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Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari speaks at a news conference with Britain's Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett (unseen) in central London June 20, 2006. Iraq's southern province of Maysan will be the next area to be transferred to the control of Iraqi forces from foreign troops, Zebari said on Tuesday. (REUTERS/Shaun Curry/Pool)

U.S. Marines break a lock to search a building in Ramadi, July 15, 2005. U.S. forces hunting insurgents linked to al Qaeda in Iraq killed 15 gunmen in simultaneous raids north of Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S. military said in a statement. (REUTERS/USMC/Cpl. Tom Sloan/Handout)

U.S. Army troops walk to dinner in preparation for their mission, in Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 17, 2006. In an overnight operation, thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops blocked the southern portion of Iraq's most violent city to prevent insurgent infiltration. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

In this still from video footage released by the U.S. Army, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell speaks during a press conference in Baghdad Iraq, Saturday, June 17, 2006. The US military said troops searched Saturday for two soldiers that went missing after an attack that killed one of their comrades at a traffic checkpoint in the so-called 'Triangle of Death' just south of Baghdad. Caldwell said four raids were carried out since the Friday attack and that troops, helicopters and airplanes were taking part in the search. (AP Photo / US Army via APTN)

An Iraqi soldier mans a checkpoint to stop all vehicle traffic on a bridge in central Baghdad, Iraq Friday, June 16, 2006. Iraqi authorities have initiated a four-hour driving ban on Fridays, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., aimed at preventing violence during traditional Islamic prayers held every Friday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

U.S. President George W. Bush arrives for a news conference about his trip to Iraq in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, June 14, 2006. (REUTERS/Jim Young) (UNITED STATES)

Sat Jun 3, 1:20 PM ET - Oceanside furntiure store owner Vincent Quarcini, a retired Navy man, expresses his support for US Marines in Iraq, outside a bar in Oceanside, the town next to the US Marine base Camp Pendleton. Marines in Oceanside and townspeople alike largely express support for the US Marines who are alleged to have massacred twenty-four unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq last November. (AFP/Robyn Beck)

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Rep. Dennis Hastert, left, speaks to the media accompanied by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone in Iraq Friday, June 2, 2006. (AP Photo/Ceerwan Aziz, Pool)

Iraqi policeman checks identity papers at a security checkpoint in Basra, 550 km (341miles) south of Baghdad June 1, 2006. (REUTERS/Atef Hassan) (IRAQ)

Wed May 31, 1:57 PM ET - Iraqi soldiers salute Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during his visit to the southern city of Barsa. Maliki declared a month-long state of emergency in the southern city of Basra, the scene of inter-Shiite clashes, as the rest of Iraq stayed in the grip of a surge in violence. (AFP/Essam al-Sudani)

Tue May 30, 12:50 PM ET - US President George W. Bush (R) accepts the credentials of Iraq's ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaidaie, during a brief ceremony inside the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, DC. (AFP/Paul J. Richards)

Iraqi youths look at a US and an Iraqi soldiers patrolling a street in the Iraqi town of Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad on 25 May 2006. The largely Sunni town of 45,000 people, just north of Baghdad, is being held up by the US military as a model in its efforts to secure and rebuild Iraq. (AFP/US ARMY-HO/File/Sgt. Trevor Snyder)

British, U.S. and Iraqi forces, who were providing security for a visit by the U.S. Director of the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office Ambassador Daniel Speckhard, patrol in an Iraqi coastguard vessel in the waters off the Umm Qasr port in the southern town of Basra in Iraq Saturday, May, 27, 2006. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Fri May 26, 12:25 PM ET - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has made an impassioned call for countries to put their differences behind on Iraq and rally behind the new government in the war-ravaged country. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Iraqi Prime-Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, arrives at the headquarters of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, to meet with the Council's powerful leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, May 25, 2006. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) meets his Danish counterpart Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Baghdad May 24, 2006. Denmark has been part of the U.S.-led multi-national security force in Iraq since the end of the 2003 war. (REUTERS/Iraqi Prime Minister Office/Handout)

This image made from Jordan state television Tuesday, May, 23, 2006, shows a man identified as Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly. Jordanian security forces arrested al-Karbouly, a senior Al Qaida in Iraq operative thought to be behind kidnappings and killings of foreigners, after he was was lured to Jordan, where he was arrested by intelligence agents and special anti-terrorism squads, the government said in a special 30-minute program aired on Jordanian TV. (AP Photo/Jordan Television)

President Bush responds to a question after talking about the global war on terror to a crowd attending the National Restaurant Association annual trade show in Chicago, Monday, May 22, 2006. Bush fielded a wide range of questions from, will he see former Vice president Al Gore's movie, to the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Iraqi police stand guard along a highway as they provide security to motorists in Najaf, some 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad May 21, 2006. Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki vowed to use 'maximum force against terrorism' on Sunday. (REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish)

Iraqi soldiers stand guard at a traffic checkpoint as security is tightened in Baghdad May 20, 2006. (REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen)

TOWN HALL MEETING — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Marine Gen. Peter Pace (right) addresses questions from servicemembers and Defense Dept. civilians at the Pentagon during a town hall meeting, May 19, 2006. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Pace thanked the audience for their hard work, devotion and updated them on the continuing global war on terrorism. (Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen)

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein testifies after chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman read to him his charges during his trial in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Monday May 15, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. The chief judge formally charged Saddam Hussein on Monday with murder, torture of women and children and the illegal arrest of 399 people in a crackdown against Shiites in the 1980s, bringing the trial of the ousted Iraqi leader into a new phase. (AP Photo/ Marco Di Lauro, Pool)

A U.S. soldier from the 101st Airborne Division uses a saw to gain entry into a store in Siniya in Iraq, where a weapons cache is suspected of being located, in this photo taken May 5, 2006 and released May 14, 2006. (REUTERS/ Spc. Charles W. Gill/Handout)

U.S. President George W. Bush speaks during a meeting about the situation in Iraq with current and former U.S. secretaries of state and defense at the White House in Washington May 12, 2006. From left are Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

Fri May 12, 1:18 PM ET - An aerial view of date palm trees by the banks of the Euphrates in the heart of ancient Mesopotamia, near the site of Babylon in Iraq, Friday, May 12, 2006. U.S. forces are backing Iraqi efforts to revive the battered date palm industry, hoping one of the country's main income earners will once again create jobs and so also help defuse militant and sectarian violence. (AP Photo/Namir Noor-Eldeen, Pool)

Thu May 11, 12:23 PM ET - Iraqi police recruits demonstrate how to detain an "insurgent" during a graduation ceremony in Najaf. (AFP/Qassem Zein)

Iraqi members of Parliament speak to each other, after a Parliament session was briefly adjourned in the heavily fortified Green Zone area in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday May 10, 2006. The session was briefly adjourned following an argument between the Speaker Mahmud Mashhadani and a female Shiite parliamentarian Gufran al-Saidi. (AP Photo/Wathiq Khuzaie, pool)

Mon May 8, 5:02 AM ET - Iraqi Prime Minister designate Nuri al-Maliki (L) talks with President Jalal Talabani. Leaders of Iraq's various parliamentary blocs were set to meet Talabani to finalise the country's first full-term post-Saddam Hussein cabinet, a Shiite MP said (AFP/File/Sabah Arar)

Prime Minister-designate Nuri al-Maliki (L) talks to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani during a meeting in Baghdad's fortified 'Green Zone' May 6, 2006. Iraq's full-term government is expected to be formed in just days, one of Iraq's two vice-presidents said on Saturday after meeting with the country's top political leaders. (REUTERS/Faleh Kheibar)

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani (R) meets Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, new Chief of British Defense Staff, at the President's palace in Baghdad May 5, 2006. Sir Jock Stirrup travelled to Iraq to gauge the situation on British forces on the ground and met with President Talabani as a courtesy call. (REUTERS/Mohammed Hato/Pool)

Thu May 4, 11:57 AM ET - US Major General Rick Lynch, pictured here in April 2006 in Baghdad, said US forces are "zooming in" on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who may be in Baghdad or nearby, and the demise of the Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader is only a matter of time. (AFP/File/Karim Sahib)

Tue May 2, 11:46 AM ET - An old billboard in support of Iraqi elections hangs in the Al-Shorjah market, in Baghdad. The US military said its troops killed 10 alleged foreign "terrorists", as Iraq's dominant Shiites and formerly powerful Sunni Arabs neared agreement on the line-up of a long-delayed cabinet.(AFP/Sabah Arar)

U.S. Marine humvee drives through Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles), west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

Iraqi Sunni soldiers attend a graduation ceremony in Habaniyah, 50 miles (80 km) west of Baghdad, Iraq April 30, 2006. (REUTERS/Akram Saleh/Pool)

An Iraqi soldier mans a machine gun as senior Iraqi officers meet with Iraqi troops after two days of fighting Saturday April 29, 2006 at a camp near Baqouba 60 km (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Mohammed Adnan)

Spc. Allen Wilsin, 35, right, shakes a supporter's hand while Vietnam veteran Wayne Martin, 55, looks on, at left, during a welcome home ceremony for Georgia's 48th Infantry Brigade in Rochelle, Ga., Friday, April 28, 2006. About 1,500 people turned out to wave flags and cheer when brigade soldiers stopped in the town. The soldiers are returning from a year-long deployment in Iraq. (AP Photo/Elliott Minor)

U.S. Marine Cpl. Richard Forrest Risner, of Tomball, Texas, reads a map while on patrol in Karmah, 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

Iraqi police hold a suspect they say they found trying to retrieve a cache of rockets and other munitions Sunday April 23, 2006 outside Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Violence in the capital and other Iraqi cities continues as Prime Minister designate Jawad al-Maliki begins the difficult task of forming a new government. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

New Iraqi prime ministerial candidate Jawad al-Maliki, left appears at a news conference along with outgoing prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, right, Saturday, April 22, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's president formally designated Shiite politician Jawad al-Maliki to form a new government, as the country's parliament met Saturday to launch a political process aimed at healing wounds among ethnic and religious communities and pulling the nation out of insurgency and sectarian strife. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hato)

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani addresses a press conference Thursday April 20, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi political parties agreed to postpone their scheduled parliament session until Saturday as Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari cleared the way for Shiite leaders to withdraw his nomination for a second term Thursday, a step that could mark a breakthrough in the months-long effort to form a new government. (AP Photo Mohammed Hato)

Sgt. Joseph L. Massey (left), a 26-year-old scout squad leader from Shelbyville, Ky., and Lance Cpl. Nathan D. Wagner (right), a 22-year-old scout from Fruitland, Idaho, fill out detention processing forms during a cordon-and-search operation north of Fallujah on April 6. Both Marines, are with D Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. (1st Lt. Nathan Braden / U.S. Marine Corps)

TAL AFAR PATROL — U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Schloneger, assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, checks a map while on a combat patrol in Tal Afar, Iraq, April 10, 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon)

MOSUL PATROL — U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brad Sadoval, assigned to the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, plays with children during a neighborhood patrol in Mosul, Iraq, April. 10, 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. John M. Foster)

OPERATION HASTINGS — Iraqi Lance Cpl. Hamed Japer Jhieb and U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel J. Weber bag up over 8,000 rounds in one cache found during Operation Hastings. During the three-day operation U.S. Marines and Iraqi Army soldiers searched for weapons caches in the area surrounding Gharmah, Iraq, April 6, 2006. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. William Skelton)

A veiled Iraqi woman passes by pillars that once held statues, now torn down, of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, in Baghdad. Iraq has marked the third anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, with hundreds of Shiites expressing joy at the ouster of the former dictator while the former Sunni elite denounced the presence of US-led foreign troops in the country. (AFP/Karim Sahib)

GUARD DUTY — U.S. Army Spc. Joshua Lynn (right), a member of the U.S. Provincial Training Team, performs guard duty during the daily meeting at the Provincial Police Headquarters, Diwaniyah, Iraq, April 5, 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Juan Valdes)

Army Spc. Anthony Jorgensen, 24, of Philadelphia, mans the turret of a Humvee called Frankenstein’s Monster that has been modified with “Pope Glass” around the turret. Soldiers have welded the bulletproof glass, meant for Humvee front windshields, onto the turrets on dozens of Humvees in insurgent-infested Ramadi, Iraq. (Todd Pitman / AP Photo)

Iraqi businessmen check an armoured car at the Rebuild Iraq 2006 exhibition, where more than 420 international firms are exhibiting products and services to seek a foothold in the Iraqi market, in Amman April 3, 2006.(REUTERS/Ali Jarekji)

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad (L), British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw (2nd L), U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (2nd R) and Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari meet at the Prime Minister's office in Baghdad April 2, 2006. Rice and Straw paid a surprise visit to Baghdad on Sunday to discuss efforts to form a unity government. (REUTERS/Pool)

American soldiers take part in commemorations marking the ancient Babylonian New Year Saturday April 1, 2006, outside Mosul, Iraq about 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad. (AP Photo / Mohammed Ibrahim)