Turmoil in Iraq

Capt. Jeff Scott of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion 24th Marines, examines a car that was driven by alleged insurgents who got away after being shot.  (Kuni Takahashi / Chicago Tribune)

Local women stand helplessly as marines of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion 24th Marines, search their house in Latifiyah, an insurgent stronghold 20 miles south of Baghdad.  (Kuni Takahashi / Chicago Tribune)

Local Iraqis were questioned by Marines at a road check point in Latifiyah.  (Kuni Takahashi / Chicago Tribune)

A local man holds his sons as they are reunited after being separated during a fight between marines and insurgents in Latifiyah.  (Kuni Takahashi / Chicago Tribune)

Iraqi citizens flee the scene after three explosions in Baghdad, Iraq. The explosions, near a U.S. military convoy which was passing the opening ceremony for a sewage station, killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 100 others according to Iraqi police.  (Wathiq Khuzaie / Getty Images)

A U.S. soldier carries an Iraqi girl away from the scene of suicide explosions in Baghdad, Iraq.  (Wathiq Khuzaie / Getty Images)

A video grab from Iraqi al-Nahreen Television station shows wounded U.S. soldiers at the site where two car bombs exploded near a pumping station in western Baghdad. At least 41 people were killed, most of them children, and scores wounded in the blasts that were targeting a U.S. convoy. Two bombs went off at about 1:00 pm (0900 GMT) close to the site of a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new water pumping station on the western side of the city, a U.S. military spokesman said. Almost simultaneously, another car bomb exploded near an Iraqi national guard checkpoint about one kilometer (half a mile) south of the site of water pumping station.  (Al-Nahreen TV / AFP)

Two wounded Iraqi boys are treated at the Yarmouk hospital in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Insurgents detonated three car bombs near a convoy of U.S. military vehicles in southern Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 140, many of them children.  (Ceerwan Aziz / AP)

A man carries his wounded brother to the hospital after two car bombs and a roadside bomb went off in succession in the al-Amel neighborhood of Baghdad. At least 37 were killed, most of them children, and 137 were wounded in the attack.  (Samir Mizban / AP)

Local residents survey the destruction after two car bombs and a roadside bomb went off in succession in the al-Amel neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.  (Khalid Mohammed / AP)

Iraqis stand by a crater caused by a car bomb in Tal Afar, north of Mosul on Thursday. The blast killed four people in the restive northern Iraqi town as a U.S. military convoy was passing by, wounding six American soldiers.  (Karam Hussein / EPA)

An Iraqi father mourns as he carry the body of his 8-year-old son along with his brother at al-Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad. The child is one of at least 41 people who were killed in three car bombs that exploded west of the war-torn capital.  (Jewel Samad / AFP)

Iraqi medics try to save the life of an Iraqi man at al-Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad after three car bombs exploded west of the war-torn capital targeting a U.S. convoy.  (Jewel Samad / AFP)

Iraqi firemen attempt to put out a blazing car. Three sepereate explosions near a U.S. military convoy which was passing the opening ceremony for a sewage station killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 100 others in southern Baghdad according to Iraqi police.  (Wathiq Khuzaie / Getty Images)

An Iraqi woman mourns the death of a relative outside the morgue of al-Yarmouk hospital.  (Jewel Samad / AFP)