Operation Harpoon

402460 12: U.S. Army officer Col. Wilkerson, (L) a Brigade Commander of the 10th Mountain Division, looks for enemy al Qaeda caves with a Canadian soldier (C) March 15, 2002 during Operation Anaconda in the Shah-i-kot Valley, Afghanistan. Another U.S. Army officer (R) also looks for cave entrances. The cave search is known as Operation Harpoon. The coalition forces in this area of the Shah-i Kot valley have identified and destroyed 24 openings or caves and found seven more. All caves are searched and blown up. The Canadian troops from the Princess Patricias Light Infantry number approxiamately 500 for this operation. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)