Members of The Staffordshire Regiment laugh and joke after safely completing a night patrol on the streets of Al Amarah in the Maysan Province, north of Basra, in the early hours of 13 October 2005, as part of the increased security just days ahead of the constitutional referendum on 15 October. Three Staffordshire Regiment soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Al Amarah in July and the soldiers are still attacked in the street daily. AFP PHOTO / JOHN D MCHUGH