter gunner Daniel Brown scans the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, on route from the heavily-fortified Green Zone to Baghdad International Airport, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007.

A U.S. military helicopter flies over central Baghdad, Iraq, as the sun sets on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007.

U.S. soldiers from Alpha Company, 1/38 Infantry Regiment take their position inside a building during an operation in downtown Baquba, Monday, Oct. 1, 2007.

An Iraqi woman stands in line to receive aid, distributed by the al-Sadr office in Sadiyah neighborhood, southwestern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 1, 2007. The al-Sadr office donated food to victims of sectarian violence.