Deserts like this are hard going, but oh so beautiful at dawn and dusk ...

Soldiers from the 588th Engineering Battalion block a road Monday during a pre-dawn raid in Ain Lalin, Iraq. Soldiers believed one of Iraq’s top fugitives used the village as base to plot guerilla attacks on U.S. forces.

They were unsuccessful in capturing their main target, a former regime officer who is on the list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis.

Picture from Army Times