A Month in Sadr City

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - MAY 13: US Army soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th ID watch from a rooftop as US soldiers and engineers clear an area where 15-foot concrete barriers are to be placed dividing the southern sector, left of wall, from the militia infested northern neighborhoods of Sadr City May 13, 2008 in Baghdad, Iraq. The building on fire received several M-1 tank rounds after Shiite militiamen fired on the convoy of vehicles. Numerous firing incidents occurred on the 2nd day after a cease fire was declared by Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr's militia and Iraqi Army forces inside Sadr City. American forces are in a supporting role for the upcoming Iraqi Army operation to disarm the militias north of the frontline. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)