Iraqi Kurdish men, members of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, waving a flag of Kurdistan, center, dance during their graduation ceremony in the northeastern Iraqi town of Khan Aqin, on the Iraqi-Iranian border, Sunday Aug. 24, 2003. The U.S. Army is training the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, an Iraqi militia force, to take on civil defense duties and pave the way for U.S. forces to leave Iraq. Some 100 Iraqi Kurdish men completed a ten-day intensive training course in the border town of Khan Aqin.