One-year old Hiba Mohammed is treated for wounds in a hospital in Sadr City in Baghdad, on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Hiba was injured by shrapnel from a U.S. airstrike. (AP Photo/Adil al-Khazali) April 29, 2008

An oil tanker, Episkopi, is seen docked next to Iraq's vital al-Basra oil terminal, in Persian Gulf waters, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) April 24, 2008

Students attend class in a high school for boys in Baghdad April 15, 2008. Violence, a collapse of school infrastructure and the mass displacement of both pupils and teachers have turned many of Iraq's schools into fetid overcrowded ruins, jeopardising the futures of millions of children. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz) April 22, 2008

A boy looks at a hole in the roof of a house after a rocket attack, which the police said wounded six residents, in Baghdad's al-Doura district April 20, 2008. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen) April 20, 2008

School boys cover their ears as they sit in a corner during clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City April 15, 2008. (Kareem Raheem/Reuters) April 19, 2008

A woman stands at the entrance of her home in central Baghdad's Fadhil neighbourhood, April 16, 2008. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) April 18, 2008

A Palestinian woman cooks inside a tent in a refugee camp near the Iraqi-Syrian borders in Iraq, about 404 miles west of Baghdad, April 14, 2008. The camp includes 1,930 Iraqi-Palestinian refugees. (REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal ) April 16, 2008

In this photo taken with a video camera, a group of Iraqi Army personnel watch a fire burn after a bombing in Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, April 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) April 13, 2008

A Iraqi union demonstrator displays posters during a march in Baghdad April 12, 2008 demanding the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) April 12, 2008

An Iraqi woman shouts slogans demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq during a demonstration organized by the Independent Federation of Iraqi Trade Unions downtown Baghdad, Saturday, April 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) April 12, 2008

Baghdad refugee children in a school that their families occupied after leaving their homes due to the ongoing raids by US and Iraqi forces into Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City. (AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye) April 10, 2008

A boy who was wounded in a bomb attack cries beside her sister while waiting for treatment in a hospital in Baquba, 40 miles northeast of Baghdad April 6, 2008. (REUTERS/Stringer) April 07, 2008

Palestinian refugees attend a welcoming ceremony as they arrive in La Calera, Chile, Sunday, April 6, 2008. A group of 39 Palestinian refugees who fled the violence in Iraq arrived after spending months stranded at a camp in the desert Iraqi-Syrian border. The group is the first of 117 Palestinian refugees that the Chilean government has agreed to receive. (AP Photo/Santiago Llanquin) April 07, 2008

An Iraqi family reacts as U.S. Army soldiers from K Troop, Third Squadron, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment detain their relative in Mosul, on Monday, March 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) April 05, 2008

A shopkeeper looks at his damaged store in Sadr City in Baghdad on March 28, 2008. The scale and intensity of the clashes in Baghdad kept many residents home. Fighting in Basra spread to Sadr City as well as in the cities of Kut and Hilla, near the Iranian border. (Photo: Wathiq Khuzaie / Getty Images) March 30, 2008

A resident who was wounded in a U.S. air strike sits at his house in Baghdad's Sadr City March 28, 2008. (Kareem Raheem/Reuters) March 28, 2008

Iraqi security forces and a member of the Red Crescent inspect a destroyed house after a U.S. airstrike in Tikrit, March 26, 2008. A U.S. airstrike killed five Iraqi civilians, including a judge, and wounded 10 in the northern town of Tikrit on Wednesday. (REUTERS/Sabah al-Bazee) March 26, 2008

Boys attend a mass during Easter celebrations at Sacred Heart Catholic church in Baghdad March 23, 2008. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani) March 24, 2008

Iraqi men awake to foreign soldiers from the U.S Army Killer Troop, Third Squadron, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment searching their home in Mosul in the early hours of Thursday, March 20, 2008. No Iraqi is safe from such home invasions. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)) March 20, 2008

Iraqis walk past the ruins of the former Iraqi army air defense headquarters in central Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 18, 2008. The buildings were destroyed in the 'Shock and Awe' bombing campaign in the early stages of the U.S. led invasion on Iraq in March 2003 and is thought to be contaminated with depleted uranium (DU). (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) March 18, 2008

Forty year old Ahmed Hassan holds his five month old twins Zainab and Hassan in Sadr City area of Baghdad, Saturday, March 1, 2008. Hassan and his family of seven was forced to move from their two story home in western Baghdad after it was torched by militants in 2006. Now they live in a small two room house. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) March 16, 2008

Iraqi boys sit next to concrete house's fence which was hit by a projectile during a US military raid in Baghdad's Sabaa' Qusur area. (AFP/Wissam Al-Okaili) March 13, 2008

A resident, wounded when clashes erupted between residents and U.S. forces according to witnesses, walks away after receiving medical treatment in Baghdad's Sadr City March 11, 2008. Seven civilians were wounded and five were arrested by the U.S. forces during the clashes, according to what residents said. The U.S. forces said they have no information about the clashes in the area. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem) March 11, 2008

Kurdish women gather in Sulaimaniyah, to celebrate International Women's Day Saturday, March 8, 2008. (AP Photo/ Yahya Ahmed) March 9, 2008

Relatives of Iraqi Christian Fadi Ameer, who was killed in Thursday evening's bombings in the central district of Karrada in Baghdad, Iraq, cry during his funeral Friday, March 7, 2008. Two bombs went off within minutes of each other in Karrada's crowded shopping district, killing at least 68 people and wounding 130. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) March 7, 2008

Abdullah Monther (R), 13 years old, stands next to the owner at a shop where they fix and sell vehicle exhaust pipes in Arbil, 220 miles north of Baghdad, March 1, 2008. Abdullah, an Arabic Shi'ite resident, dropped out from school to work to support his family after they were displaced from their home in Baghdad due to sectarian violence in 2006. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz) March 4, 2008

An overview of the Palestinian-Iraqi refugee camp near the Iraqi-Syrian borders, February 27, 2008. About 1800 Palestinian refugees live in tents at a camp on the Iraqi-Syrian borders from the Iraqi side, an employee of the U.N. refugee commission said. (REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal) March 2, 2008

A volunteer Iraqi boy, carries his rifle in the city of Salman Pak about 30 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday Feb. 29, 2008. Many check points are guarded by paid "volunteer" Iraqi civilians known as Son's of Iraq , to decrease violence. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) March 1, 2008

Men carry a coffin of a relative killed in Sunday's attack on Shiite pilgrims on their way to Karbala, during a funeral in Najaf, Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) February 26, 2008

Pilgrims arrive in the city of Kerbala, Monday Feb. 25, 2008 to mark the 40th day following the anniversary of the death of Imam Hussein. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) February 25, 2008

A terrified child cries as his family is forced to stand outside his home,while a patrol of the US 101st Airborne Division conducts a search in Radwaniyah, south of Baghdad, Saturday, Feb 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) February 23, 2008

An Iraqi policeman is helped in a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008. Policemen were among 27 wounded when police discovered rockets primed for firing in the back of a truck which exploded while experts were trying to diffuse them. 15 other policemen died in the blast.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim) February 20, 2008

Iraqis workers rebuild the Sarafiya bridge, which was destroyed in a truck bomb attack by insurgents last year, in Baghdad February 17, 2008. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen) February 18, 2008

A boy stands next to his mother as she holds a picture of their detained relative during a ceremony at the Iraqi National Theatre in Baghdad February 16, 2008. The participants in the vigil appealed to the Iraqi government to release all prisoners. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz) February 17, 2008

An Baghdad boy studies his homework via a lamp. While electricity has improved somewhat, the 4 hours per day tha Baghdad recieves is still much short of the 20 hours per day that it had before the war. Much of the electrical production is siphoned off to provide 24x7 coverage for the Green Zone and U.S. military. (Mohammed Hato / AP file) February 15, 2008

A girl waits to fill a kettle with water in the sprawling Shi'ite slum of Sadr City in northeast Baghdad, 13 February, 2008. There is a shortage of drinking water due to limited electricity to pump water to homes in Sadr City. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem) February 14, 2008

A child is seen in her home amid severe damage which was caused by an overnight raid conducted by U.S. forces in the Sadr City District of Baghdad February 11, 2008. No Iraqi family is safe from the military. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem) February 12, 2008

A morgue worker wheels a body of a girl, killed by gunmen, at the hospital morgue in Baqouba, February 4, 2008. (REUTERS/Stringer) February 12, 2008

People shop at a market in downtown Fallujah, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Kim Gamel) February 10, 2008

A woman receives humanitarian aid distributed by the Red Crescent organization to poor families in Baghdad's Sadr City February 7, 2008.
(REUTERS/Kareem Raheem) February 8, 2008

Members of the anti al-Qaeda Awakening movement near Baghdad last month. Residents of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul are hastily stocking up with supplies ahead of what Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki says will be a "decisive battle" against Al-Qaeda, traders have said. (AFP/Jewel Samad) February 5, 2008

Iraqi Christians pray in St. Joseph's Chaldean church in Baghdad, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008. The Chaldean Church is an Eastern Rite church affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) February 4, 2008

An Iraqi woman and her children hold food distributed by U.S. Army soldiers and members of Sons Of Iraq in Beijia village in Arab Jabour on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008. Hunger is a growing problem with some areas having less food than under the years of Saddam and U.N. sanctions. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) February 3, 2008

Students walk past an Iraqi policeman standing guard at a checkpoint in Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad January 30, 2008. (REUTERS/Ibrahim Sultan) January 31, 2008

An Iraqi boy pushes a child in a baby carriage through the mud, in front of a make shift houses in the Abu Disher suburb of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 28, 2008. Many displayed Iraqi Shiites had to leave their homes in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib district because of sectarian violence and found refuge in Abu Disher. (AP Photo/ Loay Hameed) January 28, 2008

An Iraqi girl enjoys a slide in the Zawraa Park in central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 25, 2008. Baghdad remains under curfew every Friday.
(AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed) January 26, 2008

An Iraqi man sells fish on a market in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Jan 23 2008.. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim) January 25, 2008

Iraqi prisoners gather in a room at a prison compound in central Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. The Iraqi government sent Iraq's parliament speaker a draft bill on Tuesday for an amnesty for detainees being held in Iraqi prisons. The bill excludes those held in U.S. custody and those imprisoned for a variety of crimes. If passed in its current form, the bill could see some 5,000 prisoners released, government spokesman al-Dabbagh said. Some 68,000 persons are in custody. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed) January 23, 2008

Women peeking out of the door of their house to watch the funeral procession of a neighbour in Baghdad's al-Amil district, January 21, 2008.
(AFP/Ali al-Saadi) January 22, 2008

Ayad, left, and Ahmed, brothers of killed Iraqi Jawad Abdulkarim embrace each other as Jawad's coffin is being prepared for his funeral procession in Amil, a neighborhood in western Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. According to Abdulkadim's family, Jawad was killed in his sleeping room during a joint US-Iraqi military operations when he tried to close the door of the sleeping room where his wife was resting, early Monday morning.
(AP Photo/ Khalid Mohamme ) January 21, 2008

People queue for kerosene at a gas station in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. Baghdad continues to shiver through a cold spell that has drawn renewed attention to the country's everyday miseries: an electrical grid that remains spotty and a shortage of kerosene for home heaters.
(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) January 19, 2008

A woman fills her lamp with kerosene at her home in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. Baghdad continues to shiver through a cold spell that has drawn renewed attention to the country's everyday miseries: an electrical grid that remains spotty and a shortage of kerosene for home heaters. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) January 18, 2008

An Iraqi man sells oranges as a US soldier patrols an area in Baghdad. (AFP/Jewel Samad) January 16, 2008

An Iraqi child stands in a classroom at Canary school in the Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, three days after a raid by U.S. troops of the kindergarten. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim) January 14, 2008

Iraqi girls play in the snow in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, Jan. 11, 2008. Further south, Baghdad residents saw snow for the first time in memory on Friday. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed) January 12, 2008

Iraqis watch as a U.S. army soldier from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment searches their home during the initial phase of Operation Raider Harvest in the village of Sinsil on the northern outskirts of Muqdadiyah, Jan. 8, 2008. No Iraqi is safe from raids such raids. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) January 08, 2008

Children run past a U.S. armoured vehicle in Baghdad's Adhamiya district January 5, 2008. Wherever U.S. patrols go, bombs usually follow. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) January 07, 2008

An Iraqi man who was imprisoned is reunited with his wife and child during visit in western Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008. Seventy-five prisoners were visitors on Saturday. More than 65,000 Iraqis remain imprisoned without warrant or trial. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban) January 05, 2008

Residents walk past spent bullet casings after clashes in Baghdad's Adhamiyah district January 3, 2008. Three neigborhood patrol members were wounded on Wednesday night after clashing with Iraqi soldiers. (REUTERS/Stringer) January 03, 2008

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Ridh Hadi places his two-year old nephew, Ali Hussein, into a coffin in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, April 30, 2008. The child died on Tuesday after U.S. forces struck back at militia fighters with 200-pound (90-kilogram) guided rockets that devastated at least three buildings in the densely packed district that serves as the Baghdad base for the powerful Mahdi Army militia. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim) April 30, 2008

A woman stands next to a display of recovered antiquities at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, April 27, 2008. The Iraqi National Museum has welcomed home 701 artifacts that were stolen during looting after Saddam Hussein's ouster in 2003. Syrian authorities have turned over items ranging from golden necklaces to clay pots that were seized by traffickers in the neighboring country.
(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) April 28, 2008

A resident jumps into the Tigris river for a swim in Baghdad April 26, 2008. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani) April 26, 2008

Iraqi teachers react as they look at the ruins of their classroom. A Katusha rocket aimed at the Green Zone fell on the kindergarten the day before located on the edge of heavily-fortified zone. (AFP/Ali Yussef) April 23, 2008

An Iraqi man donates blood in hospital in the Shiite enclave of Sadr city in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) April 21, 2008

An Iraqi boy sells protective face masks during a sandstorm in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) April 17, 2008

An Iraqi woman fills a bucket of water from the river Euphrates near Najaf, Sunday, April 13, 2008. Hassan al-Jabani, a senior adviser at the Iraqi ministry of water resources said Iraq may suffer a large shortage of water over the next three years.
(AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) April 15, 2008

A young Iraqi boy is treated for wounds in hospital in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Baghdad, Monday, April 14, 2008. The child was injured in ongoing clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim) April 14, 2008

Iraqi children chant as they stand atop an armored vehicle that was destroyed by IED (Improvised Explosive Device) in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April. 11, 2008. Iraqi police said 1 civilian was killed in the incident. (AP Photo/Ali KJ) April 11, 2008

A policeman places barb wires to barricade a road in Baghdad April 9, 2008. The fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad was marked with a curfew and continuing violence. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen) April 09, 2008

A boy who was wounded in a bomb attack receives treatment in a hospital in Baquba April 8, 2008. A roadside bomb struck a minibus, killing four children and two women, and wounding four others in a town southwest of Baouba.
REUTERS/Stringer) April 08, 2008

Children attend the celebration of Arab Orphan Day, which falls during the first week of April, in an orphanage in Baghdad April 6, 2008. The celebration was sponsored by the Red Crescent organization in Baghdad. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) April 06, 2008

An Iraqi internally-displaced family stands outside their makeshift housing in Baghdad last month. A top UN official has warned of "very grave" humanitarian problems in Iraq, including a lack of food and the internal displacement of more than two million people. As the occupation continues, more and more Iraqi families find themselves refugees in their own country. (AFP/File/Ali Yussef) April 04, 2008

A resident walks past a U.S. armored vehicle on a road in Baghdad's Shula district during the vehicle curfew April 2, 2008. (REUTERS/Yasser Faisal) April 03, 2008

An Iraqi vendor fries falafel at a market in central Baghdad. (AFP/Sabah Arar) April 02, 2008

Iraqi Man stands by a doorway of a closed school in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, April. 1, 2008. The schools in Sadr city remain closed after the recent clashes between the Mahdi Army and Iraqi government forces backed by the US military.
(AP Photo/ Karim Kadim) April 01, 2008

Four year old Ghazi Askar lies in hospital in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 31, 2008. The boy was wounded in clashes Sunday between the Mahdi Army and government forces backed by the American military. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) March 31, 2008

Mahdi Army fighters take positions in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 29, 2008. Some 40 Iraqi policemen in Sadr City handed over their weapons to a Muqtada al-Sadr's local office Saturday.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim) March 28, 2008

A man lifts a cover to reveal a three-year-old boy who was killed during clashes, in a hospital morgue in Baghdad's Sadr City March 27, 2008. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem) March 27, 2008

Shi'ite tribal members hold a meeting during a protest at a street in Baghdad's Amil district March 25, 2008. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia appeared in a show of force in some Baghdad districts on Monday and ordered shops to close in what they said was the start of a nonviolent "civil disobedience campaign". (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudnai) March 25, 2008

Iraqi Christians mark Good Friday at a Catholic church in Baghdad, Friday, March 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) March 21, 2008

Iraqi women are forced to leave their home as U.S. Army soldiers from Killer Troop, Third Squadron, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment search the house in western Mosul, on Tuesday, March 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) March 19, 2008

Iraqi refugee children play in the yard of a Jordanian private school in Amman March 17, 2008. Some 2.2 million Iraqis fled sectarian fighting which killed tens of thousands after the bombing of a revered Shi'ite shrine in February 2006 and pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war. The Iraqi Red Crescent estimates that between 1.5 million and 2 million Iraqis fled to Syria, with most of the others going to Jordan. (REUTERS/Ali Jarekji ) March 17, 2008

A mourner cries as holds a picture of former Iraqi national soccer team player Monthir Khalaf, who was killed by gunmen on Thursday, during his funeral in Baghdad March 15, 2008. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani) March 15, 2008

Students leaving Mustansariya university in Baghdad March 11, 2008. Bitter and without direction, young people can become easy targets for exploitation by militants (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani) March 14, 2008

Iraqi boys sit next to concrete house's fence which was hit by a projectile during a US military raid in Baghdad's Sabaa' Qusur area. (AFP/Wissam Al-Okaili) March 12, 2008

An Iraqi woman adds a candle to a silver plate to be lit during a rally marking International Women's Day in Baghdad. Scores of women rallied outside a Baghdad hotel demanding an end to violence and equal social status with men as part of the observations of International Women's Day.
(AFP/Ali Al-Saadi) March 10, 2008

Demonstrators call for the resignation of the police chief and commander of security operations in Basra, March 8, 2008. Thousands of people took to the streets in southern Basra, protesting deteriorating security in a city where Iraqi forces assumed responsibility for safety last December. Many carried banners, decrying the killing of women, workers, academics and scientists.
(AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani) March 8, 2008

Children wait to fill containers with water in the sprawling the Sadr City district of Baghdad February 13, 2008. There is a shortage of drinking water due to limited electricity to pump water to homes in Sadr City and cities throughout the country. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem) March 6, 2008

Iraqi children run away as US soldiers of Charlie Company, 1st Platoon, 1-15 Infantry, 3rd Brigade Combat team, 3rd Infantry Division, conduct a foot patrol at Salman Pak city about 30 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, March. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) March 5, 2008

Three year old Fahad Faris is held by his father Faris inside their home, following a rocket attack earlier Monday, which killed his mother, in al-Hussein area in Basra, Iraq, Monday, March 3, 2008. It is unclear who fired the rocket. British forces in the area said in a statement that their base outside Basra came under a rocket attack but denied that they had responded to it.
(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) March 4, 2008

A clown performs a show for Iraqi refugees children in cooperation with UNHCR at the community centre in Sayyedah Zeinab near Damascus February 28, 2008. Syria hosts about 1.4 million Iraqi refugees according the UNHCR reports. (REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri) February 28, 2008

A young woman watches a procession in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008, during Arbaeen religious holiday to mark the 40th day following the anniversary of the death of Imam Hussein, one Shiism's major figures, who is buried here. (AP Photo/ Ahmed Alhussainey) February 27, 2008

Worshippers attend Friday prayers at Kufa Mosque near Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad February 22, 2008. (REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish) February 24, 2008

A PKK guerilla fires a rocket propelled grenade during military exercises in the mountains of northern Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region in 2006. Turkish troops entered northern Iraq to hunt Kurdish separatist rebels after fighter jets struck at their bases, the Turkish army has said.
(AFP/File/David Furst) February 22, 2008

Shiite pilgrims march from Najaf to Karbala, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, to mark the anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson - Imam Hussein's death. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) February 21, 2008

An Iraqi boy waits for treatment in a hospital in Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008. In the past five years, what little remained of the Iraqi medical system has gone into complete collapse. The doctors who dare remain in the country spend their days and nights in the hospital compounds.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim) February 19, 2008

Iraqi citizens hold photographs of their detained relatives during a ceremony at the Iraqi National Theatre in Baghdad February 16, 2008. The attendants appealed to the Iraqi government to release all prisoners. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz) February 16, 2008

Iraqi women shop for Valentine's Day gifts in Baghdad, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim) February 14, 2008

An Iraqi girl sits on top of a barrel as she waits outside a gasoline station in Baghdad in January 2008. (AFP/File/Ali Yussef) February 13, 2008

Mustafa Ghani al-Janabi, son of the Iraqi man killed by U.S. Army Sgt. Evan Vela, stands outside the courthouse in Camp Liberty in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008. Sgt. Vela, an Army sniper, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder. Vela, 24, was found guilty of murder without premeditation, aiding and abetting in the planting of an AK-47 on the dead man's body and of later lying to military investigators about the incident. (AP Photo/Bradley Brooks) February 11, 2008

Morgue workers inspect bodies brought to hospital in Baqouba, capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008. A joint patrol of Iraqi police and soldiers found a mass grave with 12 bodies, including three women, according to police.
(AP Photo) February 9, 2008

An Iraqi boy stands next to the bullet-riddled door of his house that was damaged in a joint raid by U.S. and Iraqi forces during the night in Baghdad's Sadr City. Police said three people, including a woman and a child, were hurt in the clashes and 16 detained. (AFP/Wissam Al-Okaili) February 7, 2008

Newly returned Iraqi refugees carry their luggage upon their arrival from Syria to Baghdad. The UN refugee agency said that Iraqis are once again leaving Iraq for Syria in greater numbers than are returning, despite the lower level of bloodshed in their homeland. (AFP/File/Ali Al Saadi) February 6, 2008

A woman stands by boxes of aid in the Adhamiyah neighborhood oof Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008 during a distribution of humanitarian aid by the Iraqi Red Crescent. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) February 2, 2008

People wounded in a market bombing receive medical attention in a Baghdad hospital, Friday, Feb. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) February 1, 2008

Iraqi security personnel stand next to a burning oil pipeline fire in Baiji, 112 miles north of Baghdad, January 30, 2008. A domestic pipeline carrying crude oil derivatives between Iraq's largest refinery and another facility was cut when fire broke out on Wednesday. (REUTERS/Sabah al-Bazee) January 30, 2008

A student reads under the light of a gas lamp, due to an electric power cut, in Kerbala, January 28, 2008. (REUTERS/Mushatq Muhammed) January 29, 2008

A woman with a baby walks on a muddy road in Baghdad's Sadr City district, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008. Nearly half the population of Iraq is under 18 years old. (AP Photo/ Loay Hameed) January 27, 2008

Mazen Abdul Wahed, 38, sits on his bed while his children Hussein, Hassan and Mohammed, from left to right, do their homework for school in a rental room in Abu Dashir, Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. Mazen had a stroke six months ago and lost his eyesight after the family had to flee their home because of sectarian violence. (AP Photo/ Loay Hameed) January 25, 2008

A partial view shows the cemetery of the Shiite holy city of Najaf in central Iraq, on January 18. The Wadi al-Salam (Valley of Peace) in Najaf the largest cemeteries in the world. Millions of Shiite Muslims over the centuries have been brought there for burial from all over the world, and it has been rapidly growing because of the current war. (AFP/File/Joseph Eid) January 24, 2008

Teachers who were wounded in a bomb attack wait to receive treatment in a hospital in Baouba, , January 22, 2008. A suicide bomber killed one student and wounded a number of others when he detonated a trolley laden with explosives in a High School yard. (REUTERS/Stringer) January 22, 2008

A pilgrim prays at Imam Abbas shrine during the religious ceremony of Ashura in Kerbala, 70 miles south of Baghdad, January 16, 2008. Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims pour into Iraq's holy city of Kerbala to mark the religious ceremony of Ashura in which Imam Hussein, one of the Prophet Mohammad's grandsons, was killed in 680 AD. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz ) January 20, 2008

An Iraqi soldier stands guard near blindfolded suspected insurgents, at the Iraqi army headquarters in Baqouba, January 16, 2008. About 64 suspected insurgents were arrested during a raid conducted by the Iraqi army south of Baquba on Tuesday, an Iraqi army officer said. (REUTERS/Stringer) January 17, 2008

An Iraqi boy beats his chest as a sign of grief for Imam Hussein in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Monday, Jan. 14, 2008. Iraqi Shiites are marking the Festival of Muharram, that commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Muhammad, at the battle of Karbala in the year 680 A.D. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) January 15, 2008

An Iraqi man and child watch a parade marking the Festival of Muharram in the Kazimiyah district of Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008. Shiites are preparing to mark Ashura, the tenth day of the festival, commemorating ten days of mourning for Imam Hussein, the grandson of Muhammad who was killed in the Battle of Karbala, Iraq, in the year A.D. 680. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban) January 13, 2008

An Iraqi couple enjoys a snow battle in a garden in Sulaimaniyah, 2007. Light snow fell in Baghdad in what weather officials said was the first time in about a 100 years. (AFP/File/Shwan Mohammed) January 11, 2008

Iraqi Red Crescent Society volunteers give flowers to newlyweds Ali Hussein, left, and Nawal Abdul Jabbar, right, during a visit to distribute aid at a convalescent home in the Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008. Ali Hussein, 75, a Shiite, and Nawal Abdul Jabbar, 57, a Sunni, were wed over the Eid al Adha holiday. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim) January 10, 2008

Iraqi Army soldiers lay dead and wounded moments after a suicide attack on a celebration marking Army Day in the Karradah neighborhood of central Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008. Two Iraqi army soldiers threw themselves atop a suicide bomber, but the attacker was able to detonate an explosives vest, killing the two soldiers and another nine people attending a gathering commemorating Iraq's Army Day. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban) January 06, 2008

Women sing a hymsn during Christmas mass in a church in Basra, December 25, 2007. (REUTERS/Atef Hassan) January 04, 2008

Relatives of bombing victim Naed Touma weep as they watch his coffin leave a Christian church in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim) January 02, 2008

An Iraqi performer sings during a party celebrating the New Year in Baghdad January 1, 2008.
(REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani) January 01, 2008

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