An Iraqi teacher gives a lesson to a student in an empty class room at a school in Baghdad. Baghdad was semi-paralyzed amid fears of new bloodshed fueled by rumors that opponents of the US occupation of Iraq would mark a "day of resistance." The usually congested traffic was reduced to a trickle in the morning, and several schools were completely empty after parents, sometimes acting on the advice of school authorities, opted to keep their children at home. Several businesses shuttered their doors and numerous civil servants did not show up for work, while guards and Iraqi police were posted around schools and public buildings.(AFP/Sabah Arar)
A U.S. Army bomb squad's robot moves in to retrieve a suspected explosive device (at bottom) in the Baghdad suburb of Sha'ab, November 1, 2003. A bomb blast outside a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Saturday killed at least two U.S. soldiers, Iraqi police at the scene told Reuters. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi
U.S. soldiers guard the center of Baghdad, Saturday, Nov 1, 2003. Security stepped up after rumors swept Baghdad that bombings or other resistance action would strike the capital Saturday. A leaflet attributed to Saddam's ousted Baathist party declared Saturday a 'Day of Resistance,' and called for a three-day general strike. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
US soldiers, right, stand next to blast damaged vehicles in Mosul, northern Iraq, Saturday Nov. 1, 2003, in this image taken from TV. A roadside bomb killed at least two U.S. soldiers in Mosul on Saturday. It is not known if any person in the vehicles seen here were killed or injured. (AP Photo/APTN)
A TV grab taken from exlusive footage aired by the Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV show members of a previously unknown group called the 'Organization of Jihad Brigades in Iraq.' Hundreds of militant Muslim men from Europe and the Middle East are heading to Iraq to fight the US-led occupation, a leading US daily newspaper reported, citing counterterrorism officials in six countries.(AFP/File)
