Local residents push a crushed car past a Red Crescent ambulance wrecked in a US military airstrike behind a hospital May 3, 2008 in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq. US military targeted a building behind the hospital they claim was used as a command center for Moktada al Sadr's Madhi army militia during fighting with US and Iraqi Army forces.

A view behind Sadr City Hospital following a US airstrike in Sadr City, the Shiite stronghold of Moktada al Sadr in Baghdad, Iraq, May 3, 2008. Five people reportedly died with twenty-eight people wounded. US and Iraqi forces had been fighting with Shiite militiamen since late March, 2008 resulting in hundreds of dead civilians and fighters.

A 10 year old boy wounded in a US military air strike in the Jamila Market neighborhood May 3, 2008 is treated for shrapnel wounds by doctors in Sadr City Hospital, eastern Baghdad.

A 10 year old boy wounded in a US military airstrike in the Jamila Market neighborhood May 3, 2008 of Sadr City is treated for shrapnel wounds by doctors in Sadr City Hosptial. The boy had been scavenging scrap metal from a garbage dump when a missile landed nearby.

A delegation of 19 Sunni sheiks and elders from Fallujah and Anbar Province arrive at the Sadr City headquarters of the Shia leader Moktada al-Sadr's political party May 5, 2008 in Baghdad. The Sunni leaders from troubled Anbar Province came for informal talks with Shia leaders and to remind them of the need to solve their issues with the Iraqi government and American forces. Iraqi Army and US forces had been fighting with Shiite militiamen since late March, 2008.

Boys living along al Quds Street in Sadr City near a recently built 3 km concrete wall by the US military look over burned vehicles from heavy fighting between Madhi army militia loyal to Shia cleric Moktada al-Sadr and US and Iraqi Army soldiers in eastern Baghdad, May 9, 2008. Iraqi Army and US forces attempted to halt rockets and mortars fired from Sadr City neighborhoods into the International Zone in central Baghdad.

Men living in Sadr City near a concrete wall erected by American forces reconnect electrical and phone lines cut after heavy fighting between Madhi army militia loyal to Shia cleric Moktada al-Sadr and US and Iraqi Army forces May 9, 2008 in eastern Baghdad.

US Army officers with the Military Training Team unit advise a senior Iraqi National Police officer over a map as they discuss plans to set up street check points May 10, 2008 in Sadr City, the district of heavy fighting in eastern Baghdad.

Two US Army soldiers from the 4th ID and an Iraqi Army soldier use a laser range finder binoculars to calculate the location of an enemy sniper position across the concrete barrier wall during heavy fighting May 12, 2008 in Sadr City, Baghdad.

US and Iraqi Army soldiers watch from a window as a house is hit by a US Apache helicopter fired Hellfire missile where an enemy sniper had been firing north of the wall May 12, 2008 in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad.

US Army soldiers from the 4th ID run back to their vehicles through covering smoke after a US Apache helicopter launched Hellfire missile destroyed a militia sniper position north of the wall in Sadr City, Baghdad.

US Army soldiers from the 4th ID watch from a rooftop as soldiers and engineers clear an area where 15-foot concrete barriers are placed dividing the southern sector of Sadr City from the militia controlled neighborhood May 13, 2008 in eastern Baghdad.

US Army soldiers look through an Iraqi Army security tower at the fought over and partially destroyed Jamila Market across Al Quds Street May 17, 2008 in Sadr City. American forces were monitoring a recent cease fire agreement between the anti-US militia forces of Shia cleric Moktada al-Sadr and Iraqi government security forces.

Iraqi Army vehicles cross the barrier dividing Sadr City to take control of the 2.5 million Shia stronghold of cleric Moktada al-Sadr for the first time since 2003, May 20, 2008 in eastern Baghdad. Six Iraqi Army battalions and National Police units were used in the dawn military operation executed by Iraqi security forces.

Iraqi Army soldiers wait to cross the concrete barrier along Al Quds Street dividing Sadr City May 20, 2008 to take control of the Shia stronghold of cleric Moktada al-Sadr for the first time since 2003.

Iraqi Army soldiers line up before crossing the concrete barrier dividing Sadr City May 20, 2008 to take control of the Shia stronghold of cleric Moktada al-Sadr for the first time since 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq.

A US Army officer goes over map positions of Iraqi Army units inside Sadr City with other US military officers who mentor and advise Iraqi Army soldiers May 23, 2008 in Sadr City, Baghdad.

Iraqi pedestrians walk through an opening in the US built concrete barrier along Al Quds and Fallah Streets May 25, 2008 in Sadr City, the Shia stronghold of Moktada al-Sadr. For months, hundreds of rockets and mortars had been launched by Sadr's forces, the Madhi army, into the US controlled International Zone 5-7 kms away.

With US Army armored trucks in the background, an Iraqi woman walks north to cross the concrete barrier dividing Sadr City, the stronghold of Moktada al-Sadr after Iraqi Army forces took control of the neighborhoods May 21, 2008 in eastern Baghdad.