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1. Iranian
supplied
FN?
Iraqi militiamen from Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army display a captured
U.S. Humvee wheeled truck, which was taken during a morning gun battle and later
set alight, in the town of Kufa April 19, 2004. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz

2. An Iraqi militiaman from Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army gestures near a
burning U.S. Army Humvee wheeled truck, which was captured during a morning gun
battle and later set alight, in the town of Kufa April 19, 2004. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz

3. An Iraqi militiaman from Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army walks past a
burning U.S. Army Humvee wheeled truck, which was captured during a morning gun
battle and later set alight, in the town of Kufa April 19, 2004. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz

4. An Iraqi youth passes a U.S. M88 recovery tank parked near a burning Army transport
truck on a highway after an attack on the west side of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad April
19, 2004. REUTERS/Ali Jasim

5. An Iraqi militiaman holds a sniper rifle near the shrine of Imam Ali in the Holy city of
Najaf April 19, 2004. U.S. forces poised outside Najaf said on Monday they would allow
time for talks before any attempt to enter the holy Iraqi city to seize a rebel cleric -- a
move that could spark new unrest. Photo by Reuters

6. Iraqi children gather as a U.S. Army wheeled transport truck blazes on a highway
after an attack on the west side of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad April 19, 2004.
REUTERS/Thaer al-Sudani

7. A U.S. Army wheeled transport truck blazes on a highway after an attack on the
west side of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad April 19, 2004. REUTERS/Thaer al-Sudani

8. An Iraqi Civil Defense Corps officer, right, scans the buildings through binoculars as an
U.S. Soldier looks on in front of the entrance of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad
Monday, April 19, 2004. A mortar shell landed in a garden near the Swedish Embassy no
one was hurt, Iraqi police said. Police closed off the area on Andalus Square after the
attack. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

9. An Iraqi Sunni Muslim insurgent celebrate in front of a burning U.S. wheeled
tanker after it was attacked with rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). Ex-military
commandos armed with M4 rifles are fighting insurgents in Iraq (news - web sites)
as part of a private contracting force, many of them hired by the US-led coalition,
raising some deep concerns.(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)

10. A U.S. Army Soldier from the Task Force Olympia stands guard on top of a military
vehicle guarding Turkish oil trucks on the road to Mosul, northern Iraq (news -
web sites), Sunday, April 18, 2004. The U.S. Army provides security to the wheeled
truck convoys on their way to the Iraqi-Turkish border. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)

11. U.S. marines survey a destroyed bridge south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad April 18,
2004. Two bridges were blown up by insurgents, U.S. military sources said. The
climate of insecurity has prompted the U.S. military to indefinitely close highways
leading north, west and south of Baghdad in a new blow to reconstruction and
economic life. REUTERS/Akram Saleh

12. A U.S. marine (hands-in-pockets) surveys a destroyed bridge south of the Iraqi capital of
Baghdad April 18, 2004. Two bridges were blown up by insurgents, U.S. military
sources said. The climate of insecurity has prompted the U.S. military to indefinitely
close highways leading north, west and south of Baghdad in a new blow to
reconstruction and economic life. REUTERS/Akram Saleh

13. An elderly Iraqi woman passes a patrol of U.S. Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Regiment of
the 1st Infantry Division by a bridge over the Euphrates river near the holy city of Najaf on April
18, 2004. A U.S. newspaper said that 5 U.S. marines and dozens of Iraqis had been killed in a
14-hour battle close to the Syrian border. The U.S. military in Baghdad said it had no information
about fighting in the remote region of western Iraq (news - web sites). Photo by Laszlo
Balogh/Reuters

14. M113 Gavin
M2 Bradley
Pilgrims walk past U.S. Soldiers, a M113 Gavin light and a M2 Bradley medium
tracked tanks and wheeled Humvee trucks on their way to Najaf, Iraq (news -
web sites), Sunday April 18, 2004. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

15. U.S. Special Forces [Blackwater mercenaries?] flying on a Hughes 500 helicopter
patrol Baghdad. The U.S. Soldier held hostage by insurgents in Iraq (news -
web sites) received front-page coverage in U.S. newspapers and lead stories on
U.S. television and radio broadcasts.(AFP/Patrick Baz)

16. A member Moqtda al- Sadr's Army of
Mehdi militia displays a USMC M203
40mm Grenade Launcher attached to a
Colt M16A4 rifle captured during an
ambush on a U.S. convoy between Kufa
and Hilla. Doubts over U.S. plans to
transfer sovereignty to an interim
government in Iraq (news - web sites)
on June 30 mounted after the chief U.S.
administrator, Paul Bremer, warned that
U.S.-trained Iraqi forces were not on
target to ensure the country's security.
(AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

17. An Iraqi militiamen from Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army holds a U.S.
M16/M203 rifle/grenade launcher in the town of Kufa April 19, 2004. U.S. forces
poised outside Najaf said Monday they will allow time for talks before any attempt
to enter the holy Iraqi city to seize a rebel cleric, a move that could spark new
unrest. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish