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An Iraqi boy runs past a car as firemen extinguish a blaze in Baghdad on Aug. 28, 2005. An American patrol opened fire on a civilian, who was driving the car near the Um-Al-Quraa mosque, for not respecting the patrol sign, killing him and causing the car to burn, Maj. Mousa Abdul Karim from Al-ghazalyaa police said.
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A female member of Iraq's constitution drafting committee looks over a copy during their meeting on Aug. 28, 2005. (Photo: CBS)
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An U.S. military vehicle and an ambulance drive past the remains of a car bomb in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Aug. 28, 2005.
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The current problems besetting Kirkuk have roots in competing claims by different ethnic groups over who has dominance over the oil-rich city, 180 miles north of Baghdad. The Kurds and the Turkomen both say the city was historically theirs. (Photo: AP)
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A taxi drives through downtown Kirkuk, Iraq on Aug. 19, 2005.
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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Kenneth House, left, of Helena, Mont., buys fresh bread from a shwarma stand in Kirkuk on Aug. 19, 2005.
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Karim Yasin waits outside the morgue in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, for the corpse of his brother, Mohammed, on Aug. 25, 2005. His brother was shot by unidentified men and Karim carried him to the hospital. Mohammed died on the way. (Photo: AP)
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Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr talks to the media from his house in the holy Shiite city of Najaf on Aug. 25, 2005. Al-Sadr called for an end to the armed clashes between his followers and supporters of a rival Shiite group, saying Muslims should not be fighting one another.
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Followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr destroyed the Badr Brigade militia headquarters the previous night in the Sadr City Shiite district of Baghdad, Aug. 25, 2005.
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An unidentified man aims a rocket-propelled grenade during a fight between insurgents and Iraqi police in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Khadra on Aug. 24, 2005.
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Insurgents attacked Iraqi police patrols with at least three car bombs and small-arms fire in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Khadra on Aug. 24, 2005.
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Iraqi police inspect the corpse of a bodyguard for Iraq's justice undersecretary. Undersecretary Awshoo Ibrahim was on his way to work when his car and convoy came under heavy fire in western Baghdad on Aug. 24, 2005. He escaped unharmed.
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Another bodyguard of Iraq's justice undersecretary lost his life when his convoy was attacked in western Baghdad on Aug. 24, 2005.
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Friends and relatives carry the casket of Maad Yousif during his funeral in Baghdad on Aug. 23, 2005. Unidentified gunmen abducted the engineer in Azamyaa two days before. Even though his family paid a $20,000 ransom, his corpse was found Tuesday in the Baghdad morgue.
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People pray outside a Sunni mosque next to the casket of engineer Maad Yousif during his funeral in Baghdad, Aug. 23, 2005. Yousif had been abducted and killed even though his family paid a ransom.
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Residents wait to register for the October referendum in the predominately Sunni city of Fallujah, Aug. 23, 2005. Sunni leaders have threatened to order their followers to vote "no" in the Oct. 15 referendum on the new constitution unless their objections are addressed.
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An Iraqi police officer directs traffic on Aug. 22, 2005, in front of a billboard in central Baghdad that promotes voting for the new constitution. It reads: "Constitution: unity, hope."
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Posters promote women's rights in the new constitution in the southern city of Basra on Aug. 22, 2005.
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Iraqi security forces patrol through the Azamiyah district in Baghdad, Aug. 22, 2005. Police in Baghdad said they had found the bodies of six unidentified men in various parts of the capital. All were handcuffed, bound and shot in the head. There has been speculation recently that vigilante death squads have been operating in Iraq.
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Friends and relatives carry the casket of Sheikh Abdul-Jabar Zuaen, the assassinated leader of the Islamic party in the Adamiya district of Baghdad on Aug. 22, 2005.
