(Hat tip: Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)
A U.S. soldier from Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Division participates in a live fire exercise at a military base in the northern city of Mosul, January 21, 2005. Insurgents bent on derailing the country's national January 30 elections, expected to be dominated by Iraq's long-oppressed Shi'ite majority, have launched several attacks against U.S. and Iraqi security forces.