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 | A British soldier takes aim during clashes with Shiite militiamen in the southern Iraqi city of Basra May 11th 2004. Amnesty International accused British troops of killing Iraqi civilians who posed no immediate threat. click to open  |  | British soldiers guard a burning oil pipeline near Basra, southern Iraq, Monday, May 10, 2004. The sabotage attack on this southern pipeline has hindered oil exports from Iraq's vital Basra terminal. click to open |  | Iraqi Sheikh Abdul Satar Al-Bahadli, an aid to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, holds aloft pictures of allegedly abused Iraqi prisoners and urges Iraqi people to participate in the jihad during Friday prayers in Basra, southern Iraq, Friday, May 14, 2004. click to open |  | Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Abdul-Satar Al-Bahadli holds up a rifle while addressing worshipers during Friday prayers in Basra, May 14, 2004. U.S. forces intensified their war against Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday, sending tanks into Najaf's vast cemetery to blast guerrilla positions among its ancient tombs for the first time. click to open |  | A U.S. Army soldier approaches a burning U.S. Army military truck after a convoy came under attack in the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, on the highway leading to Fallujah, Saturday, May 1, 2004. click to open |  | A series of car bombs ripped through police stations and an academy during rush hour the morning of April 21st 2004, killing at least 60 people, including schoolchildren, and wounding scores in the bloodiest attacks to hit this mainly Shiite city since the U.S.-led occupation began a year ago. click to open |  | Iraqis run for cover at the scene of one of three near-simultaneous explosions which hit Basra in southern Iraq on Wednesday April 21st 2004. At least 68 people were killed in a string of car bomb attacks against police in Iraq blamed on the Al-Qaeda network, while deadly battles raged in the Sunni Muslim hotspot of Fallujah. click to open |  | Bian Zhiqiang, 2nd from right in front, and Wang Shuangxin, half seen at left, two members of the team responsible for the re-establishment of the Chinese Embassy in Baghdad, and Sheikh Abdul Salam al-Kubaisi, center, head of the Public Relations Department of the Association of Islamic Clerics, pose with the seven released Chinese nationals at a mosque in Baghdad, Iraq Monday, April 12, 2004. Gunmen released seven Chinese men in central Iraq Monday, a day after seizing them amid a wave of abductions of foreigners, the Chinese government said. click to open |  | Three of the seven released Chinese nationals Li Guiwu, Xue Yougui and Chen Xiaojin, from left to right, sit in a Chinese owned car at a mosque in Baghdad, Iraq Monday, April 12, 2004. Gunmen released seven Chinese men in central Iraq Monday, a day after seizing them amid a wave of abductions of foreigners, the Chinese government said. The men encountered a car accident before being kidnapped and two of them were injured during the accident. click to open |  | Two of the seven released Chinese nationals sat in a Chinese owned restaurant in Baghdad, Iraq Monday, April 12, 2004. Gunmen released seven Chinese men in central Iraq Monday, a day after seizing them amid a wave of abductions of foreigners, the Chinese government said. The men encountered a car accident before being kidnapped and two of them were injured during the accident. click to open |
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