Armed militants drive through the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, chanting pro-resistance slogans after battles with U.S. forces Thursday June 24, 2004. Militants launched coordinated attacks against police and government buildings across Iraq Thursday, less than a week before the handover of sovereignty. (AP Photo/Abdul-Kadr Saadi)
Iraqi police climb over the rubble of a destroyed police station in Ramadi, Iraq after a militant attack Thursday June 24, 2004. Militants launched coordinated attacks Thursday against police and government facilities across Sunni Muslim-dominated areas of central and northern Iraq, killing at least 23 people, including three U.S. soldiers, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Iraqi doctors care for a room of injured men at the Baqouba, Iraq, hospital after battles in the city between Iraqi armed militants and U.S. troops with Iraqi police Thursday June 24, 2004. Militants launched coordinated attacks against police and government buildings across Iraq Thursday, less than a week before the handover of sovereignty. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Iraqi police secure the scene after a car bomb explosions which targeted the local police force in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, June 24, 2004. Insurgents killed 75 people on Thursday in a wave of attacks across Iraq aimed at sabotaging the handover to Iraqi rule in six days' time. Guerrillas struck in Baquba, Falluja, Ramadi, Mosul and Baghdad, wounding more than 250 people in an intensification of a bloody campaign by Iraqi rebels and foreign militants. Three U.S. soldiers were killed. Photo by Namir Noor-Eldeen/Reuters
Iraqi police officers stand near a crater caused by a car bomb in front of a police station in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, June 24, 2004. A series of car bomb attacks on police stations in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday killed at least 40 people and wounded 60, Iraqi police said. (Namir Noor-Eldeen/Reuters)
U.S. Army military police Maj. Gary Link grasps the hangman's lever while showing the gallows used during Saddam's regime at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, June 24, 2004. (AP Photo/John Moore)
A video grab shows an Iraqi policemen at the scene of a car bomb explosion outside a police station in Mosul, June 24, 2004. Rebels bent on disrupting a handover to Iraqi rule bloodied five cities on Thursday with coordinated assaults on local security forces in which about 75 people, including three U.S. soldiers, were killed. The violence in Baquba, Falluja, Ramadi, Mosul and Baghdad intensified a sustained campaign by Iraqi insurgents and foreign militants to sabotage Iraq's formal transition from U.S.-led occupation to an interim government in six days' time. More than 200 people were wounded. REUTERS TV
An Iraqi youth carries a wounded boy away from the scene of a car bomb blast in the northern city of Mosul, June 24, 2004. A series of car bomb attacks on police stations killed at least 40 people and wounded 60, Iraqi police said. They said more bodies were still being brought in to hospitals. At least seven large explosions were reported in Mosul Thursday morning. (Namir Noor-Eldeen/Reuters)
The bodies of two policemen lie dead on the floor close to a police station in Baquba, 60 kms northeast of Baghdad. Sixty-six people were killed and 268 wounded in coordinated attacks by insurgents across central and northern Iraq, the Iraqi health ministry said in a provisional toll.(AFP/Ali Yussef)
Iraqis pull a burned body out of a destroyed car after one of four car bomb explosions, targeting police force in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, June 24, 2004. Rebels bent on disrupting a handover to Iraqi rule bloodied five cities on Thursday with coordinated assaults on local security forces in which about 75 people, including three U.S. soldiers, were killed. The violence in Baquba, Falluja, Ramadi, Mosul and Baghdad intensified a sustained campaign by Iraqi insurgents and foreign militants to sabotage Iraq's formal transition from U.S.-led occupation to an interim government in six days' time. More than 200 people were wounded. REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen
An Iraqi soldier collects body remains of one of his colleagues after an explosion in Baghdad, June 24, 2004. Rebels bent on disrupting a handover to Iraqi rule bloodied five cities on Thursday with coordinated assaults on local security forces in which about 75 people, including three U.S. soldiers, were killed. The violence in Baquba, Falluja, Ramadi, Mosul and Baghdad intensified a sustained campaign by Iraqi insurgents and foreign militants to sabotage Iraq's formal transition from U.S.-led occupation to an interim government in six days' time. More than 200 people were wounded. REUTERS/Ali Jasim
Iraqi insurgents take position during clashes in Baquba, 60 kms northeast of Baghdad. Insurgents, some believed linked with terror suspect Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, unleashed attacks on four cities across Iraq leaving more than 35 dead including three US soldiers in an apparently coordinated onslaught.(AFP/Ali Yussef)
U.S. Army soldiers lift a destroyed car after an explosion in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, June 24, 2004. A car loaded with explosives went off in Baghdad's district of al-Doura killing five Iraqi soldiers and wounding three others, witnesses said. Rebels launched coordinated assaults on Iraqi police that turned several mainly Sunni Muslim cities into battle zones on Thursday and at least 23 people were killed, including three U.S. soldiers. REUTERS/Ali Jasim
A Cobra helicopter gunship (L) and UH-1 Huey search for insurgents after a U.S. Marine patrol from the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Marine Division was attacked near Falluja June 24, 2004. Falluja was one of several Iraqi cities hit by what appeared to be coordinated attacks. Photo by Bob Strong/Reuters
Iraqi men fight a fire in a house after U.S. airstrikes in Fallujah, Iraq, during battles between U.S. forces and Iraqi militants Thursday June 24, 2004. Militants launched coordinated attacks against police and government buildings across Iraq Thursday, less than a week before the handover of sovereignty. (AP Photo/Abdul-Kadr Saadi)
Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi gives a speech during a ceremony marking the transition of authority for 11 ministries, in Baghdad, June 24, 2004. At rear is Interior Minister Falah al-Nakib (L). REUTERS/Awad Awad-Pool
Armed Iraqi insurgents chant pro-resistance slogans after clashing with U.S. forces in Falluja, June 24, 2004. Insurgents killed 75 people on Thursday in a wave of attacks across Iraq aimed at sabotaging the handover to Iraqi rule in six days' time. Guerrillas struck in in Baquba, Falluja, Ramadi, Mosul and Baghdad, wounding more than 250 people in an intensification of a bloody campaign by Iraqi rebels and foreign militants. Three U.S. soldiers were killed. REUTERS/Akram Saleh
