US tanks roar along the street if front

KARBALA, IRAQ: US tanks roar along the street if front of the Imam Hussein holy shrine in the Iraqi southern city of Karbala, 16 May 2004. US tanks made a brief raid into the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Karbala, approaching the sacred shrines of Imam Abbas and Imam Hussein. Karbala was one of the largest cities seized early last month by radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's militia in a major insurgency which threatened to spark a wider uprising against coalition forces by the Shiite majority. AFP PHOTO/Karim SAHIB (Photo credit should read KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)