Iraq Two Years Later

Iraqis chant anti-American slogans as charred bodies hang from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, March 31, 2004. Enraged Iraqis in the hotbed of anti-Americanism killed four U.S. contractors, took the charred bodies from a burning SUV, dragged them through the streets, and hung two from the bridge.

The Iraqi flag flies above a burned-out bus at the scene of an explosion that killed several schoolchildren and teachers, in the center of Basra, southern Iraq, April 21, 2004.

Former hostage Thomas Hamill, center, is seen with two U.S. Army soldiers shortly after his escape south of Tikrit, Iraq, in this picture released May 3, 2004.

A video posted May 11, 2004, on an Islamic militant Web site affiliated with al-Qaeda shows a group of five men standing over a bound man who identified himself as Nick Berg. The U.S contractor's body was later found on a highway overpass in Baghdad.

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Iraqis wait outside the prison in Abu Ghraib, on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, May 13, 2004. Iraqis gathered daily outside the prison, demanding to see their relatives after the release of shocking pictures showing prisoners being humiliated by their U.S. jailers.

Iraqi police surround wreckage after a car bomb exploded in Baghdad, Iraq, June 2, 2004, killing four people and injuring dozens, police said. The blast took place in Baghdad's Azimiyah neighborhood, a Sunni Muslim district where support for Saddam Hussein's regime had been strong.

Saddam Hussein appears in a courtroom at Camp Victory, a former presidential palace on the outskirts of Baghdad, July 1, 2004.

An American soldier secures the site of a car bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, July 14, 2004. The massive car bomb exploded at a checkpoint near an area housing international offices and embassies in Baghdad.

An aerial bomb descends toward a target in Najaf, Iraq, Aug. 23, 2004, after two bombs were dropped from high altitudes by U.S. aircraft.

A young supporter of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr displays his portrait as he emulates a fighter by wearing a mask, during Friday prayers at Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 24, 2004.

A fire burns outside the Sheraton Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 7, 2004. Several explosions and gunshots erupted outside the hotel, which houses foreigners and journalists.

U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment search a building in Ramadi, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2004.

A purple heart medal is taped to the chest of an unidentified American soldier in the intensive care unit of the 31st Combat Support Hospital, in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Nov. 7, 2004.

A member of Charlie Company of the U.S. Marines First Division, Eighth regiment, smokes a cigarette in Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 9, 2004. U.S. forces punched into the center of the insurgent stronghold as part of a major offensive.

A man looks at bullet holes in the window of his home located across the street from a kidnapping scene in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 10, 2004. Three members of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's family were abducted from their home here. Insurgents threatened to behead them if the siege on Fallujah continued, but they were later freed unharmed.

Workers and U.S. soldiers tend to the wounded after an insurgent mortar attack in Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 21, 2004. At least 22 people were killed when insurgents struck a tent at Forward Operating Base Marez, where hundreds of troops were sitting down to lunch.

An Iraqi boy reacts after seeing his sister and both his parents killed in their car, in Ramadi, 60 miles west of Baghdad, Jan. 5, 2005.

An Iraqi man casts his ballot at a polling station in Jisr Diala on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 30, 2005.

Smoke obscures the sun and the sky above a still-burning oil pipeline at the North Oil Company's Al-Dibbis oil field near Kirkuk, after insurgents blew it up, Feb. 14, 2005. The pipeline supplied oil for internal use and the damage would hamper the country's oil production, officials said.

An unidentified civilian is seen outside the al-Kindi hospital March 3, 2005. His brother was seriously injured by one of two suicide car bombs that exploded outside the Interior Ministry in Baghdad.