THE TENSION: Combat Camera: Troops Search Muqdadiyah, Iraq for Caches and Intel

U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha Company, 2-23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, find an M1 rifle (in mint condition) after searching a house used by suspected al-Qaida insurgents in west Muqdadiyah, Iraq, Dec. 12, 2007. (U.S. Army Photo/Spc. Shawn M. Cassatt)

U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha Company, 2-23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, find a fighting position set up on a roof top facing the road used by U.S. Forces, west Muqdadiyah, Iraq, Dec. 12, 2007. (U.S. Army Photo/Spc. Shawn M. Cassatt)

A U.S. Army soldier from Alpha Company, 2-23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, looks through a rocket propelled grenade scope he found, after searching a home, to see if it still works in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, Dec. 12, 2007. (U.S. Army Photo/Spc. Shawn M. Cassatt)

U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha Company, 2-23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, find a large cache of illegal weapons in a farm house in west Muqdadiyah, Iraq, Dec. 12, 2007. (U.S. Army Photo/Spc. Shawn M. Cassatt)

A U.S. Army soldier from Alpha Company, 2-23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, keeps his weapon aimed while his partner confronts a local man with a weapon approaching them from the vine groves in west Muqdadiyah, Iraq, Dec. 12, 2007. (U.S. Army Photo/Spc. Shawn M. Cassatt)

U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha Company, 2-23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, search the remains of a house destroyed by a Joint Direct Attack Munitions in west Muqdadiyah, Iraq, Dec. 12, 2007. (U.S. Army Photo/Spc. Shawn M. Cassatt)