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Iraqi men shout slogans during a demonstration following Friday prayers in the Shiite enclave of Sadr city in Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, Dec. 14, 2007. Thousands of followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took to Baghdad's streets following Friday prayers to protest the bombings in Amarah, which they blamed on U.S. troops, shouting "leave, leave occupiers" and "No to America, yes to Muqtada."
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A U.S. army soldier from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, points his weapon towards a suspect while others search his house during a night raid on the outskirts of Muqdadiyah, in the volatile Diyala province, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 14, 2007.
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A fighter with the Sunni awakening movement of the Iraqi Diyala province scans the area from the roof of a house during a patrol in al-Aswad village northeast of Baghdad, December 13, 2007.
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Iraqi soldiers inspect the wreckage of a vehicle at the site of a car bomb in Baghdad's al-Waziriayh neighborhood, December 13, 2007. One person was killed and five others were wounded in the blast which took place near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad.
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A U.S. army soldier from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment storms a back yard of a small farmhouse during a clearance mission on the outskirts of Muqdadiyah, in the volatile Diyala province, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007.
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The sun sets as Iraqi farmers drive a herd of water buffalos to the Euphrates river at their settlement near the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday Dec. 11, 2007.
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Sgt. David Tenorio, a U.S. Army medic from 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment comforts a frightened and injured Iraqi toddler at Patrol Base Murray after a mortar strike injured two girls in the town of Arab Jabour south of Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007.
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An injured Iraqi child is treated by medics from 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment at Patrol Base Murray, near Baghdad, after a mortar strike injured two girls in the town of Arab Jabour, south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007. The girls were evacuated by helicopter to the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad.
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Iraqi police inspect the scene of a suicide car bomb attack just outside the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007.
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An Iraqi army soldier walks past a pool of blood at the scene of a suicide car bomb attack just outside the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007.
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An Iraqi woman crosses a street on the outskirts of Muqdadiyah in the volatile Diyala province, about 56 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007.
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A U.S. soldier from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 38 Regiment infantry, patrols an area in West Baquba, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007.
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Firemen attempt to extinguish a fire at the al Dora oil refinery in South Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. Iraqi oil officials and the U.S. military initially said the plant had come under indirect fire, the military term for mortars or rockets. But the U.S. later issued a statement saying American forces had determined that the fire "was the result of an industrial accident."
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Iraqi policemen inspect the scene where a roadside bomb, targeting a police patrol, exploded in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. The attack injured four policemen and one civilian, police said.
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Iraqi women grieve for the chief of Babil province police Brig. Gen. Qais al-Maamouri during his funeral ceremony in the city of Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq Monday Dec. 10, 2007. The General was killed along with his two bodyguards after his convoy was hit by a roadside bomb in Hillah on Sunday.