U.S Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, and Iraqi soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 19th Brigade, 5th Division, detonate firebombs with the intention of burning the underbrush of a section of palm grove on Dec. 22. This will expose or detonate the massive amounts of booby traps, Improvised Explosive Devices and weapons caches that are hindering local Iraqi's attempts to farm this al-Qaida stronghold on. This joint clearing operation is the third phase of an operation in which this new searching technique is being tested.