Lt. Col. Steven Russell, right, commander of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division 1-22 Infantry regiment, shakes hand with Iraqi Civil Defense Corp (ICDC) member and gives him a dagger during a graduation ceremony at the military base in Tikrit, 193 kms (120 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003. Some 104 Iraqi men were graduated as ICDC members after 21 days of training. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
US soldiers place a concrete block at the site of a suicide attack outside a US military base in Tall Afar, near Mosul. A massive suicide car bomb that exploded outside the military base wounded 58 American soldiers and an Iraqi translator.(AFP/Henghameh Fahimi)