Iraqi children play soccer in a street during a curfew in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb.26, 2006. A 24-hour vehicular ban remained in effect in Baghdad and its suburbs as authorities tried to halt the violence that has claimed nearly 200 lives since the Shiite Askariya shrine was destroyed Wednesday in Samarra. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) February 26, 2006

Shiite Muslims pilgrims visit a Shiite Muslim shrine in the Iraqi city of Samarra Monday, Feb. 2, 2004. A large explosion destroyed the golden dome of this mosque Wednesday Feb. 22, 2006, spawning mass protests and triggering reprisal attacks against Sunni mosques. It was the third major attack against Shiite targets this week and threatened to enflame sectarian tensions.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) February 22, 2006

An Iraqi girl checks the Valentine day decorations displayed for sale in Baghdad downtown, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban) February 14, 2006

A kerosine lamp is used in a barber shop, in Baghdad, Sunday, Feb, 12, 2006. The power supply situation has worsened since the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein and despite of the billions of dollars set aside by the Bush administration for reconstruction. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) February 13, 2006

A worker from the Iraqi Red Crescent Society loads humanitarian aide into a truck in Baghdad. The international Red Cross launched an appeal for 1.8 million Swiss francs (1.1 million euros, 1.3 million dollars) to help victims of flooding in northern Iraq.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi) February 10, 2006

Cars clog a street in central Baghdad as life returned to normal following a heavy storm that engulfed the war torn country. (AFP/Karim Sahib) February 5, 2006

An Iraqi boy looks at pet birds at a local bird market, Monday, Jan. 30, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi and U.N. health officials said Monday a 15-year-old girl who died in northern Iraq this month was a victim of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, the first confirmed case of the disease in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) January 31, 2006

A young boy repairing bicycles, counts his earnings while local Iraqis enjoy clear weather on the last day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, Friday, Jan. 13, 2006, Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hato) January 13, 2006

Young Iraqi girls enjoy a ride at a local amusement park on the first day of Eid al-Adha, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. Muslims around the world started the celebrations of Eid al-Adha on Tuesday, a Muslim feast of sacrifice to commemorate the prophet Abraham's offering of his son to god. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) January 10, 2006

A young girl shares a ride as two women push a cart with cooking gas tanks to the refill station, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) Email Photo Print Photo) January 08, 2006

Iraqi residents gather around a street Arabic coffee stand in the Iraqi city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad December 17, 2005. (REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber) December 28, 2005

An Iraqi dress shop owner sits outside with his merchandise in the Iraqi town of Khalis, 10 km (6 miles) north of Baquba December 11, 2005. (Bob Strong/Reuters) December 12, 2005

Iraqi soldiers watch Saddam Hussein on trial on satellite television in their bunker in Saadah, Iraq, eight miles from Syria, Monday, Nov. 28, 2005. The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed in a heavily guarded courtroom Monday with the former Iraqi president angrily complaining about having to walk up four flights of stairs under foreign guard. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg) November 28, 2005

Iraqi students crowd a room to sit English language exams at Baghdad University November 15, 2003. Many young students are being forced to make a tough decision: between making their lives amidst the current chaos or fleeing abroad. (Hazir Reka/Reuters) November 22, 2005

A child looks on as other children sit in swings in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005. Iraqi prepare for the celebration of Eid al-Fitr which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hato) November 1, 2005

Iraqis work at a Baghdad printing house on printing sheets for ballot papers for the 15 October referendum on a draft constitution. (AFP/Karim Sahib) October 04, 2005

Holding pro-children's rights posters, Iraqi boys demonstrate in Fourdos Square in front of the 14th of Ramadan Mosque, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. Dozens of boys gathered to demand that the rights of children are included in the drafting of the new Iraqi constitution. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) August 14, 2005

Iraqi school children walk together out of their classroom past a drawing of cartoon character Mickey Mouse with a message encouraging cleanliness, at the Al-Thakafa al-Arabia elementary school in Sadr City, Baghdad, May 11, 2005.Ten years ago, the Al-Thakafa al-Arabia elementary school had broken windows, a shortage of textbooks, and kids whose extracurricular activity was begging on the streets. Pro-Saddam Hussein slogans adorned the walls. Today, it's still a squalid place with filthy toilets and crumbling walls, but at least the teachers have chalk and erasers supplied by the government, and the kids have pencils, notebooks and satchels. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) June 01, 2005

Iraqi children eat their lunch following Friday noon prayer at Abdel Kader al-Gilani mosque in Baghdad. (AFP/Karim Sahib) May 6, 2005

Iraqis walk out of their besieged town of Madaen where over 150 hostages, including women and children, are being held in the town southeast of Baghdad, April 17, 2005. (REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani) April 17, 2005

An Iraqi Christian priest delivers communion during the Easter Sunday service at a Baghdad Armenian church, March 27, 2005. Despite high security threats, Iraqi Christians crowded into Baghdad churches on Sunday to celebrate Easter along with their counterparts worldwide. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz ) March 28, 2005

An injured boy sits with his sister in a Baghdad hospital after a suicide bomber attacked the Shi'ite Al-Kadhimiain mosque in southern Baghdad, February 18, 2005. (Photo by Faleh Kheiber/Reuters ) February 18, 2005

Iraqi citizen Tara Khoshnow, right, casts her vote in the Iraqi election in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Jan. 28, 2005. Iraqis in Sydney were the first to cast their votes in Iraq's first democratic election in some 50 years. (AP Photo/Dan Peled) January 27, 2005

Political activists hang election posters on a concrete wall in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, January 26, 2005. Iraqi elections are due to be held on January 30, 2005. (REUTERS/Odd Andersen/Pooll) January 26, 2005

A shopper walks past election posters by a Kurdish communist party at an indoor market in Irbil, northern Iraq, Monday Jan. 24, 2005. (AP Photo/Chris Helgren, Pool) January 25, 2005

Iraqis make their way through flooded streets in Najaf, Sunday, Jan 23, 2005, after heavy rain fall across the country. (AP Photo/Alaa al Murjani ) January 20, 2005

A group of Iraqi immigrants from Dallas, Texas., pose for a photo in front of their flag draped vehicle after they registered to vote at the registration facilty in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, Jan. 22, 2005. Nashville is the closest site to Dallas at 665 miles. Voting was also being conductedin Detroit, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/John Russell) January 20, 2005

An Iraqi boy examines the shattered glass of his house following a suspected car bomb blast in Baghdad, January 19, 2005. U.S. Army soldiers from the first Cavalry Division blew up a civilian vehicle, which then appeared to be a car bomb, after finding it parked on the airport highway in Baghdad with no driver inside. (REUTERS/Ali Jasim ) January 19, 2005

An Iraqi child looks at a U.S. Army soldier conducting a foot patrol, while looking for witnesses to an attack by insurgents on a convoy in the central Iraq area of Udaim Nahia January 16, 2005. (REUTERS/Nikola Solic ) January 17, 2005

A man herds goats past a campaign poster of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi near the southern Iraq city of Basra January 16, 2005. (REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani) January 16, 2005

Iraqis wait in a queue to buy cooking gas in Baghdad's Sadr City January 13, 2005. A cylinder of liquefied gas for cooking now costs 5,000-10,0000 dinars ($3.50-7) compared with 2,000 dinars two or three months ago and 500 dinars during Saddam Husseins rule. An aura of resignation has settled over Iraqis as services deteriorate despite promises of improvement and not even U.S.-backed government officials expect an upturn any time soon. (REUTERS/Stringer) January 13, 2005

A US military helicopter flies above the oil refinery in Dora district in Baghdad, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2005. The refinery was damaged during a rocket attack two weeks ago that caused a lack of heating fuel production, and one of the worst of the shortages in Iraq, where an unseasonably cold winter has brought below-freezing temperatures. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) January 13, 2005

Ahmed helps his blind grandfather as they walk past a wall covered with election posters, in Baghdad, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2005. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi) January 12, 2005

An Iraqi security man stands guard outside the Communist Party headquarters in Baghdad January 11, 2005. Established in 1934, the Communists are Iraq's oldest party and they have formed a coalition called the 'People's Union' that included Arab nationalists, Kurds, Turkomans, Assyrians, Muslim Sunnis and Shiites and Christians to compete in the January 30 national elections. (REUTERS/Akram Saleh) January 11, 2005

An Iraqi man reads an election leaflet in Baghdad's downtown, Monday, Jan. 10. 2005 for the election planned for Jan. 30. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)) January 10, 2005

An Iraqi doctor treats a wounded youth after he was injured in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, January 5, 2005. (REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani) January 05, 2005

Iraqi volunteers carry away bodies of the dead in plastic bags after collecting them from the streets some six weeks after the end of the U.S-led offensive in the western city of Falluja, January 3, 2005. (REUTERS/Akram Saleh) January 03, 2005

Fatima Lafta, left, director of Iraqi Airways in Basra talks to an unidentified man in her office at the Basra airport, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2005. Iraqi Airways introduced the first domestic flight connecting Baghdad and southern city of Basra since the US invasion in March 2003. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)) January 01, 2005

An Iraqi boy walks past military markings on his family home after returning to war-torn Falluja, December 29, 2004. About 8,000 people have been admitted to the city in the four days since residents were allowed in to visit their homes to view the damage from last month's military offensive, a U.S. spokesman said. While some residents had opted to stay in the city, most have left after a brief visit, the spokesman said. )(REUTERS/Akram Saleh) December 30, 2004

A Christmas tree decorates the outside of the main church in the town of Ain Qawar, 3 milles from the main northern Iraqi city of Arbil. Christians in this small town are doing their best to celebrate Christmas despite the instability of the country.(AFP/Safin Hamed) December 24, 2004

Young Iraqi orphans display toys they received prior Christmas at Dar al-Zahra'a orphanage in the southern city of Basra, December 23, 2004. Dar al-Zahra'a orphanage, run by Fawziya al-Amoud, is currently housing over 100 orphans. The orphanage opened right after the fall of the ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and is funded by Amoud's brother who is a doctor based in London. (REUTERS/Atef Hassan) December 23, 2004

An Iraqi man adjusts the decorations on a Christmas tree in a shop in Baghdad. Christians across Iraq will be trying to celebrate Christmas in their war torn country amid fear of further attacks on their churches(AFP/Ali Al-Saadi) December 22, 2004

A security guard steps over broken glass after a mortar attack at a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad, December 19, 2004. (REUTERS/Ali Jasim) December 19, 2004

Iraqi communist women attend Iraq communist party's first electoral meeting at al-Shaab Stadium in Baghdad.(AFP/Marwan Naamani) December 17, 2004

Wasaen, a three-year-old Iraqi girl displaced from Falluja, looks at U.S. Marines on the outskirts of the war-torn town, December 15, 2004. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters). December 15, 2004

An Iraqi child warms himself next to a fire at a refugee camp for Falluja residents in Habaniya, near Baghdad December 12, 2004. As winter sets in, Iraqi families who fled the U.S.-led attack on Falluja wish tey could go home. (REUTERS/ Mohanned Faisal). December 13, 2004

An Iraqi medic signals for help as he rushes a wounded woman to a hospital after she was hurt in a suicide car bomb attack which struck the central of the capital Baghdad, December 13, 2004. (REUTERS/Ali Jasim) December 13, 2004

An Iraqi copper craftsman works at his shop in central Baghdad. (AFP/Sabah Arar). December 12, 2004

Baghdad markets are full of shoppers on Saturday. Despite the quantity of food, many Iraqis don't have the means to purchase it due to lack of jobs .(AFP/Sabah Arar). December 11, 2004

Baghdad streets, typically busy on Saturday. (AFP/Sabah Arar). December 11, 2004

A U.S. Army soldier, from the First Cavalry Division, provides security at a gas station while Iraqi women wait in line, in western Baghdad's Shi'ite suburb of al-Sadr city. (REUTERS/Stringer). December 8, 2004

A Palestinian Red Crescent worker picks up books and pamphlets in the office in Baghdad Wednesday Dec. 8 2004. US forces raided Palestinian Red Crescent offices Tuesday night and arrested ten people. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). December 8, 2004

Watching from home : An Iraqi girl peeks out from behind the gates of her family's home as a US Marine patrols the central Iraqi city of Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad. (AFP/Odd Andersen). December 6, 2004

Men unload relief supplies for Falluja refugees at a camp in Habaniya, near Baghdad December 3, 2004. More than 200,000 people who fled Falluja ahead of the U.S. offensive have yet to return and many are in desperate need of aid, with temperatures in Iraq heading toward freezing.(REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal) December 3, 2004

An Iraqi flag hangs in an old market in central Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was engaged in a flurry of contacts ahead of the January 30 elections after one of the deadliest months since the war prompted calls to delay the landmark vote.(AFP/Marwan Naamani) December 1, 2004

A wounded Iraqi boy lies in his hospital bed in the restive town of Baquba . (AFP/Ali Yussef) December 1, 2004

An Iraqi youth selling newspapers checks out an election poster reading in Arabic: 'Register, so you will be able to participate in the coming election in January,' in Baghdad. (AFP/Sabah Arar) November 27, 2004

Iraqi women read the registration forms for the coming Iraqi elections in Baghdad, November 22, 2004.. (Photo by Ali Jasim/Reuters) November 22, 2004

raqis carry parts from a car bomb and chant anti-U.S. slogans in western Baghdad, Sunday, Nov. 21 2004, after a car bomb exploded next to U.S. military convoy wounding five soldiers. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) November 21, 2004

A U.S. soldier walks backwards as a group of Iraqis advance chanting anti-government and anti-US slogans after a car bomb exploded killing at least one person in downtown Baghdad Saturday Nov. 20, 2004. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) November 20, 2004

A wounded Iraqi boy shares a hospital bed with his father after a car bomb attack near a police station in Baghdad November 18, 2004. Iraqi police said two were killed and six injured in the attack. (REUTERS/Ali Jasim) November 18, 2004

One-year-old Mohammed Abdullah is carried by his mother from ahospital in Ramadi, Iraq after suffering shrapnel wounds while inside his home during clashes between insurgents and U.S. forces Saturday,Nov. 13, 2004. (AP Photo/Ali Ahmed) - not posted to main page

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An actress, dressed in Assyrian Christian traditional clothes, in a theater multimedia performance in Ainkawa, suburb of Irbil, Iraq Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006, appears on the screen as her partner actor kneels. The play is about a Christian girl who was raped while visiting her fiancee in prison during the time of Saddam Hussein. It is the first play since his fall in Assyrian language that deals with issues related to peoples' traumas of the time before 2003. This multimedia performance coincides with the continuation of Saddam's trial. Assyrian language dates back a few thousand years and is now spoken by most Iraqi Christians in the north of the country. (AP Photo/Sasa Kralj) February 19, 2006

The Shiite district of Sadr City is the scene of a re-enactment of the Battle of Karbala, in honor of Ashoura, in Baghdad, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006. Ashoura, the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic lunar calendar, commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Muhammad at the Battle of Karbala, Iraq, in the year A.D. 680. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hato) February 9, 2006

An Iraqi girl watches as U.S. Marines with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) search her family's property near the western Iraq town of Hit January 25, 2006. (REUTERS/Bob Strong) January 26, 2006

Iraqi wood craftsman Najah Hashim, 59, builds a 'Lut' stringed instrument in his workshop, Monday, Jan. 16, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. Hashim has been building wooden musical instruments for over 40 years for local and international buyers. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hato) January 16, 2006

Iraqi citizens return to work following a four-day official holiday to celebrated the Muslim Eid al-Adha or Feats of the Sacrifice in the Shurjah district of Baghdad. (AFP/Karim Sahib) January 15, 2006

A mother tries a hat on her daughter at an outdoor market as shoppers purchase gifts for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Adha Eid, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. . (AP Photo/Samir Mizban) January 09, 2006

A gypsy family shares a modest meal in the tent that serves as their home in the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniya in this November 2, 2005 file photo. Scorned by religious Muslims and barely tolerated by the rest of society, Iraq's Gypsies have a precarious existence. Lacking education or skills, they form one of the lower rungs of Iraq's social system. (IRAQ-GYPSIES. REUTERS/Imad Al-Khozai/Files ) January 04, 2006

Iraqis queue to fill their canisters with petrol at a gas station in al-Sadr city, Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Jan. 2, 2006. Petrol, also used for heating is rationed and tensions are mounting in Iraq over recent price hikes. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) January 02, 2006

An Iraqi shop assistant decorates a Christmas tree at a store in central Baghdad December 22, 2005. Iraqi Christians adorn their houses with Christmas decorations and attend mass on Christmas day in a predominantly Muslim country. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz) December 22, 2005

Iraqi soldiers watch Saddam Hussein on trial on satellite television in their bunker in Saadah, Iraq, eight miles from Syria, Monday, Nov. 28, 2005. The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed in a heavily guarded courtroom Monday with the former Iraqi president angrily complaining about having to walk up four flights of stairs under foreign guard. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg) November 28, 2005

A child is treated at a local hospital after being wounded by a mortar round, allegedly targeting a US military base, which hit his house in Al-Karma town, near Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 4, 2005. (AP Phoot/Hadi Mizban) November 6, 2005

An Iraqi man tends to his sheep while a U.S. military helicopter circles overhead during a U.S. Army raid by the 101st Airborne Division at a nearby house, in a Shiite village near Balad, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 4, 2005. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg) November 4, 2005

Iraqi women huddle in the corner of the courtyard of their house as US soldiers from Delta company 1-184 Infantry Regiment interrogate the men of house due to suspicious activity during a patrol in southern Baghdad.(AFP/David Furst) October 23, 2005

Salam al-Wayes loads blocks of ice from an ice factory into the back of his van in the al-Shulah area of Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, May 25, 2005. With frequent daily power cuts for many in the Iraqi capital the only way of trying to keep food fresh is by buying ice blocks which sell for between 2000 to 5000 Iraqi Dinars (US$1.50 to US$3.50) each. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) May 26, 2005

Injured Iraqis are attended to at a makeshift clinic in al-Qaim, 320 kilometers (200 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 13, 2005, where American forces have been in engaged in an offensive near the Syrian border. Residents claim two men were killed and six injured when US forces attacked a group of young men gathered at the main entrance to the city. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) May 15, 2005

Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari (2nd L) is flanked by his two deputy prime minsters, Rowsch Shaways (L) and Ahmad Chalabi (R) as he poses with his new government ministers in Baghdad May 9, 2005. Iraq's parliament approved six new ministers on Sunday) May 9, 2005

Iraqi boy Hussein Hashim comforts his father Hussein Ali, who suffered injuries after a car bomb exploded in the Karadah district of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 2, 2005, killing at least three and injuring many others, according to local police. (AP Photo/Muhammed Uraibi) May 2, 2005

Members of Iraq's national council raise their hands to vote on a resolution during the national assembly's session at the convention center in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 24, 2005. Members of the assembly were discussing rules of procedures in the assembly. (AP Photo/Ali Haider, Pool) April 24, 2005

Shi'ite protestors demonstrate against the continued U.S. military presence in Iraq in Najaf on April 9, 2005. Tens of thousands of followers of a rebel Shi'ite cleric marched in Baghdad to denounce the U.S. presence in Iraq and demand a speedy trial of Saddam Hussein, on the second anniversary of his overthrow. (Stringer/Iraq/Reuters) April 9, 2005

Iraqi children gather for a festival for orphans at an amusement park in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 2, 2005. The Iraqi Islamic Women's Society held the event. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) April 3, 2005

An Iraqi boy sits in his father's lap during Friday prayers at the Um al-Qura Mosque in Baghdad, Friday, March 18, 2005. Shiite and Kurdish negotiators reportedly have agreed that the National Assembly should reconvene on March 26 to elect a president and his council, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi) March 06, 2005

An Iraqi man carries his neighbour after she was injured by a motorcycle bomb in Baghdad March 5, 2005. The woman was one of four people injured as the windows in her home were damaged by the blast. REUTERS/Ali Jasim) March 06, 2005

Children watch Iraqi Shi'ite men beat their backs with metal chains as they participate in the religious festival of Ashura, outside the holy shrine of Imam al-Kadhim in Baghdad, February 12, 2005. (REUTERS/Akram Saleh) February 13, 2005

An Iraqi boy looks on as US soldiers start removing some of the many concrete roadblocks that were set up in the city for election day, in Baghdad, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) February 4, 2005

An Iraqi campaign worker hangs election posters of Adnan Pachachi, a leading Iraqi politician and one-time foreign minister, in Baghdad, January 24, 2005. (REUTERS/Ali Jasim) January 24, 2005

U.S. soldiers fired on the car of an Iraqi family that failed to stop in time, in Tal Afar, Iraq. The five children in the back seat survived, but their mother and father in the front seat died. The U.S. military is investigating the incident. (Photo: Getty Images) January 20, 2005

People gather at the site of a small explosion in the northern city of Arbil, 280 miles from Baghdad. (AFP/Safin Hamed ) January 19, 2005

Iraqis wait in line to buy fuel in Mosul, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2005. U.S. Army soldiers stepped in to restore order when dozens of cars lined up to enter the gas station from different directions. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan) January 18, 2005

Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein, leader of the Constitutional Monarchy movement, meets children as he campaigns in Baghdad, January 15, 2005. Al-Hussein called for all parties to take part in parliamentary elections scheduled on January 30. Al-Hussein is also the first cousin of King Faisal II, who was deposed and killed in a 1958 coup. (REUTERS/Akram Saleh) January 15, 2005

An Iraqi campaign worker erects an election billboard advertising The Iraqi List of Candidates, headed by the country's Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, in a street in Baghdad January 14, 2005. REUTERS/Akram Saleh) January 14, 2005

An Iraqi woman reacts after her home was struck with a rocket, in Bagdad's neighborhood of al Zafranea, Monday, Jan. 10, 2005. Two children were injured when a rocket was fired by the unidentified attackers at the residential part of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban) January 10, 2005

An Iraqi boy watches as US Marines from Lima Company patrol the devastated city of Fallujah, some 50 kilometers west of capital Baghdad.(AFP/Hrvoje Polan) January 09, 2005

Returing to Fallujah : An Iraqi girl looks from behind the rubble of her house inside the devastated city of Fallujah, some 35 miles west of capital Baghdad. (AFP/Hrvoje Polan) January 08, 2005

Iraqi boys walk past advertisements, in central Baghdad January 7, 2004, urging the people of Iraq to take part in the country's upcoming national elections. (Ali Jasim/Reuters) January 07, 2005

An Iraqi boy reacts after seeing his sister and both of his parents killed in the car, in Ramadi, 60 miles west of Baghdad, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2005. Four Iraqi civilians were killed and two others were injured when U.S. soldiers opened fire after their convoy was attacked by rocket-propelled grenades in central Ramadi. The U.S. military had no immediate information about the incident. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) January 05, 2005

raqi Sunni Muslim clerics and politicians meet to discuss the upcoming national elections, in Umm al-Qura mosque in Baghdad, January 4, 2005. Two shells landed in the grounds of a Baghdad mosque, but no one was hurt, witnesses said. (REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber) January 04, 2005

Iraqi Christians light candles on New Years Day outside the Lady of the Rescue church in central Baghdad, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2005. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) January 01, 2005

raqis pray in the Return of Mary church on the New Years day in Al Mansur area in Baghdad downtown, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2005. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)) January 01, 2005

An Iraqi child looks at destroyed neighboring houses following an overnight blast in the Ghazaliya district of western Baghdad, December 29, 2004. (REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber) December 29, 2004

A man passes Christmas trees and inflated Santas for sale in central Baghdad Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim) December 22, 2004

Adil al-Lami (L), a senior official of the Independent Electoral Commission, helps spis a drum filled with numbered balls during a lottery which set the order of the parties which will appear on the ballot paper for the National Assembly, in Baghdad, December 20, 2004. The Iraqi Electoral Commission on Monday determined where competing parties will rank on the ballot paper for the January 30 election. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz) December 20, 2004

An Iraqi cleans his shopfront from broken glass after it was bombed during the night at Baghdad's western neighborhood of al-Sayidieh. Several barber shops, bookstores and photo-studios were a target of attacks.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi) December 18, 2004

An Iraqi man reads newspaper headlines speculating about the fate of Saddam Hussein .(AFP/Sabah Arar) December 16, 2004

Young Iraqi refugees from Fallujah, receive their lunch donated by locals in Baghdad.in this Nov 20 file photo. (AFP/Sabah Arar) . December 13, 2004

Iraqi women sign up to vote at a registration centre in Baghdad, December 11, 2004. Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said December 7 that elections set for January 30 could be staged over a two or three week period to make sure everyone got the chance to vote under secure conditions. (REUTERS/Stringer). December 11, 2004

Ani Iraqi boy sits on his father's lap during the Friday noon prayer at Umm al-Qura mosque in Baghdad. (AFP/Marwan Naamani)). December 10, 2004

The mother and the children of slain Karim Abed Ali, a driver for one of the top aides of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, sit in their home in Baghdad. US Captain Rogelio Maynulet, 29, is accused of shooting Abed ALi in the head.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye). December 7, 2004

An Iraqi man lights his dress shop with a lantern at a market in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of al-Kazemiya. (AFP/Marwan Naamani). December 7, 2004

Workers remove a damaged gate at an Armenian church after gunmen attacked two churches in Mosul. (REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen). December 7, 2004

People carry the coffin of a 20-year-old Iraqi policeman Ali Hashim in Baghdad Sunday Dec. 5, 2004. Hashim was killed Saturday in Baghdad as car bombs exploded next to a police station across the street from a checkpoint leading to the heavily fortified Green Zone. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). December 5, 2004

Residents of the Sadr City area of Baghdad face daily disruptions from US Army armoured vehicle patrols, December 4, 2004. (REUTERS/Stringer) December 4, 2004

A school child points to the Arabic word for father in a classroom in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City Tuesday Nov. 30, 2004. After spending much of the year as a battlefield between militiamen and U.S. forces, Sadr City has finally cast aside violence and destruction, embracing peace and reconstruction amid anticipation of what residents say is their overdue empowerment from elections in January. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) December 3, 2004

Students sit in a dilapidated classroom of a elementary school in Baghdad's Shiite enclave Sadr City Tuesday Nov. 30, 2004. After spending much of the year as a battlefield between militiamen and U.S. forces, Sadr City is finally , embracing peace and reconstruction amid anticipation of what residents say is their overdue empowerment from elections in January. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) December 2, 2004

An Iraqi harbour worker unloads wheat received in in the port of Umm Qasr in southern Iraq. (AFP/File/Karim Sahib) November 30, 2004

An Iraqi man cycles next to a pond of oil in al-Zubair, Iraq, 35 miles south of Basra Sunday Nov. 28 2004. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani) November 28, 2004

An Iraqi woman grieves after losing a relative after their house was shelled by U.S. forces near the war-torn western city of Falluja, November 23, 2004. (REUTERS/Stringer/Iraq) November 23, 2004

An Iraqi passes a U.S. Army soldier from the 1st Battalion, 24 Infantry Regiment during a mission searching for insurgents in Mosul, November 20, 2004. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan) November 21, 2004

An Iraqi man cries at a hospital after being told his son was killed during clashes outside the al-Hanifa mosque in Baghdad. Iraqi national guardsmen raided the Sunni mosque in Baghdad's Adhamiya neighborhood.(AFP/Mehdi Fedouach) November 19, 2004

An Iraqi man loads boxes of food supplies onto a truck at the Sunni Muslim Umm al-Qura mosque in Baghdad. (AFP/File/Ali Al-Saadi) November 19, 2004

A child injured in Fallujah November 2004 (note the "No war" picture that his sister drew for him)

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