A soldier with the Iraqi Civil Defense Corp (ICDC) directs a U.S. Army convoy at a checkpoint in Falluja, June 21, 2004. U.S. forces killed 22 people in an air strike on what they said was a safe house linked to al Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Falluja Saturday. The raid shattered a lull in Falluja and fueled tensions before the formal end of Iraq's U.S.-led occupation on June 30. REUTERS/Bob Strong RCS/ACM