A woman talks to her daughter's friends on the first day of school in Baghdad September 30, 2007. For children in Iraq, the start of the new academic year on Sunday was a welcome opportunity for them to leave their homes, don smart new clothes and catch up with their friends again. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen). September 30, 2007

Young detainees listen to Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi during his visit to the juvenile detention center in Baghdad September 25, 2007. Thousands of young men have been arrested in recent weeks as part of the US "surge" (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud). September 26, 2007

Majida Hamid Ibrahim, 40, the first confirmed case of Cholera in the Iraqi capital, is seen in al-Sadr hospital in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq in this Friday, Sept. 20, 2007, file photo. The woman died on Sunday in Sadr General Hospital in Sadr City from Cholera and kidney failure, a hospital official said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). September 24, 2007

Iraqi children stand by the destroyed door of their house after an overnight US army raid against suspected Shiite militia in eastern in Baghdad, 20 September 2007. Such raids are common throughout central Iraq. (AFP/File/Wissam Al-Okaili). September 22, 2007

Poor residents wait in line to receive food during the fasting month of Ramadan at the Sunni mosque of Abdul Qadir al-Gailani in Baghdad September 16, 2007. In a city riven with sectarian bloodshed, workers at the 13th century Baghdad mosque mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan by feeding the poor and preserving a bygone spirit of co-existence. The Sunni mosque feeds hundreds of people a day during Ramadan. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz). September 20, 2007

An Iraqi woman walks past a U.S. soldier as she carries her son at a hospital southeast of Baghdad September 18, 2007. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria). September 19, 2007

Iraqi refugees in Syria receive an iftar meal, in which Muslims break their daily Ramadan fast, from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) in Damascus September 16, 2007. Syria hosts about 1,4 million Iraqi refugees who fled from their homeland after the 2003 U.S. invasion according to a UNHCR report. (REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri). September 17, 2007

| Iraqis gather in a shop in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad to watch a televised hearing of US Ambassador Ryan Crocker and US General David Patraeus on Capitol Hill. Two thirds of Iraqis want a timetable for withdrawal and half want the US to leave immediately. (AP Photo). September 13, 2007

Iraqis board a bus bound for Syria in central Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2007. Syria, home to up to 1.5 million Iraqi refugees, has decided to require visas beginning on Sept. 10 for Iraqis entering the country for economic, trade and educational purposes, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry says. The Syria move is seen as an attempt by the Arab state to reduce the flow of more than 30,000 Iraqi refugees every month. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban). September 09, 2007

An Iraqi man sits after he was arrested by U.S. soldiers during a night patrol in the Zafraniya neighborhood, southeast of Baghdad, September 5, 2007. Arbitrary arrests of Iraqis are common. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria). September 05, 2007

An Iraqi soldier flashes a victory sign as he holds the Iraqi flag on the gate of Basra Palace, in Basra, September 3, 2007. British troops quit the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday ending the British presence in the oil hub for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. (REUTERS/Atef Hassan). September 03, 2007

Iraqi men is watched by a US soldier as fellow soldiers search their home in Baghdad. No Iraqi citizen is safe, in their own homes or person, from invasion by occupation forces. (AFP/David Furst). September 02, 2007

A Kurdistan flag flutters from the newly constructed Neshteman mall in Arbil, about 217 miles north of Baghdad, August 1, 2007. Private sector projects continue despite the war. (Azad Lashkari/Reuters). August 29, 2007

Dusk settles over the Al Waleed refugee camp inside Iraq on the border with Syria. Over 1,200 refugees are sheltered here and conditions for the Palestinian refugees dire. (Photo: Medical Aid for Palestinians). August 29, 2007

US doctors rush an eight-year-old Iraqi boy with serious head wounds into the emergency room of the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad's Green zone. According to his father, the boy was shot by US soldiers at a checkpoint near Fallujah, August 27, 2007. (Photo: Damir Sagoli / Reuters). August 28, 2007

An Iraqi soldier gestures to an Iraqi detainee who was arrested, forced to strip and walk barefooted near the city of Baqouba, Aug. 26, 2007. Iraqi army forces together with U.S. Army's soldiers arrested 54 suspected insurgents in their joint operation on the outskirts of the city of Baqouba on Saturday Aug. 25 (AP Photo). August 26, 2007

Mourners attend a funeral for a woman killed during clashes between U.S. forces and suspected insurgents in Baghdad August 24, 2007. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani). August 24, 2007

An Iraqi woman is helped as she mourns dead relatives in the village of al-Jazeera, 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Mosul, Iraq Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek). August 23, 2007

Workers of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society prepare to bury 25 unidentified and unclaimed bodies of victims of violence from the central morgue in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007 (AP Photo). August 21, 2007

Iraqi students Omar al-Farajy (front L) and Mohammad Kazem (front R), 17, sit in class during their first day at a public high school in Amman August 19, 2007. Tens of thousands of Iraqi refugee children went to school in Jordan on Sunday for the first time since they fled their homeland. (REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed). August 19, 2007

Demonstrators march during a protest in Najaf, south of Baghdad, August 15, 2007. More than two thousand people demonstrated in Najaf on Wednesday demanding the release of Rajeh Mohammed Hussein, a senior aide of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who was arrested by U.S. and Iraqi forces during a raid on Tuesday. (Ali Abu Shish/Reuters). August 16, 2007

Iraqi women wait while U.S. Army troops from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division search their house during an operation in the Amariyah neighborhood of west Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, Aug. 13, 2007. No Iraqi is safe "in their homes or their persons" from searches by occupation forces. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek). August 13, 2007

Prisoners sit in a crowded cell in the Iraqi National Police Detention Center in Kazimiyah neighborhood of North Baghdad, Iraq on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007. Foreign soldiers have become a constant presence in this neighborhood and many fathers and older brothers are now imprisoned. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek). August 11, 2007

Iraqis pass through the door leading into the Shiite holy shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim in the Kazimiyah neighborhood of northern Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007. Iraqi authorities are girding for a major Shiite pilgrimage to the shrine later this week in Baghdad with plans to tighten security. The annual march, to commemorate the eighth-century death of Imam Mousa al-Kadim, a key Shiite saint, was struck by tragedy in 2005, when thousands of Shiite pilgrims, panicked by rumors of a suicide bomber, broke into a stampede on a bridge, killing 1,000. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban). August 9, 2007

An Iraqi woman begging in front of a U.S. soldier from the 2nd battalion, 32nd Field Artillery brigade patrolling in Baghdad August 6, 2007. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters). August 7, 2007

Farah Jabbar, 9, carries water to her family's home in central Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007. The Baghdad water supply has been severely affected by power blackouts and cuts that have almost stopped pumping and filtration stations. Iraq's electricity grid could collapse any day because of insurgent sabotage, rising demand, lack of reconstruction, fuel shortages and provincial officials who are unplugging local power stations from the national system, electricity officials said on Saturday. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban) August 5, 2007

An Iraqi Army soldier searches residents of the Amariyah neighborhood at a checkpoint in west Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, Aug. 3, 2007. Residents must go through such checkpoints to reach their homes in several areas of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) August 3, 2007

An Iraqi woman strolls through the market in the Abu Cheer neighborhood of southeast Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 21, 2007. The market was the site of a mortar attack in January 2007. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed) August 2, 2007

A boy with the colours of an Iraqi flag painted on his face celebrates in a street in Baghdad July 29, 2007, after the Iraqi team won the final game of the 2007 AFC Asian Cup soccer tournament against Saudi Arabia in Jakarta. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani). July 31, 2007

Iraqi soccer fans hold up a sign prior to Iraq's Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup final against Saudi Arabia Sunday July 29, 2007 in Jakarta, Indonesia.(AP Photo/Ed Wray). July 29, 2007

raqi soldiers parade during their graduation ceremony at a military base in the oil rich city of Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, April 2007. Iraq's ambassador to the United States this week launched a withering attack on the US administration's reluctance to provide basic weaponry to his country's ill-equipped armed forces.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim). July 28, 2007

Iraqi women who have been displaced from their homes by sectarian violence line up for food handed out by Iraqi Red Crescent Society workers in the al-Fadaliyah neighborhood of southeast Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Ali Kadim). July 25, 2007

Boys gather to watch Iraq play Vietnam in the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 21, 2007. Iraq defeated Vietnam 2-0, in Bangkok Thailand, providing a welcome relief from the daily violence facing Iraqis. Iraq, having snapped a run of three successive exits at the quarterfinal stage, will next play the winner of Sunday's quarterfinal between Iran and South Korea in Kuala Lumpur. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). July 22, 2007

An Iraqi woman holds a photo of her son as U.S. soldiers raid her home in Yarmuk neighbourhood, during a patrol in Baghdad July 20, 2007. (REUTERS/Nikola Solic). July 21, 2007

An Iraqi girl carries her sister while asking U.S. soldiers for toys, during an inspection at a local school in Hay Heten neighbourhood in Baghdad July 19, 2007. (REUTERS/Nikola Solic). July 19, 2007

Hundreds of Iraqi men gather to see Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf while he escorts the news media on a tour of a prison in the Kazimiyah neighborhood of north Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, July 17, 2007. An estimated 28,000 Iraqis are currently being held by the U.S. in the "Democratic" Iraq. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). July 18, 2007

Prayers at the Imam Hussein shrine in the Shiite holy city of Kerbala, Friday, July 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Ghassan al-Yassiri). July 15, 2007

An Iraqi elderly woman inspects a bullet which she says hit her bed during an overnight raid by US and Iraqi troops in Sadr City, Baghdad. Residents said two people were killed and four wounded during the raid on July 10. (AFP/Wissam al-Okaili). July 14, 2007

An Iraqi child looks at a U.S. soldier talking to his mother during a patrol in Baghdad July 12, 2007. The presence of occupation forces is pervasive throughout Baghdad. (REUTERS/Nikola Solic). July 13, 2007

An Iraqi man sorts through the wreckage of his home after an overnight raid in the Azamiyah neighborhood by U.S. troops Thursday, July 12, 2007, in Baghdad. Residents of the Sunni enclave say U.S. soldiers used explosives to gain entry to a building containing several shops, destroying the building and a nearby home. (AP (Photo/Khalid Mohammed). July 13, 2007

Iraqi women holding children watch U.S. soldiers during a night patrol in front of their home in Baghdad July 9, 2007. Iraqis are not safe from foreign occupiers in their homes or their persons. (REUTERS/Nikola Solic). July 10, 2007

Iraqi Christian children sing during a special mass at Baghdad's Saint George's Church in 2006. Dozens of nervous Iraqi children will travel to Baghdad's Our Lady of Salvation church to take their first communion. Many of these children were born after the 2003 U.S. invasion. (AFP/File/Ahmad Al-Rubaye). July 08, 2007

A bombing casualty, from the village of Armili, Iraq, is taken to Kirkuk hospital for medical treatment, Saturday, July 7, 2007. A suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives in an outdoor market Saturday, in the village of Armili. (AP Photo/Emad Matti). July 07, 2007

Blindfolded detainees walk inside an Iraqi army camp in Baqoubba, July 5, 2007. They are part of more than 22,000 Iraqis now in U.S. custody. This is what "Democracy" looks like in Iraq. (REUTERS/Helmiy al-Azawi). July 05, 2007

A street vendor grills Masgouf fish in Karrada, central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 29, 2007. The Iraqi government has banned all vehicular traffic to prevent attacks on worshippers on Friday's, the Muslim day of rest and prayer. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). June 30, 2007

An woman lies in a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 28, 2007, after being severely injured in a mortar attack on the town of Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad. Eight people were wounded in the attack. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). June 28, 2007

A woman weeps during a ceremony marking the 38th founding anniversary of the Iraqi Journalists Union in Baghdad June 24, 2007. Her husband, Mohammed Haroon al-Fathlawie, a journalist and a member of the union, was killed by gunmen last year in Baghdad. REUTERS/Ali Jasim). June 25, 2007

A boy jumps into a river on a warm summer day in Kerbala, June 21, 2007.( REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammad). June 24., 2007

Iraqi refugees wait to register at the U.N. Higher Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Douma, near Damascus June 20,2007 during the World Refugee Day. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which marks World Refugee Day on Wednesday, says refugee numbers rose 14 percent last year to nearly 10 million, mainly due to an exodus from Iraq, after declining for several years. Syria hosts around 1,4 million Iraqi refugees. (REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri). June 20, 2007

Iraqi soldier guards captured suspected militants in Baqouba, Iraq Tuesday, June 19, 2007. About 10,000 U.S. soldiers using heavily armored Stryker and Bradley fighting vehicles fought their way in Baqouba northeast of Baghdad early Tuesday. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been placed in prison from these raids, leaving famlies without fathers and brothers. (AP Photo/Talal Mohammed). June 19, 2007

Iraqis shop at a market in central Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 17, 2007. The Iraqi capital sprung to life Sunday after a four-day curfew to thwart violence after a provocative attack on a Shiite shrine in Samarra last week. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). June 17, 2007

An Iraqi girl looks on as U.S. soldiers check weapons at the house of a local leader in a village near north Baghdad June 13, 2007. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic). June 14, 2007

Iraqi smugglers repack cans of beer at the border with Iran, in Choman, northern Iraq, March 12, 2007. Smuggling across the Iraq-Iran border is a flourishing business in the remote corner of northeast Iraq, a rugged mountainous area where the lure of making a quick profit dwarfs the little government authority there is. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed). June 11, 2007

Iraqi children check out the damage made in a joint American and Iraqi forces pre-dawn raid in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). June 9, 2007

An Iraqi woman and her child walks in front of a of damaged tent following a military raid by U.S. and Iraqi troops in the Al Orfali area of Sadr City, Iraq, early Wednesday, June 6, 2007. The joint force detained 4 Iraqi men, a police officer said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). June 6, 2007

raqi residents walk past a destroyed house in Baghdad June 3, 2007. Dozens of residents became homeless after Tuesday's bomb attack in a market in Baghdad's Amil district which killed 19 people and wounded 71 others. (REUTERS/Ali Jasim). June 3, 2007

Graphic shows Iraqi civilian deaths inside and outside of Baghdad (Associated Press). June 2, 2007

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Iraqi girls are seen at a camp for around 75 displaced Shiite families in the Sadiyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. Many such "mini" camps are scattered around Baghdad as tens of thousands of residents have fled their homes. (AP Photo/Wisam Sami). September 28, 2007

An Iraqi woman packs up her personal belongings after her home was destroyed in the Baiyaa neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. Six civilians were killed on Wednesday evening and 28 were wounded when a pair of car bombs exploded in an outdoor market in Baiyaa, police said. The U.S. military acknowledged that violence was on the upswing and blamed it on the terror movement. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban). September 27, 2007

A man fills a jerry can with water from a broken pipe in Baghdad. The international community has not faced up to the scale of the Iraqi refugee crisis, leaving Syria and Jordan to deal with the exodus, Amnesty International said in a report. Cholera is also spreadinng as a result of lack of access to clean water. (AFP/File/Sabah Arar). September 25, 2007

An Iraqi youth weeps in fear after being detained by Sunni "volunteer", former insurgents who have joined forces with US and Iraqi troops against Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and held by US soldiers from the 1-40 Cavalry Squadron for suspected links to Al-Qaeda, in the Hawra Haajab village on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, 06 September 2007.Many such detainees face abusive prison conditions and sometimes execution at the hands of their captors. (AFP/File/David Furst). September 23, 2007

Men carry the coffin of Mustafa Kadhim, a senior judge, during a funeral in Najaf, September 21, 2007. Gunmen killed Kadhim and his driver in a drive-by shooting in central Baghdad on Thursday, police said. (REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish). September 21, 2007

Iraqi children wait for food at the Abdul Khader al-Kilani mosque in Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, Sept. 17, 2007. The mosque provided food to poor families on the occasion of Ramadan, a time when Muslims fast during daylight hours, but due to security reasons, the donated food was distributed during the day.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed). September 18, 2007

Iraqis protest in the Shaab neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007. Protesters burned the U.S. flag as they denounced the behavior of U.S. soldiers and called for the Iraqi government to intervene. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). September 16, 2007

An Iraqi man is seen in a central Baghdad, Iraq liquor store on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007, two days before the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. All liquor stores must close during Ramadan, a traditional measure that has been in force in this predominantly Muslim nation even before Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled in April 2003. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban). September 15, 2007

An Iraqi woman holds on to her children as U.S soldiers from A Company 2-23 Infantry Battalion search her house during a patrol in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo). September 14, 2007

An Iraqi family sits together as US occupation soldiers from 1-40 Cavalry Squadron search their home during a patrol into southern Baghdad. (AFP/David Furst)). September 12, 2007

An Iraqi boy stands near a damaged doorway after an overnight raid in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. U.S. and Iraqi forces killed two civilians during a joint raid early Tuesday, Iraqi police said. Six others were injured in the pre-dawn operation. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim). September 11, 2007

Chart shows number of insurgent attacks against, Iraqi civilians, Iraqi security forces and U.S. troops. (Defense Intelligence Agency). September 10, 2007

An Iraqi citizen is forced to undergo a retina scan by a U.S soldier from Bravo 1-12 Cav. Battalion during operation Wickersham 3, near the city of Baqouba, Retina scans and collection of DNA are some of the measures the U.S. is using to control the population. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo). September 08, 2007

Iraqi soldiers guard blindfolded detainees arrested near the city of Baqouba, some 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007 Arrests of Iraqis have risen steadily during the "surge" began. (AP Photo). September 07, 2007

An aerial view of the Shorjah fruit market is seen in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 1, 2007. Fewer vendors, because of fears of bombings, means fewer choices and higher prices. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). September 06, 2007

A woman carries her son as they walk in a street in Baghdad September 1, 2007. Life is the city is a struggle for those who remain. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz). September 03, 2007

An Iranian Shiite man waits to head back to his country from Karbala, 110 kms south of Baghdad, 30 August 2007. Iraqi troops backed by armoured vehicles have guarded two key shrines in Karbala as residents ventured onto the streets for the first time since fighting turned a pilgrimage into a bloodbath.(AFP/Mohammed Sawaf). August 31, 2007

A converted wheelchair using pilgrim, who rode on it from the southern Iraqi city of Basra, is checked by Iraqi soldiers at the security checkpoint as he enters the holy city of Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq Monday, Aug. 27, 2007. The security measures were intensified when over a million of Shiite pilgrims, from throughout the world, flow into the Shiite holy city of Karbala to participate in the Shabaniyah festival that marks the birth of Mohammed al-Mahdi, the 12th and last Shiite Imam who disappeared in the 9th century. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). August 27, 2007

A boy holds a dog for sale in a pet market in Baghdad August 25, 2007. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud). August 25, 2007

An Iraqi man cleans up a barber shop after a parked car bomb went off in the neighborhood of Washash Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007. The car bomb that exploded in a commercial street in Washash neighborhood killed Iraqi and wounded 5 others said police. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban). August 22, 2007

Iraqi women hold pictures portraying the situation in the war-torn country as they attend a demonstration in Baghdad. The protestors were calling attention to the daily arbitrary arrrests of Iraqis, particularly in Sadr City, Baghdad. .(AFP/Ahmad Al Rubaye). August 20, 2007

An Iraqi man prays at the shrine of Imam Abbas in the Kerbala, on Friday, Aug. 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Ghassan al-Yassiri). August 18, 2007

A man walks through a damaged neighborhood after a coordinated suicide attack in the town of Al-Qahataniya, 75 miles west of Mosul, Iraq on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007. Rescuers dug through the muddy wreckage of collapsed clay houses in northwest Iraq on Wednesday, uncovering at least 250 bodies from suicide truck bombings. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ibrahim). August 17, 2007

A man carries his son, who was wounded in clashes, after receiving treatment in a hospital in Baqouba, August 15, 2007. U.S. and Iraqi forces began a major offensive - Operation Phantom Strike - in that city on Tuesday as part of the overall escalation ordered by Washington. (REUTERS/Helmiy al-Azawi). August 15, 2007

A soldier from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division points to an Iraqi man while searching his family's house during an operation in the Amariyah neighborhood of west Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, Aug. 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek). August 14, 2007

An Iraqi boy looks through a damaged window of al-Alawi Shiite mosque in Baghdad's al-Ubaidi neighbourhood on August 11, 2007 after an overnight US raid. (AFP/Wissam al-Okaili). August 12, 2007

A women checks archived newspaper at Iraqi National Library in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 25, 2007. The Iraqi National Library's director appealed to the U.S. and Iraqi militaries on Thursday Aug 9 2007 to leave his books and archives out of the fight, warning their recent occupation of the building had put one of the nation's most important cultural institutions at risk. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban). August 10, 2007

A boy cries while waiting outside a hospital morgue to claim the body of his father who was killed in a U.S. forces during a military air strike in Baghdad's Sadr City August 8, 2007. A U.S. helicopter strike in Baghdad's crowded district of of Sadr City killed 32 people and wounded twelve early on Wednesday.. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem). August 8, 2007

An Iraqi man sits inside an abandoned kindergarten as U.S. soldiers from the 2nd battalion, 32nd Field Artillery brigade visit during their patrol in Baghdad August 5, 2007. The education system is crumbling and more and more parents keep their children at home, due to danger from fighting. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) August 6, 2007

Muhammad Abdul Hussein, 35, drinks water from a tanker in the Karradah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007. Most of the Iraqi capital has been without water for two days, but the eastern part of the city has seen shortages for about the last week. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban) August 4, 2007

An Iraqi family watch U.S. soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry as they patrol in the Amariyah neighborhood in west Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, July 31, 2007. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek).August 1, 2007

Iraqi boys study at the Imam Hussein shrine in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, Friday, July 27, 2007. The shrine hosted thousands of visitors Friday to mark the birth of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Ghassan al-Yassiri). July 27, 2007

Iraqi women clamor for food distributed by Iraqi Red Crescent Society workers in the Husseiniyah area of northeastern Baghdad, Thursday, July 26, 2007. Food and water are in short supply after U.S. troops cordoned off the area during military operations there for the past week. (AP photo/Wisam Sami). July 26, 2007

Iraqi women line up for food as U.S. soldiers check their documents in Baqouba, Monday, July 23, 2007. Since the seige of Baqouba began four weeks agao, local residents have not been able to go to the market for groceries. (AP Photo). July 24, 2007

Soccer fans wave the Iraqi flag in central Baghdad, Iraq after Iraq defeated Vietnam 2-0 in the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup, in Bangkok Thailand, Saturday, July 21, 2007, providing a welcome relief from the daily violence facing Iraqis. Iraq, having snapped a run of three successive exits at the quarterfinal stage, will next play the winner of Sunday's quarterfinal between Iran and South Korea in Kuala Lumpur. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed). July 23, 2007

Iraqi men sit in an overcrowded room on the floor in a holding pen July 19, 2007 at Forward Operating Base Justice, Nearly a thousand "detainees" are held in a series of rooms at the detention center. The is the new face of "Freedom" in Iraq. (Chris Hondros/Getty). July 20, 2007

raqi schoolboys participate in a summer course in gymnastics in Kerbala, Tuesday, July 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Ghassan al-Yassiri). July 18, 2007

An Iraqi woman looks at the reflection of a U.S. soldier in a mirror as invades her home during a patrol in Baghdad July 16, 2007. (REUTERS/Nikola Solic). July 17, 2007

Medic tends to a man wounded in twin suicide car bombings exploded within 20 minutes of each other in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, July 16, 2007, killing at least 85 people and wounding around 180. (AP Photo/Emad Matti). July 16, 2007

Iraqi boys pick through rubble left behind after an overnight raid in the Azamiyah neighborhood by U.S. troops Thursday, July 12, 2007, in Baghdad. Neighbors in the Sunni enclave say U.S. soldiers used explosives to gain entry to a building containing several shops, destroying the building and a nearby home. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed). July 12, 2007

Refugee girls from Baghdad wash their clothes at the tourist lakeside city of Habaniya near Falluja July 10, 2007. There are more than 2 million such internally displaced persons (IDP) inside Iraq. (REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal). July 11, 2007

A U.S. Army soldier handcuffs Iraqi residents in Baqouba, Iraq, Sunday, July 8, 2007. More than 24,000 Iraqis are being imprisoned by the U.S. . (AP Photo). July 09, 2007

Iraqi women line up to buy petrol in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 4, 2007. This is what "Liberty" looks like in Iraq. (AP Photo/Mahmoud al-Badri). July 06, 2007

A girl waits while U.S. soldiers from the 2nd battalion, 32nd Field Artillery and members of the Iraqi Army check her parents' house during a raid in Baghdad's Ghazaliya neighborhood July 4, 2007. She has lived her entire life under the foreign military occupation. (REUTERS/Nikola Solic). July 04, 2007

A woman passes burned out shops in the district of Binouk in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 3, 2007. Seven people died and 33 were wounded when a car bomb exploded here Monday evening. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). July 03, 2007

A four year old Iraq child (born after the invasion of 2003) cries as older boys stage a mock execution in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 2, 2007. Children's games are under a heavy influence of ongoing violence in the country, one of the more popular ones being a clash between militias and police. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). July 02, 2007

A street vendor grills Masgouf fish in Karrada, central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 29, 2007. The Iraqi government has banned all vehicular traffic to prevent attacks on worshippers on Friday's, the Muslim day of rest and prayer. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). July 01, 2007

A street vendor grills Masgouf fish in Karrada, central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 29, 2007. The Iraqi government has banned all vehicular traffic to prevent attacks on worshippers on Friday's, the Muslim day of rest and prayer. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). June 29, 2007

Residents of "free" Iraq watch as U.S. soldiers search their house during a night mission in Baqouba early June 27, 2007. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic). June 27, 2007

An Iraqi woman carries containers as she walks to joins a queue to buy gasoline in central Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 26, 2007, as serious fuel shortages continue to affect the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). June 26, 2007

A man holds his injured child as they arrive to a hospital in Baqouba, Iraq Thursday, June 21, 2007, after a mortar round hit their home in the village of Buhriz killing one person and injuring ten others. (AP Photo/Adem Hadei). June 22, 2007

Iraqi orphans rest in a new facility in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 21, 2007. These orphans were among 24 severely malnourished children found by the U.S. and Iraqi soldiers in a Baghdad orphanage ten days ago, some tied to their beds and too weak to stand. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed). June 21, 2007

Iraqi women shop at an Al-Dora market in southern Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 17, 2007. The U.S. military has claimed success in securing the market. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris). June 18, 2007

Children stand outside their tent in a Shi'ite refugee camp near Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad June 16, 2007. People fleeing violence in Iraq have begun to move into atrocious makeshift camps on the fringes of cities such as Najaf, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. (REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish). June 16, 2007

The remains of one of the two destroyed minarets of the Shiite al-Askari shrine in the restive city of Samarra, north of Baghdad. (AFP/Dia Hamid). June 13, 2007

Iraqi boys dressed as angels distribute candies during a Sh'ite celebration in Baghdad's Sadr City June 11, 2007. Residents took part in a parade marking the fourth anniversary of the founding of the Mehdi Army. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem). June 12, 2007

Iraqi policemen sleep in front of a police station in the town of Al-Mushahde, 31 miles north of Baghdad, early June 9, 2007 as temperatures soared past 110 degrees and lack of electricity makes it too hot to remain inside. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic). June 9, 2007

What "liberty" means: An Iraqi woman weeps as she and her baby sit amid the mess left behind at her house following a raid by US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad's al-Orfali Shiite district, June 7, 2007..(AFP/Wissam al-Okaili). June 8, 2007

Small boats ferry passengers across the Tigris river in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, June 7, 2007. Many Iraqis use small boats to ford the Tigris river and avoid the traffic jams and possible attacks on the roads. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). June 7, 2007

Two Iraqi children runs through the water of a fountain at Firdos square in front of the 14th Ramadan mosque central Baghdad, during a warm day on Monday, June 4, 2007. Temperature in Iraq's capital reached the 42 Celsius (107 Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris). June 5, 2007

Iraqi girls wait in line before the start of their final examinations in Hay al-Masafi primary school in Baiji, 112 miles north of Baghdad June 4, 2007. Thousands of students across Iraq take their examinations before summer vacation in preparation for their next level of education next school year. (REUTERS/Nuhad Hussin). June 4, 2007

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