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An Iraqi soldier searches a house during an overnight raid south of the restive city of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, Nov. 27, 2005. Fifteen suspects were detained in the raid conducted by U.S. and Iraqi forces.
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U.S. soldiers secure a neighborhood south of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, in the early hours of Nov. 27, 2005, during a joint U.S. and Iraqi forces raid.
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Iraqi children pick up broken glass inside their home which, according to family members, was damaged during a U.S. and Iraqi troops operation against insurgents in the city of Ramadi, Iraq, Nov. 27, 2005.
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A man mourns the death of his relative, killed by a suicide bomber who drove his pickup into a crowded petrol station in Samarra, Iraq, Nov. 26, 2005. Twelve people were killed, Iraqi police said.
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U.S. Marine Cpl. Timothy Mossor of Tampa, Fla., shaves in the mirror of a Humvee at a patrol base called Iwo Jima in the town of Saadah, Iraq, eight miles from Syria, Nov. 26, 2005.
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Iraqi policemen look at the burning wreckage of a car bomb that exploded near a two-car convoy carrying foreigners through central Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 26, 2005. Four Iraqi civilians were killed.
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Hussein Alwan kisses the lifeless body of his nephew, 3-year-old Ahmad Hassan, outside Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital morgue, Nov. 25, 2005. Ahmad Hassan died when a suicide car bomber detonated outside Mahmoudiya hospital, south of Baghdad.
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U.S. Marines play football in Karabilah, an Iraqi town near the Syrian border, Nov. 24, 2005, as Americans celebrated Thanksgiving.
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Iraqi Interior Ministry special forces standing at attention are reflected on the sunglasses of a comrade during a military parade in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 24, 2005.
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A U.S. Marine from Regimental Combat Team 2 walks to dinner at his base in Qaim, an Iraqi border town with Syria about 200 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 23, 2005.
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Khadim Sarhid al-Hemaiyem's nephew, name not available, cries near the coffin of his uncle during his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 23, 2005.
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An Iraqi boy looks Nov. 23, 2005, at a blood-caked shutter of a shop at the site where a suicide bomber ambushed police in a busy market area in the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq the night before, killing at least 19 people, including women and children.
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Iraqi women mourn near the lifeless body of Khadim Sarhid al-Hemaiyem, the leader of the Sunni Batta tribe and the brother of a candidate in the Dec. 15 election, in Baghdad, Nov. 23, 2005. Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms broke into the home of al-Hemaiyem Nov. 22 and killed him, his three sons and his son-in-law on the outskirts of Baghdad, his brother and an interior ministry official said.
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A man is treated at a local hospital after being wounded by a suicide car bomber in Kirkuk, Iraq, Nov. 22, 2005.
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Iraqi soldiers and police look at the body of a presumed suicide bomber lying among the wreckage in the city of Kirkuk, Nov. 22, 2005 in northern Iraq.
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Dignitaries and military personnel react after Iraqi insurgents fired a mortar at a U.S. ceremony to hand over a presidential palace to local Iraqi authorities in Tikrit, Iraq, Nov. 22, 2005, in this image taken from TV.
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An hooded Iraqi policeman secures the area in front of a burned truck, in Baghdad Nov. 21, 2005.
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A man flanked by two Iraqi soldiers mourns the death of a relative in Baqouba, Iraq, Nov. 21, 2005, who died after a car bomb, which was targeting U.S. Humvees, exploded in the town of Kanan.
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A man is carried to a local hospital in Baqouba, Iraq, Nov. 21, 2005, after being wounded by a car bomb.
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Iraqi tribal men attend an election rally by Abdel Aziz al-Hakim chief of the Supreme Council of the Iraqi Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and head of the Shiite dominated election list "United Iraqi Alliance", in Baghdad Nov. 21, 2005.
