Iraq Kill and Maim 10Dec05

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10 December 2005

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Captions by Associated Press.

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** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** Iraqi policemen inspect the remains of passengers at the site of a suicide attack in a bus station in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005. A suicide bomber who jumped on the bus after security checks had been completed detonated an explosives belt among passengers heading to a Shiite city, killing up to 30 people and wounding nearly 40, officials said. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)
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Iraqi firefighters remove the remains of a passenger at the site of a suicide attack in a bus station in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt in a bus as it was about to depart for a Shiite city in the south, killing at least 12 people and wounding 27, police said. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. Top from left: Cpl. John M. Longoria, Pfc. Tyler R. Mackenzie, 2nd Lt. Donald R. McGlothlin, Sgt. William B. Meeuwsen, Sgt. Jeremy E. Murray, 2nd Lt. Mark J. Procopio, Pfc. Mario A. Reyes, Cpl. Jeffry A. Rogers, Lance Cpl. David A. Mendez Ruiz, Spc. Benjamin A. Smith, 1st Lt. Justin S. Smith, and Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Sutherland. (AP Photo/File)
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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. From left: Lance Cpl. Jeremy P. Tamburello, Capt. Jeffrey P. Toczylowski, Lance Cpl. Tyler J. Troyer, Spc. Gregory L. Tull, and Staff Sgt. Kyle B. Wehrly. (AP Photo/File)

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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. Top from left: Pvt. Christopher M. Alcozer, Master Sgt. Brett E. Angus, Staff Sgt. Aram J. Bass, Maj. Gerald M. Bloomfield II, Spc. Timothy D. Brown, Pfc. John W. Dearing, Staff Sgt. James E. Estep, Spc. Dennis J. Ferderer Jr., Cpl. Donald E. Fisher II, Sgt. 1st Class James F. Hayes, Spc. Dominic J. Hinton, and Staff Sgt. Edward Karolasz. (AP Photo/File)
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U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. From left: Pfc. Dustin A. Yancey, Master Sgt. Anthony R. C. Yost, 1st Lt. Dennis W. Zilinski, and Lance Cpl. Scott A. Zubowski. (AP Photo/File)

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Georgia National Guard Spc. Marcus Futrell, 20, is shown in this photo provided by his family. Futrell, 20, of Macon, and Staff Sgt. Philip L. Travis, 41, of Snellville, died Friday, Dec. 2, 2005 in a vehicle accident at Tallil Air Base in southern Iraq, military officials said Tuesday, Dec. 7. (AP Photo/Family Photo via the Macon Telegraph)
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** ADVANCE FOR FRIDAY, DEC. 16 ** Pennsylvania National Guard Sgt. Michael Sarro recuperates at home in Phoenixville, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005. Sarro's leg was crushed in a roadside bombing while serving in Iraq. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, DEC. 11 **Former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey poses in his home in Waynesville, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005. Massey, 34, was attached to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines weapons company during the Iraq war's first weeks in 2003. Since his honorable discharge, he has said he saw Marines in his unit committing atrocities in Iraq, deliberately gunning down unarmed Iraqis, including small children. (AP Photo/Alan Marler)
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** ADVANCE FOR THE WEEKEND, DEC. 10-11 ** Lynne Hull assists her 5-year-old son, Josh, as they make a paper chain with one link for each day she expects to be in Iraq as a member of the 419th Fighter Wing based at Hill Air Force Base, Nov. 24, 2005, at her home in Ogden, Utah. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Rick Egan)

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This undated photo provided by the family shows Spc. Chris Rolan, 22, who is charged with the Nov. 16, 2005, murder of Pvt. Dylan Paytas, as well as the attempted murder of Pvt. Mastermichael Ramsey. Capt. Bill Roberts, spokesman for Central Command in Iraq, said Rolan opened fire as the three argued at a base near Baqubah, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported in the Friday, Dec. 9, 2005 edition. Army officials haven't said if Ramsey was wounded. The three belonged to the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division out of Fort Benning, Ga. (AP Photo/family photo via the The Tribune) ** NO SALES **
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This undated photo provided by the Paytras family shows Dylan Paytas, of Freedom, Pa., who was killed on Nov. 16, 2005, in Baqubah, Iraq. An Army spokesman said Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005, that Spc. Chris Rolan was charged with murdering Paytras and trying to kill another following an argument. The Army said that Rolan used a military-issue 9 mm handgun to fatally shoot 20-year-old Paytas.(AP Photo/Paytas Family via KDKA-TV/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) **NO SALES, MAGS OUT**

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U.S. Marine Cpl. Jonathan Taylor of Staunton, Va., looks over a wall during a patrol in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
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U.S. Marine Cpl. Jonathan Taylor of Staunton, Va., looks over a wall during a patrol in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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At right, Sgt. Marcus Barnes, 22, of Birmingham, Ga., stands guard as a soldier from the 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment of 101st Airborne Division questions workers at a polling site for next week's elections in Sharqa, northern Iraq Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division have spent weeks on dusty village streets ahead of next week's Iraqi election but when polls open Thursday the 101st Airborne Division will maintain a distance of at least one mile (1.6 kilometers) from polls during voting. (AP Photo/Ryan Lenz)
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Capt. James Turner, 35, of Baton Rouge, La., a commander in the 33rd Cavalry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division left, talks with election officials ahead of next week's elections in Sharqa, northern Iraq Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division have spent weeks on dusty village streets ahead of next week's Iraqi election but when polls open Thursday the 101st Airborne Division will maintain a distance of at least one mile (1.6 kilometers) from polls during voting. (AP Photo/Ryan Lenz)

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U.S. Army Spc. Tim Stewart is thanked for his service by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, in his Basset Community Army Hospital room Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005. Stewart, a member of 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, is recovering from injuries he received Nov. 19 during an operation in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sam Harrel)
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Marine Sgt. Jack Durgala, left, speaks to Marine Lance Cpl. Johnny Burra Monday, Nov. 21, 2005, at the new Wounded Warrior Support Section, a renovated barracks for wounded Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Both Durgala and Burra were wounded while serving. Marines can live in the barracks while recuperating from wounds they sustained in Iraq or Afghanistan and count on comrades who know their problems and daily support for tasks. AP Photo/Randy Davey)

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Brian Smith, 19, from Monroe, Wash., offers donuts to Evergreen Troop Support demonstrators, Dexter Mason, left, and Kevin Moeller, Friday, Dec. 2, 2005, in Everett, Wash. Sometimes expletives fly between a group of anti-war protesters who gather downtown every Friday and counterdemonstrators who support the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Smith holds the middle ground, wielding a different kind of weapon: doughnuts. Smith stands on the median between the Evergreen Troop Support Group on the north side of Hewitt Avenue and Everett Peace Action on the south side. (AP Photo/The Herald, Elizabeth Armstrong)
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Jim McDonald walks from his house, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, after hanging up a Christmas message for peace near the home of the Loney family, who's son Jim was one of four Christian peace activists taken hostage in Iraq last month. Sunni Arab clerics pleaded Friday for the lives Christian peace activists; Norman Kember, 74, of London; Tom Fox, 54, of Clear Brook, Va.; and Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, on the eve of a deadline set by their kidnappers to kill them unless U.S. and Iraqi authorities release all prisoners. (AP Photo/CP, Nathan Denette)

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U.S. Marine Pfc. Willis Tomblin, of Jackson, Ohio, reads mail from home and then burns it to prevent insurgents from collecting personal information about him, at his base in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Sunni Arab clerics urge a big Sunni turnout in the Dec. 15 elections, today, saying that voting was a "religious duty" that could hasten the departure of American troops. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
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An Iraqi soldier uses a GPS, left, while on a patrol with U.S. Marines in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Sunni Arab clerics urge a big Sunni turnout in the Dec. 15 elections, Friday, saying that voting was a "religious duty" that could hasten the departure of American troops. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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A U.S. Marine plays catch with a football at his base in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. U.S. and Iraqi officials have predicted a surge in insurgent attacks ahead of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. U.S. officials hope a large turnout, especially among Sunni Arabs, will help deflate the insurgency and lead to a reduction of American forces next year. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
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Iraqi soldiers and U.S. Marines watch men digging while on patrol in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Sunni Arab clerics urge a big Sunni turnout in the Dec. 15 elections, today, saying that voting was a "religious duty" that could hasten the departure of American troops. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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A U.S. military vehicle burns after it was hit by a roadside bomb in Ramadi, Iraq Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. A road side bomb exploded at the city center, targeting an American patrol, Al-Ramadi police said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Qussai Amer the brother of two slain brothers Hamid and Walid Amer who were shot dead in their store in Buhriz market south of Baqouba, Iraq, by unidentified gunmen Friday, Dec. 9, 2005, according to police, reacts outside the hospital where his brothers bodies were taken. (AP Photo/Mohammed Adnan)

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An Iraqi army unit patrol secures a disturbed neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Clashes erupted between unidentified gunmen and an Iraqi army patrol that wounded one civilian and his daughter who passed by, police said. (AP Photo/Asaad Muhsin)
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An Iraqi soldier escorts two blindfolded detained suspected Iraqi insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Sporadic violence left two people dead in Baghdad on Friday, one day after a suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a packed bus bound for the southern Shiite city of Nasiriyah, killing 32 people and wounding 44. (AP Photo/Asaad Muhsin)

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Ed and Julie Schulz, siblings of U.S. security consultant Ronald Schulz who was kidnapped by an Iraqi insurgent group Tuesday, plead for Ronald's life Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005, during a news conference in Fargo, N.D. A statement signed by The Islamic Army in Iraq said Thursday in an Internet posting that it killed Schulz after the United States failed to respond to its demand of the release of Iraqi prisoners. The White House said it could not confirm the death. (AP Photo/The Forum, Michael Vosburg)
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Karzan Mohammed, 24, left mourns next to the body of his slain policeman brother Haval Mohammed outside the hospital in Kirkuk in northern Iraq Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005. Gunmen killed three police officers early Wednesday when they burst into a hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk and freed a wounded man who had been arrested for plotting to kill a judge in the Saddam Hussein trial, police said. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)

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In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, engineman 2nd Class Robert Looney, left, and Engineman 2nd Class Joe Pearson stand watch on the North end of Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT), in this June 13, 2004 photo, in Iraq. Despite President Bush's optimism on Iraq's reconstruction, Iraq appears set to pump less crude in 2005 than last year's disappointing showing and far less than under Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Wes Eplen)
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The guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) patrols near the Iraqi Al Basra Oil Terminal (ABOT) in the Northern Arabian Gulf, in this Sept. 28, 2004 photo. Despite President Bush's optimism on Iraq's reconstruction, Iraq appears set to pump less crude in 2005 than last year's disappointing showing and far less than under Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy,Samuel W. Shavers)

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** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** An Iraqi soldier inspects the body of his slain colleague at the hospital's morgue in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005. A road side bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol exploded causing the death of one soldier and injuring 4 others, a military intelligence officer said.(AP Photo/Haider Fatehi)
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U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Philip Schrock of Greenwood, Delaware pauses during a patrol in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005. U.S. President George W. Bush has linked an eventual U.S. troop withdrawal to the ability of Iraq's army and police to combat the insurgents. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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AP reporter Anne Gearan, on the job in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Sue Pleming)
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U.S. Marines walk through a house after blowing the door off during a patrol in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005. U.S. President George W. Bush has linked an eventual U.S. troop withdrawal to the ability of Iraq's army and police to combat the insurgents. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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** ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, DEC. 17 ** Capt. Tamara Montgomery is photographed, Friday, Dec. 2, 2005, in Lansdale, Pa. Montgomery, while serving in Iraq, was shot in the leg and shrapnel severed the brachial artery in her arm. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, DEC. 11 ** Lt. Col. Philip Logan is shown in his home in DuPont, Wash. Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005. Logan was wounded while serving in Iraq when a bomb exploded, blowing out his right ear drum and shattering his right arm. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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** ADVANCE FOR TUESDAY, DEC. 13 ** Joey Mushinski is photographed at work at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Tobyhanna, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005. Mushinski, who was hit in the back with a mortar round while serving in Iraq, is walking again after being told he probably wouldn't be able to. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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** ADVANCE FOR THURSDAY, DEC. 15 ** Bob Knowles is photographed at his home in Pottstown, Pa., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005. While serving in Iraq, Knowles suffered a shrapnel wound when a tank he was riding in was ambushed. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, DEC. 12 ** Lt. Col. Debra Harrison is photographed at her home in Trenton, N.J., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005. Harrison, who was ambushed twice during her 17-month deployment in Iraq, was wounded when a bullet hit a windshield and sprayed shards of glass into her face. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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** ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14 ** Army Spc. Tony Khouli is photographed in his home in Allentown, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005. Khouli, whose only visible scar is a mark on the left side of his face from an AK-47 round, survived three roadside bombings while serving in Iraq. But the pain has yet to go away, and he suffers from persistent headaches and short-term memory loss. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Captions by Associated Press.
EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT Iraqi policemen inspect the remains of passengers at the site of a suicide attack in a bus station in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005. A suicide bomber who jumped on the bus after security checks had been completed detonated an explosives belt among passengers heading to a Shiite city, killing up to 30 people and wounding nearly 40, officials said. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)	Iraqi firefighters remove the remains of a passenger at the site of a suicide attack in a bus station in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt in a bus as it was about to depart for a Shiite city in the south, killing at least 12 people and wounding 27, police said. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)
U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. Top from left: Cpl. John M. Longoria, Pfc. Tyler R. Mackenzie, 2nd Lt. Donald R. McGlothlin, Sgt. William B. Meeuwsen, Sgt. Jeremy E. Murray, 2nd Lt. Mark J. Procopio, Pfc. Mario A. Reyes, Cpl. Jeffry A. Rogers, Lance Cpl. David A. Mendez Ruiz, Spc. Benjamin A. Smith, 1st Lt. Justin S. Smith, and Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Sutherland. (AP Photo/File)	U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. From left: Lance Cpl. Jeremy P. Tamburello, Capt. Jeffrey P. Toczylowski, Lance Cpl. Tyler J. Troyer, Spc. Gregory L. Tull, and Staff Sgt. Kyle B. Wehrly. (AP Photo/File)
U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. Top from left: Pvt. Christopher M. Alcozer, Master Sgt. Brett E. Angus, Staff Sgt. Aram J. Bass, Maj. Gerald M. Bloomfield II, Spc. Timothy D. Brown, Pfc. John W. Dearing, Staff Sgt. James E. Estep, Spc. Dennis J. Ferderer Jr., Cpl. Donald E. Fisher II, Sgt. 1st Class James F. Hayes, Spc. Dominic J. Hinton, and Staff Sgt. Edward Karolasz. (AP Photo/File)	U.S. troops killed during the war in Iraq appear in this photo combo. From left: Pfc. Dustin A. Yancey, Master Sgt. Anthony R. C. Yost, 1st Lt. Dennis W. Zilinski, and Lance Cpl. Scott A. Zubowski. (AP Photo/File)
Georgia National Guard Spc. Marcus Futrell, 20, is shown in this photo provided by his family. Futrell, 20, of Macon, and Staff Sgt. Philip L. Travis, 41, of Snellville, died Friday, Dec. 2, 2005 in a vehicle accident at Tallil Air Base in southern Iraq, military officials said Tuesday, Dec. 7. (AP Photo/Family Photo via the Macon Telegraph)	ADVANCE FOR FRIDAY, DEC. 16 Pennsylvania National Guard Sgt. Michael Sarro recuperates at home in Phoenixville, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005. Sarro's leg was crushed in a roadside bombing while serving in Iraq. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, DEC. 11 Former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey poses in his home in Waynesville, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005. Massey, 34, was attached to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines weapons company during the Iraq war's first weeks in 2003. Since his honorable discharge, he has said he saw Marines in his unit committing atrocities in Iraq, deliberately gunning down unarmed Iraqis, including small children. (AP Photo/Alan Marler)	ADVANCE FOR THE WEEKEND, DEC. 10-11 Lynne Hull assists her 5-year-old son, Josh, as they make a paper chain with one link for each day she expects to be in Iraq as a member of the 419th Fighter Wing based at Hill Air Force Base, Nov. 24, 2005, at her home in Ogden, Utah. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Rick Egan)
This undated photo provided by the family shows Spc. Chris Rolan, 22, who is charged with the Nov. 16, 2005, murder of Pvt. Dylan Paytas, as well as the attempted murder of Pvt. Mastermichael Ramsey. Capt. Bill Roberts, spokesman for Central Command in Iraq, said Rolan opened fire as the three argued at a base near Baqubah, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported in the Friday, Dec. 9, 2005 edition. Army officials haven't said if Ramsey was wounded. The three belonged to the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division out of Fort Benning, Ga. (AP Photo/family photo via the The Tribune) NO SALES	This undated photo provided by the Paytras family shows Dylan Paytas, of Freedom, Pa., who was killed on Nov. 16, 2005, in Baqubah, Iraq. An Army spokesman said Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005, that Spc. Chris Rolan was charged with murdering Paytras and trying to kill another following an argument. The Army said that Rolan used a military-issue 9 mm handgun to fatally shoot 20-year-old Paytas.(AP Photo/Paytas Family via KDKA-TV/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) NO SALES, MAGS OUT
U.S. Marine Cpl. Jonathan Taylor of Staunton, Va., looks over a wall during a patrol in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)	U.S. Marine Cpl. Jonathan Taylor of Staunton, Va., looks over a wall during a patrol in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
At right, Sgt. Marcus Barnes, 22, of Birmingham, Ga., stands guard as a soldier from the 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment of 101st Airborne Division questions workers at a polling site for next week's elections in Sharqa, northern Iraq Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division have spent weeks on dusty village streets ahead of next week's Iraqi election but when polls open Thursday the 101st Airborne Division will maintain a distance of at least one mile (1.6 kilometers) from polls during voting. (AP Photo/Ryan Lenz)	Capt. James Turner, 35, of Baton Rouge, La., a commander in the 33rd Cavalry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division left, talks with election officials ahead of next week's elections in Sharqa, northern Iraq Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division have spent weeks on dusty village streets ahead of next week's Iraqi election but when polls open Thursday the 101st Airborne Division will maintain a distance of at least one mile (1.6 kilometers) from polls during voting. (AP Photo/Ryan Lenz)
U.S. Army Spc. Tim Stewart is thanked for his service by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, in his Basset Community Army Hospital room Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005. Stewart, a member of 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, is recovering from injuries he received Nov. 19 during an operation in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sam Harrel)	Marine Sgt. Jack Durgala, left, speaks to Marine Lance Cpl. Johnny Burra Monday, Nov. 21, 2005, at the new Wounded Warrior Support Section, a renovated barracks for wounded Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Both Durgala and Burra were wounded while serving. Marines can live in the barracks while recuperating from wounds they sustained in Iraq or Afghanistan and count on comrades who know their problems and daily support for tasks. AP Photo/Randy Davey)
Brian Smith, 19, from Monroe, Wash., offers donuts to Evergreen Troop Support demonstrators, Dexter Mason, left, and Kevin Moeller, Friday, Dec. 2, 2005, in Everett, Wash. Sometimes expletives fly between a group of anti-war protesters who gather downtown every Friday and counterdemonstrators who support the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Smith holds the middle ground, wielding a different kind of weapon: doughnuts. Smith stands on the median between the Evergreen Troop Support Group on the north side of Hewitt Avenue and Everett Peace Action on the south side. (AP Photo/The Herald, Elizabeth Armstrong)	Jim McDonald walks from his house, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, after hanging up a Christmas message for peace near the home of the Loney family, who's son Jim was one of four Christian peace activists taken hostage in Iraq last month. Sunni Arab clerics pleaded Friday for the lives Christian peace activists; Norman Kember, 74, of London; Tom Fox, 54, of Clear Brook, Va.; and Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, on the eve of a deadline set by their kidnappers to kill them unless U.S. and Iraqi authorities release all prisoners. (AP Photo/CP, Nathan Denette)
U.S. Marine Pfc. Willis Tomblin, of Jackson, Ohio, reads mail from home and then burns it to prevent insurgents from collecting personal information about him, at his base in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Sunni Arab clerics urge a big Sunni turnout in the Dec. 15 elections, today, saying that voting was a "religious duty" that could hasten the departure of American troops. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)	An Iraqi soldier uses a GPS, left, while on a patrol with U.S. Marines in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Sunni Arab clerics urge a big Sunni turnout in the Dec. 15 elections, Friday, saying that voting was a "religious duty" that could hasten the departure of American troops. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
A U.S. Marine plays catch with a football at his base in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. U.S. and Iraqi officials have predicted a surge in insurgent attacks ahead of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. U.S. officials hope a large turnout, especially among Sunni Arabs, will help deflate the insurgency and lead to a reduction of American forces next year. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)	Iraqi soldiers and U.S. Marines watch men digging while on patrol in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Sunni Arab clerics urge a big Sunni turnout in the Dec. 15 elections, today, saying that voting was a "religious duty" that could hasten the departure of American troops. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
A U.S. military vehicle burns after it was hit by a roadside bomb in Ramadi, Iraq Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. A road side bomb exploded at the city center, targeting an American patrol, Al-Ramadi police said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)	Qussai Amer the brother of two slain brothers Hamid and Walid Amer who were shot dead in their store in Buhriz market south of Baqouba, Iraq, by unidentified gunmen Friday, Dec. 9, 2005, according to police, reacts outside the hospital where his brothers bodies were taken. (AP Photo/Mohammed Adnan)
An Iraqi army unit patrol secures a disturbed neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Clashes erupted between unidentified gunmen and an Iraqi army patrol that wounded one civilian and his daughter who passed by, police said. (AP Photo/Asaad Muhsin)	An Iraqi soldier escorts two blindfolded detained suspected Iraqi insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Sporadic violence left two people dead in Baghdad on Friday, one day after a suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a packed bus bound for the southern Shiite city of Nasiriyah, killing 32 people and wounding 44. (AP Photo/Asaad Muhsin)
Ed and Julie Schulz, siblings of U.S. security consultant Ronald Schulz who was kidnapped by an Iraqi insurgent group Tuesday, plead for Ronald's life Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005, during a news conference in Fargo, N.D. A statement signed by The Islamic Army in Iraq said Thursday in an Internet posting that it killed Schulz after the United States failed to respond to its demand of the release of Iraqi prisoners. The White House said it could not confirm the death. (AP Photo/The Forum, Michael Vosburg)	Karzan Mohammed, 24, left mourns next to the body of his slain policeman brother Haval Mohammed outside the hospital in Kirkuk in northern Iraq Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005. Gunmen killed three police officers early Wednesday when they burst into a hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk and freed a wounded man who had been arrested for plotting to kill a judge in the Saddam Hussein trial, police said. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)
In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, engineman 2nd Class Robert Looney, left, and Engineman 2nd Class Joe Pearson stand watch on the North end of Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT), in this June 13, 2004 photo, in Iraq. Despite President Bush's optimism on Iraq's reconstruction, Iraq appears set to pump less crude in 2005 than last year's disappointing showing and far less than under Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Wes Eplen)	The guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) patrols near the Iraqi Al Basra Oil Terminal (ABOT) in the Northern Arabian Gulf, in this Sept. 28, 2004 photo. Despite President Bush's optimism on Iraq's reconstruction, Iraq appears set to pump less crude in 2005 than last year's disappointing showing and far less than under Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy,Samuel W. Shavers)
EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT An Iraqi soldier inspects the body of his slain colleague at the hospital's morgue in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005. A road side bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol exploded causing the death of one soldier and injuring 4 others, a military intelligence officer said.(AP Photo/Haider Fatehi)	U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Philip Schrock of Greenwood, Delaware pauses during a patrol in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005. U.S. President George W. Bush has linked an eventual U.S. troop withdrawal to the ability of Iraq's army and police to combat the insurgents. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
AP reporter Anne Gearan, on the job in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Sue Pleming)	U.S. Marines walk through a house after blowing the door off during a patrol in Karabilah, Iraq, seven miles from Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005. U.S. President George W. Bush has linked an eventual U.S. troop withdrawal to the ability of Iraq's army and police to combat the insurgents. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, DEC. 17 Capt. Tamara Montgomery is photographed, Friday, Dec. 2, 2005, in Lansdale, Pa. Montgomery, while serving in Iraq, was shot in the leg and shrapnel severed the brachial artery in her arm. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)	ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, DEC. 11 Lt. Col. Philip Logan is shown in his home in DuPont, Wash. Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005. Logan was wounded while serving in Iraq when a bomb exploded, blowing out his right ear drum and shattering his right arm. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
ADVANCE FOR TUESDAY, DEC. 13 Joey Mushinski is photographed at work at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Tobyhanna, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005. Mushinski, who was hit in the back with a mortar round while serving in Iraq, is walking again after being told he probably wouldn't be able to. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)	ADVANCE FOR THURSDAY, DEC. 15 Bob Knowles is photographed at his home in Pottstown, Pa., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005. While serving in Iraq, Knowles suffered a shrapnel wound when a tank he was riding in was ambushed. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, DEC. 12 Lt. Col. Debra Harrison is photographed at her home in Trenton, N.J., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005. Harrison, who was ambushed twice during her 17-month deployment in Iraq, was wounded when a bullet hit a windshield and sprayed shards of glass into her face. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)	ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14 Army Spc. Tony Khouli is photographed in his home in Allentown, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005. Khouli, whose only visible scar is a mark on the left side of his face from an AK-47 round, survived three roadside bombings while serving in Iraq. But the pain has yet to go away, and he suffers from persistent headaches and short-term memory loss. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)