Residents look at destroyed vehicles after a U.S. raid in Kut, December 27, 2007. U.S. forces killed 11 Iraqis early on Thursday in the city of Kut. The military said in a statement the operations targeted "special groups criminal networks." (REUTERS/Jaafer Abed ) December 28, 2007

Residents light candles after attending Christmas mass at Virgin Mary church in Baghdad December 25, 2007. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf mahmoud) December 26, 2007

Iraqi boys hold toy guns to the head of their playmate in Najaf, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) December 23, 2007

Iraqi children celebreate Eid in Baghdadad.
(AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed) December 22, 2007

An Iraqi Chaldean nun prays during mass in Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. Christians comprised less than 3 percent of Iraq's 26 million people. The frequent target of Islamic extremists, Iraq's Christians have been forced to flee by the tens of thousands or to isolate themselves in barricaded neighborhoods if they choose to remain
(AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed) December 21, 2007

Pupils celebrate during the visit of Santa Claus in their classroom at al-Abtikar school in eastern Baghdad December 17, 2007. Santa, who spends the rest of the year disguised as a 48-year-old Chaldean Christian monastery administrator named Jalal Hourmoz said he was delighted to spread joy after two years when sectarian violence made a merry Christmas impossible. Picture taken December 17, 2007. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen) December 20, 2007

Workers move a ladder past exhibits at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. The museum has been closed to the public since 2003 after it struggled to rebuild its collection since it was looted in the U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) December 18, 2007

Family members grieve by the bodies of their relatives killed in clashes near the city of Baqouba, Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. (AP Photo) December 17, 2007

An Iraqi boy receives treatment by U.S. army soldiers from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, at K-Wal combat outpost, after he was shot by a stray bullet during a gun battle in the village of Shakarat, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, Dec. 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) December 15, 2007

A U.S. army soldier from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, sheds light on three women and two temporarily detained men while others search their home 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

Iraqi Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly celebrates a mass at Miriam Church in Palestine Street in east Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007. Delly was elevated to Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI last month. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) December 11, 2007

A woman displays a picture of her relative during a demonstration in Shula, a neighborhood in northwest Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2007. The demonstration of mostly women and children demanded the release of Sadrist prisoners and a stop on raids that were recently targeting followers of cleric Mogtada al-Sadr.
(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) December 08, 2007

A girl stands in line to receive medical aid distributed by Iraqi and U.S. troops in a school in Baqouba, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007.
(AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) December 07, 2007

A relative checks on a young Iraqi boy who was injured during a mortar attack in a village of Dallah Abbas north of Baqouba, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007. (AP Photo) December 05, 2007

raqi refugees arrive in Baghdad from Syria. The Iraqi Red Crescent Organisation has said that between 25,000 and 28,000 Iraqi refugees, out of 2 million living abroad, have returned to Iraq since mid-September. (AFP/File/Ali Yussef) December 03, 2007

Iraqi resident Anwar Mohammed escorts his new wife Shatha after their photo session at a studio in Baghdad November 29, 2007. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz) November 30, 2007

Iraqis shop for books as workers repair Baghdad's Al-Mutanabi street, 22 November 2007. Eight months ago Mutanabi street, a book market central to the intellectual life of Iraq, was devastated by a suicide bomb attack. (AFP/Sabah Arar) November 27, 2007

New cardinal Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly of Iraq is greeted by the crowd as he leaves at the end of a Consistory ceremony at the Vatican November 24, 2007. Pope Benedict, elevating 23 prelates from around the world to the elite rank of cardinal, made a pressing appeal on Saturday for an end to the war in Iraq and decried the plight of the country's Christian minority. (REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi) November 25, 2007

A girl stands in an alley in a poverty stricken area of Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007. According to a UN estimate, fifteen percent of the Iraqi population lives in conditions of extreme poverty. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) November 24, 2007

A teacher applauds as a student of the Baghdad Music and Ballet school performs during a music class in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 19, 2007. The school is the only one of its kind in Iraq, offering a formal education as well as specialist classes in music and ballet. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) November 21, 2007

Iraqis stand outside a juice bar in central Baghdad's al-Karrada neighborhood, late 11 November 2007. The gaudy orange, green and purple electronic palm trees flashing in the dark alert you that you're getting close to one of Baghdad's bustling nightspots. The palms, like a mirage, can be seen from way down the darkened streets, lighting up the night and giving a promise of normality in the otherwise bleak and deserted capital. (AFP/File/Ali Yussef) November 19, 2007

An Iraqi woman weeps after her family members, suspected of insurgents activities, were detained by U.S. soldiers during Operation Marne Courageous in the Iraqi town of al-Awsat, on Friday Nov. 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) November 17, 2007

A man works in a brick factory on the outskirts of Naja, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007. As the ongoing conflict in Iraq often disrupts the country's economy, most manual laborers work long hours and in extreme conditions for low wages. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) November 14, 2007

Iraqi students at the campus of Baghdad's Al-Mustansiriyah University, 05 November 2007. The Iraqi capital's universities started receiving students as the new academic year started few days ago. (AFP/Ali Yussef) November 12, 2007

Iraqi performers get a standing ovation after a play in Baghdad's al-Mutanabi Street November 8, 2007. On a street showing the scars of a suicide bombing, Baghdad theatre lovers emerged from the shadow of violence to gather around a makeshift stage on Thursday and revive the ancient city's long cultural heritage. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameenl) November 9, 2007

Released detainees sit in a U.S. army compound in Baghdad November 8, 2007. Approximately five hundred detainees were released from custody at a ceremony in U.S. military Camp Victory on Thursday after their cases have been reviewed. More than 22,000 Iraqis remain in U.S. custody. (REUTERS/ Marko Drobnjakovic/Pool) November 8, 2007

Demonstrators march outside a U.S. military base protesting raids by the Iraqi soldiers and demanding the release of residents arrested in al-Jamaa neighbourhood in western Baghdad, November 4, 2007. Banners read, " 3rd Battalion, 5th brigade can't provide the security" and "No for the corrupt security forces". ( ) November 4, 2007

Truck drivers have lunch by their truck while waiting to cross the Iraqi-Turkish border at the Ibrahim al-Khalil crossing, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007. Turkey said Wednesday that it had taken economic measures designed to weaken Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and groups that support it. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) November 2, 2007

An Iraqi professor gives lessons to medical students in the laboratory of the College of Medicine in Kerbala University,October 30, 2007. (REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammad) October 31, 2007

A newborn baby lies beside her mother in a hospital in Baghdad's Sadr City October 28, 2007. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem) October 29, 2007

An Iraqi policeman talks to a boy in Baghdad's Sunni district of al-Khadra October 25, 2007. Iraqi police brought members of the media on a tour in the Sunni neighbourhood of al-Khadra to show the security improvements in the area. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) October 26, 2007

Residents shop in a supermarket in the northern Iraqi city of Dahuk October 23, 2007. "Welcome to Dream City" says the sign at a funfair in Dahuk, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan. It's past 10 p.m. and parents stroll arm-in-arm in the cool evening air in this northern Iraqi city cradled by two steep mountain ridges, 60 km (40 miles) from the Turkish border. For people to the south in Iraq's capital Baghdad -- where people scurry home in the late afternoon to endure nights of crackling gunfire, thudding mortars, wailing sirens and the thunder of helicopters overhead -- such a scene is but a dream. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz) October 24, 2007

Iraqi army soldiers process ten fellow Iraqis suspected of being insurgents at a base in Baqouba on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007. More than 24,000 Iraqis are now being held in prison (AP Photo). October 20, 2007

An Iraqi girl waits with other women for humanitarian aid to be distributed by U.S and Iraqi army, for the poor people in Hillah on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007. (AP Photo/ Ahmed Alhussainey). October 19, 2007

A woman holds rice with her hands which was scattered near a destroyed house after Thursday's U.S. strike in the Lake Thar Thar area 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Baghdad October 13, 2007. The U.S. military said on Friday it was conducting a "thorough investigation" of an air strike (war crime) by U.S. attack helicopters north of Baghdad on Thursday night that killed six women and nine children. Picture taken October 13, 2007. REUTERS/Stringer). October 17, 2007

Iraqi Shiite leader Ammar Hakim (L), a leading figure of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, meets with Iraqi Sunni Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, the brother of slain leader Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha in Ramadi. Hakim held talks in Ramadi on Sunday with a powerful Sunni tribal sheikh, which observers said were highly symbolic for reconciliation in war-torn Iraq.(AFP/Ali Yussef). October 15, 2007

Iraqi children enjoy a visit to Baghdad's zoo as they celebrate Eid al-Fitr. War-weary Baghdadis determined to forget daily violence and economic hardships on the Eid al-Fitr holiday flocked for a day of picnicking and recreation at the zoo, despite its dearth of animals. (AFP/Ali Al-Saadi). October 14, 2007

A group of about 55 Iraqi detainees in a crowded tent await an Iraqi judge to sign their release papers from a U.S. military base in southern Baghdad October 10, 2007. The U.S. military has promised to release 50-60 prisoners every day in the holy Islamic month of Ramadan which is due to end this weekend. The U.S. has more than 25,000 iraqi citizens in custody. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz). October 11, 2007

An Iraqi woman holds her child as she stands behind a damaged outdoor after a joint Iraqi-U.S forces raid in Sadr city, the stronghold of the Mahdi army militias, Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Oct 8, 2007. Joint Iraqi-American forces supported by helicopters conducted a pre-dawn raid early Monday, killing 2 civilians and wounding 4 others, with 4 people arrested, police said. (AP Photo/Adil al-Khazali). October 08, 2007

An Iraqi woman reacts at the funeral of a relative at a cemetery in Najaf, Oct. 5, 2007. U.S. forces backed by attack aircraft killed at 25 Iraqis north of Baghdad Friday in an operation targeting a cell accused of smuggling weapons from Iran, according to the military. Residents said that the dead were all civilians. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani). October 06, 2007

An Iraqi orphan waits to receive a Eid present in the Yarmouk neighbourhood in western Baghdad October 5, 2007. (REUTERS/Khalid Mohamed/Pool). October 05, 2007

Iraqisdemonstrate next to a U.S. military vehicle in central Baghdad, calling for the Iraqi and U,S, governments to address their housing problem, on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007. Iraqis are unable to drive down their own streets due to the presence of such vehicles. .(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). October 02, 2007

Iraqi volunteers stand behind unidentified bodies wrapped in white sheets in Najaf, on Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. This Friday 56 bodies were buried, most of them collected in Baghdad's main morgue. Unidentified bodies are often buried in the Shiite holy city because religious authorities there volunteer to preside over the mass burials. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani). October 01, 2007

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A Kurdish woman sits amid her belongings after fleeing from the Turkish airstrikes, at a house of her relatives in Sankasar, about 100 miles north of the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya December 27, 2007.
(REUTERS/Sherko Raouf) December 31, 2007

Residents gather around a fire as they celebrate Christmas in a church in Hamdaniya town, east of Mosul, December 25, 2007. (REUTERS/Stringer) December 30, 2007

Residents have a drink at a cafe in Baghdad December 26, 2007. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen) December 29, 2007

Retired Iraqi civil servants demonstrate in central Baghdad, Iraq for an increase in their pensions on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. The men holds placards in Arabic that read ' You have given yourselves what you do not deserve but you have prevented us from our rights,' and ''no, no to the new law of retirement.'
(AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed) December 27, 2007

An Iraqi Christian celebrates during Christmas mass in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2007.
(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) December 25, 2007

An Iraqi boy recuperates in a hospital in central Baghdad, Iraq, after being injured in a car bomb attack on Monday, Dec. 24, 2007. A bomb hidden inside a mini van exploded near the Baghdad governor's office on Monday, killing two people and injuring six others. (AP Photo / Adil al-Kazali) December 24, 2007

Workers move a ladder past exhibits at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. The museum has been closed to the public since 2003 after it struggled to rebuild its collection since it was looted in the U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) December 19, 2007

Children receive food distributed to poor families in Baghdad's Kadhimiya district December 16, 2007 t celebrate Eid-e Qorban (Feast of Sacrifice). (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen) December 16, 2007

Iraqi children look on from a hill as a girl carries pots, at a farmers settlement near the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Tuesday Dec. 11, 2007.
(AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) December 13, 2007

The sun sets as an Iraqi farmer drives his water buffalos from the Euphrates river at a settlement near Najaf, Tuesday Dec. 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) December 12, 2007

A U.S. army soldier from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment interrogates women 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

An young boy looks on after getting injured in clashes between Iraqi policemen and insurgents in the town of Buhriz, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007.
(AP Photo) December 09, 2007

An injured man rests in a hospital in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007. The man was injured after a parked car bomb exploded in a commercial area in Karrada on Wednesday Dec. 5. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) December 06, 2007

Iraqi tailor Kader Nasser Sadek works at his workshop in Baghdad, November 2007. Sadek for the past 50 years has been energetically decorating the walls of his modest tailor's shop in the heart of Baghdad with snippets of his life and of Iraq's turbulent history. Now he's run out of space and energy. (AFP/File/Sabah Arar) December 04, 2007

A woman who was wounded in a bomb attack receives treatment in Baqouba, December 2, 2007. A police officer said one was killed while fourteen others were wounded in a suicide bomb attack near a police station on Sunday. (REUTERS/Stringer) December 02, 2007

An Iraqi soldier stops a man and children riding on a scooter at a checkpoint in Baghdad December 1, 2007. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) December 01, 2007

Iraqi refugees that have just returned from Syria wait for local transportation in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007. About 20 buses carrying hundreds of Iraqi refugees returned to Baghdad from Syria late Wednesday. National Security Minister Sherwan al-Waili, who met the convoy, said each returning family would receive $750 to get started rebuilding their lives. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) November 29, 2007

An Iraqi man surfing the web at an Internet cafe in Baghdad, November 2007. Websites are popular sources of information for Iraqis. (AFP/File/Ali Al-Saadi) November 26, 2007

An Iraqi family eats a meal inside their tent in a refugee camp in Najaf November 21, 2007. They will be thankful when occupation forces leave their country and they can return to their homes. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) November 23, 2007

Families step out of their homes as soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division's Troop A, 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment conduct a cordon and search in the village of Tal Adi Dabah, Iraq, Nov. 5, 2007. No Iraqi is safe from such searches of their homes or person. (Staff Sgt. Samuel Bendet) November 18, 2007

Former Shi'ite residents from a town of a small farming community near Balad Ruz stand outside their newly built mud-brick house in "Village 8" near the town of Nahrawan, on the outskirts of Baghdad, November 7, 2007. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said this week the number of internally displaced people now stands at 2.3 million -- almost double the 1.2 million displaced ahead of the Samarra bombing. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) November 16, 2007

Schoolgirls walk in the Muhalla 832 Mechanik neighbourhood in Baghdad November 12, 2007. (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters) November 13, 2007

A farmer lays out harvested corn cobs on the ground to sun dry in Albu Efan village southwest of Falluja, 30 miles west of Baghdad November 5, 2007. (REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal) November 11, 2007

Residents form a line with their containers to buy fuel for cooking in a petrol station in Baghdad November 10, 2007. The rising global price of oil has impacted Iraqis as well. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz) November 10, 2007

An Iraqi police officer uses his mobile phone as he takes picture of a colleague and U.S. soldiers in a U.S military camp southeast of Baghdad November 6, 2007. About 85 Iraqi policemen stayed for eight days in Camp Hammer and joined U.S. forces conducting patrols and raids in several places in the outskirts of Baghdad. Photo taken November 6, 2007. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) November 7, 2007

Students attend a class at a school for children with special needs in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) November 6, 2007

An Iraqi army soldier searches a truck filled with vegetables on a vehicle checkpoint in Dahuk, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007. The Iraqi government promised to increase the number of checkpoints in northern Iraq in order to prevent supplies from reaching the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) November 5, 2007

People shop at the Shorja market in east Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007. The number of clandestine attacks on civilians has dropped dramatically in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) November 3, 2007

raqi teenagers hold their rifles as they man a checkpoint in the Sunni neighbourhood of al-Shejiriya in the outskirts of Baghdad October 31, 2007. Residents in the area said they are giving their full support to U.S. and Iraqi soldiers, and are helping fight al Qaeda insurgents in the area. (REUTERS/Jaafer Kut) November 1, 2007

A Brazilian Arara Azul bird (R), a long-tailed parrot also know as macaw, and an African Grey Parrot (C) are displayed for sale at the al-Ghazl market in Baghdad, 19 October 2007. Exotic animals coming from all over the world, including birds from South America and Africa are sold in al-Ghazl animal market in the centre of Baghdad. The price for the Brazilian long-tailed parrot is 2,000 US dollars and the African parrot 1,000 USD.(AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye) October 30, 2007

A man walks past human remains laid out in a morgue in Baqouba, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007. The remains of 17 unidentified bodies were found by the Iraqi army on the outskirts of Baqouba Saturday. (AP Photo) October 28, 2007

Iraqis ride on bumper cars in the northern Iraqi city of Dahuk, 40 miles from the Turkish border, October 26, 2007. For people to the south in Iraq's capital Baghdad -- where people scurry home in the late afternoon to endure nights of crackling gunfire, thudding mortars, wailing sirens and the thunder of helicopters overhead -- such a scene is but a dream. But as Turkey gears up for a potential attack on separatist PKK rebels hiding in Iraqi Kurdistan's mountains, fear is rising here that this region's stability too may crumble. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz) October 27, 2007

An Iraqi Shiite woman lights a candle at the Virgin Mary Church in Baghdad 21 October 2007. This woman's willingness to pray at this lonely Catholic outpost in a Shiite area of Baghdad, flies in the face of those who seek to keep Iraq divided along sectarian lines, pitting Shiite against Sunni, or majority against minority. (AFP/File/Ali Al-Saadi) October 25, 2007

An Iraqi woman and her infant walk though rubble in the Sadr City district in Baghdad, Iraq Monday, Oct. 22, 2007. Police said two people were injured in an apparent raid by U.S. troops backed by helicopters. (AP Photo/ Adil al-Kazali). October 23, 2007

Iraqi women, whose families have been displaced by sectarian violence or have had their husbands arrested, wait for relief payments in Baqouba, some 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2007. (AP Photo). October 22, 2007

Demonstrators chant anti-U.S. slogans during a protest rally in Baghdad's al-Hurriya district October 21, 2007. Several hundred people demonstrated on Sunday against the frequent raids and arrest of people by the U.S. military in Baghdad's al-Hurriya district. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani). October 21, 2007

Residents wait for a ride near a concrete wall in the predominantly Shi'ite neighbourhood of al-Washash in Baghdad October 14, 2007. Towering concrete barriers have mushroomed across Iraq's capital, put up by U.S. forces striving to cripple Sunni and Shi'ite militants. Critics argue the walls divide communities, stifle economic activity, imprison residents and only widen the sectarian rifts that remain at the root of Iraq's political gridlock. Picture taken October 14, 2007. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro). October 18, 2007

An Iraqi police recruit shows his eye during a retina scan in a U.S military supervised recruitment of policemen in Baghdad October 15, 2007. Iraqis daily face concrete walls, fingerprinting, home searches, retina scans and other security measures imposed by the U.S. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro). October 16, 2007

Iraqi Muslim worshippers attend an Eid al-Fitr prayer at Baghdad's al-Shawy Sunni mosque, 12 October 2007. (AFP/Ali Yussef). October 12, 2007

A sibling of Marou Awanis, one of two Christian women killed Tuesday in Baghdad by members of a private security firm, mourns during a funeral service outside the Armenian Orthodox Virgin Mary Church, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007. Weeping mourners called for justice Wednesday during a funeral Mass for two Armenian Christian women killed the day before at an intersection in Baghdad, the second shooting of civilians involving a heavily armed security firm linked to U.S. government-financed work in Iraq in less than a month. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). October 10, 2007

An Iraqi girl looks on at a refugee camp in Jitidat al-Shatt vilage, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Oct. 8, 2007. Aid was distributed to 50 displaced families from Khalis town, at Diyala province, who are staying in the camp, which is run by the Iraqi Red Crescent. (AP Photo/Wisam Sami). October 09, 2007

Medics hold banners during a protest in Baghdad's Sadr city October 7, 2007. Scores of medics of Sadrs' hospitals held a sit-in, asking the government to increase their salaries and protesting against U.S. assaults. Such protests are frequent, but receive little coverage by U.S. press. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem). October 07, 2007

Medics care for an Iraqi man in al-Kindi hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007 after he was injured in an explosion. Three bombs exploded in the Ur, Kamsara and Zafaraniyah neighborhoods of Baghdad Thursday killing at least 6 people and injuring 25, police said. (AP Photo/Ali Abed). October 04, 2007

Iraqi squatters demonstrate in central Baghdad, calling for the Iraqi and U.S. governments to address their housing problem, on Tuesday, Oct. 2 ,2007. Families living in houses belonging to former officials of the Saddam Hussein regime have been served eviction orders by the Iraqi government.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). October 02, 2007

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