15 January 2006

Captions by Associated Press
U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers take a sniper rifle away from the body of an insurgent killed in Mosul, Iraq Saturday, Feb. 19, 2005. U.S. and Iraqi troops had taken fire from his car, and Iraqi troops returned fire, causing multiple explosions due to a cache of rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons inside. Two other insurgents were wounded. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	U.S. Army surgeon Maj. Charlie Clark dresses the head of an American soldier after he reconstructing the soldier's entire face at the 31st Combat Support Hospital in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq in the early hours of Monday, Nov. 8, 2004. The soldier had been shot in the face by an insurgent sniper.The hospital, considered the busiest American combat trauma hospital in the world, is preparing for the possibility heavy casualties in this week's expected military offensive on Fallujah.(AP Photo/John Moore)
U.S. Army Spc. Dane O. Carver's casket is wheeled in the sanctuary at Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., at the beginning of his funeral Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006. Carver, of Freeport, Mich., was killed by a sniper in Iraq the day after Christmas. He was to be laid to rest at Forst Custer National Cemetery near Battle Creek following the funeral. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Lance Wynn)	In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Marine Corp Sgt. Andy A. Stevens, is shown. Stevens, 29, of Tomah, was killed in Fallujah, the Department of Defense said in a statement Saturday. The department said all 10 Marines were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, based in Twentynine Palms, Calif. Stevens, who joined the Marines in June 1995 and was serving as a scout sniper, deployed to Iraq with his unit in July, the Marine Corps said. (AP Photo/U.S.M.C.). 11/10/2005 15:55:07
This is undated file photo provided by The State newspaper shows Sgt. Andrew Joseph Derrick, of Columbia, S.C. who was killed in Iraq Sept. 23, 2005. Derrick, 25, was patrolling with Iraqi police when he was hit by a sniper bullet, according to his family. (AP Photo/The Columbia State)	**FILE** Paula Chapin, center, whose husband, Sgt. 1st Class Chris S. Chapin, 39, of Proctor, Vt., was killed last week by sniper fire in Iraq, cries as Vermont National Guard Maj. Gen. Martha Rainville, left, salutes after presenting Chapin the flag from her husband's casket during funeral services Friday, Sept. 2, 2005, in Rutland, Vt. Four Vermont National Guardsmen were killed in Iraq this year. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett). A SEPT. 2, 2005 FILE PHOTO
Family and friends mourn Army Cpl. Lucas Allen Frantz during graveside services Thursday afternoon, Oct. 27, 2005, at the VFW Park in Tonganoxie, Kan. Frantz, and member of Alaska's 172nd Stryker Brigade, died Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2005, his 22nd birthday, after being shot by a sniper while on a routine military patrol in Mosul, Iraq. Shown, from left, are Frantz's mother, Lorrrie Vandruff; stepfather, Tim Vandruff, both of Rossville, Kan.; and his widow, Kelly Frantz. (AP Photo/Richard Gwin, Lawrence Journal-World)	** ADVANCE FOR THURSDAY, DEC. 22 ** Mike Pattison, of Washington, Pa., is photographed between classes at Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, Pa., Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005. Pattison, a Pennsylvania National Guard cavalry scout, was wounded by a sniper's bullet on the right side of his face while serving in Iraq and is still recovering. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Walt Gaya reads "Oh Say, Can You Say?" to his children Corina, 4, right, and Julian, 2, at bedtime at their home in Olympia, Wash., Sept. 20, 2005. Gaya, an Army sniper who recently returned from a 10-month tour of duty in Iraq where he suffered an eye injury. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)	** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, OCT. 30 - FIFTH IN A SERIES OF FIVE PHOTOS BY WALT GAYA ** In this photograph taken by Army Sgt. Walt Gaya, a sniper who was wounded in Iraq and now hopes to become a photojournalist, U.S. Army Spc. Joseph Zavoznik, right, and Sgt. Scott Pullman, left, are shown keeping watch over the construction of a police station in Mozel, Iraq in April, 2005. (AP Photo/Courtesy Walt Gaya)
Vermont Army National Guard Spc. Scott P. McLaughlin of Hardwick is shown in an undated photo submitted by the National Guard. McLaughlin was killed in Iraq after a sniper's bullet pierced the seams of his body armor Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005, said Maj. Gen. Martha Rainville. McLaughlin , 29, is survived by his wife, Nicole, and two children, ages 6 and 1. His death Thursday was the second this week of a Vermont guardsman. (AP Photo/National Guard)	An American machine gunner on a combined patrol with Iraqi soldiers in Ramadi. "A patrol in Iraq is like walking the route of a beat cop in an American city, except for the minor additional danger of being shot by a sniper or blown up by a buried artillery shell," Rory Quinn writes. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Rory Quinn)
New York City Police Officer James McNaughton is shown in this undated photo provided by the NYPD, Wednesday Aug. 3, 2005. McNaughton, the first member of the police force to be killed in action in Iraq, was serving in the Army Reserve and was killed by a sniper while guarding prisoners at a camp in Iraq, New York City officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)	In this undated photo released by the Coullard family, Marine reservist Sgt. David Coullard, 32, from East Hartford, Conn., is shown. Coullard was among six Marines killed in Iraq on Monday, family members said Wednesday. Coullard was a member of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines based in Ohio. He and five others died northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, while on sniper duty on Monday. Fourteen other Marines from the same base were killed early Wednesday when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device. (AP Photo/Coullard Family)
This undated photo provided by family shows Pfc. Nils Thompson, of Confluence, Pa. Thompson, 19, was killed Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005, by a sniper in Mosul, Iraq, his family said. (AP Photo/Family via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)	This July 19, 2005 family photo shows Lance Cpl. Brian Montgomery of Willoughby, left, and Daniel Nathaniel "Nate" Deyarmin, Jr. of Tallmadge, in Iraq. The two Marine reservists based in Brook Park were killed Monday, Aug. 1, 2005, with four other members of their unit, while on sniper duty in Iraq. (AP Photo/Family Photo via Akron Beacon Journal)
This Aug. 4, 2002, portrait taken at completion of basic training shows U.S. Army Spc. John Wayne Miller with Co. A, 224th Engineer Batalion of the Iowa Army National Guard. Miller of West Burlington, Iowa, was killed in Ramadiyah, Iraq by sniper fire on April 11, 2005.(AP Photo)	In this undated photo provided by the Jaichner family, Thomas Jaichner, left, is shown in Iraq with an unidentified. person. Jaichner, a private security guard who grew up in Burlington County, has been killed by a sniper in Iraq. Jaichner, 33, was killed Tuesday, May 10, 2005, while on assignment guarding an American diplomat in Ramadi for Blackwater USA. Jaichner, who grew up in Bordentown, N.J., lived in California. (AP Photo/ Jaichner Family via The Times of Trenton, File)
U.S. Marine Sgt. David Coullard, right, of East Hartford, Conn., is shown with another unidentified Marine in a photo sent to his mother July 30, 2005, taken somewhere just outside Baghdad. Coullard was a member of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines based in Ohio. He and five others died northwest of Baghdad while on sniper duty on Monday, Aug. 1, 2005. (AP Photo/Coullard Family)	** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, MAY 8 ** A .50 caliber sniper rifle developed at Picatinny Arsenal in Rockaway Township, N.J., and being delivered to troops in the field, stands in front of one of the old headqauarters buildings at the base Wednesday, May 4, 2005. New Jersey officials hope the state's seven military installations will come out of the fifth base closing round this year with no injuries, but there's talk that two Army facilities, Fort Monmouth and Picatinny Arsenal, could be potential targets. (AP Photo/Warren Westura)
The flag draped casket of Spc. John Miller, a soldier with Company A, 224th Engineer Battalion of the Iowa Army National Guard, is brought into Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Iowa Wednesday, April 20, 2005. Miller, 21, from West Burlington, Iowa, was shot and killed by a sniper on April 12th near Ramidi, Iraq. He will be posthumously promoted to sergeant in a private ceremony. (AP Photo/The Hawk Eye, John Gaines)	Maj. Richard Lipe, of Searcy, Ark., an operations officer in charge of a six-man team from the Camp Robinson-based National Guard Marksmanship Training Unit, hugs his wife, Marlene, after he and his team returned to Little Rock, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005, from a tour of duty in Iraq. Lipe and his team provided sniper training to active duty soldiers on the ground in Iraq, including several members of Arkansas' 39th Brigade Combat Team. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)
U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers search for an insurgent sniper after taking fire on their patrol in Mosul, Iraq Friday, Feb. 4, 2005. There were no casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan) [Two long-barrel sniper rifles shown at left and right background.]	A horse-drawn funeral carriage transports the body Arkansas National Guard Spc. Lyle Rymer to the grave during burial services Monday, Feb. 7, 2005, at Fort Smith National Cemetery in Fort Smith, Ark. Rymer was killed by a sniper on Jan. 28 in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Steve Sisney)
Jeff Hubbard, left, and his wife Peggy, front left, and other family watch Friday, Nov. 5, 2004, in Clovis, Calif., outside of the Buchanan High School football stadium during a pre-game ceremony honoring their son Lance Cpl. Jared Hubbard, 22, and Cpl. Jeremiah Baro, 21, both former high school wrestlers who were killed Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004 in Iraq. Hubbard and Baro were on their second tour in Iraq. They returned home briefly over the summer, then trained together as snipers before returning to the battlefield. (AP Photo/Fresno Bee, Tomas Ovalle)	This undated family photo shows U.S. Army 1st Lt. Nainoa K. Hoe who was shot and killed by a sniper last weekend as he led a foot patrol through Mosul, according to his wife. (AP Photo/Family Photo via KGW-TV). 01/24/2005 15:51:35
This undated family photo shows U.S. Army Spc. Blain Matthew Ebert, 22, of Washtucna, Wash., who was slain by a sniper at a roadblock near Baghdad Nov. 21 2004. Ebert was a tank commander in the 4th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, based in Fort Hood, Texas. Weeks after arriving in Iraq in March, Ebert asked people in his home town to send clothes and shoes for Iraqi children and they responded with box after box of clothing, candy and other goods. (AP Photo/Family photo via the Tri City Herald)	A U.S. Marine sniper scans the surrounding neighborhood from inside a guard post in front of the Governorate for Al Anbar Province, in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 13, 2004. The Marines provide security for the building which is the seat of government for the province which stretches several hundred miles from the border with Syria in the west to beyond Fallujah in the east. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Spc. John Welch, left, lends his shoulder to a U.S. Army sniper, returning fire after taking insurgent sniper fire in Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004. On Friday, about 70 insurgents tried to ambush a U.S. patrol nearby, using roadside bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire. After regrouping, U.S. and Iraqi forces launched an assault, killing more than two dozen insurgents.(AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	This undated photo provided by the family shows Marine Cpl. Kirk Bosselmann, 21, a scout sniper who was killed Saturday, Nov. 27, 2004, in Iraq. The Pentagon released few details on his death, saying only that he died in ``hostile action'' in Iraq's Anbar province. (AP Photo/Family Photo via WTTG Fox 5)
A happy face smiles back from the scope of a U.S. Army sniper's rifle, during a mission searching for insurgents in Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 22, 2004. U.S. and Iraqi forces in Mosul have been working put down an uprising launched by guerrillas who seized police stations and other sites. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	Members of Charlie Company of the First Marine Division, 8th Regiment, tend to a comrade wounded by sniper fire as they tried to advance on the Janabi Mosque in Fallujah, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2004. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Luis Sinco)
U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Timothy LaSage of Milwaukee, WI, a sniper with the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment scans the horizon during a gun battle with insurgents in Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004. One Marine was killed and three others injured by a roadside bomb Sunday in Ramadi, and hospital officials said seven more people were killed and 11 injured in clashes between insurgents and U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	A U.S. Marine sniper from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, searches for targets from a rooftop position in Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004. One Marine was killed and three others injured by a roadside bomb Sunday in Ramadi, and hospital officials said seven more people were killed and 11 injured in clashes between insurgents and U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
U.S. Marine snipers from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment setup for a rooftop operation in Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004. One Marine was killed and three others injured by a roadside bomb Sunday in Ramadi, and hospital officials said seven more people were killed and 11 injured in clashes between insurgents and U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	U.S. Marine snipers from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment operate on a rooftop in Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004. One Marine was killed and three others injured by a roadside bomb Sunday in Ramadi, and hospital officials said seven more people were killed and 11 injured in clashes between insurgents and U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Joselito O. Villanueva, 36, of Los Angeles, in this undated photo, died Monday,Sept. 27, 2004, when he was shot by a sniper in Balad, Iraq. He was assigned to 9th Engineer Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times)	An Iraqi woman watches while a U.S. Army soldier searches her car at a highway checkpoint near Ramadi, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004. The car resembled one sought in connection with an insurgents sniper who recently killed two soldiers nearby. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
Army Sgt. Michael A. Uvanni, shown in this undated photo, was killed Friday, Oct. 1, 2004, in Samarra, Iraq. Uvanni, 27, was conducting combat operations and was shot by a sniper, according to the defense department. Uvanni was assigned to the Army National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry Regiment based in Morrisonville. (AP Photo/Rome Daily Sentinel)	Cpl. Nick Romero carries his teammate Cpl. Eugenio Mendoza during the beginning of the stress fire portion of the 4th Annual International Sniper Competition at Fort Benning, Ga., Friday, Nov. 5, 2004. During this event, the 20 two-man teams began with the buddy carry, ran through an obstacle course, and then had a series of long distance shots to make on the range. The two are from the 101st Airborne from Fort Campbell, Ky. The events are designed to simulate combat scenarios in Afghanistan and Iraq.``It's good stuff we never thought about,'' said Mendoza, 27, a sniper with the Army's 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. ``We're definitely going back and use what we've learned in these events.'' (AP Photo/Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Mike Haskey)
Aaron McAlister, from Maypearl Texas, left, and Chuck Ayars, from Nashville Tenn., right, both snipers with the U.S. Armys 1st Cavalry Division, 1st Brigade, 1-12 Cav. from Fort Hood Texas, take aim at a suspected enemy observer looking in at Camp Eagle from a neighborhood outside of Sadr City Iraq in Baghdad Monday Aug. 16, 2004. (AP Photo//David P. Gilkey, Pool)	** FILE ** Army Pfc. Adam Harris shown in this undated photo was killed Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004, after being shot by a sniper while on patrol in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to a release by the U.S. Department of Defense. Harris was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Wash. (AP Photo/Abilene Reporter-News)
Abdullah Ahmed is treated by a doctor as a hospital guard watches in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday Sept. 9, 2004. According to those who brought Ahmed to the hospital, he was shot by an U.S. sniper at Tal Afar, a northern city near the border with Syria. The U.S. military said 57 insurgents were killed there in an operation intended to return the city 30 miles west of Mosul to control of the interim Iraqi government. At least a dozen civilians were also killed in the attack, Iraq's Interior Ministry said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ibrahim)	An American soldier reacts to the sounds of blasts as a sniper takes his position overlooking an area where Al Mahdi soldiers loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr clash with U.S. and Iraqi forces in the besieged city of Najaf, Iraq Friday Aug. 20, 2004. Militiamen loyal to al-Sadr on Friday removed their weapons from the revered Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf as part of an effort to end 2-week-old uprising centered on the holy site. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
A U.S. Army soldier uses a dummy to draw a sniper into view in Najaf, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 20, 2004. Later on Friday, militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr removed their weapons from the revered Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf as part of an effort to end 2-week-old uprising centered on the holy site. This photograph is one in a portfolio of twenty taken by eleven different Associated Press photographers throughout 2004 in Iraq. The Associated Press won a Pulitzer prize in breaking news photography for the series of pictures of bloody combat in Iraq. The award was the AP's 48th Pulitzer. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	A U.S. Army sniper takes a position behind a wall in central Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2004, a few hundred yards from the Shrine of Imam Ali. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
An American soldier sits at a sniper position in an area where Mahdi soldiers loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr clash with U.S. and Iraqi forces in the besieged city of Najaf, Iraq Friday Aug. 20, 2004. Militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday removed their weapons from the revered Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf as part of an effort to end 2-week-old uprising centered on the holy site. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)	A U.S. Army sniper, no name given, lays low in a fortified position during an attack by numerous snipers in Najaf, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004. Sporadic, heavy fighting continues Thursday. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
A U.S. special operations sniper locks on a target near the cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004. Sporadic but heavy fighting continued Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)	U.S. Army soldiers raid buildings while under sniper fire in Najaf, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 20, 2004. Later on Friday, militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr removed their weapons from the revered Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf as part of an effort to end 2-week-old uprising centered on the holy site. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Leonard Cowherd of Culpeper, Va., shown in an undated photo, was fatally shot by an Iraqi sniper during a raid of a building holding insurgents Sunday, May 16, 2004, in Karbala. Cowherd was a platoon commander with the 1st Brigade 1st Armor Division. A 2003 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, Cowherd is the first Culpeper casualty of the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Family Photo via The Star-Exponent)	At her home in Portsmouth, Va., Wednesday, May 12, 2004, Rosemerry Tuazon talks about her son, Army Pfc. Andrew L. Tuazon, 21, who was killed by a sniper in Mosul, Iraq, Monday. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Stephen M. Katz)
Army Spc. Philip I. Spakosky, 25, of Pemberton Township, N.J., shown in this undated family photo was struck by a sniper's bullet May 13, 2004, during fighting in Karbala, the site of an uprising by a Shiite militia, and died the next day. He was a tank crewman in the 1st Armored Division. (AP Photo/Spakosky Family via Burlington County Times)	Marine Pfc. Robert Thompson, 19, of Helena, Mont., right, and Pfc. Ryan Topete, 20, of Sioux City, Iowa, look over a high powered sniper rifle that Marines found in the car of a man that was passing by their position in northwest Fallujah on Wednesday, April 14, 2004. The man was detained for questioning. (AP Photo/North County Times, Hayne Palmour IV)
Todd Van Leuven, left, is consoled following the funeral for his son Lance Cpl. Gary Frances Van Leuven, 20, of Klamath Falls, in Coos Bay, Ore., Wednesday, April 28, 2004. Leuven was shot a sniper in Iraq on April 17. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)	A US army sniper takes up position at a traffic check point near Najaf, Iraq, Friday April 16, 2004. Snipers are in great demand in Iraq as they are ideally able to isolate and knock out combatants without harming civilians among which insurgents operate or use as human shields. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
A man sits next to what he said was the blood of his brother who alleged was shot by a Marine sniper, while in the driveway where the family put the fatally wounded man in a car headed for the hospital during a battalion sized raid by the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment in a section of Fallujah, Iraq, on Friday, March 26, 2004. The man was reported to be on a rooftop staring at Marines during their operation while on a cell phone when he was shot by the sniper. (AP Photo/North County Times, HaynePalmour IV)	U.S. Marines from Weapons Company of the 1st Battalion 5th Regiment run to elude sniper fire in Fallujah, Iraq, Thursday, April 15, 2004. Marines have clashed with insurgents repeatedly during the last week of ceasefire in the city.(AP Photo/John Moore)
A picture of Sgt. Roger Dale Rowe sits in front of a floral arrangement that reads "Dad our hero" during his funeral service Friday, July 18, 2003, in Bon Aqua, Tenn. Rowe, a Tennessee Army National Guardsman, was killed by a sniper July 9, as he drove a tanker fuel truck in Iraq. He died five days before his 55th birthday, making him the oldest American casualty since the start of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)	Sgt. Jeffery Mann, center, of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division 1-22 Infantry regiment, jokes with Iraqi police officers in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, 193 km (120 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003. The Army provided five Russian made sniper rifles to the Iraqi police to help them fight Saddam's loyalists. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
Iraqi policemen look at the body of a suspected gun dealer who was killed by U.S. soldiers at a market place in the city of Tikrit, Iraq, Friday Aug. 8, 2003. U.S. snipers killed two men and wounded two others who were allegedly selling weapons in a market in the center of Tikrit. U.S. forces positioned snipers around the market after hearing that weapons and ammunition was sold at the market place. According to soldiers the man was shot as he tried to flee with an AK-47 assault rifle. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)	U.S. Army Soldiers search for snipers during patrols Sunday, July 6, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. U.S. troops have come under near daily attacks from increasingly bold insurgents. At least 27 U.S. troops have been killed in hostile fire since major combat was officially declared over on May 1. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
T.J. Kewatt, left, touches the casket of his friend and cousin, Pfc. Edward James Herrgott, as he and others grieved at burial services in Shakopee, Minn., Tuesday, July 15. 2003. Herrgott, 20, was the first Minnesotan killed in the war in Iraq, shot by a sniper while guarding the National Museum in Baghdad, July 3. Kewatt, from Shakopee, was also serving with the Army in Iraq when his cousin was killed and accompanied Herrgott's body home. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)	A U.S. Army soldier with the 1st Armored Division sits atop his M-109 self-propelled artillery gun as he guards the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 4, 2003. Thursday evening, a sniper shot and killed a U.S. soldier manning the gunner's hatch of a Bradley fighting vehicle outside the national museum. Hours before the attack, the national museum displayed several artifacts that were looted after the fall of Baghdad and later recovered. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
A U.S. military police officer keeps alert while patrolling the streets of Baghdad at night on Tuesday, June 17, 2003. A U.S. soldier was killed by a sniper while patrolling Baghdad late Monday. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)	An 82nd Airborned Division paratrooper is coached while firing a Romanian copy of the famous Russian Dragonov sniper rifle by an infantryman from the Romanian Army's 812th Infantry Battalion during a live fire on Wednesday June 4, 2003 at Tarknak Farms, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, Cpl. Keith A. Kluwe, HO)
Elisha Pahnke, widow of Army Pvt. Shawn Pahnke, kisses the casket of her husband Thursday, June 26, 2003 at his funeral in Manhattan, Ill. Shawn Pahnke was killed by a sniper while on patrol June 17 in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, Oscar Salinas/The Daily Journal)	Tracy Conley, center, grieves for her brother-in-law, U.S. Army Pfc. Marlin Rockhold, during a memorial service Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at Ft. Stewart, Ga. Rockhold was killed by a sniper May 8 while directing traffic on a bridge in Baghdad a week after President Bush declared an end to the fighting in Iraq. Rockhold was member of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division which is based at Ft. Stewart. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
U.S soldiers sit on top of school desks at a primary school in Fallujah, Iraq manning sniper positions at the windows Tuesday April 29, 2003. U.S. soldiers opened fire fired on anti-American protesters Monday night after some Iraqi crowd members shot at the troops, a U.S. officer said Tuesday. A local hospital director said 13 Iraqis were killed and 75 injured. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)	Carmen Garza wipes away tears as stands with family members Thursday morning, April 10, 2003, at the San Benito High School in San Benito, Texas, during an early morning memorial service honoring her grandson, Marine Pfc. Juan G. Garza Jr. Residents joined students and faculty at the high school Thursday to pay tribute to the fallen Marine, who was shot in the chest by a sniper on Tuesday, April 8, as he patrolled an airport in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/The Valley Morning Star, Ric Vasquez)
A U.S. Army sniper takes aim on irregular Iraqi forces firing upon American troops from behind a mosque in Baghdad Wednesday, April 9, 2003.(AP Photo/John Moore)	U.S. Marine snipers of Task Force Tarawa guard the streets from the roof of a hotel where U.S. Marines and local leaders were meeting for the first time Saturday, April 19, 2003, in Kut, 160 kms, 100 miles, south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
U.S. Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Regiment, take position after they were taking fire from an Iraqi sniper on the main road linking to Baghdad , about a half mile (10 km) from the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, Saturday, April 5, 2003. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)	Lance Sgt Chris Briggs, left, and Guardsman Warren Bradford, both serving as snipers with Support Company attached to Number 1 Company 1st Battalion The Irish Guards, take up positions Thursday April 3, 2002, to provide cover for Royal Engineers trying to extingush an oil well fire. The action came during a dawn raid by the Irish Guards on a university factory complex situated on the outskirts of Basra. British forces came under fire from small arms and mortars, and Lynx helicopter was fired at with a SAM missile. (AP Photo/Giles Penfound,Pool)
A U.S. Army sniper takes aim on targets in a residential area near the Euphrates River in Al Hindiyah Monday, March 31, 2003. The army's Task Force 4-64, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, seized the road leading over the river as part of its campaign to move north towards Baghdad. (AP Photo/John Moore)	Leslie Sanders, mother of Army Spc. Greg Sanders, 19, killed in an apparent suprise attack in Iraq, reads a letter she wrote for reporters as she stands with her daughter, Clare, 10, in front of their home in Hobart, Ind., Tuesday, April 1, 2003. In the foreground is a makeshift memorial that includes contributions from relatives, friends and neighbors. Military authorities told Sanders' family that Greg was killed Monday in a sniper shooting, according to a family spokesman. (AP Photo/The Star, Mpozi Mshale Tolbert)
An unidentified U.S. marine pours water over the area of a marine sniper position, Monday March 24, 2003, as he prepares for another shot at Iraq forces held up in a disused building just outside the port of Um Qsar in southern Iraq. The water prevents the sand from rising up from the recoil of the weapon. (AP Photo/Tam McDonald, Ministry of Defense, HO).	U.S. Marine Staff Sgt John Coughlin from Waltham, Ma, of the 3rd batallion 4th regiment, aims his sniper rifle as an Iraqi farmer looks on, during a patrol alongside the main road used by the U.S.-led coalition on their way towards Baghdad, in central Iraq, Wednesday, March 26, 2003. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)
A Canadian sniper from the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry tests his equipment in full camouflage as he looks through a C-3 rifle at the air base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2002. The precision marksmen are trained in the arts of camouflage and moving undetected in enemy territory. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)	Master Cpl. Arron Perry, a Canadian sniper who was on the front lines of fighting the war of terrorism in Afghanistan, is shown examining the remains of a dead al-Qaida fighter in this photo taken March 3 , 2002 at The Whales Back in Eastern Afghanistan. An internal Canadian Forces probe was investigating allegations that Perry had desecrated the corpses of two al-Qaida fighters. The investigation is over and military officials have said none of the allegations have been proved. Perry has vehemently denied he did anything to the bodies. (AP Photo/Canadian Press, Stephen Thorne) EDS NOTE: THE EVENT PICTURED IS NOT THE ONE BEING INVESTIGATED
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Chinese police officer giving members of the public a touch of a sniper rifle on the streets of Beijing, China, Tuesday, Oct 25, 2005. Chinese authorities are keen to promote relationship with the public to counterbalance general perception of corruption and inefficiency of the police force. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)	Radiance Technologies engineers Frederick Gant, left, and Tim Patterson operate the WeaponWatch system mounted on the front and rear of a Humvee, from a tablet PC, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005, in Huntsville, Ala. Perhaps the most lethal combat method Iraqi insurgents have against American troops is the sneak attack by a sniper. So Radiance Technologies, an Alabama company, set out to invent a device that neutralizes that advantage. (AP Photo/Patricia Miklik Doyle)
Coral Gables Police officer Eduardo Orbe checks out a Sig Sauer rifle Monday, Sept. 26, 2005, at the annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Miami Beach, Fla. More than 14,000 law enforcement professionals were expected to attend the event, which ends Wednesday. The IACP is the world's oldest and largest non-profit membership organization of police executives, with more than 19,000 members in more than 100 different countries. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)	A Russian Interior Ministry sniper, center, and two soldiers control the perimeter, in Nalchik, southern Russia , Friday, Oct. 14, 2005. Security forces on Friday freed seven hostages who had been held by alleged Islamic extremists in a police station and a store, trying to snuff out the last resistance by rebels who launched simultaneous attacks on police and government buildings across this turbulent southern Russian town a day earlier. Chechen rebels claimed responsibility for the offensive in Nalchik. (AP Photo/ Misha Japaridze)
San Jose (Calif.) SWAT officers Julio Morales, right, and spotter Steven Payne participate in the sniper course with a moving target during the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department 15th Annual Best In The West S.W.A.T. Competition on Friday, Sept. 23, 2005, in San Jose, Calif. The two-day event, attracting top S.W.A.T. teams from California, Washington, and Nevada were held at the Sheriff's Range. (AP/ Palo Alto Daily News, Tony Avelar)	A German police sniper guards a television studio in Berlin Adlershof, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005 for the upcoming television debate of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his conservative challenger Angela Merkel . Schroeder and Merkel square off Sunday in a live televised debate, a crucial encounter that gives both candidates a chance to impress undecided voters two weeks before Germany's Sept. 18 election. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck)
Snipers of Kyrgyz special forces attend joint anti-terrorist exercises of Russia and some Central Asian nations, former Soviet republics, in northern Kyrgyzstan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2004. On Wednesday December 7, 2005 the United nations Development Program urged the Central Asian governments to join key international anti-terrorism treaties and modernize border management for effective control of drug flows and cross-border criminal activities. (AP Photo)	A Kyrgyz sniper armed with Russian made VSS Vintorez silenced sniper rifle looks on during military exercises in northern Kyrgyzstan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2004. Russian jets and helicopters struck mountainside targets Friday in northern Kyrgyzstan as elite soldiers stormed a village to practice rooting out militants in Central Asia's largest military exercises since the Soviet collapse. (AP Photo)
A police sniper lines up his weapon as he takes up position in the Notting Hill district of London Friday July 29, 2005, near where police arrested three men after raiding two residences in the area, and said they were connected to the failed July 21 attacks on London's transport network.(AP Photo/Robert Jackson) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **	A member of the U.S. Secret Service Counter-Snipers squad makes his way to the roof of RFK Stadium to get into position for opening day ceremonies for tonight's game between the Washington Nationals and the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks at RFK Stadium Thursday, April 14, 2005 in Washington. President Bush is throwing out the first pitch at the first regular-season baseball game in the nation's capital in 34 years. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Police snipers aim their weapons from a rooftop on Mesa Avenue in Las Cruces, N.M., Monday, Feb. 28, 2005, during a search for an armed man who led police on a pursuit in southern New Mexico and then exchanged shots with officers. The armed suspect fled into a residential neighborhood, where he was later shot and killed by police. (AP Photo/Las Cruces Sun-News, Norm Dettlaff)	Names of the 10 people killed in the Washington area sniper shootings are etched into a stone in the Montgomery County arboretum in Wheaton, Md., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2004. The section of the arboretum will get a new name _ Reflection Terrace in memorial for the 10 people killed in the Washington area sniper shootings in 2002. The memorial was officially dedicated Friday, Oct. 1, 2004. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner)
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY, shows the 50 caliber anti-armor sniper rifle at a news conference in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004. Maloney called for a federal ban on the 50 cal. rifles. They can be ordered over the telephone and Bin Laden has bought 25 of the Barrett 50 cal. sniper rifles in the late 1980s. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey)	A police sniper in plain clothes, left, about to shoot a Chinese man holding a girl hostage in Anhui, Eastern China, Monday, June 21, 2004. The hostage taker held the 11-year-old girl in an attempt to force the mass media to report on his problems. The girl was rescued after the sniper shot the man to death. (AP Photo)