US Army personnel light candles during a Christmas Eve church service on Forward Operating Base Bostick in eastern Afghanistan December 24, 2008. (REUTERS/Bob Strong) December 27, 2008

A U.S. soldier of 46th Engineer Combat Battalion stands guard during a patrol in Baghdad's Fahdil district December 18, 2008. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) December 20, 2008

A U.S. soldier of 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry escorts detainees in a U.S. military camp before their release in Baghdad's southern al-Doura district December 10, 2008. More than 16,000 Iraqis remain in U.S. custody. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) December 10, 2008

Iraqi children watch U.S. Army Pfc. Scott Willoughby, 22, from Rawlings, N.C. as he patrols in the village of Abu Seeyah in Diyala province, 20 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. Pfc. Willoughby is assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) December 6, 2008

U.S. troops eat their Thanksgiving meals at a base in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday. Nov. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) November 28, 2008

U.S. soldiers walk on the Imams Bridge in northern Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. The bridge linking Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods that was barricaded shut three years ago reopened Tuesday, offering the latest sign of improving security in the Iraqi capital despite near-daily scattered attacks.
(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) November 12, 2008

U.S. soldiers patrol a village near Baquoba, in Diyala province some, November 2, 2008. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic) November 02, 2008

A U.S. soldier takes position during fighting in Baqouba, October 30, 2008. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic) November 01, 2008

U.S. soldiers patrol a village near Baquba, in Diyala province, 40 miles northeast of Baghdad, October 26, 2008. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic) October 26, 2008

A U.S. soldier covers his face with a scarf during patrol in Baquba, October 17, 2008. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic) October 18, 2008

A military honor guard carries Army Chief Warrant Officer Michael Slebodnik, who was killed in Afghanistan, to his burial site at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 in Arlington, Va. Slebodnik also served in Operation Desert Storm, and five tours in the current war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) October 11, 2008

A U.S. Army soldier from Ironhawk Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, patrols in Mosul, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) October 04, 2008

An anonymous witness, who was a former adviser to the United States government in Iraq, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 22, 2008, before the Democratic Policy Committee hearing on contracting waste and fraud in Iraq. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) September 22, 2008

This undated photo released by the U.S Army at Fort Stewart, Ga., shows Sgt. Wesley R. Durbin, 26 of Hurst, Texas, who died Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008 in Tunnis, Iraq, in a shooting incident involving two other soldiers. The Army said Wednesday that an unnamed soldier was detained in Iraq after he allegedly opened fire on Durbin and another unit member, killing them both. (AP Photo/U.S. Army) September 20, 2008

A U.S. soldier looks through at Iraqi citizens thruogh the scope of his rifle in Baghdad's Ghadir district, eastern Baghdad September 17, 2008. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) September 17, 2008

US soldiers and Iraqi police survey the scene of a double car bombing within minutes of each other in the central Baghdad district of Karadda, September 15, 2008. (AFP/Ali Yussef) September 16, 2008

US soldiers get a pep talk prior to going on patrol from their camp Speicher, 110 miles north of the capital Baghdad. (AFP/Ali al-Saadi) September 13, 2008

US soldiers stand close to an Iraqi soldier sitting in an armoured vehicle in the western Ghazaliyah neighborhood of Baghdad. The United States is now in the "end game" in Iraq according to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye) September 10, 2008

A U.S. soldier stands guard near residents while on a night patrol in central Kirkuk, September 3, 2008. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) September 5, 2008

A casket representing fallen soldier Lance Cpl. Alexander Arredondo who was killed in Iraq, is pulled by his father during an anti-war protest at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. More than 200 protesters were arrested during a march on Monday. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) September 2, 2008

A U.S. soldier gives a calling card and a list of wanted persons to a resident of Amil district, southwest of Baghdad September 1, 2008. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) September 1, 2008

U.S. Specialist Donald MaBroom from the Fourth Brigade Tenth Mountain Division stands in front of a destroyed building during a military patrol at Baghdad's Kamber Ali market August 29, 2008. This was a thriving market before the invasion of 2003. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 29, 2008

A U.S. soldier attends to a boy who was wounded in a bomb attack in Tikrit, ugust 26, 2008. A parked car bomb killed two and wounded eight including three policemen when it targeted the convoy of Director-General of Salahudin Health office. (REUTERS/Sabah al-Bazee) August 28, 2008

A U.S. soldier attends to a boy who was wounded in a bomb attack in Tikrit, ugust 26, 2008. A parked car bomb killed two and wounded eight including three policemen when it targeted the convoy of Director-General of Salahudin Health office. (REUTERS/Sabah al-Bazee) August 27, 2008

U.S. Army soldiers, center, and Iraqi police, right, provide security during the re-opening of a neighbourhood that had been abandoned by citizens because of sectarian violence, in the al-Dora area of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed) August 24, 2008

Lcpl. Chris Glosmek, 28, of Chesaning, Mich., embraces his 17-month-old daughter Emilee Grace after he arrived by bus Thursday night, Aug. 21, 2008 at the Saginaw Training Center, in Saginaw, Mich.. He hadn't seen Emilee since she was nine months old. The Marines are part of the 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, Fourth Marine Division based out of Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Mount Clemens, Mich., and are returning home after nearly a year of service in Al Anbar province, Iraq. (AP Photo/The Saginaw News, Jeff Schrier) August 22, 2008

U.S. soldiers from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment escort an arrested Iraqi policeman suspected to have ties with the militia, at a U.S. military camp in Baqouba, August 19, 2008. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 20, 2008

Iraq veteran Jason Hurd, of Asheville, N.C., speaks during a news conference held by members of the group, Iraq Veterans Against the War, in Oklahoma City, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. Members of the IVAW are speaking out in Oklahoma as part of a national tour. (AP Photo) August 19, 2008

A woman looks on as U.S. army soldiers from Eagle Company, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment search her home in Baqouba, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. No Iraqi family is safe from warrantless invasions and searches of their homes by military forces. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) August 17, 2008

U.S. Sergeant James Nylander from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment patrols in the village of Assada near Baqouba, in Diyala province August 14, 2008. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 14, 2008

A U.S. soldier from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment walks through an Iraqi home during a search in Baquba, in Diyala province August 10, 2008. Now, in addition to warrantless home invasions by foreign troops, Iraqi families may come back to find their homes burned and destroyed. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 11, 2008

Two U.S. soldiers from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment carry away a wounded Iraqi soldier on a stretcher at the site where an explosive device went of inside a house during security operations in Diyala province August 8, 2008. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 9, 2008

U.S. soldiers from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment play video games at Diyala media center in Diyala province August 6, 2008. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 7, 2008

U.S. soldiers from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment relax at the Diyala media center in Diyala province August 6, 2008. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 7, 2008

A woman rests on a couch as a U.S. soldier stands guard outside her house during a joint search operation for weapons and explosives by U.S forces and Iraqi National Police, in Buhriz, August 4, 2008. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani) August 5, 2008

A U.S. Army soldier from Hawk Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, enters a home during a patrol in a village near Muqdadiyah, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008. Some of these homes have been searched multiple times by U.S.military forces. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) August 4, 2008

Kathy Hanson, mother of Joshua Hanson, who was killed in Iraq, shows a heart-shaped pendant made with the photo of Joshua during a memorial service at the Bloomington National Guard Armory in Bloomington, Minn., Saturday, June 14, 2008. Nearly two years have passed since her son's death, but Kathy Hanson and her husband Robert say they sometimes still expect him to call or walk into the house. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) August 2, 2008

US soldiers in west Baquba. The US military has adopted tactics first used by French soldiers more than 50 years ago in Algeria, as it seeks to subdue militants. (AFP/Ali Yussef) July 29, 2008

People line the street in front of the church during a Mass for Army Staff Sgt. Alex Jimenez at St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Saturday, July 26, 2008 in Lawrence, Mass. The 25-year-old soldier's body was recently recovered in Iraq, 14 months after he was captured on May 12, 2007, during an ambush south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm) July 27, 2008

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Branham, from Hawk Company,Third Squadron, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment, right, stands guard over men temporarily detained in Muqdadiyah, on Friday, July 25, 2008. No Iraqi citizen is safe from warrantless searches and detentions. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) July 25, 2008

A U.S. Army soldier from Ghostrider Company, Third Squardron, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment wipes the sweat from his brow after his platoon searched a rural village during Operation Wolfpack Catseye near Qara Tappah, about 75 miles northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday, July 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) July 25, 2008

U.S. Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) (R) makes a point during a briefing, led by Gen. David H. Petraeus (2nd L) and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker (2nd R), on operations in Iraq, during a visit by a congressional delegation, including fellow Senators' Chuck Hagel (R-NE) (L) and Barack Obama (D-IL), in Baghdad July 21, 2008. (REUTERS/Lorie Jewell/MNF) July 22, 2008

Tribal Sheik Jaafar Hussein Dandan al-Massoudi, left, talks with Col. Jefforey Smith, a deputy commander of the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division, in Khidr, Iraq Thursday, July 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Robert Burns) July 20, 2008

U.S. soldiers from 1-87 Infantry Battalion hold an American flag before the start of their soccer match with a local team in the village of Multaka in Kirkuk, , June 19, 2008. The U.S. soldiers' team travels to different towns in Kirkuk and plays soccer with the locals. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz ) July 19, 2008

A U.S. Army soldier from the 1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry Regiment stands guard as members of his unit search a home in west Baghdad's Ghazaliyah neighborhood, Iraq, Friday, July 11, 2008. No Iraqi is safe from invasions of their homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Sebastian Abbot)) July 16, 2008

U.S. soldiers of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armour Division take their position during a joint patrol with Iraqi army soldiers in Baghdad's Sadr City July 13, 2008. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) July 16, 2008

A U.S. flag is illuminated for the Fourth of July activities on Contingency Operating Base Speicher in Tikrit, July 4, 2008 in a former Iraq soccer stadium. (Photo By Staff Sgt. Micky M. Bazaldua, U.S. Air Force.) July 14, 2008

An Iraqi woman screams as men and boys are taken out of a house and detained by U.S. soldiers of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armour Division and Iraqi soldiers during a joint military operation in Baghdad's Sadr City July 12, 2008. No Iraqi is safe from warrantless searches and arrests. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj). July 13, 2008

U.S. Army Capt. Mike Forbes, left, takes a photo at the site of a car bomb blast in west Baghdad's upscale Mansour neighborhood, Iraq, Thursday, July 10, 2008. Violence in Iraq is much lower than at its peak, but ask Capt. Mike Forbes, and he will tell you his job as a troop commander in Baghdad has gotten harder, not easier. (AP Photo/Sebastian Abbot) July 12, 2008

A U.S. soldier from Charlie Battery, Fires Squadron, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment kicks down a door as his comrades wait to search a classroom as they occupy a school during Operation Fires Festung in Qubah, on Wednesday, July 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) July 09, 2008

U.S. Army soldiers from 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment force their way into a home in Sa'ada, about 20 miles north of Baghdad in Iraq's Diyala province on Monday, July 7, 2008. No Iraqi family is safe from warrantless break-ins and searches of their homes or businesses. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) July 07, 2008

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A U.S. soldier provides security for Iraqi boys swimming in a newly renovated pool in Baghdad's Adhamiya district July 2, 2008. (REUTERS/ Omar Obeidi). July 03, 2008

U.S. Army soldiers from Charlie Battery, Fires Squadron, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment begin a foot patrol in the village of Zaganiyah,about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, on Sunday, June 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) June 30, 2008

U.S. Army soldiers from Fires Squadron, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment search a home inside a village near Muqdadiyah, on Friday, June 27, 2008. Some of these homes have been searched multiple times - with each new deployment of occupation forces. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) June 27, 2008

A U.S. soldier from 1/8 Bravo Company watches as Iraqis pass in front of a gate during a raid inside a school during a foot patrol in a neighbourhood of Mosul June 26, 2008. School was disrupted for much of the day because of the raid. . (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) June 26, 2008

A U.S. soldier from the 3-42 Combat Brigade Team catches a ball while jumping over a fellow soldier as they play before going out on a mission, at a U.S. military base in Baghdad's Adhamiya district June 23, 2008. Adhamiya used to be a bustling part of Baghdad filled with Iraqis before the "security" crackdown. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) June 24, 2008

A U.S. soldier stands guard during a search operation in Maysan province, on Friday, June 20, 2008. U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces are in their second day of military operations in the southern city of Amara. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) June 22, 2008

A U.S. soldier passes through a breach in a wall during a search operation in Maysan province on Friday, June 20, 2008. U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces are in their second day of military operations in the southern city of Amarah. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban ) June 21, 2008

A U.S. Soldier of 1-6 battalion, 2nd brigade, 1st Armored Division patrols in Jamilah Market, as a motorist is reflected in a mirror in Sadr city, Baghdad, on Monday, June 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) June 17, 2008

A U.S. soldier of 1/8 Bravo Battalion kicks a door as they undertake a foot patrol in a neighbourhood in Mosul June 13, 2008. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) June 15, 2008

A U.S. soldier stands guard near children selling soda in Baghdad's Sadr City June 10, 2008. The district increasingly resembles a prison. REUTERS/Omar Obeidi) June 11, 2008

U.S. soldiers look out of an airplane during a stop of their military flight at an airfield in Mosul June 6, 2008. Iraq said on Friday it would not grant U.S. troops freedom of movement for military operations in a new agreement being negotiated on extending the presence of American troops on its soil.
REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz). June 06, 2008

An Amercan soldier takes a picture of residents during a patrol in Mansour district, west of Baghdad, June 2, 2008. (REUTERS/Omar Obeidi). June 02, 2008

Col. Elspeth Ritchie, a doctor in the Office of the Army Surgeon General, discusses efforts to study and understand suicide among American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, Thursday, May 29, 2008, during a news conference at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite). May 31, 2008

A U.S. patrol in Jamileh Market, in the Sadr City, Baghdad,on Thursday, May 29, 2008.
(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). May 30, 2008

Julie McBride from Los Angeles, weeps as she kneels before crosses set up to represent each U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, at the Arlington West War Memorial in Santa Monica, Calif. on Monday May 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel). May 28, 2008

A rucksack filled with small American flags ready to place at gravesites. The 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) began their rounds to place a small American flag into the ground in front of every grave marker at Arlington National Cemetery for the upcoming Memorial Day observance. (Photo by Adam Skoczylas/Army). May 26, 2008

A US soldier of 4th Infantry Division, 42nd Field Artillery, keeps his gun trained on a familiy while on patrol in the Sheik Marouf neighborhood, Karkh district , Baghdad, on Friday, May 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris). May 23, 2008

An Iraqi boy hides behind a barrel as U.S. soldiers from Bravo Company, 1-22 Infantry Battalion search his home on the edge of Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, May 21, 2008. No Iraqi is safe from such searches. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov). May 22, 2008

Kyle Jackson of Houston, of 1st Brigate Combat team, 4th Infantry Division, 4th Batallion, 42nd Field Artillery searches an Iraqi house during a patrol in Karkh neighborhood of Baghdad, on Monday, May 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris). May 20, 2008

U.S. soldiers from Bravo Company, 1-22 Infantry Battalion sit inside an armoured vehicle during a night patrol on the edge of the Shi'ite-dominated neighbourhood of Shulla in Baghdad May 18, 2008. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov). May 18, 2008

Iraq Veterans Against the War member Matthis Chiroux, flanked by other veterans, announces his refusal to report to Active Duty during a press conference in the Cannon House office rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC., May 16, 2008. Chiroux is refusing to serve in an "illegal" war. (AFP/Tim Sloan). May 17, 2008

U.S. Army's soldier from the 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division runs to take cover behind an armored vehicle during a patrol in Sadr City in Baghdad, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek). May 14, 2008

A U.S. soldier from Bravo Company (Bulldogs), 1-502 Infantry Battalion looks on inside an armoured vehicle during a patrol on the edge of the Baghdad neighbourhood of Shulla May 12, 2008. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov). May 13, 2008

Army Spec. Chris Smith, a soldier from the 10th Mountain Division stationed at Fort Drum, sits in The Different Drummer Internet Cafe in Watertown, New York April 16, 2008. The Different Drummer is a place where soldiers both active and discharged can go for support, counciling or just to socialize. Picture taken on April 16, 2008. (REUTERS/Mark Dye). May 12, 2008

U.S. soldiers stand guard at the entrance of the BBC headquarters in Baghdad after a rocket landed on the roof of the office May 9, 2008. Soldiers are frequently called upon to protect the assets of private foreign companies. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani). May 9, 2008

U.S. Army soldier from 1-27IN, 25th infantry division takes cover while guarding construction of a concrete wall running through the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Baghdad, on Sunday, May 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek). May 5, 2008

A U.S. soldier speaks to residents before the start of the distribution of financial aid in Yusufiya, 9 miles south of Baghdad, May 1, 2008. The U.S. military handed between $1,500 to $3,000 to residents whose houses got damaged during fighting. (REUTERS/Ibrahim Sultan). May 3, 2008

A damaged U.S. military Humvee vehicle is towed away from a scene of a car bomb attack in central Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 1, 2008. A parked car bomb aimed at a U.S. patrol Thursday in Baghdad killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 26, police said. The U.S. military said no American soldiers were killed, although three were wounded in the attack. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed). May 1, 2008

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U.S. soldiers of 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry receive Holy Communion from an army chaplain (R) as they celebrate Christmas Day at a U.S. military patrol base Ur in Baghdad's Sadr City December 25, 2008. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) December 28, 2008

Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry look at a fellow soldier wearing a Santa Claus mask during Christmas Day at a U.S. military patrol base Ur in Baghdad's Sadr City December 25, 2008. Iraq remains under military occupation for their 6th Christmas. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) December 25, 2008

A U.S. soldier stands guard in front of a book shop during the re-opening of Iraq's famous Mutanabi street in Baghdad December 18, 2008. Mutanabi Street in Baghdad, named after a legendary 10th-century poet and also known as book street, was closed after it was badly hit by a bomb attack in 2007. (REUTERS/Atef Hassan) December 19, 2008

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks to occupation troops at Joint Base Balad during a town hall meeting Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008, in Balad, Iraq. Gates urged Middle East nations to support the fight against terror Saturday then traveled to Iraq to meet with commanders as the U.S. prepares to cut its troops levels and begin to pull forces out of the cities. (AP Photo/Scott Olson, Pool) December 13 2008

South Korean Vice Admiral Kim Choong-ryon toasts with the US Army Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin III, Commander of the Multii-National Corps-Iraq during a ceremony to mark the end of their mission at Camp Zaytun in Irbil, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed) December 1, 2008

U.S. soldiers of COP838 eat their meals to celebrate Thanksgiving Day in a U.S. military camp in southern Baghdad's Doura district November 27, 2008.(REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani) November 30, 2008

U.S Army soldiers of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment leave a house after a search in Mosul, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. No Iraqi is safe in their homes or persons from warrantless searches. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) November 20, 2008

Janice Bell, right, sits next to Paula and Amanda Bouffard, left and center, during the group burial service at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington,Va., Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. The group burial was for 14 soldiers who were killed Aug. 22, 2007, when their helicopter crashed in Multaka, northern Iraq. Killed were four soldiers assigned to the 4th Squadron, 6th U.S. Air Cavalry Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash.: Army Capt. Corry P. Tyler, 29; Army Chief Warrant Officer Paul J. Flynn, 28, Whitsett, N.C.; Army Sgt. Matthew L. Tallman, 30, Groveland, Calif.; Army Spc. Rickey L. Bell, 21, Caruthersville, Mo. Also killed were ten soldiers assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii: Army Capt. Derek A. Dobogai, 26, Fond du Lac, Wis.; Army Staff Sgt. Jason L. Paton, 25, Poway, Calif.; Army Sgt. Garrett I. McLead, 23, Rockport, Texas; Army Cpl. Jeremy P. Bouffard, 21, Middlefield, Mass.; Army Cpl. Phillip J. Brodnick, 25, New Lenox, Ill.; Army Cpl. Joshua S. Harmon, 20, Ohio; Army Cpl. Nathan C. Hubbard, 21, Clovis, Calif.; Army Spc. Michael A. Hook, 25, Altoona, Pa.; Army Spc. Jessy G. Pollard, 22, Springfield, Mo.; Army Spc. Tyler R. Seideman, 20, Lincoln, Ark. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson) October 24, 2008

Mercenary members of a private security company on a Baghdad rooftop as a US helicopter flies overhead. Iraq is securing the right to prosecute US soldiers and civilians for crimes committed outside their bases and when off duty, in the latest draft of a security pact that will set the terms of their deployment beyond this year. (AFP/File/Patrick Baz) October 19, 2008

A U.S. soldier stands guard in a building which was damaged during a previous bomb attack in Dujail, 30 miles north of Baghdad October 7, 2008. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) October 12, 2008

A U.S. soldier stands in front of a bullet-riddled wall in Baghdad's Fadhil district October 6, 2008. (REUTERS/Omar Obeidi) October 08, 2008

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Deryk Simmons, 27, from Huntsville, Ala., of Lightning Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, stands guard during a patrol with Iraqi police on the outskirts of Mosul , Sept. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) September 28, 2008

A U.S. soldier walks past cartoon characters Tom and Jerry painted on the wall of a shop during a patrol in southwestern Baghdad's Amil district September 26, 2008. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) September 26, 2008

A U.S. soldier of Charlie Company, 2nd-327th Infantry Battalion guards a road during a patrol in Samarra, September 23, 2008. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) September 24, 2008

A U.S. soldier grins at newly released prisoners before boarding their bus in Baghdad September 20, 2008. About 100 prisoners were released from a U.S. military run Camp Cropper prison in Baghdad on Saturday. Thousands more remain in custody. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) September 21, 2008

A U.S. soldier (R) and a member of a U.S. military-backed neighbourhood patrol bump hands in western Baghdad's Radhwaniya district September 13, 2008. (REUTERS/Omar Obeidi) September 14, 2008

A U.S. soldier of 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment stands guard as a fellow soldier and an Iraqi translator talk to residents during a patrol in Tal Kayf in the outskirts of Mosul, September 5, 2008. (REUTERS/Tim Cocks) September 12, 2008

A U.S. Army soldier is seen during a meeting with Sons of Iraq "volunteers" in the Azamiyah neighborhood in north Baghdad,Iraq on Monday, Sep. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) September 8, 2008

U.S. soldiers of 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment patrol a road in Mosul, September 5, 2008. (REUTERS/Tim Cocks) September 7, 2008

A U.S. soldier stands guard during a patrol with the Iraqi police in the al-Dora district in Baghdad September 4, 2008. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud ) September 4, 2008

A U.S. soldier reads an illustration of the Kamaliya-Obaidi Sewer system during its opening ceremony in Baghdad September 3, 2008. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) September 3, 2008

U.S. soldiers from the Fourth Brigade Tenth Mountain Division secure an area during a military patrol in central Baghdad August 29, 2008. The capital is still and dangerous due to these patrols. (Andrea Comas - IRAQ/Reuters) August 31, 2008

A U.S. soldier looks at children while standing guard during a raid in Al-Fadhaliyah district, east of Baghdad August 29, 2008. Iraqis continue to be arrested and imprisoned without warrant. (REUTERS/Omar Obeidi) August 30, 2008

A U.S. soldier walks past Iraqi carpets for sale at the Jadriya Lake park in Baghdad August 23, 2008. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen) August 26, 2008

U.S. soldiers, patrol Baghdad's Tabook neighbourhood Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed) August 25, 2008

US troops secure a newly-opened public park as Iraqi families take part in the Karrada district annual festival in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, August 22, 2008. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye) August 23, 2008

U.S. Sergeant Owen Tucker from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment searches a house during a patrol in Diyala province August 20, 2008. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 21, 2008

A U.S. soldier from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment walks past an Iraqi girl during a patrol in Baqouba in Diyala province August 15, 2008. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 18, 2008

Iraqi police check Shi'ite pilgrims entering the Imam Hussein shrine inKerbala. Thousands of pilgrims have begun travelling on foot toward Kerbala to commemorate the birth of the 12th Imam al-Mehdi. (REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed) August 16, 2008

U.S. Army soldiers run to investigate a suspicious noise, during a "visit" to the al-Faw school in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008. The source of the noise was discovered to be a broken window banging in the wind. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) August 15, 2008

A U.S. Army soldier from 1-6 Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, enforces a checkpoint at the wall that separates southern Sadr City from the north, in Baghdad, Iraq, in this Thursday, June 12, 2008 file photo. Residents say that security has improved, but that they feel that they have become imprisoned in their own city. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) August 13, 2008

A U.S. soldier from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment (L) unloads a weapon inside a home during a military search in Baquba, August 11, 2008. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 12, 2008

A U.S. army soldier from Fox Troop, Sabre Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, sets a mud hut on fire in a deserted village on the outskirts of Balad Ruz, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008. Soldiers from Fox Troop burned down a deserted village - ethnically cleansed during the "Surge" - in the area, in order to deny safe haven to possible terrorists in their area of operation. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) August 10, 2008

U.S. Sergeant Marcus Mayward is licked by a dog trained to sniff for explosives inside a military vehicle during security operations in Diyala province August 7, 2008. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 8, 2008

U.S. Private First Class Danny Nuxoll from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment stands in front of a shop at Diyala media center in Diyala province August 6, 2008. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 6, 2008

Children watch as a U.S. army soldier patrols a street in northwest Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, Saturday, Aug, 2, 2008. Iraqi's are still waiting for their "freedom" from foreign military occupation. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) August 3, 2008

A U.S. Army soldier from Hammer Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment stands guard near two suspected terrorists in Nahr al-Imam, about 60 miles north of Baghdad in Iraq's Diyala province on Wednesday, July 30, 2008. Twenty men were detained in the pre-dawn sweep of their homes. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) August 1, 2008

A US soldier with Fox company, 4th squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment shoots a lock on a door during a patrol in Al-Askari village, 26 miles south of Baqouba on July 22, 2008. (AFP/File/Ali Yussef) July 30, 2008

A U.S. soldier distributes paper during a joint patrol with Iraqi forces in Latifiya, 25 miles south of Baghdad, July 28, 2008. (REUTERS/Ibrahim Sultan) July 28, 2008

A U.S. soldier from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment holds his weapon next to a villager during a joint operation with Iraqi police near Muqtadiyah in Diyala province July 24, 2008. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) July 24, 2008

A U.S. Army soldier from Ghostrider Company, Third Squardron, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment commandeers a boat to cross a river during Operation Wolfpack Catseye near Qara Tappah, about 75 miles northeast of Baghdad in Iraq's volatile Diyala province on Tuesday, July 22, 2008. The squadron fanned out near the Iranian border to root out al-Qaida leadership and deny them safe haven as part of a renewed push to secure the Diyala province. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) July 23, 2008

As Iraqi residents walk past, a US soldier (R) from Fox company 4th squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment stands guard over the site where an IED previously detonated in western Baqouba, on July 20, 2008. (AFP/Getty) July 21, 2008

U.S. Army Spc. Grover Gebhart stands guard at a patrol base in west Baghdad's Ghazaliyah neighborhood, Iraq, Friday, July 11, 2008. Gebhart has spent the last nine months at a small patrol station on a Sunni-Shiite fault line in western Baghdad. But the 21-year-old soldier on his first tour in Iraq says he feels like he is missing the real war, in Afghanistan, where his brother is fighting the Taliban. (AP Photo/Sebastian Abbot) July 18, 2008

US soldiers secure the area at a newly installed check-point at the Babadag training facility in Tulcea, Iraq. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu.) July 15, 2008

U.S. soldiers of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armour Division take their position by the wall dividing Baghdad's Sadr City during a joint patrol with Iraqi army soldiers July 13, 2008.Residents of Baghdad have increasingly become isolated behind such walls. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj ) July 13, 2008

Handcuffed Iraqi men wait to be released from detention at a U.S. military base in Baghdad's Sard City July 11, 2008. No Iraqi citizen is free from warrantless arrests and detentions by foreign occupation troops. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj). July 11, 2008

U.S. Army Pfc. Michael Vanpay from Charlie Battery, Fires Squadron, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment monitors radio traffic as Iraqi Army officers confer at their joint headquarters during Operation Fires Festung in Qubah, north of Baghdad in Iraq's volatile Diyala province on Wednesday, July 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) July 10, 2008

An Iraqi man is led out of his home by a U.S. Army soldier from 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment during a search of his home in Sa'ada, on Monday, July 7, 2008. No Iraqi citizen is safe from warrantless arrests so long as the occupation continues. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) July 08, 2008

A U.S. Army soldier is served chicken wings, a special item on the Independence Day menu, at the dining facility at Forward Operating Base Warhorse in Baqouba, 35 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, July 4, 2008. Across Iraq, America's Independence Day is a normal work day for most U.S. troops. But the military throws in a taste of home at larger bases with corn on the cob, ribs and red, white and blue cakes. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) July 06, 2008

U.S. Army soldiers stroll through FOB Warhorse as a sandstorm blankets Baqouba, capital of Iraq's volatile Diyala province, on Tuesday, July 1, 2008.
(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) July 02, 2008

A U.S. army soldier stands guard before a temporary water purification installation made by the U.S. military on the eastern outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 30, 2008. Years occupation and war led to the destruction of the Iraqi infrastructure, which left much the country without effective drinking water. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim) July 01, 2008

Little Soldiers: A girl low crawls while maintaining control of her weapon as part of the 1st Cavalry Division’s 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment Saber Spur Ride to allow the children of soldiers to train as soldiers for a day on Fort Hood, Texas, June 20, 2008. The child is performing the last leg of a rigorous obstacle course that included a rope climbing exercise and a zip line. (U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Sharla Perrin ) June 28, 2008

U.S Army Soldiers secure the perimeter of Hassan Bin Thabit school in Baiyaa, western Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, June 26, 2008.
(AP Photo / Loay Hameed) June 27, 2008

Sgt. Kyle Hale of Yukon, Okla., 1-6 battalion, 2nd brigade, 1st Armored Division, hits a man as he practices crowd control, outside the Al Rasheed Bank in the Jamilah market in Sadr City, Baghdad, Tuesday, June 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) June 25, 2008

U.S. Soldiers of 1-6 battalion, 2nd brigade, 1st Armored Division secure the area as a woman with her baby waits to receive aid distributed by Iraqi government in Sadr City, Baghdad, on Tuesday, June 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) June 25, 2008

U.S. Lieutenant Owen Brown (L) receives a medal after winning the 228 pounds weight class wrestling championship bout in the military base of Marez, in Mosul June 23, 2008. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) June 23, 2008

Major-General Mark Hertling (C), the commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq, holds a joint battlefield circulation patrol with U.S. and Iraqi soldiers on the streets in Mosul June 19, 2008. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz ) June 20, 2008

Donna Cranston, on-site coordinator of welcome Home a Hero greets returning troops from Iraq and Afghanistan for rest and relaxation upon their arrival at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas, Tuesday, June 3, 2008. Cranston and other volunteer greeters greet returning troops each day. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) June 19, 2008

Major General Douglas M. Stone rides on a minibus in the Camp Bucca detention centre, located near the Kuwait-Iraq border, in May 2008. The US military says it is still working to regain the public's trust after the Abu Ghraib torture scandal as the future of the 26,000 captives held in Iraq remained in doubt. (AFP/File/David Furst) June 18, 2008

A U.S. soldier takes a photo of a poster of Muqtada al-Sadr and other religious material during a raid in Basra, on Monday, June 9, 2008 (AP Photo/Kim Gamel) June 16, 2008

An Iraqi man is questioned by U.S. soldiers from 1/8 Infantry Battalion inside during a search of his home in Mosul, June 12, 2008. No Iraqi is safe from such warrantless searches by occupation forces. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) June 13, 2008

A U.S. soldier of of 1-6 battalion, 2nd brigade, 1st Armored Division, gives instructions, as Iraqi men wait in the Shiite enclave of Sadr city, Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) June 12, 2008

A U.S. soldier from 1/8 2th MITT unit looks for explosives during an patrol to look for explosives, weapons in an open field in Mosul June 8, 2008. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz). June 09, 2008

A U.S. soldier poses with children for a photograph during a patrol in Ghazaliya district, west of Baghdad, June 5, 2008. The U.S. forces passed out food and posed with the residents. REUTERS/Omar Obeidi). June 04, 2008

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steve Fischer, left, kisses his youngest son Alex Fischer during a homecoming ceremony for about 265 members of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division after a 15-month deployment to Iraq, Monday June 2, 2008 in Fort Stewart, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton). June 04, 2008

A soldier with the 3rd Infantry Division walks with his children to pick up his duffle bag after a homecoming ceremony for about 265 soldiers with the Special Troops Battalion after a 15-month deployment to Iraq, Monday June 2, 2008 in Fort Stewart, Ga. The 3rd Infantry, which began sending troops home in March, was the first Army division called up for a third tour in Iraq. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton). June 03, 2008

A soldier off loads ordinance and other types of projectiles as they are set-up to be detonated on the outskirts of the city Kerbala, on May 28. (AFP/Mohammed Sawaf). May 29, 2008

Amanda Doster, whose husband US Army Sergeant First Class James Doster was killed in combat in Iraq in September 2007, holds their daughter Grace Doster during Memorial Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, May 26, 2008.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst ). May 27, 2008

Derek McGinnes, an Iraq war veteran, holding his son Ryan and helps his son Sean at a picnic event for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans in Mountain View, California, May 10, 2008. The Department of Veterans Affairs held a 'Welcoming Home' music and picnic event for the veterans offering educational and job resource information. (REUTERS/Kimberly White). May 25, 2008

Spc John Craig from TX, USA, of 4th Infantry Division, 42nd Field Artillery, during a patrol in Karkh district , Baghdad, on Thursday, May 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris). May 24, 2008

Sgt Benjamin Leazott from Franklin, MA, occupies an area next to a gas station which caught on fire , as Iraqi children look on behind iron bars of a market, in Karkh neighborhood, Baghdad, on Tuesday, May 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris). May 21, 2008

A U.S. soldier from Bravo Company, 1-22 Infantry Battalion performs a retina scan to register personal data of Iraqi men during a house-to-house search on the edge of Baghdad's Shula neighbourhood, May 18, 2008. All Iraqis are subject to retina scana and DNA sampling by occupation forces. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov). May 19, 2008

U.S. Army soldiers from the 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division look for a location of a sniper at a patrol base in Sadr City in Baghdad, Monday, May 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek). May 15, 2008

Lieutenant Nicholas Stood, commander of 1st Platoon, Bravo Company (Bulldogs), 1-502 Infantry Battalion, high-fives an Iraqi boy during a patrol in Baghdad's Khadamiya district May 10, 2008. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov). May 10, 2008

A U.S. soldier stands guard at the site of the U.S. military proposed water plant project in New Baghdad district April 30, 2008. Iraq's services -- its water, sanitation and electricity -- have been deteriorating since the 2003 U.S. invasion. A project overseen by U.S. Brigadier-General Mike Milano will install purification facilities in a joint U.S. and Iraqi security station, then pipe the water into containers to be distributed to neighbourhoods by truck. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani). May 8, 2008

U.S. soldiers from First Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment conduct a house-to-house search during patrol in Baghdad May 7, 2008. Every Iraqi family is faced with the possibility of warrantless searches of their homes and destruction of their personal property. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov ). May 7, 2008

Spc. Jeffrey F. Nichols, 21, of Granite Shoals, Texas, who died May 1, 2008 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an IED. He leaves behind a wife and a 1 1/2-year-old son. Nichols was only 16 years old when the war began. He was assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 4th brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division at Fort Polk.
(AP Photo/U.S. Army). May 6, 2008

A young boy watches a U.S. Army soldier during a visit by the 101st Airborne to a school in Latifiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, May 4, 2008. (AP Photo/ Loay Hameed). May 4, 2008

A U.S. soldier looks through the scope of his rifle as residents walk near him in eastern Baghdad April 30, 2008. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani). May 2, 2008

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