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An Iraqi man runs past burning tires put up by demonstrators during a protest in Chamchamal, about 30 miles south of Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, Aug. 6, 2006. Security forces in northern Iraq opened fire Sunday to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who burned tires and blocked roads to protest high fuel cost and poor living conditions. Three people were injured, police said.
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U.S. military Stryker vehicles convoy roll down a main highway in a Sunni populated area, Aug. 5, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. Several Stryker vehicles were seen Saturday in Baghdad's mostly Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliyah, where Iraqi police used loudspeakers to encourage residents to go about their business and reopen shops, because the additional troops were there to protect them.
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Iraqi women carry kindling down a main road, Aug. 5, 2006, in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, southern Iraq.
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Local Iraqis unload the coffins of members of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, Aug. 5, 2006, in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, southern Iraq.
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An Iraqi boy holds a portrait of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and Helzbollah's Sheik Hassan Nasrallah with thousands of Iraqi Shiites gathering in a mass demonstration against Israel's bombing of Lebanon, Aug. 4, 2006, in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq.
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A masked Shiite Mehdi Army militiaman holds a machine gun during a parade in Baghdad's poor neighborhood of Sadr city August 5, 2006 to mark the second anniversary of the Najaf fighting between the U.S. Army and the Mehdi Army.
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Carrying effigies of U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Iraqi Shiites in the thousands gather in a mass demonstration against Israel's bombing of Lebanon, Aug. 4, 2006, in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq.
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Local Iraqis move around a street littered with bomb debris, including fruit and vegetables. after a motorcycle exploded, Aug. 3, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. The bomb was strapped to a motorcycle and exploded near street vendors in the center of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people and injuring 29, police said.
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An Iraqi police vehicle returns to the scene of a bomb blast after rushing wounded to a nearby hospital, Aug. 3, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq.
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The shadows of two Iraqi bystanders are cast Aug. 3, 2006, on the ground of a bombed soccer field in Baghdad, next to a sport shoe that once belonged to one of the victims.
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An Iraqi woman walks through the soccer field damaged by two bombs hidden under the field's bleachers, Aug. 3, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq.
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An Iraqi mother mourns at a local morgue for her child killed in the previous day's bomb attacks on a soccer field, Aug. 3, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq.
AP Photo/Hadi Mizban
Dozens of Iraqis gather in support of prominent Shiite leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim during the anniversary of the death of his brother, Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Aug. 2, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq.
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An Iraqi man wounded from a roadside bomb is treated at a local hospital, Aug. 2, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. The bomb, placed in a garbage bag, exploded near a group of day laborers in downtown Baghdad, killing three and wounding eight. Minutes later a second bomb, also hidden in a bag, exploded but caused no casualties, authorities said.
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An Iraqi man walks beside the wreckage at the site of a car-bomb explosion on Aug. 1, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Iraqi army soldiers secure the site where a car bomb exploded on Aug. 1, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. The explosion targeted a military patrol in the mainly Shiite Karrada district of Baghdad killing at least 10 people and wounding 22.
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The wreckage of a municipal bus destroyed by a roadside bomb is seen on a main highway, Aug. 2, 2006, in Beiji, Iraq. The roadside bomb destroyed the bus packed with Iraqi soldiers near Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad. All 24 people aboard were killed.
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An Iraqi suffering from a serious head wound is taken from the scene of a massive car bomb, Aug. 1, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. The bomb exploded near a bank in Karradah neighborhood of Baghdad, killing at least 14 people and injuring 37, said police Lt. Col. Abbas Mohammed Salman.
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Iraqis wounded in a massive car bomb are carried away from the scene, Aug. 1, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Iraqis burn an American flag during a protest march denouncing Israel's Sunday attack in southern Lebanon, July 31, 2006, in the Shiite area of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq.