As Spc. Damian Rodriguez stands by, Staff Sgt. Brent Homan from Company B, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, talks on the a radio during a cordon of the scene of a large car bomb that exploded on the Damascus Interchange near a checkpoint to the International Zone in Baghdad Dec. 4. No multinational forces were injured or killed in the blast. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. John Queen, 3rd Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs)