Iraqis burn images of U.S. President George W. Bush in Kufa, south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 26, 2008 as they demanded the release of Iraqi journalist Munthadar al-Zaidi who threw his shoes at President Bush during a press conference in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani). December 27, 2008

Residents take part in a Christmas festival in Abu Nawas park in Baghdad December 20, 2008. (REUTERS/Atef Hassan).

Iraqi citizens who have been prisoners sit during a release ceremony from U.S. military custody at Camp Cropper in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008. Some 100 men were released from U.S. custody on Saturday. Thousands more remain imprisoned. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban).

Iraqi policemen rush a child wounded in a bomb attack into a hospital in Kirkuk, December 11, 2008. A suicide bomber killed 46 people and wounded nearly 100 on Thursday in a crowded restaurant near Iraq's ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, shattering the calm during a major Muslim holiday, police said. (REUTERS/Akoo Rasheed). December 13, 2008.

Three-year-old Shams is held by her grandmother at their home in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Sham's young life changed on Nov, 23, 2006 when a car bomb exploded near her father's pickup as he was driving his family. The blast left Shams blind and killed her mother. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed). December 10, 2008.

A man and his son walk past a Shiite mosque where a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance, killing at least 12 people, in Musayyib, south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. The blast in Musayyib, south of Baghdad, occurred a day after Iraqi lawmakers approved a security pact with the United States that will allow U.S. forces to stay in Iraq for three more years. (AP Photo/Ahmed Alhussainey). November 28, 2008.

A boy pushes a cart through a flooded market after heavy rains in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad October 25, 2008. (REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish). October 26, 2008.

An Iraqi Christian carries humanitarian aid distributed by the Iraqi Red Crescent, at Saint George Church in Baghdad, Iraq , on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed). October 24, 2008.

A displaced Iraqi Christian woman sits in the courtyard of al-Saida monastery in Al-Qosh village, 28 miles north of Mosul October 18, 2008. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani). October 19, 2008.

Christian refugees just east of Mosul. October 18, 2008.

Mourners hold Iraqi national flags and a picture of slain Iraqi parliament member Saleh al-Ugaili during his funeral in Najaf, October 10, 2008. (Ali Abu Shish/Reuters) October 12, 2008.

An Iraqi man rushes a severely wounded girl to the Baqouba central hospital, northeast of Baghdad. Mourners shouted anti-US slogans, torched American and Israeli flags and called for a work stoppage in Baghdad's Shiite bastion as a slain lawmaker was laid to rest. (AFP) October 10, 2008.

Iraqi children celebrate Eid in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. Eid Al-Fitr, which celebrates the end of the holy month of Ramadan, is the most important date in the Muslim calendar. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) October 04, 2008.

Iraqi Christians pray during a mass in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008. Hundreds of Iraqi Christians have rallied in northern Iraq to protest a new provincial elections law they say denies them their rights.Parliament approved a law Wednesday that paves the way for the first provincial elections in four years. Lawmakers did not set a quota for Christians and other minorities citing a lack of census data to determine what the quotas should be. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) September 28, 2008.

U.S. soldiers stand guard near newly released detainees kissing the ground after their arrival in a joint U.S.-Iraqi military base in Baghdad's al-Doura district September 24, 2008. Thousands more Iraqis remain imprisoned. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) September 24, 2008.

raqi police display homemade explosives found during the arrest of suspected al-Qaida members in Kirkuk, on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. (AP Photo) September 20, 2008.

An Iraqi policeman points a gun at a man who is suspected of being an insurgent in a police station in Kirkuk, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. Iraqi police forces are increasingly using tactics learned from Americans. (AP Photo) September 16, 2008.

Demonstrators march during an anti-occupation rally after Friday prayers in Baghdad's Sadr City September 12, 2008. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem ) September 12, 2008.

An Iraqi boy and girl carry eggs away from the distribution of food aid to widows and orphans of violence in Karbala, Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini) September 8, 2008.

Four-year-old Muntazer Ahmed, who was wounded in a suicide bomb attack, is treated at a hospital in Dahuk, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. (AP Photo) September 7, 2008.

A Mesaharty man beats his drum to wake residents up to eat before morning prayers during the month of Ramadan in Baghdad's Sadr City September 4, 2008. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem) September 4, 2008.

An Iraqi police officer gives an evacuation order to squatters to leave a house in Baghdad's Amil District September 2, 2008. Iraqi forces began evacuating squatters illegally occupying homes of people who fled at the height of the sectarian conflict in Baghdad on Tuesday. (REUTERS/Ali Shati) September 3, 2008.

Residents shop at a mall in Arbil, 190 miles north of Baghdad August 27, 2008. (Azad Lashkari/Reuters) August 31, 2008.

An Iraqi man sits on the ground as U.S. soldiers from the Fourth Brigade Tenth Mountain Division patrol at Baghdad's Sadria market August 29, 2008. Many Iraqis are afraid to be around U.S. patrols. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 29, 2008.

A Kurdish local newspaper journalist interviews a resident in Arbil, August 25, 2008. About 60 Kurdish journalists were killed, threatened, attacked or brought to a court in the first half of 2008, the U.S. Committee to Protect Journalists reported recently. (REUTERS/Azad Lashkari) August 27, 2008.

An Iraqi girl who turned herself in with a suicide vest speaks with a police officer in Baquba in this handout footage from the Iraqi police taken August 24, 2008. (Iraqi Police/Handout/Reuters) August 26, 2008.

Hundreds of Iraqis march in a rally in Najaf August 21, 2008 to denounce the visit of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Iraq and military deal that would allow of American forces to remain in Iraq after the UN mandate expires in December.\ (AFP/Qassem Zein) August 22, 2008.

The wife and children cry out as the father of the family is detained as a suspect by U.S. and Iraqi forces, during a raid in west Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed) August 21, 2008

Shi'ite pilgrims ride on a truck as they return to Baghdad after attending a religious rite in Kerbala August 17, 2008. Hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims streamed home from Iraq's shrine city of Kerbala on Sunday at the end of an annual holy rite that passed without the factional violence that marred it last year. (REUTERS/Ali Shati) August 18, 2008

Shiite pilgrims celebrate a major at night in Karbala, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008. The Shabaniyah festival in Karbala climaxes this weekend and marks the birth of Mohammed al-Mahdi, the 12th Shiite imam who disappeared in the 9th century. (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini) August 17, 2008

A U.S. soldier from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment walks past Iraqis during a patrol in Baquba in Diyala province August 15, 2008.
REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 16, 2008

A boy, wounded during Thursday's bombing at Iskandariya, lies in a hospital in Hilla August 15, 2008. A suicide bomber killed at least 18 people and wounded 75 on Thursday when she detonated an explosive vest in Iskandariya, amid a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims heading towards a shrine in Kerbala, south of Baghdad, police said. (REUTERS/Stringer) August 15, 2008

Iraqi children fetch cooking and drinking water from a water hose in Baghdad's Sadr City August 14, 2008. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem) August 14, 2008

Iraq's Hussein Jebur, left behind, and Haidar Nozad, behind right, compete with USA's Eliot Hovey, front left, and Wes Piermarini in a cancellation final at the Beijing 2008 Olympics Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian) August 13, 2008

Iraqi army soldiers, accompanied by U.S. army soldiers from Fox Troop, Sabre Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, walk down a field as plumes of smoke rise from a burned irrigation canal in a deserted area on the outskirts of Balad Ruz, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008. Soldiers from Fox Troop burned thick growth inside irrigation canals as they were searching for weapons caches in the area. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) August 10, 2008

A woman cries during a meeting for families who were displaced by sectarian violence with the governor of Diyala Province in Baqouba, August 5, 2008. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani) August 8, 2008

A girl looks at a member of U.S. occupation forces tries to tie the strap of her school bag which was distributed by U.S. forces to pupils during the opening ceremony of a primary school after its renovation in Mahmudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad August 6, 2008. (REUTERS/Ibrahim Sultan) August 6, 2008

A policeman uses a metal detector to scan the coffin of a victim killed in a bomb attack in Baghdad during a funeral in Najaf, August 4, 2008. Scores of war victims arrive here each day. (REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish) August 4, 2008

Residents play dominos in a restaurant in Baqouba, August 2, 2008. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani) August 3, 2008

An Iraqi toddler fills a wash basin with water in a village near Muqdadiyah, on Friday, Aug. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) August 1, 2008

Blindfolded detainees stand in a hallway at a police station in Samarra, Sunday, July 27, 2008. As part of the "Surge" strategy a near record number of Iraqi citizens have been detained, often without evidence and almost always without warrant. (AP Photo/Hameed Rasheed) July 27, 2008

Iraqi children watch as U.S. soldiers from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment secure a meeting between local tribe leaders with Iraqi and U.S. security forces near Muqtadiyah in Diyala province July 25, 2008. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj). July 25, 2008

People drink tea and play dominos on a side street in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). July 23, 2008

Iraqi children clean a bucket with water from a polluted pond inside a camp for internally displaced persons on the outskirts of Najaf, Saturday, July 19, 2008. The International Organization for Migration says the displacement of people in Iraq has slowed to a trickle this year and that some of the country's 2.8 million uprooted have been encouraged to go home. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani). July 20, 2008

An Iraqi woman has her retina scanned in Iraq's volatile Diyala province on Friday, July 11, 2008. Iraqi citizens regularly have their scans and fingerprins taken by U.S. occupation forces as part of security measures. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo). July 19, 2008

A young girl with her mother in Kerbala, Sunday, July 13, 2008. (AP Photo/ Ahmed Alhussainey). July 18, 2008

Iraqi army soldiers patrol the streets of northwest Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, Monday, July 14, 2008. Iraqi officials stepped up pressure on the United States to agree to a specific timeline to withdraw American forces, a sign of the government's growing confidence as levels of violence in the country fall. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)). July 14, 2008

An Iraqi homeowner pleads with U.S. soldiers of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armour Division as they search his home in Baghdad's Sadr City in the wee hours of the morning, July 11, 2008. No Iraqi citizen is free in their homes on or their persons from warrantless searches by foreign occupation troops.
(REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) July 11, 2008

A woman shows pictures of her detained relatives who were not among the prisoners released in Baquba, July 9, 2008. About 24 detainees were released from Bucca detention facility and other Iraqi prisons in Baquba on Wednesday, police said. (REUTERS/Stringer). July 10, 2008

A woman waves a notepad to cool her baby, as a power shortage struck her home in Baghdad, Sunday, July 6, 2008. Don't try to convince Taha Yassin that Iraq's power shortages are finally easing: his children cry each night when the fans cut off and the house heats up. Iraq still has less electricity that it had before the invasion of 2003. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). July 09, 2008

Wounded Iraqi children are carried out of a police pick-up truck outside a hospital following a suicide bomb attack in the central Iraqi city of Baqouba, July 7, 2008. (AFP). July 07, 2008

An Iraqi detainee hugs his child as his family visits Camp Cropper, a U.S. military-run detention facility in western Baghdad July 3, 2008. Nearly 28,000 Iraqis are currently kept by U.S forces at two locations: Camp Cropper in Baghdad and Camp Bucca in southern Iraq. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj). July 05, 2008

A woman cries near her son who was wounded in a bomb attack in Baqouba, July 1, 2008. (REUTERS/Stringer). July 02, 2008

People queue for gasoline in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 1, 2008. Frustrated Iraqis trying to tank up their cars faced miles-long gas lines on Tuesday, a stark reminder that a country with one of the world's largest oil reserves still has major challenges delivering fuel. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed). July 01, 2008

Iraqi military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, right, looks on as students take an exam at a school in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 28, 2008. Al-Moussawi paid a visit to several educational facilities across Baghdad Saturday, June 26, 2008. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim). June 28, 2008

An Iraqi baby lies in a cradle while a woman argues with U.S. soldiers of 1/8 Bravo Company as they forcibly search her home during a foot patrol in a neighbourhood of Mosul June 26, 2008.
REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz). June 27, 2008

A young girl rests at Kazimiyah hospital, after being wounded in a car bombing in Baghdad, Wednesday, June 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). June 25, 2008

A woman fills a water plastic bucket in a refugee camp 12 miles south of Najaf, on Sunday, June 22 , 2008. A biannual regional survey by the International Organization for Migration paints a bleak picture of Iraq's estimated 2.8 million internally displaced people. They often face eviction threats and insufficient access to food, clean water and health care despite recent "security" gains, the report said. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani). June 24, 2008

Iraqi men and a boy play soccer in Jamilah market in the Shiite enclave of Sadr city, Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, June 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) June 20, 2008

Former Abu Ghraib detainee Ali Shallal al-Qaisi points to his infamous photo taken during his 6 month detention in Abu Ghraib Prison, at his office in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, June 18, 2008. Al-Qaisi accused his American captors of 'traumatizing and humiliating' him and hundreds of other Iraqi prisoners. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud) June 18, 2008

An Iraqi family wait outside in their garden aswhile U.S. soldiers, from 1/8 Infantry Battalion, search their home in Mosul, June 12, 2008. No Iraqi is safe from warrantless searches and detentions by occupation troops. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) June 16, 2008

Soccer fans take to the streets of Baghdad to celebrate Iraq's win in the the Asia 2010 World Cup qualifying match between Iraq and China in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 14, 2008. Iraq ousted China from World Cup qualifying with a 2-1 victory Saturday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) June 15, 2008

A U.S. soldier makes a retina scan of an Iraqi man in the Shiite enclave of Sadr city, Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, June 9, 2008. About 270 Iraqi men from 18-35 years old, filled applications and made background checks as they were registered for 'Neighborhood guards'. Neighborhood guards are going to be used as guards in check points in Sadr city. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) June 10, 2008

rIraqi officials and activists speak at a conference held in the Kurdish city of Irbil to address problems facing women in northern Iraq, on Wednesday, June 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Kim Gamel) June 6, 2008

Workers are seen on scaffolding during construction works of a new mosque in Najaf, on Wednesday, June 4, 2008.(AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) June4, 2008

Iraqi soccer funs watch on TV the soccer qualifying world Cup match between Iraq and Australia,in a coffee shop, in Baghdad's Sadr City, on Sunday, June 1, 2008. Australia won 1-0. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) June 2, 2008

Iraqi soldiers search a shanty of nomads during a raid looking for weapons and explosives in a village near Najaf, May 29, 2008. (REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish) May 29, 2008

A liquor store owner waits for customers inside his shop in Baghdad May 24, 2008. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) May 27, 2008

Iraqi men line up at a US military base in Balad, Thursday, May 22, 2008. Approximately 180 Iraqi "insurgents" "voluntarily" turned themselves in. American officials said it was a significant step toward reconciliation in the area that has been one of the hardest to control in Iraq. (AP Photo/US Army) May 24, 2008

An Iraqi family undergoes a home search by soldiers from Bravo Company, 1-22 Infantry Battalion in Baghdad's Shula neighbourhood, May 18, 2008. The soldier pictured is holding one child of the family at gunpoint, a common tactic, to ensure that the rest of the family complies to the search. No Iraqi family is safe from warrantless invasions of their homes or person. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov) May 19, 2008

Ten-year-old Zamen Kadim, who was wounded in a mortar attack, lies in a hospital in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 18, 2008. Sadr City hospital officials said five children died and many more were wounded when at least three mortars landed in Maamil area, near Sadr City. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) May 18, 2008

A woman comforts her son Ahmed Ibrahim at a hospital in Fallujah, on Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Ahmed was wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a funeral tent in the village of Abu Minasir and killed 25 people and wounded at least 40 people. (AP Photo) May 15, 2008

Family members stand by seven-year-old Noor Mohammed after she was wounded in clashes in Sadr City in Baghdad, Tuesday May, 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) May 14, 2008

Residents react as a U.S. Army soldier from the 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division runs past their house during a patrol in Sadr City, Baghdad, Monday, May 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) May 13, 2008

Iraqi boy cleans up his home in southern Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 11, 2008. US troops fired at the house with a shoulder rocket launcher during an apparent search mission in the area. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) May 12, 2008

A paramedic closes the eyes of twelve year old Sattar Jumma, who died on arrival to hospital after he was fatally wounded a U.S. airstrike, in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) May 9, 2008

Zainab Tarish collects laundry just outside Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 6, 2008. She is part of the many familiies who have had to flee their homes and become refugees in their own country because of the ongoing occupation and war. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) May 8, 2008

An elderly Iraqi woman reacts as U.S. soldiers from First Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment and Iraqi policemen search a house during a 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

Jassim Ugla tends his son Sa'ad after he was wounded in an air strike in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 6, 2008. At least four civilians were killed overnight in Sadr City, hospital officials said Tuesday. Some 21 people were injured at the same time in Sadr City, which has seen fierce fighting between the Mahdi Army militia and U.S. and Iraqi troops. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) May 6, 2008

Two-year-old Ali Hussein is pulled from the rubble of his family's home in Sadr City, Baghdad on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. The child, who later died at the hospital, was in one of four homes destroyed by U.S. missiles. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) May 4, 2008

Residents look at a crater at the al-Sadr hospital compound in Baghdad's Sadr City May 3, 2008, after a rocket attack. Two rockets landed near the al-Sadr hospital in Sadr City, wounding 20 people including women and children, and incinerating or damaging 11 ambulances, police and hospital sources said. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem) May 3, 2008

An young girl is treated for wounds in a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, May 1, 2008. The girl was injured when a parked car bomb aimed at a U.S. patrol Thursday in Baghdad killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 26, police said.
(AP Photo/Adil al-Khazali) May 1, 2008

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U.S. soldiers and Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a bomb attack in Falluja December 28, 2008. A car bomb exploded near a police patrol, killing two people, one of them a policeman, and wounding 5, near the eastern entrance to the city of Falluja. Despite six years of occupation, this city remains in conflict. (REUTERS/Muhanned Faisal). December 28, 2008

Baghdad residents walk by by Christmas decorations Wednesday. Dec. 24, 2008. Christmas, a national holiday in Iraq, is very popular in the capital. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). December 25, 2008

An Iraqi soldier walks in front of a billboard with an image of Jesus Christ during a Christmas festival in Abu Nawas park in Baghdad December 20, 2008.
REUTERS/Atef Hassan) December 20, 2008

An Iraqi girl looks on as the shadow of a U.S. Army soldier of Lightning Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, is seen on a wall which reads in Arabic 'for sale' during a routine U.S. army patrol in the Al Islah Al Serai neighborhood, northwestern Mosul, on Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris). December 6, 2008.

An Iraqi girl looks on as the shadow of a U.S. Army soldier of Lightning Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, is seen on a wall which reads in Arabic 'for sale' during a routine U.S. army patrol in the Al Islah Al Serai neighborhood, northwestern Mosul, on Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris). December 1, 2008.

Iranian Marine pallbearers carry the remains of Iraqi soldiers during a ceremony at the Iraq-Iran Shalamcha Border Crossing, in southern Iraq November 30, 2008. Iraq returned to neighbouring Iran the remains of 41 Iranian soldiers killed during the 1980's Iraq-Iran war in exchange for the remains of Iraqi soldiers on Sunday. (REUTERS/Atef Hassan). November 30, 2008.

Iraqi girls attend a class at a secondary school, in 17th Tammooz neighborhood, northwestern Mosul, n Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris). November 20, 2008.

TAn Iraqi young boy stands at the entrance of his house as the road is closed with razor wire in Hay al Tinek neighborhood, northwestern Mosul, on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. Many streets of Mosul are blocked with concrete walls and razor wires for better security. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris). November 12, 2008.

The parents of a boy grieve after claiming his body from a hospital morgue in Kirkuk, November 2, 2008. A roadside bomb killed three children and wounded a fourth in central Kirkuk. (REUTERS/Ako Rasheed ). November 02, 2008.

Shiite women chant slogans behind a banner which reads in Arabic 'security agreement', during a protest against a draft U.S.-Iraqi security agreement in Najaf, Nov. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani). November 01, 2008.

Khuder Tarak, 19, works on a mixture of concrete and lime as he prepares new ceiling decorations in a workshop in the Bab al-Sharji neighborhood, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on a daily salary of $12 US per day. (AFP/Ali al-Saadi) October 07, 2008.

Demonstrators display anti-U.S. military placards during a protest in Kufa, 75 miles south of Baghdad September 26, 2008. Placards read, "Iraq will not become a U.S. colony". (REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish) September 24, 2008.

Pupils stand in their school yard on the second day of school in Baghdad's Sadr City September 22, 2008. Children went back to school at the start of a new term on Sunday in an atmosphere of increased security in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem) September 221, 2008.

Iraqi girls line up at their school in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008. Iraqi children begun the new school year Sunday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) September 21, 2008.

A boy walks past a damaged car after two bomb attacks in eastern Baghdad's Zayouna district September 17, 2008. One police officer was killed while 11 persons were wounded in two bomb attacks close to each other in Zayouna district that targeted a police and Iraqi army patrol. (REUTERS/Saad Shalash) September 17, 2008.

Motorists drive on a road during a sandstorm in Baghdad September 14, 2008. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) September 14, 2008.

A girl who was wounded in a bomb attack receives treatment in Dujail, 30 miles north of Baghdad September 12, 2008. A car bomb killed 30 people and wounded 47 others outside the police station in Dujail. (REUTERS/Stringer ) September 13, 2008.

An Iraqi newborn, who health officials suspect is infected with cholera, is seen at a hospital in Hashimiyah, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. Iraqi officials say the number of people killed by a cholera outbreak in Iraq has risen to two and that the waterborne disease has infected at least 90 people. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) September 10, 2008.

Vendors cut ice blocks for sale to residents in Baghdad's Sadr City September 4, 2008. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem) September 5, 2008.

Iraqi soldiers search a house during a raid in Amil district, southwest of Baghdad September 1, 2008. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) September 2, 2008.

Around 250 Iraqi refugees who had been living in Egypt return home free of charge on the Iraqi Prime Minister's plane, at the airport in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. The state-sponsored flights have been aimed at accelerating the return of Iraqis now that violence is down, though some who have returned said they were going back because they were broke after years of exile and were still afraid of the dangers in their homeland. An estimated 100,000 Iraqis remain in Egypt. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) September 1, 2008.

Iraqi boys watch up close as a U.S. soldier from the Fourth Brigade Tenth Mountain Division secures an area during a military patrol in central Baghdad August 29, 2008. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 30, 2008.

An Iraqi policeman pushes away a boy during a joint visit with U.S. soldiers from the First Infantry Division, First Brigade Combat Team at Baghdad's al-Dora market August 27, 2008. REUTERS/Andrea Comas) August 28, 2008.

An Iraqi Army soldier examines the lease documents of a woman in the Baiyaa neighborhood of west Baghdad, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed) August 25, 2008.

Relatives cry during the funeral of assassinated Iraqi official Kamil Shiaa in Baghdad August 24, 2008. Gunmen killed the culture ministry senior advisor in his car during a drive-by shooting in central Baghdad, police said. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani ) August 24, 2008.

Residents take part in a marathon in central Baghdad August 22, 2008. Hundreds of people participated in a marathon during the opening of new Jadriya Lake park in Baghdad on Friday. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen) August 23, 2008.

An Iraqi man looks at the damage to a bedroom following a pre-dawn, house-to-house raid by Iraqi special forces in the restive town of Baquoba. (AFP) August 20, 2008

A woman grieves during a funeral for a leader and members of U.S.-backed neighbourhood guards killed in a bomb attack in northern Baghdad's Adhamiya district August 18, 2008. (REUTERS/Omar Obeidi ) August 19, 2008

Iraqi girls walk past a U.S. soldier standing guard in Baghdad's Sadr City August 8, 2008. The district is being isolated by concrete walls, checkpoints and military patrols. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen) August 12, 2008

Iranian Kurdish refugee outside his tent at a refugee camp near Baghdad. Kurdish villagers have had to flee from the north due to US-sanctioned ethnic cleansing by Turkish and Iranian airstrikes. (AFP/File/Safin Hamed) August 11, 2008

An Iraqi soldier helps a wounded Iraqi soldier 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

Athletes from Iraq walk through the National Stadium during the opening ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta) August 9, 2008

Iraqi Olympic athletes Dana Abdulrazak, left, and Haider Jabreen stand for a photo inside the Olympic Village Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008 in Beijing. Abdulrazak, a sprinter, and Jabreen, who throws the discus, are the only two Iraqis representing their country in the Beijing Olympics. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) August 7, 2008

Prisoners wait for their hands to be unbound by Iraqi police officers so they can return to their families after being released from U.S. military custody in the Dora area of southern Baghdad, on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008. Seven prisoners were released from Camp Bucca on Wednesday. More than 26,000 Iraqi citizens are being held in U.S. prisons. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed) August 6, 2008

A woman holds her son as a member of the National Police walks past them during a search for weapons in Buhriz, August 4, 2008. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani) August 5, 2008

An Iraqi girl eyes a U.S. Army soldier from Hawk Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, as they raid her family's home during a patrol in a village near Muqdadiyah, aturday, Aug. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) August 2, 2008

Iraqi men are temporarily detained by U.S. Army soldiers as their identities are verified in Nahr al-Imam, 60 miles north of Baghdad on Wednesday, July 30, 2008. No iraqi citizen is safe from warrantless searches and detentions. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) July 30, 2008

Men detained by the Iraqi Army in Diyala Province on Tuesday, as part of a search for insurgents, were held in the town of Khan Bani Saad, south of Baquba on July 29, 2008. (NYTimes/CAMPBELL ROBERTSON) July 30, 2008

Kurdish demonstrators hold banners and wave Kurdish flags during a protest in Arbil, 190 miles north of Baghdad, July 29, 2008. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Arbil, condemning the passage of the provincial council elections law, which includes an article postponing Kirkuk's elections. (REUTERS/Azad Lashkari) July 29, 2008

A woman injured in a bomb attack gets treatment in a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Adil al-Khazali) July 28, 2008

An Iraqi woman, carrying a newborn infant, scurries from her home as a U.S. Army soldier from Ghostrider Company, Third Squadron, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment prepares to search the house during Operation Wolfpack Catseye near Qara Tappah, about 75 miles northeast of Baghdad on Monday, July 21, 2008. No Iraqi is safe from warrantless searches or arrests by occupation forces. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo). July 24, 2008

Boys jump into a pond to cool themselves on a hot day in the orchards of Abu Al-Khasib, south east of Basra July 22, 2008. (REUTERS/Atef Hassan). July 22, 2008

An Iraqi election official, holding an identity card, checks the registration status of a voter from a directory book at a polling center in Basra, on July 20, 2008 in preparation for the upcoming Iraqi provincial elections. (AFP/Getty). July 21, 2008

AIraqi men are led to a room for processing after a raid by U.S. troops and Iraqi police in a village in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles) north of Baghdad on Saturday, July 19, 2008. No Iraqi citizen is safe from warrantless searches, arrests and imprisonment. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo). July 19, 2008

Jobseekers sit on the side of a street as they wait to be employed in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Sunday, July 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim). July 17, 2008

Children play soccer on a street in Baghdad's Fadhil neighborhood, Iraq, Wednesday, July 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban). July 16, 2008

Iraqi soldiers attend their graduation ceremony at Rustamiyah Military Base in Baghdad July 14, 2008. About 786 soldiers from four military colleges graduated during the ceremony after finishing a year of training. (Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud/Reuters). July 15, 2008

An Iraqi boy runs as his father is dragged from his home 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 the occupation military. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) July 13, 2008

An Iraqi girl carries bread through the market in Kharnabat, 45 miles north of Baghdad in Iraq's Diyala province on Friday, July 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo). July 12, 2008

Iraqi residents look on as a U.S. soldier stands guard at the entrance of their house in Baghdad's Adhamiya district July 7, 2008. (REUTERS/Omar Obeibdi). July 08, 2008

Iraqi refugees living in an abandoned military camp make dough for bread in Baghdad July 6, 2008. Millions have been diplaced by the war and occupation. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud). July 06, 2008

STILL WAITING FOR "FREEDOM": An internally displaced Iraqi cools down her child as she sits in a hut made of tin cans in southern Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 4, 2008. Many of Iraq's estimated 2.8 million internally displaced people have insufficient access to food, clean water and health care as they wait for an end of the foreign military occupation. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed). July 04, 2008

A resident dives from a makeshift diving board to take a swim in the Tigris river in northern Baghdad's Adhamiya district June 28, 2008.
REUTERS/Omar Obeidi). June 30, 2008

Iraqi children stand at the entrance of their home as it is raided by U.S. soldiers of 1/8 Bravo Company during a foot patrol in a neighbourhood of Mosul June 26, 2008. No Iraqi is safe from such warrantless raids. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz). June 26, 2008

An Iraqi soldier mourns above the body of his father who was killed during a female suicide bomber attack in Baqouba on Sunday, June 22, 2008, near a government compound. (AP Photo). June 23, 2008

A selection of recovered Iraqi stolen antiquates are displayed for media in Amman, Jordan Sunday, June 22, 2008. Jordan is to hand over to Iraqi authorities 2,446 antiquities stolen during the chaos that followed the U.S.-led invasion five years ago. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud). June 22, 2008

Policemen hold Iraqi national flags as they march during their graduation ceremony in Camp Dublin in Baghdad June 21, 2008. More than 400 police recruits of the fourth Carabinieri training course graduated in Baghdad on Saturday. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen) June 21, 2008

A young boy tries to sell cold water to an Iraqi Army soldier carrying a rocket-propelled grenade during the beginning of combat operations in Amarah, 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, June 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) June 19, 2008

Iraqi men sit at a Baghdad bus stop under posters that read "Stop killing journalists" featuring the pictures of journalists killed in the line of duty. (AFP/Sabah Arar) June 17, 2008

Iraqis gather to protest the U.S.-Iraqi security pact in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 13, 2008. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says talks with the United States on a longterm security agreement have reached a 'dead end.' (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed) June 13, 2008

A U.S. soldier performs a retina scan on an Iraqi man in the Shiite enclave of Sadr city, Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, June 12, 2008.No Iraqi is safe from such violations of privacy and due process. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) June 12, 2008

A girl stands next to a plate with food inside of a house in Mosul June 10, 2008. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz ) June 11, 2008

Iraqi civilians wait in line to pass a check point at the wall that divides southern Sadr city from the north, in Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday , June 10, 2008. The 12-foot concrete barrier constructed by the U.S army is around 5 kilometers, 3 miles, long. Iraqi citizens are no longer able to freely travel within many of their own cities - their movements are restricted by occupation and Iraqi military forces. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) June 10, 2008

An Iraqi man argues with U.S. and Iraq soldiers after they arrived to his home during a battlefield circulation patrol in Mosul June 10, 2008. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz). June 10, 2008

A vendor pulls a cart loaded with carpets in Shorja market in central Baghdad June 8, 2008. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) June 9, 2008

An Iraqi girl stands in front of destroyed houses after a car bomb explosion, in the Ash Sha'b neighborhood of northern Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 4, 2008. A suicide truck bomber struck near the Baghdad home of an Iraqi police general, killing at least 18 people and wounding 75 others, the police said. Wednesday's suicide bombing was the deadliest such attack in Baghdad since early March. ((AP Photo/Karim Kadim) June4, 2008

Iraqi refugees protest in central Baghdad, calling for the Iraqi and U.S. governments to address their housing problem, on Tuesday June 3, 2008. Families squatting in houses belonging to former officials of the Saddam Hussein regime have been served eviction orders by the Iraqi government. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) June 3, 2008

A boy carries food at a restaurant in Sadr City ,on Saturday, May 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) May 31, 2008

Demonstrators shouts slogans inSadr City on Friday, May 30, 2008. Tens of thousands of Iraqis took to the streets Friday in Baghdad and other cities to protest plans for a long-term security agreement with the United States. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) May 30, 2008

Playes of Najaf soccer team warms up during a training session in Najaf, on Tuesday, May 27, 2008. Sports has been one of the few things unifying Iraqis in recent years but a bitter fight between the government and sports federations puts Iraq at risk of being banned from World Cup qualifying matches and even the summer Olympic Games in Beijing. (AP Photo/Alaa al Murjani) May 28, 2008

A Kurdish woman washes clothes in a refugee camp in Iraq's northern Arbil province May 25, 2008. The camp houses about 120 Kurdish families, who fled Iranian and Turkish attacks on their villages near Iraq's borders with Iran and Turkey. They now live in tents supplied by the U.N.. Picture taken May 25, 2008. (REUTERS/Azad Lashkari) May 26, 2008

An man sells protective face masks in a street of central Baghdad, during a sandstorm, on Sunday, May 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) May 25, 2008

Iraqi home is searched by US soldiers of 4th Infantry Division, 42nd Field Artillery, during a patrol at Sheik Marouf neighborhood, Karkh district , Baghdad, on Friday, May 23, 2008. No Iraqi familiy is safe from warrantless searches and invasions of their homes. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) May 23, 2008

An Iraqi family is forced to stand in the street ourside their home while U.S. soldiers from Bravo Company, 1-22 Infantry Battalion conduct a house-to-house search on the edge of Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, May 21, 2008. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov) May 22, 2008

Iraqi boys swim in bomb crater by a destroyed home in the Sadr City, Baghdad, Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Many Baghdad residents remain trapped in their home district, unable to move freely throughout the city. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) May 21, 2008

Detainees sit at an Iraqi army base in Mosul, Iraq, Monday, May 19, 2008. Some 1300 people have been detained since the start of the Iraqi army operations in Mosul last week. (AP Photo) May 20, 2008

Three-year-old Ali Hussein, who was wounded in a mortar attack, is cradled by his mother in a hospital in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 18, 2008. Sadr City hospital officials said five children died and many more were wounded when at least three mortars landed in Maamil area, near Sadr City. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) May 18, 2008

An Iraqi army soldier mans his position on the roof of an abandoned mosque at the check-point at the main road, leading to the Shiite dominated Baghdad's neighbourhood of Shulla, May 16, 2008. (Oleg Popov/Reuters) May 17, 2008

An Iraqi youth stands in the frame of a shattered window following overnight fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City earlier this week. (AFP/Wissam al-Okaili) May 10, 2008

Ali Hussein sits by his son Hussein at their home after they returned from the hospital in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 8, 2008. Hussein was wounded in an airstrike in his neighborhood earlier Thursday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) May 9, 2008

Kurdish women displaced by the conflict between Turkey and Kurdish rebels are seen at a refugee camp in the Qandil region, northern Iraq, Friday, May 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed) May 5, 2008

Shrapnel-injured Iraqi Nesreen, 12, grieves next to her uncle outside Baghdad's Sadr City hospital. Nesreen lost her father and brother in clashes between militiamen and security forces in Baghdad's Sadr City. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)) May 2, 2008

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