U.S. SOLDIERS SET UP CHECK POINT OUTSIDE TIKRIT, 2003-11-03 (photo)

Soldiers of U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division (Task Force Ironhorse) roll out razor wire as they set up a check point on a road outside Tikrit, 110 miles north of Baghdad, November 3, 2003. U.S. troops are setting up check points outside Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tirkrit to search vehicles for weapons that could be used against the occupation forces after eighteen Americans died in guerrilla attacks in Iraq Sunday, including 15 soldiers killed when insurgents shot down their Chinook helicopter near the town of Falluja REUTERS/Damir Sagolj DS/WS