

12 Dec 2005, Hamadi Shab, Iraq --- This is an example of the dangerous missions soldiers from the 2-7 Infantry Battalion of the First Brigade, Third Infantry Division will continue to undertake in the final weeks of their deployment, a U.S. Army intelligence officer (L), an Iraqi Army soldier (R) and an interpreter (background) interrogate a detainee in the village of Hamadi Shab, 10 miles north of Tikrit. Informants said that a number of foreign nationals had taken up residence in the village as a staging area for their suicide bomb attacks. None were found. --- Image by Kim Komenich/San Francisco Chronicle/Corbis