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A U.S. soldier handcuffs an Iraqi motorist for further questioning after he was found with two bundles of U.S. dollars in his car at a mobile checkpoint in Kadhamiya. north of the capital Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, July 7, 2003. Hours earlier, a convoy was attacked in Kadhamiya killing a U.S. soldier. U.S. troops on patrol in Baghdad and other areas have been coming under attack almost daily.
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U.S. soldiers frisk Iraqi motorists at a mobile checkpoint in Kadhamiya, north of the capital Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday July 7, 2003 where, hours earlier, a U.S. soldier was killed in an attack on a U.S. convoy. U.S. troops in Iraq have come under near daily attacks from increasingly bold insurgents.
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U.S. Army Sgt. Steven Brussel from Jonesboro, Ark., wakes in the late morning at his barracks at the Habaniyah train station in Habaniyah, Iraq, on Monday, July 7, 2003. Troops from his unit, A Company 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, are anxiously awaiting redeployment orders to send them home to Fort Stewart, Ga.
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Italian soldiers of the 18th Bersaglieri regiment and U.S. Marines patrol a street in the town of Ash Shatra, 22 miles from the town of Nasiriya in southern Iraq, on Monday, July 7, 2003. Italian soldiers of the "Antica Babilonia" (Ancient Babylon) humanitarian operation are scheduled to take over from the U.S. the control of this area in the next weeks.
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Family members take a last look at Khalid Ibrahim Hmoud Obeid, not pictured, before his body is taken away for burial at Sin al-Thiban, about 45 miles west of Baghdad, Monday July 7, 2003.
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A U.S. Marine patrols a street as two Iraqi girls look on in the town of Ash Shatra, 22 miles from Nasiriya in southern Iraq, Monday, July 7, 2003. Italian soldiers of the "Antica Babilonia" (Ancient Babylon) humanitarian operation are scheduled to take over from the U.S. the control of this area in the next weeks.
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U.S. Army tank driver Pfc. Jason Hanna patrols the streets of Habaniyah, Iraq, atop the company mascot "Cyclone 1" accompanied by Ssg. Charles Wooten, dismounted center, early Wednesday, July 9, 2003. Although soldiers have complained of the lack of spare parts for their tanks, the donkey patrols are primarily for public relations with local Iraqis.
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An Iraqi girl holds a packet of humanitarian food aid given by U.S. Army medics from the 26 Forward Support Battalion in the countryside outside Fallujah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 9, 2003.
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Iraqi police guard the vicinity of the former Iraqi Atomic Energy Agency after shots were fired at the raiding team Wednesday, July 9, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. The heavy gunfire prompted the Iraqi police to call for reinforcement from U.S. soldiers and the effort netted three arrests and the seizure of their AK-47s.
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U.S Army Sgt. Ali-Jamal Judge mans a .50-caliber machine gun atop a Humvee patroling through Habaniyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 9, 2003. Judge who said he is the only Muslim in C Company, 4th Battalion, 64 Armor Regiment, usually rides as a gunner in an M1-A1 Abrams tank.
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Iraqis carry cases of thousands of U.S. dollars from a local bank to be used to pay back wages of local school teachers, Thursday, July 10, 2003, in Barcuba, 38 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Insurgents launched a slew of fresh assaults on U.S. soldiers, killing at least two servicemen and wounding a third in shootings and rocket-propelled grenade attacks, the military said Thursday.
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U.S. Army civil affairs soldiers stand in front of the Fallujah mayor's office as local policemen protest in Fallujah on Thursday, July 10, 2003. The policemen, dressed in new American-supplied uniforms, made a 48-hour ultimatum that American soldiers leave the main police station in Fallujah, where they have been staying along with the local policmen.
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A U.S. soldier looks for improvised explosive device or IED by the roadside near Ramadi, Iraq, Wednesday, July 9, 2003. Soldiers have come under daily attacks from Iraqi resistance fighters who have extensively used IEDs to blow up light armored vehicles and Humvees.
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U.S. Marines look on as Iraqis walk by with water and supplies, while patrolling a road on the outskirts of the city of Nasiriya in southern Iraq, July 10, 2003.
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Friends of Odai Ahmad carry his flag-draped coffin during his funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, July 10, 2003. Odai, 22, was allegedly killed by U.S. soldiers while fixing his car behind the building in al-Baya'a. The soldiers were manning the roof of a police station.
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A money changer uses a magnifying glass to determine the authenticity of a 10,000 dinar banknote prior to exchanging it to U.S. dollars at a makeshift stall in Baghdad, Iraq, July 10, 2003. The exchange was at a rate of 1,530 Dinars to one U.S. dollar. The old dinar will be phased out later this year and will be replaced with a new one without the portrait of ousted ruler Saddam Hussein.
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A U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division soldier sits on atop of his Abram tank during his duty at Al Kadhimiya holy mosque in Baghdad, June 13, 2003. Saddam reportedly made his last public appearance in al-Azamiyah, just outside the mosque. The next day, U.S. troops fought a fierce, seven-hour battle against dozens of Arab volunteers and Iraqi militiamen who made their last stand in the neighborhood outside the building.
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Australia Army's Security Detachment Pvt. Drew Ryan, 24, of Denman, New South Wales, guards a perimeter on foot patrols in a residential neighborhood, July 11, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. Australia has sent 2,000 troops to join the coalition forces during the fall of Saddam's regime.
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A man holds up a poster of Iraqi opposition leader Ayatollah Saied Hadi al- Mudarissi while listening to him speak at the Kadhimiya holy mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, July 11, 2003. The Ayatollah arrived to Iraq from his exile in Iran for the first time since having to leave the country in the 1970s.
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An Iraqi civilian tries to explain that his home does not contain weapons as U.S. Army Platoon Sgt. Eric Wright from Jacksonville, N.C. prepares to search it with his men during a patrol in Khaldiah, Iraq, July 11, 2003. The soldiers are with A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment and had recently come under attack while patrol in the area.
