Iraq Photos: Oct. 24

People gather at the site of the explosion Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005, in the Shiite village of Huweder, (about 45 miles northeast of Baghdad) Iraq, where a bomb hidden in a truck loaded with dates exploded.

A wounded man is rushed into a hospital after a car bomb exploded in the center of the Shiite village of Huweder, near Baqouba, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 29, 2005.

Pigeons fly over the Shrine of Al Kadmea, as faithful gather for Friday prayers, in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 28, 2005.

The blood-soaked hand of a man is seen at the morque as the dead body of a victim of clashes between Sunni Arab militants and Shiite militiamen is laid on a stretcher in Baquba, Iraq, Oct. 28, 2005.

A U.S. Marine looks at a huge mural of late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad at the Syrian side of the Iraqi-Syrian border at the town of Kusaiybah in Anbar province, in western Iraqi, Oct. 28, 2005.

An unexploded ordinance lies on the sidewalk after a suicide car bomber rammed into an American military convoy in Baghdad's commercial and residential district of Karada, Iraq, Oct. 27, 2005.

A wounded man is carried on a stretcher after a suicide car bomber rammed into an American military convoy in Baghdad's commercial and residential district of Karada, Iraq, Oct. 27, 2005.

An Iraqi flag flies over the scene of a bomb attack, after a suicide car bomber rammed into an American military convoy in Baghdad's commercial and residential district of Karada, Iraq, Oct. 27, 2005.

A U.S. Marine with 36 Marines Weapons Company gives orders to his colleagues during a patrol in the town of al-Qaim at the Iraqi-Syrian border, in western Iraq, Oct. 15, 2005.

U.S. army soldiers from Bravo company, 222 Infantry, 10th Mountain Division Brigade, combat team, search a house thought to be used by an insurgent cell after an unexploded device was found nearby, in western Baghdad, Oct. 25, 2005.

An Iraqi commando, accompanied by U.S. army soldiers from the 222 Infantry, 10th Mountain Division, MiTT team, secures an area around the site of an unexploded improvised explosive device, or IED, after it was discovered by U.S. forces patrolling the area, in western Baghdad, Oct. 25, 2005.

U.S. soldiers secure the area in front of Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Oct. 25, 2005, a day after three suicide car bombs went off at the compound. At least 17 people were killed when triple car bomb blasts slammed heavily-protected hotels used by foreigners in the center of the Iraqi capital.

An Iraqi policeman runs as firefighters work on extinguishing a fire on vehicles at the site of a bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2005.

A wounded Iraqi man sits with his family members at the hospital after a roadside bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2005.

A woman covers her face as she walks past the site of a suicide car bomb attack in front of the Palestine Hotel, in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2005.

U.S. soldiers secure the area in front of Palestine Hotel, right, and the Ishtar Sheraton hotel, left, a day after three suicide car bombs attack hit the compound, in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2005.

U.S soldiers and Iraqi policemen investigate at the scene of a car bomb explosion on Oct. 24, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. A car bomb exploded as a U.S military convoy was passing in eastern Baghdad.

U.S soldiers investigate at the scene of a car bomb explosion on Oct. 24, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. A car bomb exploded as a U.S military convoy was passing in eastern Baghdad. No causalities were reported.

A huge explosion is seen in downtown Baghdad, Oct. 24, 2005. The Palestine Hotel, which houses many foreign journalists in Iraq, was hit by two rockets and one car bomb, causing considerable damage to rooms.

Iraqi children crawl under barbed wire left behind by U.S. troops on the outskirts of Ramadi, Iraq, Oct. 24, 2005.