U.S. Army troops stand guard near a mosque during a raid in the northern Iraq city of Mosul October 22, 2004. Iraqi forces backed by U.S. troops left a mosque they were raiding for suspected insurgents in Mosul on Friday after coming under fire, witnesses said. They said American troops and Iraqi National Guards had surrounded a mosque in the northern city during the Friday midday prayer sermon and broken the gate of the compound. REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen CLH/ABP