A boy covers his face in fear as a U.S. army soldier from Chief Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment passes him during a foot patrol in Baqouba, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007. Many Iraqi children have been traumatized by nightime raids of their homes and seeing their parents arrested and/or killed, in addition to the daily fighting and dead bodies. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic). December 31, 2007

A US soldier points his gun at Iraqis lying on the ground after they were stopped at a checkpoint in Baghdad, 28 December 2007. Iraqi citizens can't even walk down the streets of their own cities without being accosted, or killed, by foreign soldiers. (AFP/File/Ali Yussef). December 30, 2007

Staff Sgt. Michael Lage is assisted by his mother Rose Lage, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, on Friday, Dec. 7, 2007. Lage, who was injured in Iraq, was the only survivor of a blast that killed four others. Lage suffered third-degree burns to nearly half his body; part of his nose and ears were missing, and his face, scalp, arms and torso were seared. His left hand had to be amputated.
(AP Photo/Eric Gay). December 29, 2007

U.S. Army soldiers fight a blaze which started for unknown reasons and ignited a fuel truck at their operating base in Baiji December 26, 2007. The incident is being investigated. (REUTERS/Bob Strong) December 27, 2007

Soldiers from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, queue for their Christmas lunch at K-wal combat outpost in the village of Shakarat, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) December 26, 2007

A U.S. soldier looks at a greeting card from a Christmas tree at Camp Prosperity in Baghdad December 24, 2007. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen) December 24, 2007

A U.S. army soldier from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, inspects the damage on a destroyed house in the village of Towakal, on the northern outskirts of Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007. The soldiers from Blackfoot Company went into Towakal in order to do a house searching mission, but when they reached their objective, they discovered that almost all the houses in the village were systematically destroyed and abandoned. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) December 22, 2007

US soldiers photographing a detainee suspected of targeting their Stryker convoy with an IED, south of Baqouba. (AFP/File/Alexander Nemenov) December 19, 2007

A member of a Roman-Catholic congregation from Austin, Texas, with the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe and a portrait of Mexican-American US army soldier Jorge Ulloa, who was killed in Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007, in Mexico City. Thousands of people converge at the Basilica bringing images to be blessed on the Day of the feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) December 16, 2007

U.S. Army soldiers from Aero Troop, 2-1 Cavalry, question a local resident during a search for weapons caches and insurgents near Baquba December 15, 2007. (REUTERS/Bob Strong) December 15, 2007

A U.S. soldier looks at a damaged U.S. armoured vehicle after it was hit by a roadside bomb attack in Latifiya, 31 miles southwest of Baghdad December 12, 2007. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani) December 13, 2007

U.S. Army medic Spc. Scott Wolfe, left, passes an injured Iraqi toddler to medic Spc. Juan Herrera, right, of 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment at Patrol Base Murray after a mortar strike injured two girls in the town of Arab Jabour south of Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007. The girls were evacuated to the 86th Combat Support Hospital.
(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) December 12, 2007

U.S. army soldiers from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment take a break inside a destroyed house during an operation in the village of Walush in the volatile Diyala province, 50 miles north of Baghdad, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) December 09, 2007

A U.S. soldier stands guard as a helicopter prepares to land at a U.S. military combat outpost in Jasr Diyala, on the outskirts of southern Baghdad December 4, 2007. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) December 06, 2007

Robert Gates is introduced to soldiers after arriving at Mosul Airfield in Iraq. Gates said the goal of a stable and democratic Iraq is within reach. This is Gate's sixth visit to Iraq since becomeing U.S. Secretary of Defense. .(AFP/Pool/Haraz N. Ghanbari) December 05, 2007

U.S. soldier from the 3rd Brigade combat team of 101st Airborne Division crosses an irrigation furrow during a patrol mission in the town of Owesap 12,4 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) December 03, 2007

U.S. Army Private 1st Class Reefe Axtell, who lost both legs to a rocket-propelled grenade during his tour of duty in Iraq, is presented with a handicapped-equipped van as his wife Sarah wipes away tears during ceremonies held in a timeout of the NCAA college football game between the Army and the Navy in Baltimore, Maryland December 1, 2007. (REUTERS/Joe Giza) December 02, 2007

A US soldier looks at burning houses during an air assault operation in the village of Sufeit, south of Baquba The toll of Iraqis killed in November fell to a 21-month low, officials said, even as the country's main Sunni bloc warned that a crackdown on one of its leaders could trigger fresh tension. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia) December 01, 2007

A U.S. soldier from the 3rd Brigade combat team of 101st Airborne Division walks through a high grass during a patrol mission near the town of Youssifiyah, 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 30, 2007. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) November 30, 2007

A US soldier from Bravo company, 1st Battallion, 38 regiment infantry searches an Iraqi home for weapons and suspects during a patrol in the streets of Baquba. No Iraqi family is safe from such searches, and many homes have been searched more than once. .(AFP/Gianluigi Guercia) November 26, 2007

Some of the 285 Third country nationals, or TCNs, at a U.S. military base in Tikrit serve dessert under Thanksgiving decorations to soldiers, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2007. This is the 5th Thanksgiving day of the occupation. (AP Photo/Lauren Frayer) November 23, 2007

Airmen from the 31st Fighter Wing carry a fallen Airman onto a C-130 Hercules during a repatriation ceremony Nov. 13 at Aviano Air Base, Italy. (Airman 1st Class Ashley Wood) November 18, 2007

US soldiers with the 101st Airborne Divison interrogate a man with the help of a translator during Operation Marne Courageous in al-Awsat, south of Baghdad. (AFP/Patrick Baz) November 17, 2007

A U.S. soldier with 2nd Platoon, G Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment takes position during a patrol in the Muhalla 832 Mechanik neighbourhood in Baghdad November 12, 2007. (REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini) November 13, 2007

A U.S. soldier with 2nd Platoon, G Company, 3rd Squadron 2nd striker Cavalry Regiment is reflected in a mirror as he searches a house during a patrol in Baghdad November 10, 2007. Any home is subject to possible searches by U.S. troops. Residents often report returning to find cash and jewelry missing. (REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini) November 11, 2007

Capt. Eric W. Cosper, 2nd right, a U.S. army soldier with the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, questions merchants on a street in Baghdad's Amariyah neighborhood, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Douglas Birch) November 9, 2007

A U.S. army soldier (L) with Alpha Company 1-64 Armor looks on as an Iraqi army soldier kicks in the door of a home during a patrol in the neighborhood of Adl in Baghdad November 7, 2007. Home raids are an everyday occurance in Iraq. (REUTERS/ Stefano Rellandini) November 7, 2007

U.S. army soldier with Bravo Company 1st battalion 64th Armor Regiment checks a wardrobe in a house during home inspection in the neighborhood of Jamia in Baghdad November 5, 2007. No Iraqi is secure in their home from such raids. (REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini) November 6, 2007

The helmet, boots, dog tags and weapon belonging to fallen U.S. Army Spc. Brandon Smitherman from 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division are on display as his comrades pay tribute at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul,360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007. Capt. Timothy McGovern, 29, from Idaville, Ind., and Spc. Brandon Smitherman, 21, from Conroe, Texas, were killed by a powerful roadside bomb on Oct. 31 while on patrol with Eagle Company in Mosul. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) November 4, 2007

A U.S. army soldier with the First Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2-17 field artillery, talks to students during a visit to a technical high school in the mixed Shi'ite and Sunni neighborhood of Zafraniyah in Baghdad October 29, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) October 29, 2007

U.S. army soldiers with the First Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2-17 field artillery relax before they going on a mission, inside their Joint Security Station in the mixed Shi'ite and Sunni neighborhood of Zafraniyah in Baghdad October 28, 2007. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) October 28, 2007

A U.S. army soldier with First Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2-17 field artillery watches a backgamon game with residents in the mixed Shi'ite and Sunni neighborhood of Zafraniyah during a night patrol in Baghdad October 26, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) October 27, 2007

A U.S. soldier leaves the therapy room for treatment of combat stress at the Troop Medical Clinic of the forward operating base Falcon in Baghdad October 24, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) October 25, 2007

A U.S. soldier takes a break after finding a weapons cache during a search mission in the Sunni neighbourhood of Arab Jabour in south Baghdad October 19, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) October 23, 2007

Residents walk on a road as a U.S. soldier with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion 30th Infantry Regiment, patrols in the Sunni neighbourhood of Arab Jabour in south Baghdad October 21, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) October 21, 2007

A U.S soldier shakes hands wit an Iraqi girl as residents wait humanitarian aid to be distributed by U.S and Iraqi army, for the poor people in Hillah, about 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007. (AP Photo/ Ahmed Alhussainey) October 18, 2007

A U.S. Army soldier stands guard over a man suspected of weapons trafficking during a joint patrol with Iraqi troops in Hawr Rajab, a predominantly Sunni area of southern Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) October 17, 2007

Iraqi and foreign mercenary members of a private security company stand on the rooftop of a house in Baghdad as a US Blackhawk helicopter flies over, 18 September 2007. Incidents like the Blackwater shooting in Iraq four weeks ago happen because arrogant companies are hiring inexperienced staff, a leading security expert told AFP, as others defended the industry. (AFP/File/Patrick Baz) October 15, 2007

A woman weeps as U.S. army soldiers from B Troop, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry detain her male relatives in a pre-dawn raid in the Radwaniyah area of southern Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007. The unit is in search of men suspected of a 2005 attack on American soldiers; three men, including a suspected triggerman for a June 13 roadside bomb attack on their unit were detained. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) October 12, 2007

Iraq war veteran and double amputee Lewis Puertes of the U.S. stretches with his running prosthetics before the start of the Army Ten-Miler race in Arlington, Virginia, October 7, 2007. Lewis ran as part of the Missing Parts In Action (MPIA) group which is made up of military amputees. With a total of 26,000 participants in 2007, the race is the largest ten-mile race in the U.S. and the second largest in the world. Picture taken October 7, 2007. REUTERS/Molly Riley) October 10, 2007

A U.S. soldier with Charlie Company 2-227, Aviation Battalion called "Witchdoctors" works at the rotors of a Medivac Blackhawk helicopter on the flight line in Camp Taji north of Baghdad October 5, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) October 07, 2007

Returning home from a tour in Iraq, Major Benito Perez kisses his wife Maria as their children Shayri, below left, and Beni Joel stand with them at the airport in San Juan, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007. About 40 US Army Reserve soldiers from Puerto Rico returned home from the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) October 05, 2007

A U.S. soldier stands guard near a burnt vehicle at the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad October 3, 2007. Poland's ambassador to Iraq was lightly wounded in a triple bomb attack on his diplomatic convoy in central Baghdad on Wednesday which killed a Polish bodyguard and an Iraqi passer-by, officials said. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz) October 02, 2007

A US soldier from Alpha Company of 1/38 Infantry Regiment guards members of the US Army registered local Iraqi protection force the Concerned Local Nationalists outside Baquba after they were arrested for possession of contraband weapons. Iraq was rocked by car and suicide bombings for a third straight day on Wednesday as officials announced the arrest of 20 members of a Baghdad military academy suspected of abductions and killings. (AFP/Alexander Nemenov) October 01, 2007

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A U.S. army soldier from Chief Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment searches a house in Baqouba, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007 while the family is held at gunpoint by fellow troops.
(AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic). December 31, 2007

Airmen [sic] of the 407th Air Expeditionary Group at Ali Base, Iraq, sing Christmas songs Dec. 24 during a caroling event hosted by the base chapel. Airmen gathered together on Christmas Eve for a candlelight service, then later sang carols and enjoyed hot chocolate and snacks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jonathan Snyder). December 29, 2007

U.S. army soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division leave a building during a patrol in Baiji December 28, 2007. (REUTERS/Bob Strong). December 28, 2007

A U.S. army soldier from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, watches a movie at K-wal combat outpost in the village of Shakarat, in the volatile Diyala province, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Christmas Eve, Monday, Dec. 24, 2007. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) December 25, 2007

A U.S. army soldier from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, provides backup for members of his team as they progress down a street during a firefight on the outskirts of Muqdadiyah, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) December 23, 2007

A cow approaches a U.S. army soldier from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, as he lays concealed in thick grass during an ambush setup on the outskirts of Muqdadiyah, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007. The soldiers from Blackoot Company had set up an ambush targeting a group of suspected terrorists, but had to abandon their plans because their position was compromised by a group of cow herders. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) December 21, 2007

Sarah Counter, of Iowa City, Iowa (R) hugs her brother, Sergeant Wes Burnham (L) of the First Calvary Division, who returned from his 15 month deployment in Iraq to Fort Hood, Texas, December 19, 2007. (REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi) December 20, 2007

Agustin Aguayo, a Mexican-born U.S. Army medic and self-described conscientious objector, attends a statement of his lawyer David Court at the Leighton Barracks in the southern German city of Wuerzburg in this March 6, 2007 file picture. The U.S. Medic jailed for desertion after he refused to return to Iraq with his unit is on a mission to tell young people about the grim realities of war before they sign up only to find they have made a mistake. Aguayo told Reuters in an interview on December 17, 2007 U.S. recruitment methods were unfair, potentially even putting peoples' lives at risk. (.REUTERS/Alex Grimm) December 18, 2007

A U.S. Army soldier from Aero Troop, 2-1 Cavalry, stands guard during a search for weapons caches and insurgents near Baqouba December 15, 2007. No Iraqi family, rich or poor, is safe from forced searches of their homes. (REUTERS/Bob Strong) December 17, 2007

A U.S. army soldier from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, points his weapon towards a man while others search his house during a night raid on the outskirts of Muqdadiyah, Friday, Dec. 14, 2007. No Iraqi family is safe in their homes or persons from such searches. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) December 14, 2007

An Iraqi boy watches as a U.S. army soldier from B Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment lights up a cigarette as members of his unit take a rest after a foot patrol in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, in this March 17, 2007, file photo.
(AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) December 11, 2007

A U.S. army soldier from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment interrogates men during an operation in the village of Walush, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007. No iraqi is safe in their own home from raids, interrogations and arrests at the hand of occupation forces. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) December 10, 2007

A US soldier takes pictures while on patrol in Baghdad's Adhamiyah district. Most of Baghdad remains under a high military presence.
(AFP/Ali Yussef) December 08, 2007

A US soldier patrols a market area in west Baquba.
(AFP/Gianluigi Guercia) December 07, 2007

Iraqis sit on the ground as they are momentarily detained by US soldiers from Bravo company, 1st Battallion, 38 regiment infantry. US military prisons in Iraq hold more than 60,000 Iraqis, including 950 children as young as age 10. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia) December 04, 2007

A US soldier pay his last respects to fallen comrades during a memorial service in Baquba, Iraq. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia) November 29, 2007

Iraqi men are taken away by a U.S. soldier with 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, I-327th Infantry 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division Air Assault, during a patrol in Baiji, November 24, 2007. (REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini) November 27, 2007

A U.S. soldier from the 3rd Brigade combat team of 101st Airborne Division rests in the shadow of his comrades during their patrol mission in the town of Owesap, Friday, Nov. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) November 25, 2007

U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Brigade combat team of 101st Airborne Division look as their comrade ties up a turkey that they have received from one of the local Sheiks for the upcoming Thanksgiving celebrations at their patrol base in the town of Owesap, Iraq, 12,4 miles south of Baghdad, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) November 24, 2007

An elderly woman begs a U.S. soldier to leave as her house is searched during a raid, in the rural town of Nahrawan southeast of Baghdad November 8, 2007. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) November 21, 2007

An Iraqi family waits on a bench as US soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division, 3BCT, search their home in the village of al-Awsat, south of Baghdad, 16 November 2007. No Iraqi is safe from such searches of their homes or person. (AFP/File/Patrick Baz) November 19, 2007

A girl cries beside a woman as a U.S. soldier (L) and an interpreter talk to them at the site of a bomb attack in Kirkuk, November 15, 2007. A car bomb targeting the convoy of a police colonel killed six people, including one policeman, police said. (REUTERS/Slahaldeen Rasheed) November 16, 2007

U.S. soldier Staff Sergent Russell Massey, of Michigan, with 4th Platoon, G Company, 3rd Squadron 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment throws an incendiary grenade during a patrol in the neighbourhood of Muhalla 834 in Baghdad November 13, 2007. (REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini) November 14, 2007

Anne Adkins mourns her son, who was killed in Iraq, during Veteran's Day ceremonies at his grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington November 11, 2007. (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts) November 12, 2007

Army Spc. Rick Yarosh, Bingham NY, who was wounded in Iraq in Sept. 2006, waits to be greeted by President Bush as he visits a physical therapy lab for wounded soldiers at the Center For The Intrepid at the Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) November 10, 2007

Capt. Eric W. Cosper, 2nd right, a U.S. army soldier with the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, questions merchants on a street in Baghdad's Amariyah neighborhood, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Douglas Birch) November 8, 2007

US soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division stand at attention during a ceremony in a US military camp in Baghdad, 02 November 2007. (AFP/File/Erik de Castro) November 7, 2007

Iraq War wounded U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Andrew Kinard (R) watches U.S. President George W. Bush from his wheelchair after meeting him at the airport in Columbia, South Carolina, November 2, 2007. (REUTERS/Larry Downing) November 5, 2007

Army Sgt. 1st Class David Richardson, with 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, hands out soccer balls to children in Baghdad, Sept. 29, 2007. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Andrew M. Rodier) November 3, 2007

U.S. Army soldiers from 1st Platoon, Troop C, 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Task Force Iron, from Fort Lewis, Wash., along with Iraqi army soldiers from 3rd Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army Division, run by a burning vehicle in Hussein Hamadi village, Diyala Province, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 29, 2007 during Operation Ultra Magnus. The joint operation was designed to clear the village, a former terrorist stronghold, of al-Qaeda operatives. (AP Photo/SSG Russell Bassett, US Army) November 2, 2007

A U.S. army soldier with Bravo Battery, 2-17 field artillery, checks a toy weapon as a boy plays with his toy weapon during a patrol in the mixed Shi'ite and Sunni neighborhood of Zafraniyah in Baghdad October 30, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) November 1, 2007

U.S. Marine Sgt. Jessica Turner of 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), pays her final respects to fallen U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Herman Jerome Murkerson Jr. of Marine Wing Headquarter Squadron-2, after his memorial service at the Memorial Chapel on Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007. Murkerson was killed in action on Oct. 1 while on patrol in the Al Anbar province of Iraq. (AP Photo/U. S. Marines,HO) October 30, 2007

Thousands of demonstrators march against the war with Iraq 27 October 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. The rally was one of many held across the United States condemning the war with Iraq. (AFP/Getty Images/Scott Olson) October 28, 2007

Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, talks to reporters in Tikrit on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007. Gen. Petraeus visited Tikrit to attend a ceremony as the 25th Infantry Division handed over control of Multi National Division-North to the 1st Armored Division. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) October 28, 2007

U.S. soldiers with Charlie Company, 610th Brigade Support Battalion, visit the Troop Medical Clinic which is decorated for the upcoming Halloween, in the forward operating base Falcon in Baghdad October 24, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) October 26, 2007

A U.S. soldier, an Iraqi policeman (R) and other residents inspect the scene of a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad October 24, 2007. A roadside bomb exploded near a police commando patrol, wounding three people, including two policemen, in the Qadissiya district of southwestern Baghdad, police said. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen) October 24, 2007

Two U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 10th Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division dismount from the back of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle to conduct a cordon and search at a brick factory in Narahwan, Iraq, on Friday, Oct. 12, 2007. (AP Photo/Sgt. Timothy Kingston, U.S. Army) October 22, 2007

A U.S. soldier with 1st Battalion 30th Infantry Regiment receives a haircut at Patrol Base Murray in the Sunni neighbourhood of Arab Jabour, south Baghdad, October 20, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) October 20, 2007

A U.S. soldier plays a game during a Hawaiian party at Camp Loyalty in Baghdad September 23, 2007. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria) October 19, 2007

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, right, departs Patrol Base Inchon after meeting with tribal leaders in Quarghuli Village, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, Oct. 15, 2007. Gen. Petraeus paid a visit to the village to laud the concerned citizens who have formed to secure the restive area. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) October 16, 2007

A U.S soldier of 64th Armor Regiment stands guard in the predominantly Shi'ite neighbourhood of al-Washash in Baghdad October 14, 2007. The U.S. military erected a concrete wall along the boundary of the neighbourhood last week. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) October 14, 2007

A U.S. soldier aims his weapon during patrol at the Al Karkh district in central Baghdad October 10, 2007. Iraqi citizens often find themselves staring down the barrel of a gun. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) October 11, 2007

U.S. army medic Jeff Molles (R) with the Charlie Company 2-227, Aviation Battalion called "Witchdoctors", takes care of an injured U.S. soldier after they landed in a Medivac Blackhawk helicopter at the 28th Combat Support hospital in Baghdad October 7, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) October 08, 2007

Senior Airman Elle Liza Marie Franz conducts a vital check on Army Sgt. Scott Boomershire at the Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility in Southwest Asia. Sept. 24. The CASF is a 24-hour medical holding and staging facility, which averages about 300 patients per month. Boomshire "injured his ankle kicking down doors in Iraq." (AF photo/Staff Sgt. Tia Schroeder) October 06, 2007

Sherry Wolfe of Lancaster, Pa., stands in the crowd that came to hear President Bush speak to the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Lancaster, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007. Her T-shirt reads 'George Bush your war killed my friend's son.' The back of her T-shirt reads 'Brent Adams Killed Dec. 1, 2005, Ramadi Iraq.' (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) October 04, 2007

Jim and Cindy Butler visit the grave of their son, Sgt. Jake Butler, Sept. 21, 2007 in Wellsville, Kan. Butler was the first Kansas soldier to die in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) October 02, 2007

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